Churches Pay Me Less Than GHS100 To Fake ‘Miraculous Healing’ – Woman Confesses

&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size"><strong>A middle-aged woman identified as Madam Alimot&comma; has confessed to conniving with pastors to stage fake miracles and deliverance sessions for churches to get new members&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size"><strong>She was apprehended for her involvement in a fraudulent scheme that staged fake miracles in a church located in one of the South-West states&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The Oluyole Security Surveillance Team took her into custody after reports emerged of her exploiting a teenage boy and threatening him when he threatened to expose their activities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Opening up about her fraudulent practice in an interview&comma; the woman in her 50s revealed that she recruited the teenage nephew of one of her tenants&comma; to participate in one such performance where he was made to pretend to be deaf and then miraculously regain his hearing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;occupygh&period;com&sol;file&sol;occupygh&sol;2024&sol;05&sol;alimot&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-198518" &sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>But after the service&comma; the pastor who received substantial cash donations gave the teenager only N500 and threatened by Alimot to keep quiet about the deceit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Madam Alimot shared&semi;&nbsp&semi;<strong><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I live at Olomi Area of the city&period; I was a beer and wine seller before and well known in my area&period; However&comma; I had an accident&comma; and my business crashed&period; I had another accident at Olomi when a car hit me&period; So&comma; I couldn’t continue with my business since two years ago&period;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It was then that someone told me about a church’s style of gaining membership and raising much money through bringing in people who would pretend as needing healing from sicknesses and diseases&period;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Sometimes&comma; a member of the syndicate would act as an imbec&excl;le&period; Other times&comma; I would act like someone who is a witch and had rendered her husband impotent&period; After my &OpenCurlyQuote;confession&comma;’ the pastor would use anointing oil and water to restore the manhood of the syndicate member who would pretend to be my husband&period;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I could also act as if I spiritually attacked the child of my rival in my marriage&period; The person who introduced the business to me lived at OkeAdu&period; She was known as Iya Deola but died recently&period; I have worked with the syndicate about four times and I made up my mind not to go to the church for such deceit again&period; I kept off the business for almost two years before I ventured into it again&period; Lately&comma; my mind just went to her&comma; and I borrowed the phone of the boy&comma; whose involvement exposed me&comma; to call her&period;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What I got to understand is that the pastor would call her whenever he needed people to come to church gathering and act as if a miracle was occurring&period; The worshippers were many&period;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;One of the acts I performed was that I pretended as if I afflicted my rival’s son with impotence because I didn’t give birth to a male child and was being oppressed by his mother&period; The pastor would anoint him with oil and sprinkle water on him&period; Immediately&comma; he would hold his manhood and start rejoicing&comma; telling the congregation that he felt life in it again&period;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I used to be paid ₦7&comma;000 each time I went to the town and return to Ibadan&comma; and the payment would include transport fare&period; So&comma; what I was usually left with was between ₦1&comma;500 and ₦2&comma;000&period; That was what I would use to eat&period;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I have two children and one of them&comma; a male&comma; just got someone pregnant&period; He’s my second child&period; My daughter is married and blessed and blessed with two children but is currently sick&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source<&sol;strong>&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;OccupyGh&period;com">OccupyGh&period;com<&sol;a> <&sol;p><p class&equals;"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;chat&period;whatsapp&period;com&sol;JVGCtXdCoiKHCI3CXwMC5l" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">Tap To Join Our<&sol;a> WhatsApp Community<&sol;p> &NewLine;

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