When God revealed it to the presiding pastor
(Pastor and church’s identities withheld) of one
of the Pentecostal churches in Ogba area of
Lagos to organize a week long crusade last
December, the man of God must have probably
anticipated that God was planning to perform
major miracles that would catapult his ministry
to the next level.
Indeed, miracles were not in short supplies at
the crusade. However, the supposed miracles, as
it turned out, have little or nothing to do with the
church beyond the fact of the church being the
host of the crusade where the ‘wonders’ took
place.
As it appears, God has only decided to use the
church in question as a base to launch an
assault against the wolves who parade
themselves in sheep skin and to sanitize the
Christendom which is being infiltrated by
impostors who fake miracles with the sole
intention of deceiving unsuspecting Christian
faithful for selfish motive.
No fewer than four members of a syndicate
which specializes in stage-managing miracles in
churches in the country are currently squealing
on some pastors of notable churches they work
for in the country as well as some of the
miracles that they have conjured in conjunction
with their accomplices.
Undoubtedly, nothing short of a divine
intervention would have been responsible for the
arrest of the suspects who are currently
furnishing the police with information about their
modus operandi, past exploits and their
accomplices.
Sunday Sun reliably gathered that the church
where the miracles took place had organized a
week long programme during which a Ghanaian
pastor (name withheld) was invited as a guest
minister. The Ghanaian pastor, it was learnt,
ministered for most part of the programmes
during which a number of miracles was said to
have taken place.
The Ghanaian pastor, however, returned to
Ghana a day before the last day of the crusade
while the host pastor carried on with the
programme. At the end of the programme,
Sunday Sun gathered that a man and woman
approached the host pastor from whom they
requested to meet the Ghanaian pastor who they
thought was the real pastor of the church. “They
were shocked to discover that the Ghanaian
pastor was only invited to minister during the
programme,” a source who craved anonymity
disclosed.
Having recovered from their shocks “they informed
the host pastor that the Ghanaian pastor hired
them to stage-manage miracles that took place
during the programme and promised to pay them
the sum of N250,000 which he never did before
he left. They later demanded that the host pastor
pay them the said amount since their acts were
staged in the church, a demand the pastor
declined, insisting he knew nothing about it.” Sun
day Sun further learnt that the host pastor would
later call the Ghanaian pastor who allegedly denied
knowing or contracting the gang.
Confused by the turn of event, the host pastor
called to inform one of his friends, a pastor who
advised him to report the matter to the police
since the people insisted they would not leave
until they were paid for the services they
rendered. “So he pretended to play along with
them and succeeded in getting them arrested
along with two other suspects.
Among those arrested are two men who gave
their names as Joshua Ifeanyi and Kazeem
Akinwale and two women who identified
themselves as Mary Arikawe and Kemi Adeniyi.
The suspects who are currently being held at the
State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID
Panti, Yaba, Sunday Sun was reliably informed
are members of a syndicate which operates
across the country. “They have confessed to be
members of a syndicate which operates across
the country. But those arrested so far are
members of a seven-member gang which
operational base is the South-west zone. There
are other groups which operate in other zones in
the country. The South-west group is headed by
an Ibadan-based woman simply identified as Iya
Ibo,” Sunday Sun was informed.
Although the Ghanaian pastor denied knowing
the group, his denial appears not to hold water
as it was gathered that the host pastor was able
to identify two of the suspects to include those
who claimed to have received miracles under the
ministration of the Ghanaian pastor. “One of the
two men arrested was said to have been
recognized by the host pastor as the one who
came to the crusade with POP around his neck,
which the Ghanaian pastor pulled off and got
healed after he was prayed for. And again one of
the women was identified as the one whom the
pastor brought out from the congregation and
revealed so many things about her which she
also affirmed as true during the programme. One
of the things he said about the woman is that
her husband deserted her over three years ago,
a claim the woman said was true. He later
prophesied that her husband would return soon.”
Revealing their mode of operation, the suspects
reportedly said besides staging and being
recipients of fake miracles, they also tried to
get information about people, their problem and
gave to their principals who would later relate to
them during service as if he was seeing visions
or receiving revelation from God.
As at the last count no fewer than names of 10
persons who claimed to be men of God had been
mentioned. But a police source informed Sunday
Sun that the police are still on the trail of other
suspects while investigation concerning pastors
involved is still ongoing. “Cases such as this one
require extreme caution. That is why we are
being meticulous about those pastors that have
been mentioned so far but I can assure you that
thorough investigation will be done on the case,”
the source disclosed.
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