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Helen Ukpabio, founder of Liberty Gospel Foundation Ministry, frees over 300 witches from the witchcraft world and tells them not to return there anymore

It was a hot Monday evening, Helen Ukpabio, founder and general overseer of the Liberty  Gospel Foundation Ministry, Ikot Ansa, Calabar, mounted briskly the platform constructed in the open playground of the college and surrounded by tents the church members erected with canopies. Ukpabio, using the microphone, thundered: “If you are a witch, quickly come out here for your free deliverance.”

The response was amazing. Parents who had in the past five days been waiting for that instruction jumped out of their seats guiding their children to the platform. The youth, men and women - young and aged moved swiftly to meet Ukpabio. The lady apostle allowed the rush to relax and everywhere to be calm. Then she asked the children to stand on one side and the youth and adults on another. She warned parents who had brought children of very tender ages against allowing them to cry or do any other thing that would distract attention of those gathered.

She then told them: “Put your fingers inside your ears.”  After that she said, “as you put them in your ears, all connections between you and the witchcraft world is hereby severed. Henceforth, you will not hear any sounds, beatings, drumming or invitations from the witchcraft coven. From now onward, your human spirit shall not depart from you. Your spirit shall always remain intact and shall respond only to earthly contact within the human family. I confiscate every spiritual eye. You can only hear with your natural ears. You will no more practice wickedness. Whoever shall invoke you under the cover of witchcraft shall come under the judgement of Jesus Christ.”

At that point, Ukpabio asked them to open their two palms and declared “You shall not from now on go back to complete any unfinished business of witchcraft. Do not agree with anyone to take you out there anymore.”

Before saying a final prayer and asking about 350 witches to go back and remain in Christ while continuing in church, Ukpabio hinted that one of them had been a witch for 27 years and had done a lot of  havoc in society. She said another of the witches had been in it for 18 years. Some others, she said, had been initiated into black magic and white witchcraft respectively. Some of those that came out for deliverance said they always found themselves in witchcraft coven joining others to harm people. They said they were hated and always encountered bad luck wherever they went.

Earlier, a Calabar-based member had testified that he was delivered of witchcraft spirit during the 2010 edition of the convention. But before then, people around him had made his life very miserable. “Everything turned against me. Everybody avoided me and drove me away from them. Traders in the market would not sell their goods to me. They said openly that I was a witch and should leave their shed.”

He said his life was a bundle of misfortune. He was poor, wretched and lonely. He, however, did not confess how he affected the lives of others. He told the people that since coming out for deliverance, his live had taken a new turn: People began to accept him. He interacted well with traders in Calabar’s Watt market. Nobody said he was a witch anymore. He did not find himself in strange gatherings in the night. He was nice to people and they were nice to him in return. He got back his lost job, loved God and the church of God.

Ukpabio said her ability to deliver witches was a special ministerial gift. She narrated how a certain pastor who was not gifted suddenly began witchcraft deliverance. The witches, she said attacked the pastor all round, made him sick, attacked his family and church, dealing treacherously with him from the morning following his deliverance attempt. The pastor, she said, ran to her for prayers. Ukpabio told the people,  “But when witches see me, things collapse in them.”