•Book of Satan, charms, fingernails recovered from church
•’He’s custodian of family idols’
•Patronized by top civil servants, businessmen
From DAVID ONWUCHEKWA, Nnewi
A 55-year-old prophet and founder of a popular sabbath Church in Inyaba Umudim, Nnewi, in Anambra State, narrowly escaped a lynch mob recently following his alleged role in the death of family members and discovery of fetish objects in his church.
On the long list of items found inside the prophet’s church were charms of various sizes and shapes, idols, human hairs, fingernails, chains and a register containing more than 30 names.
Checks by Sunday Sun revealed that it took the timely intervention of policemen to save the prophet (names withheld) from the wrath of angry youths in the community.
Village sources stated that the prophet’s journey to disgrace started when he invited a native doctor from neighbouring Umuenem Otolo, Nnewi, to the family house penultimate Monday, to prove his innocence following allegations that he was responsible for the death of some of his family members and some strange happenings in recent times. The latest casualty was a female member of the family who died mysteriously and was buried a few weeks ago.
The incantations of the native doctor was said to have attracted the attention of one of the prophet’s sister-in-laws whose childlessness had also been linked to him.
The woman who alleged that she was repeatedly mentioned by the native doctor, alerted her husband on phone, and on arrival, the man and some family members ordered the native doctor to leave the family compound but were ignored by the guest and his host.
It was gathered that it took threats from the youth who were attracted to the scene of the argument that ensued, to get the native doctor out of the place.
Thereafter, some of the prophet’s kinsmen who were no longer comfortable with his activities in the community decided to search his house and the church. The search party was said to have been astonished at what they found in the two places.
Sources told Sunday Sun that apart from several idols found in one of the rooms in the house of the prophet who was said to be the custodian of his family’s idols, some scary items were also discovered inside the church that he founded about 20 years ago.
They included a book of Satan, charms of various shapes and sizes, people’s photographs, fingernails and some human hairs.
Other items found by the search party were idols, chains, animal hoofs, gallons of chemicals and a register containing more that 30 names.
All the items were later set ablaze by the angry youths who later attempted to lynch the prophet but for the timely intervention of law enforcement agents.
When contacted, the spokesman of the State Police Command, Mr Ebube Chukwuemeka, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), said that he was yet to receive any report on the incident.
One of the worshipers in the prophet’s church who pleaded anonymity, told Sunday Sun that many notable civil servants and businessmen from within and outside Anambra State, usually patronize the church for charms and prayers.
Culled from The Sun
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