Americans Should Protest Nigerian Witch-Hunter's Visit

If you live in the U.S. and you are:

•In bondage

•Having bad dreams

•Under a witchcraft attack or oppression

•Possessed by mermaid spirits or other evil spirits

•Barren and having frequent miscarriages

•Experiencing an unsuccessful life of disappointment

•Experiencing financial impotency with difficulties

•Facing victimization and a lack of promotion

•Experiencing a stagnant life with failures

...You need not wait for too long. Helen Ukpabio, a Nigerian evangelist, will be traveling to the United States in March where she will be preaching in Texas. All ye people in the U.S. who have been struggling with the possession of mermaid spirits no longer have to be like fish out of water, someone's finally coming to shore you up.

While it is laughable that there are credulous people in this world who believe in such fishy claims, the real issue that should trouble every American is that their impending guest is also a notorious child-witch hunter. Ukpabio alleges that Satan constantly manifests himself in the bodies of children through demonic possession, turning them into witches and wizards. Condemned as witches, these children are splashed with acid, buried alive,immersed in fire or expelled from their communities. According to Nigerian humanist campaigner Leo Igwe,Ukpabio "is a Christian fundamentalist and a Biblical literalist. She uses her sermons, teachings and prophetic declarations to incite hatred, intolerance and persecution of alleged witches and wizards." Ukpabio, we learn from Igwe, claims to be an ex-witch, who later founded her own church to pursue her "anointed mission" of delivering people from witchcraft. Her ministry's services include deliverance sessions that identify and cast out demons. Her church has extended witch- hunting branches all over Nigeria and even to other countries.

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The Punch:: Women group pleads against child witch stigmatisation

The women wing of Oron Union, a socio-cultural organisation in Akwa Ibom State, on Wednesday pledged its support for the fight against child witch syndrome, News Agency of Nigeria reports.

The group said it planned to sponsor a bill in the state House of Assembly to check the proliferation of unconventional churches which branded innocent children as witches and extorted money for their “deliverance.”

Leader of the group, Mrs. Alice Esin, made the pledge when the group visited the Child Rights and Rehabilitation Network centre for abandoned children in Eket.

She promised to collaborate with the non-governmental organisation, noting that there was increase in the rate of child stigmatisation and abandonment based on the superstitious belief in child witchcraft.

The Punch:: Women group pleads against child witch stigmatisation

American Chronicle | Akwa-Ibom Child Witches: So Far, Not Yet Uhuru

Akwa-Ibom Child Witches: So Far, Not Yet Uhuru

Children in almost all African cultures are bundles of joy that societies often impatiently await their arrivals. The eagerness to have these wondrous creatures, most often than not, has selfish undertone (that of preserving the traditions and cultures as well as family legacies to be imbibed in them). The arrival of new born babies, into families, is therefore seen as a way of guaranteeing the going entity of such families. But when bundles of joy suddenly turns into bundles of sorrow, then I think the cause needs to be searched. Hence many global citizens are today concerned about the fate of African children passing through horrific times simply because someone thinks they are witches.


American Chronicle | Akwa-Ibom Child Witches: So Far, Not Yet Uhuru

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Preventing “Witchcraft” Related Abuse

Friday 23 July 2010, 9.30 a.m. – 4.30 p.m.

Amnesty International Human Rights Action Centre

In May 2009 UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Philip Alston, reported to the United Nations Human Rights Council that, “The persecution and killing of individuals accused of practising so-called “witchcraft” – the vast majority of whom are women and children – is a significant phenomenon in many parts of the world, although it has not featured prominently on the radar screen of human rights monitors.”
These human rights violations are of increasing concern to many Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) who have been advocating for the victims of witch-hunters. The Witchcraft and Human Rights Information Network (WHRIN) was established in 2009 by one such NGO – Stepping Stones Nigeria – to facilitate partnerships and collaboration between individuals and organisations who encounter the victims of witchcraft accusations and magical or religious practices.

For more information click here (pdf file)

Gospel of Wickedness – The Hypocrisy and Falsehood of Helen Ukpabio – Part 2. | NFC Blogs | ModernGhana.com Entertainment

Still on Kolade-Otitoju and the lies published by The News magazine

It is equally annoying that Kolade-Otitoju also forgot to mention that in her statement of defence at the law court, Helen ukpabio indignantly stated that she had a right to a belief in the existence of witchcraft and that her brand of Christianity should be allowed to express this in the manner she fully understood – that is, pursuing innocent children. That Helen's films were approved by the Nigerian Censorship Board did not imply that such films were healthy for public consumption. We are all too aware of the arm-twisting tactics of Helen in ensuring that her tainted films get the required approval, including the easy resort to law courts at the drop of a pin.

As for the noted accomplice of Helen, the gregarious “Bishop” Sunday Ulup-Aya (aka Sunday Okon Williams), the mere attempt of Kolade-Otitoju to link this despicable character with Sam Ikpe-Itauma is a deliberate mischief. Kolade-Otitoju quoted this miscreant as insisting that Sam Itauma suggested making money out of exorcism to him. It stands to reason that this witch-killing “Bishop” was an idiot and lacked basic intelligence, if he could have been so easily misled. Not only this, he would probably get suitable roles in Nollywod if he could have acted such a coached script so beautifully.

Gospel of Wickedness – The Hypocrisy and Falsehood of Helen Ukpabio – Part 2. | NFC Blogs | ModernGhana.com Entertainment

Gospel of Wickedness – The Hypocrisy and Falsehood of Helen Ukpabio – Part 1. | NFC Blogs | ModernGhana.com Entertainment

The intransigence of Helen Ukpabio seems to have no bounds and I feel compelled to make this submission to further expose the hypocrisy of this woman of little mind. Rather than show repentance with the level of international odium and disgust at her retrogressive brand of Christianity, this repugnant character seems hell bent on forcing her obnoxious and destructive fantasy on Nigerians and the world at large, albeit at all costs. The deliberately planted article titled: One Big Scam by Babajide Kolade-Otitoju in The News magazine of March 1, 2010 (http://thenewsng.com/nation/one-big-scam/2010/03) left a bad taste in the mouth. The Senior Editor of The News magazine insisted that what he wrote was the product of “investigative” journalism; hence I decided to embark on one of my own. My findings are radically different from that expounded by Mr Kolade-Otitoju. My investigation further points to the alarming situation of the influence of money on our modern day journalism. Nigeria, indeed, faces a serious problem in this area.

Gospel of Wickedness – The Hypocrisy and Falsehood of Helen Ukpabio – Part 1. | NFC Blogs | ModernGhana.com Entertainment