1. Irrevocable Call of God
Now is the time to acknowledge the call of God at the early stage, else you waste days, weeks, months and years roaming around, what awaits you awaits you. You can run away from man but you can’t run away from God because He is everywhere. There are answered prayers and promises that are irrevocable which guarantees your security, protection and divine guidance if only you will heed to it which is the Call from your maker GOD ALMIGHTY, the FATHER of the ONE and ONLY SAVIOUR and REDEEMER of mankind JESUS CHRIST by divorcing sin and its creator SATAN that OLD SERPENT through your repentance by the acknowledgement of all your SINS. Confess them out to GOD and forsake them immediately as well as take a decision not to revisit them again.
Then ask GOD for the GRACE to lead a daily Christ-like holy living through a persistent and persevering prayer life style.
This “It is written” also consists of Callings and Gifts.
"Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm1Ch16:22" (The ANOINTED and the PROPHET is the ONE who have accepted the LORDSHIP and LEADING of GOD in his/her life through JESUS CHRIST and become a Co-laborer with HIM).
“No weapon that is formed against me shall prosper Is.54:17” (a believer in Christ Jesus, the inheritor of GOD’S property). The assurance of the promises and their good effects in your life are certain if you come believing.
"Whoever falls on that stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder Lk.20:18."
“Whoso digs a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolls a stone, it will return upon him Pr 26:27”.
“Whoso causes the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession Pr 28:10”.
“And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!" Ro 10:15”Isa 52:7;, Na 1:15 ,
It is written, it is written that you are called and it is irreversible and irrevocable because it is a made prayer and answered prayer, God your creator made it for you the day He created you, for He says in Jer.1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.", so running away is a waste of time. If GOD has called you, know you that “It is written” it is unchangeable. “Ro.11:29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable”
Now is the hour of salvation; now is the hour of grace: now is the hour of reconciliation with Him who called you, for Jonah tried to run away from God but he could not because God is even in the sea “Jon1:3”. Stop running now and answer HIM for He is waiting for your immediate response. Do this and hope that the promises of the called and chosen ones shall be yours.
2. Arrived In South Africa
I left Nigeria on the 22 March 2000, transited in Kenya and arrived in South Africa on the 23 March 2000. It was wonderful being in a dream land; South Africa was my dream land but I could not tell why it was my dream land.
On my arrival at the airport, I saw good things and good people, so good to be with but still needed some help, as I had not got to my final destination. A taxi driver approached me, asked me if I needed a taxi, I answered “yes but first I need to call my cousin who should come to pick me”, then the taxi driver and I tried my cousin’s mobile phone numbers several times but to no avail. Then I asked the taxi driver if he knows any Nigerian or where I can see a Nigerian within Johannesburg, he asked me “a Nigerian?” I answered “yes”, and he said to me I know a lot of them. I said to him “can you please take me to any of them” and he replied, “I will show you many of them”, but he cautioned that I must be careful because they are so clever.
We entered the taxi and he took me to a hotel in Hebrow called Sands Hotel, in this hotel Nigerians more than communities live in it, there they sale drug and other illegal businesses with South Africa Totsis (street kids), the Police and prostitutes. In this hotel many Nigerians were killed.
The taxi driver asked me to go and look for my cousin there while he waits for me, when I got down and watched every mouth, I saw that they were all speaking Ibo as if they were in Ariaria market, in fact, I was shocked for some seconds but was happy because I have arrived to my dream land. I told the taxi driver to go, that I’m fine with the people I saw, but he was not comfortable because of what some Nigerians do, mostly to the newly arrived people, although I was not treated like others as I met people who really helped me to call my cousin who came and picked me to another hotel where also multitude of Nigerians live and hang around, this hotel is called Hilton Plaza.
When I got to Hilton Plaza I shouted and asked, “Is this Nigeria or South Africa?” Someone responded “ ifugo-ife?”, meaning, “have you seen something?” that if I’m taking to other hotels like Mimosa, Safari, Mambaton, Hebrow-Inn and many more, I will have mercy on Nigerians.
And another man said to me “you don come be say you don com” meaning “you have come is that you have come”, I accepted this word and picked courage. I saw some people with crouches and asked, were they like this before they came here? They said no, that they were shot here in South Africa, that they are even lucky, for some were dead on the similar gun shot. I thought they were telling stories of what perhaps happened somewhere else, not knowing that the gun shot took place in that area.
3. Shooting Outside The Club
In the night while we were drinking in the club, the shooting started outside, but that was A South African and another South African, I saw where about 9 bullets were shot, piercing into human body on a close range, yet this man did not die before the ambulance arrived and he survived it. After this incident I went to my building called High Point with the shock of the blood I saw, as I was in bed I heard another gun shot and watched through the window, the building being 30 stories, but I lived on the 9th floor, behold someone was shot. That night I heard many gunshot from different directions and many people were shot both Nigerians and other people from other countries as Hebrow is filled with few indigenes and many foreigners except white, white people fled Hebrow because the rate of violent crime being committed there is unbearable, and the white were the first target, but now foreigners. That night was a hot warm-welcome experience to me in South Africa.
4. Chukwudi Shot And Later Missed
While they were telling me these stories a man by name Chukwudi who owned a night club called Dar-South night club came out from the night club which is in the basement of Hilton Plaza and greeted us. This man’s neck was filled with stitches, I asked the friends with me what happened to the man’s neck which looks as if an attempt was made to behead him, they told me that he was shot up to 12 bullets on that neck and he survived it because he is rich, I got more worried about my stay.
5. Ncha-South Shot Dead
When they saw that I was too worried, they came with some more interesting stories about the first owner of the Dar-south Night Club from Enugu State.
This Dar-south, the first owner was known as Ncha-South, he was the richest Nigerian, a drug dealer, highly connected, one day a gang of gun men sent by Nigerians who were supposed to be his partners in drug dealing, as they were having problem about a set of drug which they imported in South Africa, came to his liquor shop and shot him dead.
After many of these stories I became a man believing to either make it or die trying, I joined telcom fraud and 419 frauds at the same time. I met a friend in Pretoria who later introduced me to the fraud of highest order “local 419” (otherwise known as suicide).
But if fraud failed us, we will sponsor our armed robbers who will go and rob for us, some of us will go and rob by themselves, and some will never commit fraud but will kidnap those who made money through organized crimes and extort the money from them. Although in South Africa we have but only 2 percent who were full time robbers, 93% were in other crime while 5% may be genuine.
Local 419 is so dangerous that your client can meet you where you cannot run away, after you had duped him, at times the job can knock in the mugu’s house and the next option is for the mugu to shoot you or throw you to his lion. This has happened many times, there is an incidence where two Nigerians went to defraud a man, and in his house the job knocked and the man ordered his boys to throw one to his lion and sent the other one back to inform other members what he saw, and how the lion rushed his colleague and tore him into pieces.
There was a local 419 deal that a Nigerian and a Cameroonian ventured, this mugu, when they showed him samples of the money, and he taught that it was real money. When they brought the box of negative money to his house, he shot them and rob them the box thinking that it contained real money, as he was told, but the Nigerian later survived while the Cameroonian died.
6. I Was Arrested
The next day I came out to go to the street of the Hilton Plaza where we hung, forgetting to have my passport with me. Coming out from the lift I saw so many police officers with many cars searching everybody, men searching men, women searching women. They came to me, searched and asked me for my I.D., I told them that I do not have it but I have passport, they requested for it, I told them that I do not have it, and that it was in my house, the police man brought out his National I.D. and showed me saying that it is a must that everybody should have his or her I.D. both citizens and foreigners with their passport, that he was going to arrest me as an illegal immigrant. I pleaded with him to forgive my mistake but he refused and took me along with other people including other Nigerians and South Africans who forgot their I.D. just like me and other real illegal immigrants.
Luckily to me, before they could process the document to send us to Lindela the deportation camp, someone had brought my passport which was very much valid. Truly they apologized to me unlike Nigerian Police who will insist on “I no follow N3000”.
When I came out, friends came to me telling me how to live in the country as a foreigner, on their story they started telling me what happened to Nigerians by the police raid and embarrassments.
From where we stood they showed me a building behind the Hilton Plaza called Cape Agulas. By the top of that building there is a bent iron rail. They told me the story of how the iron bent; that a Nigerian living on the 6th floor was raided one day by the Police, this man having some cocaine with him while the police were knocking decided to take a chance, by trying to sneak to the next flat with the drug through the window. He hung himself by the wall shifting to the next flat, while taking this chance he missed his steps and fell from 6th floor’s wall, he hit his chest on that rail and died instantly. What a terrible story!!!
The next day, we were on the street where we normally stand 24/7, behold a troop of police and soldier coming from every corner, east, west, north and south, surrounded everybody while helicopters were in the air. I had not been tensioned as that day before, I ran up, police blocked and I ran down, they were already approaching, I stood on a place. They searched for resident permit, drugs, unlicensed guns and stolen cellphone, beating people.
They arrested many people with many illegal stuffs, after this drama, I thought it was over; the following day they came again doing the same thing, arrested many again. This troop went to another hotel where Nigerians also stay, raided them. But terrible news came that a Nigerian was apprehended possessing drugs, this Nigerian put the drug in his mouth and swallowed it, the policemen strangled him to make him vomit it, but at the process the Nigerian was choked and died. This news boiled all Nigerians in town that we demonstrated to the police station, Nigerian consulate sent delegates to calm the angry Nigerians.
This is exactly what Nigerians experience abroad, they live with fear, with tension, embarrassment, even when you are innocent and legal, embarrassment must always come to you, and police will stop you and start searching you alone on the road where more than 500 people walk just because you are a foreigner, but in Nigeria nobody embarrasses you like that.
7. Oversea Is Like A Maximum Jail
In Hebrow, you can see Nigerians who have forgotten home, some have been turned to mad men by marijuana and cocaine. Marijuana is smoked like cigarettes just for them to feel high and forget their sorrow, which I later became much addicted to, whereas in Nigeria I did not test it. You will see somebody who you would never believe that he smokes, smoking like an old criminal, alcohol is just normal as it is cultural and traditional in the country, prostitution and fornication are cultural, traditional and free to anybody who asks which is why HIV is so common. And government legalized prostitution as there are a lot of “escort agencies” which are legal companies for prostitution.
This country turned many people to something else. You will see some who were good and responsible back home behaving like hooligans, looking irresponsible, some who were rich back home became poor with total hopelessness You see Nigerian graduates, Lawyers, Engineers and other professionals standing every day on the street like street-kids, and frustrated as we cannot be giving any job, and some of our passports were written “Work and study prohibited”, whereas the law has indirectly forced you to marry to obtain permit.
Some were gigolo just to earn living, some asked their wives to go out and prostitute; imaging your wife who you sleep with prostituting just to provide a daily meal.
Some have falling stroke and some developed high blood pressure due to disappointments about the condition they found themselves, many were fully mad in the street. Some summoned courage and returned back, many like us could not return, not because we like the situation but because we have no alternative as we left nothing behind and cannot bear the shame. Some their parents died, yet they cannot go home because there is no money to buy even air ticket, some cry every time without consolation.
Nigerians need to be pitied abroad, never mind those who made it and came back; they are 5% out of 100%. If you see 100 Nigerians at the airport living for abroad, in the next 5 years you may only see 5 people richly returning, 10 managed to return, 20 in jail, 65 are starkly frustrated having no money even for a return ticket. Some are no more thinking about returning back, not because they don’t want to return but because there is no money.
Many have no home there; they sleep only in the day time on a snooker board in any night club they found themselves. In the night they will look for a night-club, pretending as if they are there for enjoyment, while the Niger has no place to lay his head.
Some who are little lucky sleep in churches, but must attend all night program of that church, whether they like it or not, as they must not sleep while church activity is going on. Truly some of us were not criminals and never intended to commit crime but due to this experience, they will have no option than to join crime.
As the government and the law prohibits us to work, and it is illegal to work without work-permit which is hardly giving to black foreigners, if you illegally secure any job, your employer will make you a slave, paying you pear-nut with over labor. Sometimes some white people will take advantage of your status; when it is the time to pay you your monthly salary, they will call the immigration police; they will come and arrest all the illegal workers, the salary for that month is gone.
If you eventually get married with a citizen, you know that you are forever a slave, you are now in hell fire on earth because the little right and freedom you had is automatically taking from you and be given to your so called wife, whereas you married her to obtain equal right. On this kind of situation, what a citizen does to their wife and go free, if you do it your wife will be threatening you, she will be calling police to arrest you every time. If you fortunately make that money, you will either loose the entire money to her by divorcing you or even kill you, because all your properties belong to her. What a maximum prison.
This thing happens not only in South Africa, I have a friend in Holland who told me one day that if I come to Amsterdam, Nigerians are more than those in South Africa.
In Germany the same thing, many are there for many years having no hope to come back, because they have over stayed, and shame becomes the powder on their faces. Many of them end up marrying prostitutes, because there is no alternative, and yet their people will be boasting that their brother married a white, whereas the white woman is already dead seeking who to die with.
What about our football players? They are scattered all over Europe, Asia and South Africa confused and frustrated, as what they were told is not what they see and shame could not let them come back and continue with their career. Because they heard that Kanu Nwankwo and Okocha are making it in Europe, they fall in the hand of the human traffickers who will make them sale their father’s land and travel to the land of no return. Government please help our people!!! The only savior, Christ Jesus will save my people.
I do not discourage any body that has a good reason to travel, but be sure before you travel, do make a stupid trip.
What about our ladies who are turned to prostitutes? To be frank with you, it is not every woman that traveled hoped to prostitute. Many of them were forced and persuaded into the harlotry. These human traffickers also took many of them assuring them of good job, but on getting there they force them into prostitution, which is know overseas as Escort Agency. You cannot do them any thing in that country because they maybe registered and licensed, and they are connected to frame you up to jail with drug if you say to the job. Government please help our people!!!
Are you intending to travel abroad now? Think twice before you do, have in mind that this testimony of mine will judge you when you start crying. Are you trying to be like that man who came back with cars in your community? Did you ask him about other ones who have not come back for years? Why is it that they do not come back, do you think they don’t want to come back? No but they are stark and stranded.
Why not you use that money you want to use to send yourself to maximum jail and start a good business, and live a comfortable life here in Nigeria, it is more better here in Nigeria than there as long as you are a foreigner, although our people there hide this truth from people, and collect money from people and bring them there to experience what they are experiencing. What wickedness?
And to let you know more, Nigeria is a place where you can be creative, Nigeria is the only country where you can establish any petty business without tax, where you can be self employed easily like conductor or any petty job. Do you know that there are thousands of Nigerians who have spent over five years oversea and have not made half of the money they spent to travel abroad? Some only pray for at least daily bread, while some have no alternative than to hawk sweet, chew gun and cigarettes, imagine an ex millionaire in Nigeria selling chewing-gum, for how long would they continue selling this and make the money to go back. Even to sell the drug is not easy, you might have the drug to sell and cannot have customers who will buy it from you, or you might unfortunately get only those that are poor and this type of customers will only implicate you and put you in prison. It is not easy abroad.
Are you tired of this country Nigeria? Think otherwise because no matter how bad your house looks, you must surely live in it comfortably than living in another man’s mansion, no place like home.
Do you know that that money you spend to travel, some of your mate in that country has never seen it, and do you know that if you pray to God and use that money you want to waste to travel and start a business, within three to five years you will be richer than many who are outside Nigeria. Oh, no wonder the scripture says in Ho.4:6 “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge”, receive this knowledge now and you will prosper.
Have you any body who has been so long outside, please go into serious fasting and prayer for the person, it is not easy there as we thought here in Nigeria. Discourage those in Nigerian from living the country; freedom is far better than imprisonment. To live in your country is a great freedom while to live in a foreign land is a maximum prison no matter how rich you are. But with God’s purpose and for Servants of God traveling abroad is not a problem because there is an answered prayer for Joshua and any Man of God; as it is written in “Jos 1:3 "Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses”.
8. Nigerians Come Back!!!
You who have stayed in abroad for many years with nothing to show for it, can’t you ask yourself a question? Why are you ashamed to live comfortably? You who are ashamed to come back and continue with your life, do you think that those you are ashamed of suffer with you there? Can’t you reason? Why do you have to die because of what people will say? Let me tell you, this shame can only happen once and it will be over, I faced it once and it is over now. But why should I be ashamed? Is it for making a trial? Let us make a rethink and reason in our heart if it is a crime to fail, after all people take examination and fail, people contest election and fail after spending all their money.
Perhaps you are meant to make your riches in Nigeria, you left your green pasture and went to a dry land, and except you come back to your green pasture you will ever be hungry, poor and retched.
Or do you want to die because of shame or because you did not make it. Do you want to be like that brother who has falling stroke? Do you want to be like that brother who has developed High BP? Or Do you want to be like that brother who is mad there?
Why do you make yourself prone to temptation of satan? Why do you allow satan to destroy your future?
Let me tell you, people invite satan to their live and he will come, steal you, kill you and destroy you. Satan can only speak to you; he does not carry someone to any problem, if you obey him by doing what he asks you to do, he will now cage you up, remote control you until the day you will speak to him and say I do not agree to obey you anymore and call on God, God will now come in to rescue you. If you don’t stretch out your hand and call on God for help, He will not help you because you are still obeying another master which is satan.
Whenever you hear that word in your ear saying, “why must you go empty handed? People will laugh at you” know you that it is the voice that deceiver the old serpent, don’t listen to him because he will steal you, kill you and destroy you to hell.
Hear this voice now, it is from God; do not ask what and how you can start life if you go back, remember that you have God, He is able to help mostly those who are hopeless and helpless like you, and those that human beings fail, I assure you that this is where God manifest His power according to His word in “2Cor.12:9 And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me”.
I am a partaker and witness of God’s grace in my weaknesses, when all my hope was lost, then He took me to the book of Lamentation 3:1-end, study it and examine your ways, you will see that His mercies are new every morning, you will know that it is better to bear your yoke now than when you are old.
But I will advise you to learn one career which may not be common in Nigeria, there are many things that have not come to Nigeria which are there, you can introduce one, and banks or individuals will be ready to partner with you or sponsor you. You can as well persuade or convince a company to bring their company to Nigeria. To let you know the truth, Nigeria is a virgin country but those who are here do not know it.
Take a step of faith now, pray to God now, join it with fasting, tell Him to wipe away that shame on your face now, and when He speaks to you and directs you do hear Him and obey Him. For He says in Ps 50:15 “Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me."
Exercise your faith now, Pick up your belongings and return back, I assure you that Nigeria is good now than when you left, it is better now and we hope for the best in Jesus Name “Amen”
9. Nigerians Living With HIV and AIDS
HIV and AIDS are on high in Hebrow, although South Africa in general is know as HIV nation, in South Africa 1 out of 3 people walking on the street is HIV positive, but in Hebrow, 2 out of 3 people are positive, to the extent that people intentionally spread the disease through free sex. Many Nigerian are HIV positive in South Africa, some have died already.
Some ladies rape men just to spread the disease, there was news that three ladies were kidnapping men and raped them. According to the victims, the ladies will stop on their car asking you about a street address, when you come closer they will beg you to enter the car and direct them very well. Immediately you entered the car, they will point gun at you and carry you to their house and rape you one after the other.
Many of our people have contacted this HIV and AIDS as many lost control in fornication, committing some kind of fornication that was never committed in Sodom and Gomorra, and was not recorded in the bible, having sex with their mouth and tongue, which is to use to eat, drink and pray to God. The idiots call it is signs of love, and most of these people are even Christians, this people are already dead as in (“Ezek. 18:4 "Behold, all souls are Mine; The soul of the father As well as the soul of the son is Mine; The soul who sins shall die”). What a sacrilege, what an abomination. The anger of God will fall on this generation soon as more new sins are being invented by men today “Ro 1:30”.
It is time to help people Brethren, preach the Gospel raw to them without compromise in churches. People need this Gospel more than us who have it already, many do not know how and what to do to come to Jesus Christ because they are slaves to satan. Satan has bound them with a bunch of accusations and deceit. No wonder Paul emphatically stated it prophetical in 2Cor. 4 that they have been blinded by the god of this age in darkness, that they cannot see light, less they see the light and come out from darkness.
In fact, if you can force any one by all means and bring him or her to repentance it is good because many people want to repent but due to the fact that satan has blind folded them, they cannot, after all “it is written-You must be born again Jn.3:7”.
Satan has put fear of tomorrow into the life of sinners, putting satanic shame and timidity in them. A sinner is a slave and slaves have no will power to decide what to do, “Jn 8:34 Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin”, and freedom is far from them, but if the Son of God makes them free they will be free indeed Jn.8:36”. And the son of God, our Lord and personal Savior Jesus Christ has given us the power to remit or retain every sin “Jn.20:23. Oh believer, it is within your power to make any sinner who is a slave to satan to be free, for this is your heritage.
10. Nigerian Pastor Raped His Stepped Daughter
Many pastors from Nigeria came to South Africa and deviated, compromising issues, fornication becomes their mission, and praying and fasting for fraud and drug dealing become their commission and vision is stolen by satan, of which I had pastors who prayed for me on fraud business specially. Even some Nigerian pastors are drug dealers themselves. On one of the police raid, a church owned by a Nigerian pastor was raided and drugs and chemicals used for manufacturing drugs were found. Another Nigerian pastor raped his stepped daughter and was sent jail. Workers of iniquity.
Oh man of God, the called one, the chosen one, Let me tell you this one thing, anybody can do any thing whether sin or not, and go free, but a man of God can never commit any sin and go free here in this life and after, people can fornicate, people can steal, people can commit any secret sin but if a pastor or man of God commits any sin, he must suffer it, and the way he suffer it must be different from an unbeliever. Satan watches you to accuse every time, satan seeks ways to tempt you, and if you eventually fall prey to his temptation, he must make sure that you pay to the last.
Oh man of God, Oh believer, Oh child of God flee fornication, for every sin you commit is out of your body but the sin of fornication is committed against your body, which is the temple of the Holy Spirit. Sin is a reproach to any nation that commits it; it is a reproach to any man who commits it.
Avoid all manner of temptation, but peradventure any temptation comes to you, our Lord Jesus Christ has shown us how to overcome them in Mtt.4:4, and 1cor.10:13 says, “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it”.
11. Papa Shot Dead
When we started these deals we had a man known as Papa who used to lend us some money if we need some money, he was very friendly with us, Papa was one of the Nigerians who never soiled their hands in illegal businesses. He ran a public phone business and wanted to leave South Africa if he made some good money, as according to him, he did not intend to come to settle in South Africa rather some people owed him in South Africa and he came to draw the debt and was disappointed. But there was a mistake that many Nigerians made then, many of them lived with prostitutes who arrange to shoot them and claim their properties as they got wedded with them for Papers. We heard this same news on the case of Papa.
On one evening, we came and gave Papa back his money, the next morning we heard that Papa was shot in a cold blood and that that money was made away with by the gun men, what a bad news. This is what many foreigners experience.
12. Nigerian Fraud Activities
Then in South Africa, 95% of Nigerians including some pastors were on illegal deal, mostly in 419 and drug, half of the South Africa Police in Hebrow Police Station were involved in these crimes, as most of the deals need police hand to be executed, most of the mugus need to see police to fully trust the deal for safety and security, not that they were trying to be legitimate but to be safe as all of us were criminals with a term “Trust No One”.
The 419er is a criminal, the police is criminal, the mugu (victim) is a criminal because I as a 419er will tell the mugu that I have an illegal money which I need him to assist me transfer or make legal, after that I would give him some good amount as his share, he will agree to assist in the illegal deal, then police and other government officials like bankers who are partners in crime will come in.
Many of us were involved on this deal making and spending money like nothing. Some times, the same police will come after us mostly if the police is not partnering with you, some times your police partner will send other police to arrest you and demand for bribe to release you.
There were some funny group that cannot take you to the police station instead they will carry you in their vehicle throughout the day asking you to call your people to bring ransom for your release, threatening to send you to jail if you allow them to take you to the station.
The first time I was arrested for fraud was on the 2nd of Nov. 2002; that night was horrible, it was my first time seeing what is sign. Many things happened to me that I could not understand; I kept on being stumbled, falling down, and many more that I cannot write now.
When these corpses busted the office where we were, they threatened us, and we thought they were not serious, although they showed some seriousness by beating us. We offered them some money, after negotiations they accepted to take some amount, but because we had not enough money, one of us called his police friend to come and help so that they will take the amount we had, which we later blamed him. When this police friend came, the group that arrested us became scared thinking that we wanted to set them up. They are a special squad for fraud, more superior to the other friend. Immediately, they took us to the station and called for the organize crime prosecutor to come and charge us, we were charged and sent to Sand-City prison.
In this Sand-City prison I met Christ whom I blasphemed in the past, who I never knew that existed, yet I was not born again, (To Cont.)
13. I Duped People
I later became a fraudster that people suffered so much in my hand; I duped many people both in South Africa and outside South Africa, but I still remember an Algerian who I defrauded and later cried bitterly to God. This man was first duped $200,000 by some people in Benin Republic before he got into my trap; I duped him about $32,000 which I truly regretted but had no option than to play the game, may God forgive me in Jesus Name “Amen”.
After he made the first payment, I persuaded him that we meet in Dubai to finalize the deal, and after that we should use the money to by goods and export it to Algeria. This man went and borrowed $4,000 with his house where he lived to complete the $15,000 bill I gave him; he reached an agreement with the lender to pay $200,000 in two weeks time according to him, with the hope that the deal was real.
He arrived Dubai with his wife and was duped the money by my partners there, he got disappointed, crying every day with his wife in the hotel with hunger and starvation, knowing not what to do next. When I called him one day asking him to go back and the fund will be transferred to his account in Algeria. He now told me that his children had been chased out of the house with court injunction as it was their agreement to pay the lender $200,000 in two weeks time, or his house will become the lender’s own.
I cried as I heard this news, seeing that we duped the man the money which he used to feed and train his family, and as at that time, I had even wasted my own share, this is why I call fraud money “cursed money” and any body who is in it is cursed.
419 fraud is a curse, look at how we heartlessly cause families to go hungry and render them homeless, even some of them divorce their husband or wife. Every 419er is cursed, because the people, children and family who live by the money you defrauded are every day crying to God as they go hungry, which is why the money does not last no matter the amount you made. Check out those who made too much money from it how they die, how the money ended and what happens to their families.
If you are still a fraudster, I beseech you and advise you in the name of Jesus Christ to stop now and ask God for forgiveness, if possible contact me and I will help you and show you the best way out. Repent now and turn to God, confess your sins as I have done and your sins shall be forgiven you. Some us ask if they stop this business and repent what can they do. You who ask what you can do, asked yourself, how long you have been on this business, and all the money you made in the past where are they now.
someone asked me what he can do if he stops, as I was preaching to him, but when I asked him if he believes in God, he said yes, I told him, “if you believe in God and yet you ask what can you do or eat when stop committing sin; you are equally saying that there is no God or the God you believe in is not able to do for you as you desire” when I quoted “Mtt.6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you” he became weak, he left that day and I did not see him again on that internet café.
After about two months I was walking on the street and I hear a voice calling me, when I look back, behold it was him, he began to thank me, telling me how he made a U-Turn after I preached to him, and he is now a real new person in the Lord. I became so glad, and imagined the joy that would be in heaven as he repented, “Lk 15:7 "I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance”.
14. Tochuckwu Shot Dead In Olympic Bar
On one evening I went to a restaurant called Olympic Bar owned by an Oba man, we were playing snooker with his brother called Tochukwu and he was the manager of the bar, I do not know what took me out of the restaurant after I was knocked out. Few minute after I left, I heard a gun shot, we rushed out to see what happened; it was a Zimbabwean shot by the security after he had shot Tochukwu right in the head, the security missed the target and the Zimbabwean was apprehended by Nigerians beating to coma before police came and rescued him, but Tochukwu is dead. Then the news came that the Zimbabwean suspected him to be befriending his girl who was working for the Olympic Bar owner. What terrible news. This is how this friend lost his life.
15. Kidnappers
These set of criminals are the people who killed most of Nigerians who died in South Africa, they are Nigerians, they cannot commit fraud, and neither can they deal on drug but only search for any Nigerian who newly made money. They are drug addicts, some are semi-mad, without human conscience, these criminals often operate with the police to enhance their activities mainly when they see a rich Nigerian who goes, as many times the police will arrest their victim pretending to take the person to the station and the next will be to carry him to an unknown destination and hand him over to the kidnappers.
I have an intimate friend who was a big time kidnapper. One time he kidnapped a Chinese man and hijacked his container full of goods and shot the Chinese man to death with his legal fire-arm. He sold the goods and prepared his papers to travel home as the police were serious over the matter searching for him. While he was on the preparation, they tracked him, but unfortunately the police who caught him were for assassination, they decided to kill him but they enjoyed torturing him first, he was tortured to coma and they decided to dump him at the airport placing on him the air ticket which he already bought. There at the airport, one of his friends who is an immigration officer fortunately identified and called for ambulance and took him to hospital where his received treatment. After this incidence his wife who also was his partner in this crime became born-again and brought him closer to God, yet not repented.
One day he asked me to accompany him to the Kempton Park Police Station, very much unknown to me that we were going to claim back his gun which police took from him on a fight between him and some group of white; this gun was also the gun he used to shoot the Chinese man, although he must claim it otherwise the police will come by themselves. Before then I never new what was going on as we were newly friends. In this police station he has a friend, we met this friend and stated his claim about the gun, this police friend went to the computer room and access the case file and discovered that this gun had been reported to had been used to shoot the Chinese through the bullet no.
We were in danger, I did not understand fully what was wrong but I sensed danger already as I saw tension on him, but that day God showed His mercy on me particularly. An idea came to our mind as they are contemplating whether to arrest us or to conduct further investigation to see if there is a mistake somewhere because anyone who is with his senses will never try this stupid act, but he never knew that the police got the bullet. These things happened and we suggested that they search for the file very well while we go to our office and come back, they accepted this suggestion immediately. We left the police station with speed; I went back home and thanked God and decided to ever ask question if someone asks me to accompany him anywhere.
16. Victor Shot Dead
Victor was a good friend of mine who used to supply me operating his barbing salon in Brown Street Pretoria; he was so quiet, not bad or violent like some of us. Victor prepared to travel to Nigeria with a little amount he made through his genuine effort as he also had a salon shop, some bad Nigerians got this information, perhaps one of his closest friends according to the news, this friend sent South Africa armed robbers to go and rob him the money.
As they got into his house, they surrendered everybody in that flat laying them down, they took him to his room demanding for the dollar which he had saved to travel home with, he told them that he had no dollar, and they bit him to make him produce the money and he refused. They tortured him in many ways, he proved so stubborn; they stabbed him so severe that he was supposed to produce the money if I was him and yet he remained stubborn, this confirms what Jesus Christ says in Mtt.6:21 “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be”. These armed robbers made a phone call which was supposed to be to the Nigerian telling him that nobody should cry for this man if they kill him, that he is proving stubborn. According to those who were lying down, these armed robbers angrily shot him several times to death and left without the dollar.
After this incidence police searched the dollars out which the relatives later went and claimed. What a terrible incidence.
17. Alloy Shot Dead
Another friend of mine by name Alloy from Uli, was called to come to Maopani, a location out sketch of Pretoria, to buy Gold on a Sunday. Alloy went for this business and never returned, we called his numbers and it went straight to voicemail, the following day we did not see him, we reported his missing to the police. The police went on search and found Alloy where he was dumped in a canal, shot right in the forehead.
18. A Nigerian Set Ablaze With His Family By His Wife
In one incidence, a Nigerian from Awka got married to a South Africa woman who had children with him, one day he traveled home to Nigeria, and a Nigerian went after his wife but the wife refused him. He sorted for an interesting fake news to make her sleep with him, this dog told this woman that the reason why her husband traveled to Nigeria is because he is married to another woman in Nigeria and will one day abandon her and take their children back to Nigeria.
This news became a big worry to this woman; she believed the idiot but yet did not let him have his way. When the husband came back she asked him the question about who he married in Nigeria, the husband did not take it serious, the woman began to nag, complaining about her love and how fair she had been, yet the husband could hide such from her. The man tried all he could to make her believe that the story was just a lie but the wife had already believed the story.
This wife decided to take a horrible act in her mind; that night while everybody was asleep, she took fuel and poured it on the entire building, went inside and locked up all the doors and set the house, the husband, their children and herself on fire. That is how the entire family died.
Can we call this love? People claim that they love their partner but when that partner does any thing wrong, you see that person killing the person who he or she claimed to love. This is the love of this world, is it not possession? Is it not evil? If you really love as you claim, why can’t you forgive and overlook the wrong of your partner, just as written in 1cor.13:1-13, your love must bear all things, endure all things, and love must not be provoked, must believe all things, and cannot rejoice in iniquity.
You may say that it is not easy, yes you are right because you are not a true Christian, if you are a genuinely repented and born again Christian, the Spirit of true Love will abide in you, and if the Spirit of true Love lives in you, you will love as God loves you, God loves you even when you commit sin, he still gives you a second chance to repent before satan the destroyer destroys you. Repent now and all these impossible things with you will be made possible with God as written in “Mt 19:26 But Jesus looked at them and said to them, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
19. Police Shot His Wife
In another similar case; a police officer who suspected that the wife had been cheating on him with his senior colleague, this police officer was so good, everybody around him testified his good character. But when he discovered that the wife was cheating on him, this woman started displaying this character by disrespecting the husband. The police officer felt depressed and disappointed. One day he took a terrible decision; he picked up his firearm, made it ready for action and shot the wife dead. He drove to his station and called his colleagues for a meeting, as they all sat down, he pull out his firearm and shot down many of them. He jump out to his vehicle and drove to his mother’s house to shoot his own mother, reason best known to him, then his best friend came after him trying to calm him down, he fired at him but the friend luckily jump over the fence. Other police men were after him trying to apprehend him but he was more violent and immediately they gunned him down. Terrible things like this happen in every 15 minute in this country.
20. A Nigeria Shot His wife
Also a Nigerian from Mbieri, Imo State, discovered that his Nigerian wife was keeping extra marital affairs, with a boy who was her ex boy friend in Nigeria, he warned the wife about the act and she could not listen but denying. One day he called his in-law to report this issue to him, but the in-law took side and this Mbieri man lost his temper and pulled his firearm, shot the wife dead, he chased after the in-law, shooting him but his missed the target. He called the police and reported the case, thereafter the case was ruled on his side.
21. A South African Threw Down His Wife From Skyscraper
In the same building where I lived, a South Africa strangled his wife, and threw her out from 15th floor. According to my friend who later became a victim of this incidence but was saved by God; this type has happens in almost all skyscrapers in South Africa.
22. A Man Shot His Wife and Blew off His Own Head In My Present
In a similar incidence, I was walking along the Pretoria Street in Hebrow, I saw a beautiful lady running and shouting for help, looking behind was a man chasing after her with a firearm on his hand, she ran with all her strength. In her front was a police vehicle, this lady shouted for the police help but the man was right at her back, started releasing bullet at her until she felt down dead, before the police could rush to this man, he put his gun into his own mouth and blew off his head. According to the news, that the husband suspected that the wife is having an affair with another man. Two of them died right in my front. These were a husband and his wife, who claimed to love and cherish each other in good and bad condition.
23. My Friend Strangled His Wife and Hid Her Under His Bed
At my first jail, I met a Nigerian friend by name Friday from Rivers, who was sent to jail by his wife for domestic violence, he told me how the wife was making him unhappy and if he tries to correct her she would call police and arrest him, this man was later released and still lived with the wife after being warned by the court that he would be sentenced if he touched the wife again. One day he came to me, begging me to take care of his fraud deal which he had at hand, I did not know why he was giving me such offers but fortunately to me I had too many unfinished deal at hand. I told him that I’m so busy with other deals and they require much money to facilitate them, he left and in 3 day we heard that his house was broken by the management of the building and found the dead body of his wife under his bed smelling, as he strangled her to death, hid her under the bed and ran away.
24. A Man Slaughtered His Girl Friend
In Rustenburg, a senior totsi (street kid) by name Quinton discovered that his girl friend was sleeping with other men, he brought her home, bound her and put a sharp jack knife in her private part cut her right straight to her chest. This Quinton created another story with the only Nigerian that terrorized the police…. See the story down. What a brutal murder.
25. A Man Kill His Girls With Hammer
Another brutal murder I saw one early morning was two ladies lying dead in from of my building. According to the story from those present at the scene; the ladies went to a night club in the building, the boy friend called them out in front of a KFC shop perhaps pretending to buy them some food. When the girl friend came out with her friend to meet the man, the man started accusing the two ladies of prostituting around in Hebrow, he commanded them on gun point to lie down. As they lay down, this man pulled out a Monday-hammer and broke the girl-friend’s head into pieces, the other lady trying to run away, the man went after her and hit her down dead with the hammer. What a horrible story.
26. One Foreigner One Bullet
In South Africa Nigerians are known to be drug dealers, fraud stars, armed robbers, credit card hackers, telcom vandalizers, but we are not the worst criminals as long as South Africa is concern, there are other people from many countries like Zimbabwe, Mozambique, India, Zambia, Cameroon, Pakistan, Liberia, China, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Tanzania and many more countries including South Africa. In all these crime there must be a South African behind it, as drug cannot pass airport without SA police, South Africans are the users of the drugs. There will be no 419 fraud without South Africa Police or Bankers, no telcom fraud without telcom technicians, no credit card fraud without shop workers, or bankers.
Nigerians are not good in robbery as it belongs to South Africans, Zimbabweans and Mozambicans, although you may see a Judas amongst twelve. Nigerians are good in organize crime, but not good as white people except 419 which originated from Nigeria, there is one crime that Nigerians commit that pains me much, although they do not commit it alone. Snatching men’s wife with the power of money knowing fully well that the woman is married, yet they will go ahead persuading her. This is not seeing as crime but it is a sin before God, it causes divorce, it causes most of these shootings.
A Nigerian will chase after a married woman, if the woman says know, that she is married the man will ask her if she will be a child to tell her husband that they sleep together, what a great temptation, the next thing will be either using the highest denomination note to write his phone number to the woman, he will keep on sending her airtime. With these little pressures, you see the woman sneaking to him, after sneaking the next will be to divorce her husband.
This sin has rendered many children motherless, loosed their parents and some turned to street kids.
Because of this kind of cases; I was shopping in a Fontana supermarket and a man shopping behind me, with a child of about one year on his arm putting this word into the boy’s ear and mind “One foreigner One bullet x2, they took your mother and dumped you” this word he was singing to this boy. I looked at him and pitied the man seeing that the wife must have dumped the child to him and divorced him. “What God has joined together let no man put asunder” Mtt.19:6.
27. BIGGIE SHOT DEAD
Biggie is a young intelligent and industrious Nigerian, but too desperate for money, Biggie is from Amesi in Aguata, Anambra State. Biggie’s real name is “Chukwuka”.
Chukwuka came to South Africa and lived in Hebrew, hustling like every other Nigerian, started working as an immigration agent with Home Affairs, obtaining resident permit for people. But this deal could not fetch him what he wanted, he decided to relocate with his two other friends who he later betrayed, Emeka and Jovis.
Biggie relocated to Rustenburg where he joined drug business, before he arrived this city there was another Nigerian known as maffa, Maffa was my inmate in Makwase prison. Maffa conquered Rustenburg alone and made so much money before he was jailed 11 years imprisonment.
Biggie came to this city immediately after Maffa was sentenced to jail, he took all the costumers which Maffa left behind and became a Drug King-pin in Rustenburg, Biggie controlled 60% of drug deal in this city, he became connected with the police, arm robbers and gangsters were his boys and friends as well as lawyers, and prostitutes.
Biggie feared not to identify himself to the police as “Biggie the Drug King-Pin”. Any police who does not accept his deal would be dead, even the police would assist in killing their fellow police for him, at times he sent his boys to do the killing. Biggie became a big problem to the police, in that if you plan to arrest him some officers would immediately inform him and he would escape. But police can arrest his boys, which he would ensure that they were giving bail as he also controlled the court.
In Rustenburg Nigerians were feared more than other cities because of Biggie at that time. Because of Biggie, no Nigerian was imprisoned at that time. At a point Biggie turned his act against some Nigerians, shooting some and arresting some. Here his problem began; one day he has problem with some Enugu State guys who felt too powerful as he was, Biggie sent one of his boys to shoot him, and mistakenly the guy shot another person, here his kingdom divided.
In court if his boy were arrested by the police who are not loyal to him, he would send his police to steal out the case file after the court appearance.
In any case that is so strong, he would bribe the magistrate and the case will be frustrated, and the bribery would be either you take it or you die. Biggie was really strong that police could not arrest him for one day.
Biggie had a police woman, who is married to another police officer, who later became his sugar mummy. This woman’s husband was Biggie’s arch-enemy; this man hit his head on the ground and sworn that Biggie must be behind the bar as he discovered that Biggie was befriending his wife.
The police officer began to have problem with his wife over Biggie, then the wife informed Biggie that she had problem with the husband and that the husband had sworn to put him behind the bar.
Biggie devised a means to kill the police officer, one day Biggie took one of his boys to the location where the officer lived, according to the assassinator; as they got to a restaurant where the officer often drank, he was there drinking with other officers, this officer suspected his movement and alerted his colleagues for action, the assassinator also suspected the police and escaped from the restaurant and went to Biggie where he parked, he hid his gun by the grass and asked him to immediately drive out. As they drove, the officers chased after them and stopped them, and searched their car but found nothing incriminating.
They failed the assassination that day, Biggie called one of his boy by name Quinton, a senior assassinator who slaughtered his girl-friend with jack knife, he gave him assignment to kill this police officer at all cost, Biggie paid him some money to facilitate the contract. Quinton tried all he could to get this officer assassinated but all his effort proved abortive; he concluded that the police officer was using witchcraft.
Now Quinton lied to Biggie that he had shot the police officer to death, but Biggie demanded for his head, that Quinton should go and behead him and bring it to him. Quinton started playing tricks to Biggie, requesting for the balance with the insistence that he has killed the police officer.
This became sands in Biggie’s garry, some Nigerians who were Biggie’s enemies got this information and went to Quinton advising him to insist on getting the money or eliminate Biggie, assuring him that nothing will happen, because everybody in that city believed including the police that Biggie and some other Nigerians are protected with the Africa witchcraft known as “Odeshi”. Quinton also feared that if he eliminates Biggie, other Nigerians will shoot him, but these Nigerians convinced him that nothing will happen to him, that Biggie has been hated by many Nigerians.
On a Sunday afternoon Biggie was in a party in the house of a Nigerian who celebrated the dedication of his child, Quinton came to Biggie pretending to be yet loyal to him, accompanied him with one other friend who was in front of the vehicle. Quinton started asking for the balance again, on the process they started arguing, Quinton pulled his firearm and shot Biggie, Biggie died.
Quinton was later arrested and the Nigerian who was the enemy of Biggie went and paid for his bail.
Biggie’s death caused the underrating of Nigerians and police arrest and imprisonment of Nigerians in Rustenburg, which also included my own imprisonment. But “we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose, Ro 8:28”.
This is exactly what the scripture says that “those who live by sword shall die by sword” what ever sin you commit is what the satan will use to destroy you. That means whatever you sow is what you will reap.
28. Jailed In South Africa
In Sand-City prison, it is built to be the best home for criminals in Africa and beyond, just as Sand-City Hotel is made to be the best Hotel in Africa. This prison was built with guarantee that if you escape from the prison, you should come back and tell them how you escaped, then the prison will pay you about $500,000. In this prison I confirmed that almost 80% of South African men are in prison.
When we were sent to this prison, we were seven Nigerians arrested at the same time, but the number of Nigerians in this prison on awaiting trial were more than 500, of which 92% were Ibos, excluding those imprisoned already. Here I really respected Nigerians; even in that prison they were selling drug, although with the help of warders.
In this prison I made my first prayer, in this prison I started believing in God and Jesus Christ, as I grew up an atheist. But with the news going on in the prison that South Africa government was deciding to pass a sentence bill against 419 fraud, and I was arrested for 419 fraud. Due to fear of this news my accused took a decision that everybody should conduct prayer turn by turn. One day they said it was my turn to pray, I argued with them that they should appoint another person, but they all insisted that I should pray because it is my turn. After this prayer at night, in the morning we heard from our visitors that an attorney has been appointed for us with the help of friends outside.
During the afternoon lunch, I saw some inmates who were arguing about religion and went to hear them, being an argument addict, they asked me a question that could be so difficult for me, “in all religious founders, prophets and gurus, who is the best; from chrishner, Mohamed up to Jesus Christ who is the best” I asked them about their life styles, characters, marriages, they answered me, and I answered them by saying “some founders were warriors, married, others committed one sin or the other” I said to them “Jesus Christ is the best” immediately this word came out of my mouth, something like block breeze or dew started falling on me, I began to fill strange touch, telling those with me what I felt. While this dew fell on me, a flash of dream which I had when I was in Nigeria came to my memory, where I was confessing Jesus Christ in such a house where we were.
When I came out of the jail on bail, a friend by name Chinedu Muomaihie asked me to join him to a crusade of one Mr. Nathan Uzoma from Nigeria in Shekinah Church Hebrow, Nathan Uzoma was once an occult grand master and I practiced and studied a little about occultism. This program interested me so much that I desired to join him again; there I encountered a touch of God. While prayer was going on I felt wind blowing around me, I felt down and while I was on the floor a heavy Leg was gently upon my neck but not painful, I began to shout and heard my voice changed. After that I went out for an utter-call and became a Christian yet not born-again.
I continued coming to church which I had not done in my life, many people who knew me as an atheist never believed it, some joined me to the church. On the New-Year eve of 2003, a pastor who never new me, and I did not know him, and I have not seen him again but I desire to see him again.
According to this pastor, he is a Nigerian pastoring a church in Soweto, this pastor called me out telling me that God told him to tell me that He wants me to serve Him, I looked at him and imagined when and how God came to him and we did not see the God, I only said to him “thank you” I went home and ran away from that church after I was explained what that really means, believing that I came to South Africa to make too money not to become a pastor.
Having decided to believe in God and go to church, I decided to join another church called Christian Bible Mission.
In this church I met another man of God by name Pastor Ikechukwu, who made me to love Christianity but he was a real head-ache to me, still speaking the same thing about the Call of God, forcing me to go to the street of Johannesburg and preach, otherwise he could not pray for me, I obeyed him because I needed his prayers. I started doing secret evangelism, meeting people privately in their houses.
There is this flat mate of mine by name Frank who I was led to preach to about his addict in fornication, this man was so addicted that he could not sleep without a prostitute, in fact he carries women morning, afternoon and night. I prayed and called him to my room, preaching to him about his indecent act which is in excess, I cautioned him against HIV, this man started crying. I was surprise as he cried like a baby, he began to tell me how he was a good born-again Christian in Nigeria, even next to his pastor, and he could not understand what came over him in South Africa.
Frank went into his room that day, locked up himself and fasted for three day, he packed out and the next news we heard was that frank is now a pastor. He is pastor till date, glory be to God.
I became one of the workers in that church yet not fully repented because I was still doing some illegal deal, all my prayers now are to become a millionaire and sponsor churches as a financial pillar to churches, but the pastor insisted that I should stop the deal and join him on the work of God, which I ignorantly chose better to die or jailed than to do.
He told me that I was wasting my time making money, that whatever amount of wealth I made, they will all vanish for he was like me, wealthy and later lost all the wealth to the gospel. Yet I did not believe these pastors, saying that they knew my past experience and used it as an advantage to make me believe that I have a call of God. Another woman who is a prophetess from CBM head quarter in Nigeria came to South Africa; this prophetess saw me and started saying that it written on my face that I have a call of God, members of the church started telling me all sorts things which I did not want to hear, although encouraging.
One day Pastor Ikechukwu provoked me, I used it as a good reason to leave the church because I saw that this pastor was very serious to convert me. I feared that if I eventually become a pastor or a servant of God, people will mock me, friends will despise me. I also feared that my people in Nigeria will be disappointed at me because I left Nigeria for South Africa to look for a greener pasture, and never believed that I will ever believe in God, seeing that my sister who is an evangelist was persecuted by my family, and even was threatened to be shot by our elder brother because she got born again.
I began to ask God “why me”, why did he not show me this thing when I was in Nigeria as frustration has gradually come my way, after these questions I decided to stay far away from pastors and I also decided not to attend any church that Nigerians attend, not to talk of pastoring by a Nigerian.
When I ran away from this Church, worldly life took over me as I started enjoying myself with women and fornication, drinking, smoking marijuana and cigarette; I increase my speed in criminal act, still other pastors continued warning me.
At a point, God came after me, in that whatever I lay my hand will result police problem. Police started declaring me wanted in any city I ran to, some for crimes I did not commit. In many occasions I would run to some different pastors who never knew, they will keep on saying the same thing. Running from one city to the other, I ran from Johannesburg to Albderton, from Alberton to Pretoria, from Pretoria to Witbank, from Witbank to Rustenburg. In Rustenburg I began to hear strange voices, dreaming strange dreams but could not attend any church for three months.
One day, I was lying on the bed awake, a voice came to me saying “Choose three things; madness, imprisonment or the work of God” I stood up, looked out through the window, I did not see anybody. I became so furious, in the evening my friend by name Abuchi came in and I told him what I heard, he jokingly said to me that I should choose madness, I reviled and spoke with anger and said, “Instead I go to jail, after all, some people are in jail”.
I took this word for granted initially but after some times fear started holding me, each time I pass through the prison near my residence, fear will grip me. But one thing would encourage me, I was not dealing on drug in that city but 419 fraud, and there is no substantial proof to sentence any 419 fraud star in South Africa court.
A dream came to me one night, where my attention was called to the sun, and behold the sun formed a lion looking like fire, and it turned its mouth to the earth and vomited fires on half of the earth, I felled down on the side where the fire did not touch. I became afraid, and yet I could not repent.
Another day I just lied down but not asleep, but on a trance, within few seconds I saw myself going somewhere which I did not know, on that trance I met an old gray head man who stopped me and started rebuking me sharply, truly I could not understand why He was rebuking me in that dream, but I began to cry, shouting God forgive me, God forgive me. I cried this “God forgive me” for about thirty minutes and woke up, and my bed was filled with tears from eyes I feared greatly.
The last warning came to me on the 29th Oct. 2006 when I went to a church where nobody knew me, the pastor saw me for the first time asking, “what is it that is in your hand that God wants you to use for Him, if he made you an engineer and you turn to be a farmer you are wrong, whose business are you doing?” while he was saying this my hands and my face began to shake, I started shedding tears.
I went home and told my friends what happened to me in the church today, and I decided to join God on the 1st January 2007 using it as a New Year resolution. Glory be to God at last.
Whenever you hear God saying to you follow me, whether through his servant, do not say tomorrow because tomorrow may not come. Some people made budget of what they will do this year and they never lived to carry on the budget, just like some of our presidents who had their agenda and never lived execute the agenda.
Let me tell you, whenever you disobeyed God, satan is watching you and he will attack you standing on his right because he is also a servant of God.
Never you say tomorrow now as you read this book because some people who you wake up with today have entered mortuary dead now, and if you die without fulfilling the purpose in which God created you, you will make hell.
Death is unavoidable, whether you are big or small, rich or poor, righteous or unrighteous. You may say God forbid, it is not your portion to die now, if you say God forbid you must tell God why he must forbid it, Hezekiah said God forbid in Is.38 saying to God “ Remember now, O Lord, I pray, how I have walked before you in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what is good in Your sight” according the scripture, Hezekiah wept bitterly then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying go to Hezekiah and tell him that God has seen his tears and has added fifteen more years to his days.
What do you think that God will see and let you live or deliver you from the hand of satan, or what account can you give to God at the last day. Is it the gospel you left and join politics? Is it the pastorship you abandoned? Is it the salvation which he brought to you free of charge, yet you despised it?
Jesus made a parable of how God approved the death of sinners and yet He is not happy over it
In Luke 13:1-9, the scripture says, “There were present at that season some who told Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 And Jesus answered and said to them, "Do you suppose that these Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans, because they suffered such things?
3 "I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish. 4 "Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were worse sinners than all other men who dwelt in Jerusalem?
5 "I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish."
6. He also spoke this parable: "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. 7 "Then he said to the keeper of his vineyard, 'Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down; why does it use up the ground?' 8 "But he answered and said to him, 'Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it. 9 'And if it bears fruit, well. But if not, after that you can cut it down.'"
This is exactly how God deals with us, if He waits for you to bear fruit and you refuse to after many years you live on this earth, He will send His servant to destroy you. Bear good fruit now that you are still fresh and alive!!!
Repent or Perish.
29. 35 Nigerians Arrested With Me
After this decision on Sunday, I unavoidably involved myself into the drug dealing again which I had decided not to, and got arrested again on the same date of 2nd Nov. 2006.
When the arrest drama was going on, I couldn’t understand anything, it was like movie. By then I was beating down, injured, blood all over me, and it was in the neighborhood where most members of that church live. It was sunny that day but I later discovered that it rained and I did not know when this rain fall.
I wept, and asked the police to get me my bible in the custody.
When I got into the custody, the sail boss asked one question that marveled me as I was still lamenting, he said, “do you remember that fish that swallowed Jonah” I asked him, “what about that”, he said to me “you are now in that fish’s belly”. I asked him, “who are you” he answered, “I am T-May, the senior gangster in this entire police custody. From that moment I began to pray and fast, preach and whole heartily surrendered to God. I engaged in studying the bible having no other job except the work of God which I rejected outside, asking God to forgive my disobedience. In all this things I feared what I mistakenly chose (“Choose three things; madness, imprisonment or the work of God”), appearing in court almost every week, conducting service morning and night, revival came into the police custody that even the Superintendent (DPO) love me so much and often came into my sail to conduct some preaching with me, I stopped gangster activities in the custody, I stopped bullies and intimidation with preaching and prayers, broken homes which caused many men to be detained were reconciled, even the community police and hospital nurses who were treating us wished me to be released and live with them in Bithikon black neighborhood where I was detained.
The first night I was arrested, the senior gangster by name T-May asked me about the miracles that they used to watch Chris Oyakhilome perform on the television, if they are real, I told them that it is real, that if they believe it can happen to them. While we discuss further I unintentionally told them that if they believe and pray, God can open this prison and they go out. As they ask me to pray for such, I turned and told them that if they pray and believe God can make them get bail and be released.
They said that they believe, that I should pray for them, I told them that they should join it with fasting, they withdrew saying that they cannot fast, one of them said that he can fast, others argued that he cannot fast. This fellow faithfully became more serous telling me that he wants to fast if it a true saying, I told him no problem that I will help him in prayer.
On that night he called me to the birth room knelling down and requesting that I should pray for him, I saw his faith which was even greater than mine and prayed for him. At the midnight I saw him again praying which he has not done before, the next morning other inmate mocked him, I called him and prayed for him again which others joined us now, and it is the beginning of my preaching there. Meanwhile this fellow was on bail but nobody could pay for his bail money, Few hours later one man who was arrested by his wife had a visitor, according to this man, he has many cattle that were dying outside, he decided to pay for this faithful fellow’s bail so that he will go and take care of his cattle, he asked the visitor to pay the fellow’s bail.
When this news came to us as he was called by the police to pack his belongings and leave, he jumped and shouted, the entire inmate started shouting to the police that they arrested fundusi (prophet). This is the first miracle I experienced from God, although I took it for granted that time.
30. Gangsters Fought Us
I really gained the more power and authority by the Holy Spirit to sop the gangsterism in my sail when two police men who are also members of 27 gang brought into my sail the most dangerous gangster to fight me and my accuse, perhaps with the intention to kill us because I preached gangstarism and stopped. This happened on the 25 December 2006 as the senior police officers including the Superintendent had left and other police units went to their post duties inside the community.
When this gangster came in, the Spirit of God informed me that this man was up to something, and he took a transfer from another prison to our prison on a request from the gang members who I had subdued.
After the lunch that day, my accuse was sleeping while I was studying my bible, these gangsters were assembled by this man, he ordered them to kit up their shoes as it is their sign of fight in the prison, all the different gang members which include 26gang, 27gang and 28gang. They carried my accuse from where he lied and threw him away, my accuse woke from sleep not knowing what was happening, immediately I stood up, trying to know why they did that, they came after me, I now raised up my voice and spoke a word to them angrily that I would cause death to come upon them now, as they had heard and some saw miracles manifesting both in healing and court cases of people who had left.
One of the 28gang member feared and spoke in their language that this fellow will kill them with his spiritual power, I called the none gangsters who are known as frans to stand up and join me fight them, they obeyed me and stood up, ready to fight and this never happened as long as South African prison is concern, because if you try to fight them they will either kill you by themselves or they order a frans to kill you else they will kill him, or if perhaps you are connected with the police in that prison, they might write a note to their members in other prisons to kill or beat you in the court sail any day you go to court. Confusion came among them, every one of them assembled on their different group, they started quarrelling against each other, and the hired gang later came to me telling me that it was one of them that complained that I denied them their rights which are; the ownership of every money, meat, food from outside, cigarette and even to sleep on a better place in South African prison, and to have homosexual with the frans. In fact, if your people visit you and bring to you any of these things mentioned, they will collect them from you, and beat you.
They rape other men, although some of them have their husband and wife there in the prison as gays, initiate new members which I totally stopped, they break people’s teeth every time; if they want to commit this brutal act like breaking people’s teeth they order non-members known as frans to commit it, but if the frans eventually refuses, they stand the frans up and show him how to do it by breaking his own teeth, and they will order another frans to do the breaking.
The activities I stopped and converted many of their members, making them to know the implications of being in jail every time as many of them come to jail many times in a year, some will only spend one week outside and commit another crime and come to jail again. This people are slaves and anybody who cultist is a slave “Jn 8:34 Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin”, you can see that sinners are slaves to sins.
31. Jailed In South Africa With 35 Nigerians
I became famous both in prison and in the community nearby, the police sorted ways to release me, but unfortunately the case was in the hand of the organize crime unit from Potchestrun which were sponsored specially for Nigerian Drug Dealers by the national government.
But the DPO (Supretendent) persuaded the IPOs to release me which they accepted and became my good friends. The IPOs tried to withdraw the charges illegally, the magistrate in-charge accused them of trying to defeat the end of justice as the IPOs started to play tricks to favor me by changing the charge from drug dealing to drug possession, and later possession of marked money, and they came to me and told me that the magistrate is insisting to send me to maximum jail term, just to use me to show example to other Nigerians because her son is a drug addict. The police men advised me to pray hard, I increased my force in prayer and fasting, and one day I heard from the Spirit of God to plead guilty which is even more dangerous, because if I plead guilty and got sentenced to a maximum jail term I cannot make any appeal. I told my accused that I would plead guilty; he said that he will say that he does not know what I’m talking, that the drugs belong to me.
They informed the magistrate that I want to plead guilty; she became happy and decided to give me 18 years imprisonment and nobody new this except her alone. On that final day in court, people and I saw the hand of God in miraculous ways; my lawyer was on my side, all the police and prosecutor were on my side which never happened before without bribing them, and I was really guilty, arrested by more than 100 police officers in a public place, also caught with the highest quantity of drug among all Nigerians arrested on that raid, as we were about 35 Nigerians arrested during the raid.
The magistrate said that my lawyer, IPO and prosecutor are talking cock and bull story as they stated that the magistrate should tamper with me mercy, that my involvement was a mistake. When the magistrate rejected their plea, my lawyer requested that my closest friend by name Abuchi who knew my spiritual encounter be given just three minute to speak to the court on how he knew me, the magistrate refused and later granted the plea after some argument.
Abuchi stood at the duck and spoke to the court about how I got involved to the drug dealing, although he lied a little. He added that I should not have been involved in this case but I suffered because I refused to do what God asked me to do. The magistrate asked him to explain, he said that I’m a preacher but I disobeyed God, the magistrate shouted “what? Does he have a church?” he answered “no”, and then my lawyer and the police men started explaining what I did in the custody. The magistrate started lamenting, crying bitterly, asking me why did I get involved in this activity, rebuking me as if I was her son, and she said to me that she is a Christian but she had already decided to sentence me to 18 years, that she cannot set me free, cannot give me fine and cannot maintain the 18 years, she advised me not to do such again, but I must go to the prison and preach for one year. She change the 18 years to 1 year but stated on my file that if I continue preaching I should only serve 1/3 which is 4 months, which I did not fulfill.
This showed me what the scripture says in Pr 21:1 “The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes”; He can harden it and He can loosen it. Are you seeing yourself in a situation similar to this, only repent of your sins, confess it and turn to God, pray to Him continuously, I mean without season, He will save.
There is one revelation that God gave me after He had commanded me to plead guilty in such a critical situation; while I was appearing in court, I heard “take authority over the gods in charge of this court, and pray in your heart continuously even when the magistrates and judges are talking to you”.
I did this in all my court appearances, and in each appearance, there must be strange and miracle happenings right from the first mistake of the police statement that I was arrested with 100 pieces ecstasies instead 1000 pieces, the next appearance was that I was arrested in possession of drug instead of dealing on drug and again that I was arrested with mark money instead of drug, these statement frustrated the magistrate before the final judgment. God is able to deliver you from the hand of satan and his agents, seek Him now.
32. A Zimbabwean Prisoner Released
God really showed me his mighty hand in court and in the prison, and many criminals repented. In prison there was a miracle that surprised many people as it is impossible with man. A Zimbabwean who was sentenced for 6 months with R3000 fine, which he could not pay, came to me, I preached and prayed for him, after some days he came to me again telling me that God has done miracle for him, I asked him what miracle, he said that he was asked to go just like that, reminding me that it was that prayer we had.
Unbelievably people with us said that he was lying, that someone must have paid his fine, when this argument went on I stopped them, telling them that God can do more than that, even if they do not believe. Then one of my closest friend said to me by name Ifeanyi “pastor if this man was sentenced for 6 months and after your prayer he was asked to go in 3 week, now as you are sentenced for 12 months, pray for yourself so that will you go in 6 weeks” I asked him “don’t you trust God in all things” he said that he does but this one is different, I shouted “if you believe it, it can be so to you” he immediately responded “I believe”.
Few weeks later the prison authority sent deportation order to Ifeanyi asking him to sign and we had all forgotten the argument about the Zimbabwean forma inmate, he refused signing, implying that he was not the first Nigerian imprisoned here, that the first ones should first sign. We all started wondering why he should be deported, and we all hoped to be released to inter into South Africa after serving the sentence.
So Ifeanyi feared and refused to sign, which we all supported him because if he got deported, we all will also be deported.
All the Nigerians started deliberating over this issue, Ifeanyi suspected one thing to be his problem; that one warder by name Sustainer could be the brain behind this, because he gave her his bank account details to withdraw some money with the help of a bank manager whom Sustainer introduced as her friend. We all concluded that this Sustainer was up to something, we reported this matter to another senior Warder, and the warder reported the matter to the prison boss.
After we had mistakenly reported Sustainer, the prison boss sent for Ifeanyi’s file which they brought and he confirmed that the prison authority from Prison Management Parole Board granted him to be release in 6 weeks.
Ifeanyi came back and told us this news and now confirmed that it is also a miracle. Ifeanyi became more than a friend to me, asking me to pray for him every time, and on one of our prayer, God told me that he was not going be deported. I called him and him this and it happened that way, and he was miraculously released to inter into South Africa instead of being deported.
When Ifeanyi left the prison, rumors escalated in the prison by other Nigerians that Ifeanyi paid Sustainer R3000 and she released him, non-Nigerians (inmates) said that Sustainer released him so that she would become his sugar-mummy. I began to preach about the power and miracle of God to them but they could not believe, until one day some Nigerians came to me arguing that Ifeanyi paid Sustainer R3000 and that I knew about it, I asked them, if they do not believe in the miracle of God, one of them by name Emeka said that he does not believe, I angrily rebuked him sharply, and asked to challenge me to pray for him to get an added sentence, which is impossible. Due to my mode Emeka feared and could not utter a word, one other friend of mine by name Kenneth casually threw a response from where he stood and said “pastor pray for me to have it”, immediately, the spirit of God whispered to me “it is answered” I only replied to Kenneth this “Kenneth you made the pray not me and it is answered”.
Four months later, we were taken to another section as it is the prison’s rule, we had all forgotten about this, and Kenneth was supposed to be released on half strife which is 6 months, but the prison authority could not notify him about his release which is the procedure. Kenneth and other Nigerians became worried including me; we went to the section head and asked why? The head of our section said that he does not know, saying that it was determined by the Prison Management Parole Board in head quarter. Kenneth cried, and we later remembered the prayer he made against himself.
Do not joke with the Holy Spirit or man of God for it is a blasphemy against God!!! I chose imprisonment and I got it. Know you that our God is a merciful Father, for through His mercies we are not consumed Lam.3:22, and yet our God is a Consuming Fire Heb.12:29. Believe the word of God and you shall be established, and believe the word the Prophet and you shall prosper 2Chr.20:20.
Why do you argue with your pastor? Don’t you know that if you argue with him, you are arguing with God? Jesus said Jn 12:44 “Then Jesus cried out and said, "He who believes in Me, believes not in Me but in Him who sent Me.” equally if you believe your pastor you believe in God who called him and made him pastor over you.
Don’t you know that God has made him head over you? Why do you doubt the word of your pastor? If you doubt the word of your pastor you have doubted God, as long as you call him and see him as your pastor, he is your spiritual head no matter your gift and power. You may correct him if he behaves humanly but do not insult him, if you have done so to any pastor around you, ask God for forgiveness, if possible go to him and apologize, even though he may not expect it but for the sake the angels in charge of him and God who as spoken “Touch not my anointed and do my prophet no harm” 1Chr.16:22. And 1Ti 5:1 says “Rebuke not an elder, but entreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren” Pray that God will give you more insight on this.
33. Final Preaching In Prison
In the prison, the police came and informed the prison authority to instruct me to preach so as to help me fulfill the secret mandate of the Magistrate, which was stated on my file by the magistrate that if I preach as witnessed by the police, I should be released on 1/3 and not to be deported, but if I did not preach, I should serve normal on half strife and be deported. Half strife is for those who committed economic crime, while 2/3, full and life sentence are for those who commit violent crime depending on the nature of your violent crime.
I truly preached but my preaching was not with fire as in the awaiting trial because I had been weary, for many thought had come into my mind, that as I was asked to choose “madness, imprisonment or the work of God”, I chose imprisonment and got it, so my agreement with God has ended, this was the idea satan spoke to me through an inmate who had argue about the miracle of God. Although the character was still in me but I had decided to continue with my life.
Before I stopped preaching, I had two secret evangelism which yielded good fruit that remains till date. I had a friend by name Thabo who I led to Christ, this friend first told me that people set him up and sent him to prison, his wife abandoned him. Now in the prison a pastor of a church called ZCC who was sentenced for raping and impregnating his own daughter has decided to trouble him because he is not a member of their Church, and our sail is mainly for ZCC members. Thabo decided that he would strangle this pastor to death and receive perhaps life sentence, because according to him, he has no more life out side.
When I prayed with Thabo and led him to Christ, according him, while we were praying he felt like waters were drizzling on him. Thabo became my prayer partner, his mind changed from committing such a brutal crime, he began to see hope outside. He promised to serve God when goes outside which he already started practicing in the prison.
Wherever you are as a child of God, you are commissioned to preach, confess and profess Jesus Christ, for He says in Lk.12:8“Also I say to you, whoever confesses Me before men, him the Son of Man also will confess before the angels of God”., and if you do not confess Him, neither will He confess you before God at the last day.
You must preach because your preaching can revive someone who is already dead spiritually, this is why James says in his last verse “Jms.5:20 know you that anyone who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins”. And if you make a sinner to repent, there will be joy in Heaven “Lk 15:7”, and if there is joy in Heaven because of your deed; I assure you that the sky will be your stepping stone, and your name is automatically written in Heaven accompanied with the souls you registered in Heaven.
34. A Muslim Became A Christian
Another incidence was a Muslim friend, in fact he was the head of muslim in the prison, he was also the cook for the muslim in my section because muslims don’t eat the same food we eat. This man was the highest assassinator recorded in Makwase prison where I served. Everybody feared him including the warders, although he is very gentle, handsome and quiet. This man was sentenced without substantial evidence because his previous records shows that he was a habitual criminal, but he truly committed the crime as he revealed to me. According to him, he appealed for many times and the court stroke out his appeal three years ago, and he was almost finishing his jail term.
When I spoke to him about Christ, he told me that he was a Christian with his mother, but his mother died because she saw a charm and swept it away feeling that nothing can happen to her because of her faith. For this reason this man never believed in Christianity again.
But when he told me about his court appeal, I told him that God can make them grant him the appeal, he doubted what I said but when I persuaded him to believe by trying the prayer, we prayed and made some declaration over the case, he wrote the letter again. Few days later his letter came to the prison, that his appeal is granted after many years, the warders took him to court chained all round as a confirmed prisoner. According to him when he appeared in the court the magistrate said him; it seems the Minister of Justice is his relation, that it was the minister himself that instructed the court to grant him the appeal. From that moment he demanded for more assistance in prayer, he got converted and wrote to the muslim to urgently look for another cook, that he is no more a muslim. He renounced muslim, praying with me every afternoon. He confessed his sins, even the bloodiest crime he committed in Pretoria. The muslim members sent delegates from their mosque outside prison to come and talk to him, but he made them to understand that he has seen the light.
There in prison, he mapped out a Christian program to run with me when we go outside, which is to change the life style of youths in South Africa. He gave me a letter to post to a department in the government but unfortunately I was deported. I pray to see him again, either in this life or heaven.
I have a question for every believer and Gospel preacher here in Nigeria; why is it that we hardly and scarcely preach to the muslims? Do you think they can’t repent? Do you know why God still keeps us together in this country? I was revealed that we are together because this gospel shall be taken to them all, and the last but not the least greater ministers of God shall spring forth from them. They are the ones who need this gospel more because any body who is in darkness, if any day you take him to the light, he will never like to go back to darkness again. Look at those that are poor around your street, show them love, show them light in Jesus Christ, give them the word of God, not with the enticing words of men’s wisdom but by the demonstration of Spirit and Power.
Do not see them as commoners, but see them as God’s image, and know you that God always manifests His power to the despised and not to the noble. God loves them as He loves you.
35. Man Jailed For Rapping His Daughter
There are many inmates sentenced for rape charge, which were false allegation. There is one of our friends by name Chris who was sentenced 13 years for rapping his own little girl; this was false allegation according to the investigation which proved that the wife accused him of rapping their daughter just because she suspected him having extramarital affair.
This child was a little girl when her father was sent to prison and she did not know the true story as the mother only told her that Chris committed a crime against the government. Often times the little girl would request to visit her father, and the mother would bring her, until one day when she has come of age she came to visit her father, she started crying and asking her father why he committed the crime against the government, Chris told her that he never committed any crime, rather her mother level a false allegation against him stating that he raped her the daughter.
The girl couldn’t believe what she heard crying with shout, her cry called the attention of the welfare officers of the prison, they took the girl to their office for thorough interrogations and explanations. The girl told them what her mother told her about the father, and assured them that such never occurred. This case was still going on before I finished my sentence, but Chris had almost finished his jail term.
36. Man Jailed For Rapping His Wife
There is another similar incidence where a woman was keeping relationship with other men, when the husband discovered, he beat the wife. This wife went and called the police, she level a rape charge against the husband and the husband was sentence to 15 years imprisonment. This woman began to sleep around to the extent that their children noticed that she is flatting around and why she alleged that their father raped her, they came to the prison and told their father.
The woman later contacted HIV and went to church, there she repented at last and came to the prison and confessed, but before her confession the man had spent about 8 years.
This is truly going on in South Africa prisons and societies, which needs to be address as my muslim convert and I planned before I got deported.
South African men are in prison in their own country but many Nigerians are in almost every prison in all countries of the world, I speak the truth; I do not lie because I had been to prisons and I met other Nigerians, I discussed with them and we confirmed that except in a country that a Nigerian has entered.
I was sentenced in Makwase prison, and makwase prison was not known or heard by many people in South Africa, even the government does not know it except when I was sentenced, because the magistrate stated that I would be allowed to be released on 1/3. Some other provinces adopted this 1/3 system but Northwest province prison authority did not adopt it, then I passed this information to old members who were supposed to have finished their jail term if they were in other provinces, the entire prison went on strike that the minister of correctional service and the parliament began to ask where is this Makwase prison. But upon the interior black location where this prison located, I met a Nigerian from Anambra who was sentenced 11 years imprisonment for drug.
Nigerian women are also in many prisons in the world, the worst is that many of them were pregnant before their arrest, as most of them use their pregnancy to beat the airport with drugs, and they would deliver in the prison, serving their sentence with their children. I think my people need rehabilitation.
We should please pray for our people outside the country, advise those inside to know that there is no place like home, do not mind those who make it, it is a game of trial not of certainty.
I also plead with the government to do something over this issue, those who are in authority to handle this matter. Help our people in jail overseas, sponsor a program which will enlighten people, make them to know that what they think outside is not exactly how it is.
And if I were to suggest, I would say that the government should look into visa issues, people should stop making visa to be as gold. Let the visa be so easy to get, seriously place embargo in the embassies on touting by human traffickers. If visa is seeing as gold, people struggle and spend their last kobo to get it and when they get it, they would rather die than to loose it because they struggled, spent time and last money. Some would sell their family house or lands, while some would sell their shop and the entire goods only to travel and get disappointed and frustrated abroad, would not go back because back home there is nothing left, and family’s hope is on them now.
Let visa be cheap as in other countries so that this human trafficking should stop, because the traffickers lie to people, collecting their money and send them away to oversea where they cannot come back, as nothing would be left with them. And if it is cheap, one can mistakenly travel and decide to come back because the money he spent is not much, but due to the fact that one had spent all he had, when he gets there and discover that what you heard is not true, he can decide to come back.
37. Gangsters In South Africa
In South Africa there are 3 gang groups rule and live in the prison named 26gang, 27gang and 28gang, these gangsters are demonically brutal that they are responsible for 90% of murders and about 80% of robbery. These gangsters are not secret as they have their different marks on their bodies for identification, some police men are even their members, which make them fill more comfortable when they are in prison, so it may be useless for you to report to the police whatever they do to you because it may worsen your case.
I studied about these gangsters, their origin and why they work together in prisons
38. 26, 27, 28 Gangsters
The "26", "27" and "28" prison gangs of South Africa are a society like any other in this respect. Upon investigating the origins of the number system, one is introduced to a mythology that is rich, complex and infused with ideological meaning. Jonny Steinberg rigorously researched the phenomenon of the Western Cape prison gangs and published his findings in his outstanding book The Number in 2004, which was received with resonating admiration. The book gives an account of the life of a man caught up in the murky underworld of Western Cape prison gangs. In it, Steinberg recounts and explains the myth that underpins today's prison gang ideology: The story of Nongoloza and Kilikijan.
39. THE REAL NONGOLOZA
As with many myths, there is a discrepancy between the story that is handed down from authority figure to apt pupil and the true story, which is sometimes severely distorted or even lost completely along the way. The respected South African historian Charles van Onselen investigated the true story of Nongoloza for his biography The Small Matter of a Horse. Born Mzuzephi Mathebula in 1867, Nongoloza's beginnings were modest. His family lived on a white_owned farm in Zululand . At the age of 16 he left the farm to look for wage work, and found employment with a farmer who asked him to look after his horses. One day, while Mzuzephi was working in the farmer's garden, one of the horses disappeared. The farmer blamed Mzuzephi for the loss even though he was not responsible, and sent him back to the farm on which he grew up to work off the value of the horse, which amounted roughly to 2 years' pay.
"(Mzuzephi) raged against what amounted to his own enslavement," Steinberg writes. He left the farm with the new name Jan Note, intending never to return. He then found employment as a groom to four single men who introduced him to highway robbery, which was their source of income. Note learned how easy it was to get money this way, and decided to form his own band of thieves. It wasn't long before he had assembled a group of "vagrants, dislocated migrants, petty thieves, burglars and armed robbers" (Van Onselen) in the Klipriviersberg hills south of Johannesburg.
Note, righteously indignant about oppressive colonial rule, organised his gang according to Zulu hierarchies and the rank structure of the colonial Natal and Transvaal's judiciary and military. He laid them under the laws of Nineveh, a biblical city which rebelled against the Lord, symbolic of how their group was rebelling against the government. They became known as the Ninevites, and in the height of his power Note took the name Nongoloza. Some of Nongoloza's officers had contracted venereal disease by sleeping with prostitutes in Johannesburg, and Nongoloza reacted to this by decreeing that no Ninevite was to have physical contact with the opposite sex, instead forming a "marriage" system whereby senior members of the gang would take on "boy_wives" within the group.
In the aftermath of the great South African War, the new British government established a system whereby the urban movements of blacks were rigorously controlled and thousands found themselves in prison simply for walking the streets without papers. It was here that they were recruited by members of the Ninevites, and slowly but surely the gang grew, by 1908, to more than a thousand members strong. Nongoloza himself was eventually jailed, and in several of South Africa's upcountry prisons he gained a cruel godlike status, because he dealt out the punishment of transgressing members. One prisoner's testimony was that prisoners who broke the rules would have their teeth pulled out or their bones broken by being dropped from the ceiling to the floor of the cells over and over by other prisoners. The gang and the warders entered into a battle for the control of the prison population, a battle that continues today.
The Ninevites' activities outside prison continued, their numbers grew and the anti_colonial persuasions of Nongoloza were spread by word of mouth and strengthened their resolve to terrorise the population. The taped testimony of one Mankailang Maria Molokoe was that the gangsters, who posed as ordinary law_abiding men and women during the day, came out at night to kill and rob the populace, and murder police. By 1910, the gang was finally "rooted out of the pre-urban warrens, and crushed" (Steinberg). Nongoloza himself gave up his position and started working for the prison authorities. It was then that the real Nongoloza and the mythical Nongoloza parted ways, the former to become old and fade into obscurity while the latter became "God of South African prisoners" (Steinberg).
40. THE MYTH
"Here and now, in the early 21st century, Nongoloza's story is told, in the prisons of the Western Cape , as an odd hybrid of Homeric and Talmudic tales" (Steinberg). The myth varies significantly from prisoner to prisoner, and on the variations hang philosophical debates about the theory and practice of gangsterism. The version described by Steinberg allows for these variations.
It begins with a man who "embodies the interests of all black people" named Po who observes that the young men leaving their ancestral homes for work in the mines never return and sets out on a journey to find out why. He enters the mines and sees the horrific conditions in which these men work, and decides to ponder this in a cave on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg. He realises that the deliverance of these young men is necessary.
One day, Po spots a young Zulu man emerging from a cloud of dust on the road. The young man, who identifies himself as Nongoloza, tells him that he is on his way to the mines to look for work. Po convinces him that the mines will kill him, and persuades him to join him in his crusade against white oppression. Nongoloza agrees and joins the wise man in his cave. The next day, another young man approaches from a cloud of dust, this time a Pondo man named Kilikijan. Po recruits him also, eventually gathering 15 young men to whom he teaches a secret language and the art of highway robbery.
The young men succeed in robbing travellers and colonial army outposts of their goods, which include weapons and uniforms. The gang changes their habits to avoid detection. They move from the cave to warrens, and split themselves into two groups: Kilikijan with his seven men, who rob by day, and Nongoloza and his six men, who rob by night.
Nongoloza and Kilikijan are instructed by Po to carve their daily outlaw activities on a nearby rock, which serves as a diary. He then orders them to visit a nearby farm owned by a Mr Rabie and to purchase one of his bulls, which is called Rooiland (Red Earth). Rabie refuses to sell his bull to the two men because he is suspicious. Nongoloza and Kilikijan, unwilling to leave without having carried out their order, stab the farmer with bayonets and steal Rooiland. A huge feast is had by the gangsters back at the cave, and Po carefully oversees the slaughtering and dismembering of the bull.
Po tells Nongoloza and Kilikijan to fill one of the bull's horns with its blood and gall, and to each take a drink from it. Kilikijan sips the mixture and spits it out, saying that it will poison him. Nongoloza drinks from the horn without a flinch. Steinberg notes at this point that in other versions, the gall in the horn is from the body of the farmer, and that Kilikijan's followers say that this proves that Nongoloza is an evil "muti_man", and Nongoloza's maintain that it proves Kilikijan's cowardice.
Po then tells them to take the hide of the bull and press it onto the diary_rock until the words have been transferred from the rock to the hide. With these two copies of the gang's ways, Po explains, the bandits must follow the rules of the gang as they have been set out from the beginning. Nongoloza takes the hide, Kilikijan the rock, and they are instructed to carry them wherever they go. The rock, however, proves too awkward and cumbersome to be lugged around all day, and it is accidentally dropped down a hill one day. It splits into two pieces, one of which falls into a river, leaving Kilikijan's group with only half the gang's laws.
The first conflict between the two gangs arises because of this when, before embarking on a joint expedition, Nongoloza says that he is sick and chooses to stay behind. He asks one of Kilikijan's men, a youngster by the name of Magubane, to stay behind with him. Upon returning, Kilikijan finds Nongoloza making love to Magubane and, enraged, challenges Nongoloza to a fight. Nongoloza nonchalantly replies that, according to the hide, sex between bandits is permissible as to avoid contact with women. Kilikijan retaliates by saying that he cannot trust that this law wasn't added to the hide after the fact, since half of his rock was missing. The two men commence fighting until they are both drenched in blood, and Po arrives to intervene.
Po , after listening to the accounts of both men, tells Kilikijan to travel to the mines to see whether the men there engage in sex with one another, but fails to explain any further. It is said that Kilikijan found that sex between men in the mines did happen, but opinions are divided as to what this means and whether it justifies Nongoloza's act. This was to become a pivotal disagreement between the two gangs that persists to this day. Po also says that under a rock at the entrance of his cave there is an old assegai and, if the two men find the tip of the assegai rusted, it will mean that Po has died. This prediction comes true and the two bands decide to separate: Nongoloza's band with its now eight men (including Magubane, who he decided to take with him), and Kilikijan's with its seven. It is said that this is where the numbers "27" and "28" originated. (Steinberg notes that in other versions, the original band consisted not of 15 but of 55 men, explaining the numbers. He also speculates that the "2" may symbolize the two leaders.)
It is agreed that the day would still be divided between them as it had always been, and Kilikijan says: "You will recognize me by two rays of dawn sunlight: one over my right shoulder, the other in front of me" (Steinberg). The two gangs roam the countryside until they both end up in Point Prison in Durban . Here, they encounter a group of six men led by a man named Grey, who are voëls or franse (non_gangsters) who sit in a circle and flip a single silver coin between them. Nongoloza, upon demanding these men's possessions and being refused, is told by Kilikijan that these men were skilled smugglers and gamblers who had helped him in his early days in the prison.
Nongoloza decides to name the coin a spyker (nail), but Kilikijan insists that it is called a kroon (crown). Here, again, Steinberg notes two versions of the ensuing events: the 27s say that a fight over the gamblers broke out between the men, with Kilikijan defending the gamblers against the 28s' sexual appetites, which is what the 28s wanted them for: The 28s say that Nongoloza decreed that the new group shall be called the 26s (both because there were six men and to indicate their inferior status), that they shall be the last gang to form in the prison, and that Kilikijan shall be answerable for their actions. Some say that Grey is actually Magubane, which has implications regarding the 26s' and 27s' rule against sex between men.
The three camps were thus formed: The 26s responsible for gambling, smuggling and accruing wealth in general, the 28s for fighting on behalf of all three groups, and the 27s as the guardians of gang law and the peacekeepers between the gangsters. It was decided that when a gangster broke a rule, the blood of a warder or frans must be spilled to set things right.
Steinberg goes on to explain the ways in which this mythology has played itself out in real_life situations, which proves the powerful significance thereof. The myth of Nongoloza and Kilikijan provides a fascinating insight into prison gang life, and shows that today's prison gangs, well_organised and effectively systematic in their dealings, have themselves a sacred myth over one hundred years old that guides them.
41. STANDING AND FAILURE OF A NEW CONVERT
A new convert is like a new born baby who does not know his left or right, he or she needs a nanny along with the parents to take proper care of him/her.
A new born baby will need water immediately he is born to soften and flush the system, then the mother will feed him with breast milk for some months, after which he will be fed along with soft food, such as pap or diary food. Thereafter the child will go through the training of hard food such as rice or bread when he must have been up to one year and above. The parents will look after the child until he is up to 18 years and above, though he must have been doing things on his own, but the parents will be mindful of the child’s character despite the fact that he has grown, yet the parents will see him as a child, still cautioning him, advising and even reproving him.
This is exactly how a new converts should be taking care of; a new convert should be seen as a baby who does know his left or right.
What happens after alter calls in our churches today, do we follow the new converts up? Pastors call for alter calls and people will answer and after that they will be abandoned on the way without follow up and mentorship, which is so dangerous. Some new converts will come up on their own way but due to lack of nurture they will be drawn back to the pit wherein they rose from. Some will manage to stand while falling along, being carried away with many wind of doctrine, believing and trembling like satan, this is why you can see many people answering born-again today without transformation, renewal, and filling of Holy Spirit, they commit all manner of sin believing that they are saved, they are children of God, quoting the bible which says “3:9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.”, this is a true saying because if you are born of the Spirit you cannot commit sin. But if you commit sin and never ask for forgiveness and stop it, you are not a child of God.
If a child is born and he was not nurtured and trained, but allowed to grow on his own, this child will be dominated with all manner of filthiness, dirtiness and immoralities. His growth will be affected also, his character will be out of human, and he will be like a street-kid.
Street-kid are wild, violent, filthy, insane immoral and will be infected with all kind of sicknesses because he is prone to all these problems, So is a new convert who has no mentor, he is like a street-kid in the church with multitude who are not repented but come to beg and eat the bread meant for the children of God.
Please when you have called an alter call, follow up that soul, make him a friend ensuring that you and other brethren take over the position of his worldly friends , find out first his physical need and help him as much as you can, show him that love and care as a baby, teach him the word and take him up with prayers, also teach him how to pray, then show him the gain of being born-again so that his hope will be filled, for without hope our Christian race is in vain, this hope must be spiritual and physical, heavenly and not only earthly. Rebuke him, reprove him, advise him, encourage him, in fact you must be his father and as well his mother for who lives in you will enable you to take care of him and all his needs, so fear not in doing this.
I went through these awful process of not being nurtured which caused my rising and falling many times, as God in His infinite mercies took me up many times but failure of nurture took me back the worst states wherein I came from until He took me to where he broke my bones which He is remolding now through His great servant-- and I cannot not run again, to Him be the glory honor and majesty from my generation to all generation through Christ Jesus and Holy Spirit “Amen”.
“It is much good to work with God, for he who works with his God prospers in all things”, but he who fails to work with his God fails in all thing” (by Evang. I. Emmanuel)
42. Temptation After Repentance
Failure and promotion of every new believer determines the level of temptation he passes through. Temptations must always come except you are not truly repented, these temptations always come with what you desired in the past, or what seems better for you at that very giving time, or it might come as a simple tax, or even hard tax.
Jesus Christ was first tempted with a very simple tax “4:3 Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, "If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.", this is very simple for Jesus Christ, for He is the creator of all things.
Job was tempted with a hard tax, he received a wonderful advice from his caring wife, as to curse and reject God and die so that he may be free from his affliction after he had lost all he had, including his character, his property and his health. Satan even used Job’s wife and friends to attack Job. What a hard temptation.
Temptation comes with simple and hard tax; it comes with your need and what you despise. Temptation proves your faith in God, and temptation proves your fear and loyalty over satan.
All temptations are great but there is a greater one that reaps off believers, I call it “Secret Temptation” nobody knows this temptation but you alone. This temptation eats up believers before it manifests, it is a secret sin. It might be lust, it might be grudge, it might hatred, it might be discouragement etc, it eats up first in the heart.
Many believers fornicate day and night without being caught by men, but God sees everyone’s heart, and the worst of it is that satan also sees you and that sin, although some maybe ignorant of the sin. This is why Jesus Christ says “if a man looks at a woman and lust after her in the heart he has already fornicated with her in his heart (Mtt.5:28)” because the spiritual controls the physical, everything on this planet earth is first done in the spirit before it manifests physical. It is also written in 1Jo 3:15 “Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him”. And this is exactly the satan’s greatest weapon against children of God. He will first accuse you before God and attacks you with greater temptation which will result to your death, either physically or spiritually.
Failure comes when all hope is lost, which is why a new convert should be nurtured and trained, and be filled with the hope of eternity after the prosperity of his soul as well as your body on this earth, assuring him that everything on this earth are under his dominion, for he is a royal priest, a peculiar person who is different from the world.
Thereafter baptizing him with the Holy ghost and power, disciple him very well and help him to locate his gift, then when the new zeal manifests, which must come, you send him out to make disciples all nation as it is the great commission giving to every believer.
I repented many times and backslidden many times because I had no person to nurture me, and each time I fall back I will double my sins by seven above before. It happened until I started hiding from any attempt to repent or alter call, until the last appointed day of God.
Temptation was my major cause of failure, which satan must bring, it will either come through a love one or enemy, wealth or hardship, simple or hard.
When I took a decision not to make money through any illegal means, I would see all the worldly opportunities I had been looking for coming my ways easily, when I said I would not touch it, my love ones or hardship would make me going back to it after a long refusal.
But one strange thing is that if I eventually fall because of that opportunity, the opportunity will fail me but I did not take notice of it, I would then join the old friends because no believer friend is close to me.
In one of these temptations, one of my partners in fraud brought a deal which would pay us $8000 within a short time, I reject it. The following day another white man who I was asking to buy drug from me, called me and asked me to start selling drugs to him, and I had decided to stop any thing called crime, I rejected the offer.
While these temptations was going on I became so broke that I could not pay my house and shop rent, my own cousin called me rebuking me for my strange behavior, reminding me that we are from a far country, and we are here to make money and our people’s hope at home are on us, friends also became too worried over my repentance as I was brain behind some greater part of our illegal deal, they began to visit me, giving me some financial help which became so tempting.
In all this situation, no Christian from my church visited me, one day a big temptation came.
I receive a phone call from Venezuela, a friend who never called me before called me saying that he had been looking for my number for years, he told me that he wants to start sending me drugs from Venezuela, which every human being in South Africa and overseas is praying for. Within this time another big deal came which would fetch us up to $1Million, I lost my grip from faith immediately believing that it was a blessing from God.
When I got fully involved in these deal processes, I stopped praying as before, and concentrated on the deals. I had a Pastor friend by name Pastor Hippolito who tried to nurture me but because I was not his church member, he couldn’t do any thing. This pastor came to my house on a Sunday to pick his members to church, and asked me why I did not go to church, I told him that I would go in the evening time which he did not agree with me, but I claimed that all my cloths were dirty. When I realized that I lied as I still had some fear of God in me, I went to my house and offloaded my wardrobe, and instead of washing them in my flat, I took them to laundry just to amend the lie which I told the pastor, the following day I went to the laundry to collect my cloths and behold all the cloths were missing, which never happened before in that building.
When I saw that the cloths were missing, what the devil whispered to me was that they have stolen my poverty, because the deal of $1Million was to drop $40,000 that morning, and the next day our drug carrier who had been in the hotel would be traveling to Venezuela to bring drugs.
After about 30 minute I had a phone call that bank had knocked the deal of $40,000, in the afternoon the next phone call came with the news that drug carrier who was in the hotel had disappeared with all that we bought to prepare him for the trip.
I became stressed up, without knowing what next to do, I went to my old friends to relieve some stress.
The friend from Venezuela called me and gave me hope that he would send the drugs through courier post, this we arranged to do.
The next month, news came that this friend traveled to Nigeria and died.
I back slide to the ground floor, to the extent that I switch on my previous number which was off, and went back to sin in seven folds.
I was prone to temptation because I was not followed up after the alter call, I struggled to follow them yet there was nobody to come close to me, perhaps they were afraid of me or not too sure if I repented, or they may have thought otherwise. I can remember one day I cried so much in the church, nobody could even console me; instead some members would call my ex girl friend, telling her what happened to me in the church, and after this phone the lady would come back to me pitying me, a hard temptation would grip me, as how can I leave such a beautiful, loving and caring lady.
I went through all these things because I had no mother, father or brother and sister in the Lord.
Now that I have a mentor who is so caring, who can go hungry and ensure that I eat, who can reprove me whenever I go astray, who can always back me up in prayer and direct me on how to pray, greater temptation can come but I must overcome them. Even while I write this book they are coming; yet I overcome them all because someone is there to guild me along with prayers in the Holy Spirit.
Many new converts suffer these things, many have decided to repent and become born again but because there is no body to help them stand, you see their yesterday calling them back, you see their girl friend or boy friend calling them back, you see their crime calling them back, you see bad companies calling them back, you even see the evil opportunities which they longed for before coming to them smoothly and freely. And they would have no alternative than to answer because the worldly scales and mark of satan are not completely washed out from them.
For satan has his mark on his people and properties, every sin you commit has a mark in which satan recognizes you, just as Christ has His mark on His people, which was affirmed by St. Paul in “Gal 6:17 From now on let no one trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus” Marks in the scripture Re 13:17, Re 14:9, Re 14:11, Re 15:2, Re 16:2, Re 19:20, Re 20:4,.
Every new convert or someone who answered alter call should be followed up, nurtured, befriended, financed, reproved, and send out on field training such continuous and radical evangelism with his new zeal, as this is the clear evidence in which the world would see, hate him and fear him.
This is the only moment you will boldly confess your sin and preach with it, making the world to know that you have rejected satan and its properties which you were holding, making public shame of satan and its agent. If you were in occultism, you confess and expose them, if you were a fornicator, you confess and expose the spirit of fornication, if you were in any sin, you confess and expose that sin while professing Jesus Christ as your Lord and personal savior.
43. Promotion of Faith
When I repented and nurtured, I had another had temptation which even some believers persuaded me to fall into it. I had an old dormant deal which was reactivated and this deal paid $20,000 which I should have 50% of the total sum, my former crime partners called me for participation and share, and at this time I had no money, no hope except heaven; I had already been deported, I squatted with my uncle who lost his job, with my younger brother who would have killed me if he heard that I rejected such amount of money, and my uncle’s wife who fed me, sleeping on a chair.
I boldly made it clear to my partners that I don’t need that money, and that they should please repent from their sins and save the victims. After this refusal I felt promoted in my spirit for refusing $10,000 when I had no money to even eat, I could boldly preach against such a sin with testimonies and confessions about it to people and to anyone who is still committing such sins.
What about you, what sins do you still commit? Do still want to remain a slave? Don’t mind that liar, that old serpent, stop listening to him now, and just listen to the Word of the Living God. This is your time of Grace to repent, this is your moment to be free from the slavery, please join us in this jubilee, it is free and the yoke is light, no wonder Jesus Christ says in “Mt 11:28 "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” It is really true; I am a witness and a partaker to His rest.
Since I repented and become a co-laborer with God, I have the yoke light on me; I fear no police because I do not commit crime anymore, I fear no witches, wizards or satanic agents and operations because I bear the mark of Jesus Christ. I have the power over all things around me. No more sickness as healing has become my bread, no more sorrow and no more pains.
My today is so sweet and my future is so bright, my hope is full with a great faith no matter the wind that blows in the wilderness.
Make a trial to quit your sin and become free; just test it and see if I am saying the truth.
I repeat, don’t mind that liar, that old serpent, stop listening to him now, and just listen to the Word of the Living God, who is alive and is able to give you life when you are born again, because that liar is dead and he cannot give you what he does not have, which is life.
Take this secret; in the Lord there is Hope, but in the world there is hook. And if you are hooked up by the world you are finished, but if you have hoped in God you are eternally alive.
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
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