Read how a church was exposed of its fake miracles somewhere in Lagos. The presiding pastor of one of the pentecostal
churches in Ogba area of Lagos state has gotten into deep trouble after
organizing a week-long crusade few days back .
When God revealed 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, little did he know that instead of an atmosphere of wonders and miracles, he would be getting a shock of his life….
The Sun reports that the pastor, as part of side attractions for the crusade had invited a guest preacher who is a popular Ghanaian pastor (Names withheld) to preach and it was said to have been a glorious crusade because of the numbers of miracles recorded. However, the Ghanaian pastor, 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, The Sun made it known that the four suspects( Joshua Ifeanyi and Kazeem Akinwale and two women who identified themselves as Mary Arikawe and Kemi Adeniyi) 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.
The host pastor who was confused about the turn out of event put a call through to one of his friends who advised him to report the matter to the police. This he did, pretending to play along with the suspects and getting them arrested. During interrogation, the suspects made it known 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.
And since they could not get their agreed fee from the Ghanian pastor, they thought the host pastor would be wise enough to pay them and let the matter rest. The host pastor who is confused by the turn of event called the Ghanaian pastor to ask him if he knows the four members of the syndicate but he denied knowing the group. However, the denial is really distasteful as 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.
Joshua Ifeanyi, Kazeem Akinwale, Mary Arikawe and Kemi Adeniyi are currently being held at the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID Panti, Yaba. It was also made known that the four suspects are from a seven-member gang whose 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.
Further 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.
It would be recalled that just recently, the founder of Synagogue of All Nations, Prophet T. B. Joshua refuted the different allegations levied against his church saying that the miracles seen on television screens are real and not fake.
When God revealed 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, little did he know that instead of an atmosphere of wonders and miracles, he would be getting a shock of his life….
The Sun reports that the pastor, as part of side attractions for the crusade had invited a guest preacher who is a popular Ghanaian pastor (Names withheld) to preach and it was said to have been a glorious crusade because of the numbers of miracles recorded. However, the Ghanaian pastor, 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, The Sun made it known that the four suspects( Joshua Ifeanyi and Kazeem Akinwale and two women who identified themselves as Mary Arikawe and Kemi Adeniyi) 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.
The host pastor who was confused about the turn out of event put a call through to one of his friends who advised him to report the matter to the police. This he did, pretending to play along with the suspects and getting them arrested. During interrogation, the suspects made it known 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.
And since they could not get their agreed fee from the Ghanian pastor, they thought the host pastor would be wise enough to pay them and let the matter rest. The host pastor who is confused by the turn of event called the Ghanaian pastor to ask him if he knows the four members of the syndicate but he denied knowing the group. However, the denial is really distasteful as 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.
Joshua Ifeanyi, Kazeem Akinwale, Mary Arikawe and Kemi Adeniyi are currently being held at the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID Panti, Yaba. It was also made known that the four suspects are from a seven-member gang whose 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.
Further 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.
It would be recalled that just recently, the founder of Synagogue of All Nations, Prophet T. B. Joshua refuted the different allegations levied against his church saying that the miracles seen on television screens are real and not fake.
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