A large scale scandal has broken out in a church known as the City of Truth (a.k.a Holy Ghost Embassy), Uyo, Akwa Ibom State as the founder and general overseer of the church, Bishop Israel Usoro, has been accused by his pastors of engaging in fake instant healing and false prophecies.
But Bishop Usoro has denied the allegation, claiming he never knew whether those who claim to have been instantly healed of their ailments during the church’s tarry nights or similar programmes were real or pretenders.
Sources learnt that Usoro, whose church is situated at No 12, Paul Bassey Street, Uyo, began to experiment the fake instant healing after a Ghanaian pastor, one David Amousou came in as a guest preacher earlier in the year and arranged with some boys to act as sick people to receive instant cure after being prayed for.
A letter of resignation written by one of the elders and former protocol officer of the Church, Mr Idorenyin Aquaisua, to Bishop Usoro and other key officials of the church, a copy of which was made available to Saturday Sun chronicled with dates a series of fake miracles the bishop had performed by paying people, sometimes as little as N2000 to come and pose as if they were mad, blind, infirm or afflicted by evil spirits.
“It bears recall that I have served God in your Church, City of Truth Chapel Int’l, for well over seven (7) years now. Within this period, I stand vindicated before God, my conscience, and man that I have been selfless, diligent, truthful, faithful and committed in my services to God. Since 2006 till date, I have held very many sensitive positions in the church with enduring legacies.
“At a time when the Church was almost grounded by severe moral crisis occasioned by your activities that generated intense feeling of distrust in your wife, I was persuaded, out of trust by you and some faithful members of the church then, to head the Protocol Unit in your office in 2010 so as to encourage and give you the needed support to continue your ministerial duties with minimal distraction,” Aquaisua wrote.
“I came to know you closely as a prophet who professed total dependence on God. Therefore, until certain events unfolded recently, I had no cause to doubt your prophetic grace. When news first came to me early June 2013 that the regular instant healing miracles that were taking place during the Tuesday Power Night programme in the church were stage-managed, I almost beat up the person who brought the news.
“On Tuesday, August 13, 2013, I took an independent step to verify the stories and this step brought me face to face with the truth. That evening during the regular Power Night programme, a clean-shaven young man dressed in torn T-shirt and dragged along by another young man was intercepted as they were about to enter the church and interrogated in the studio room.
“During interrogation, both the young man and his accomplice, who earlier claimed that the young man he was dragging into church was mad, confessed to me (with Elders Idorenyin Mfon, Effiong Usoro and Evangelists Anietie Walter and Harrison Eke as witnesses) that he ‘was NOT MAD and that he was arranged to dress like and to act as a madman in the church for you to ‘deliver’ him so as to boost the faith of members in your anointing and increase the membership of your church’. They said what they were doing was a new method of ‘evangelism’ which you have since embraced”, he further alleged.
But in an interview with Saturday Sun in his church, Bishop Usoro refuted the allegations of fake or false instant miracle claiming that they were peddled by some former officers of the church who are no longer members of the church.
He likened them to Lucifer who was thrown out of heaven. “Since then, he can never say any good thing about heaven.”
Usoro denied ever delivering the supposedly mad man on Tuesday, August 13, 2013, even though he admitted seeing such a person in church that night.
“I saw two young men and one said the other was partially mad. I told them to be coming to church because if I don’t see anything about you, I can’t heal you. It is not the work of the flesh. It is only when you are under the unction of the holy spirit; that you can do all these things. That’s all.”
He showed Saturday Sun two other patients, a lady with goitre and a young man supposed to be mentally deranged whose conditions he said had been improving since they were brought by their relatives to the church.
Usoro admitted being invited by the SSS to answer questions on the fake miracle saga and claimed that he was acquitted after the security operatives heard his own side of the story.
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The story is the same for all churches - fake, fake, fake things just to extort poor Nigerians
ReplyDeleteWhat a pity. Why must U guys even perform miracles when U're not Jesus? Anyway, most churches are now religious industries that provide people with jobs. So sad!
ReplyDeleteFake pastors every well.
ReplyDeleteWhich of the pastors is staging fake prophecies and heals? Stop allowing deceiving yourselves now. There is no miracles. Only Jesus has dat honor. Shine your eyes Christians.
ReplyDeleteal are criminals,they only cheating ppl wt nonsens cal miracle stupid thngs cal pastors,only bros J did miracle so got dat.
ReplyDeleteJesus said if we believe on him we will do greater works and miracle than him. he said we will lay hands on the sick and they will recover John 14:12 mark 16:18. True miracle still exists, if we have the faith... its left for us to discern with d holy ghost. I do miracles too by d power of d holy spirit. you can do it too if u can just BELIEVE
ReplyDeleteIt is not only Jesus that can do miracle. His apostles did miracles too, Jesus said behold I give u power... But a genuine miracle must be done by his name...
ReplyDeleteWe can't just assume that all d miracles we see are fake. if u are a true child of God you would have experienced d miraculous power of God one way or the other. To every original, there is a fake and that does not mean that there is no more original. some true anointed men of God still exist and u can know them
ReplyDeleteMiracles still exist. if u are a true child of God, u should have experienced God's miraculous power one way or the other. Jesus gave every believers power through the Holy spirit. Act 1:8. so we can't just say that the story is same in all church. I am a proof of God's miracle and power. it happens to me and through me and more of it will manifest
ReplyDeleteHahahaha. Na waoo. So which ones are the real healers? TBJ,OKT, ? Sorry for the gullibilbity of Nigerians.
ReplyDeleteThank God that u see fake pastors!!!, there CERTAINLY means that REAL ONES exists!!!!!! Have youever seen or heard of fake N2000 notes?!!!! People all over the world. fake what exixts & moves & is effective, thats the world's system!!!
ReplyDeleteThey can only extort those that want to be extorted. This is what you get when you act as if God is not in your own church and become an ecclesiastic prostitute.
ReplyDeleteI challenged any one who has seen a genuine miracle to tell us on this forum. All i see and hear are fake. O.J
ReplyDeleteOnly the poor and ignorant belief in that crap. The system has sold religion to pacify the people and shot their eyes to the reality of life. Organized religion is a scam on the poor and vulnerable period. If you spend your Sundays and Friday to listen to all that blabbing called preaching the gospel then you deserve to be fooled. There is a force behind the existence of life however there is also something called free will.
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