It sounds like tale by moonlight but it is
indeed a verifiable fact that a woman was
delivered of a live turtle and a padlock in
the presence of thousands of worshippers
during a church service in a Lagos church.
Time was 5am on Wednesday, December 2,
2015 during the Rhema water programme
organised by the Elijah Faith Assembly
Church, Ajao Estate, Lagos. The incident
took many, including the church’s Overseer,
Prophet Chinonso Favour Aniebo by sur
prise. Many took to their heels as a result
of fear and the irritation of seeing a pool of
blood that gushed out of the private part of
the woman, Mrs Cassandra Amaka Obi, be
fore the turtle eventually came out.
After the incident, the 22-year-old Cas
sandra from Ihiala, in Anambra State, lay
flat on the floor of the church, while
deliverance prayers were going on to
resuscitate her, after some hours of going
into coma. The story of Cassandra, who is
nursing a six-month-old baby girl, who she
took to the church that fateful day, will
arouse fears and probably sympathy in any
human.
She told Saturday Sun that her problems
started when she was a little girl under her
parents in their Umuabanike village, Ihiala.
According to her, her father, who is a
strong and known native doctor in the area,
initiated her into the occult through his
shrine when she was seven years old and
started using her to execute his job.
“When I was nine, my father invoked both
the key and the turtle in my body, so that I
will be strong spiritually to assist him in his
shrine. That time, this turtle was in his barn
and was smaller. I really knew the time he
did the whole thing, but as a child, I did not
know the implication. Then, among all the
children my father has, I was the closest to
him, so he decided to use me in his shrine.
Sometimes, after preparing charms, he
would send me to go and throw them into
the river or anywhere he wanted me to
send it to. And, because he used to give
me some money, I was happy working with
him”, she stated.
Cassandra said she continued working with
her father in the shrine until she clocked the
age of 17 when someone came to ask for
her hand in marriage, but her father bluntly
refused her getting married.
Her words: “At 17, I thought I had served
my father well and should, therefore, marry,
but surprisingly, my father objected to that,
insisting that I should not get married at
all, instead, I should stay at home and have
as many children as I liked, in order to
assist him in his job. But, I refused. After
much pressure, he managed to allow me
get married. My husband fulfilled all the
marriage rites and on the day of our
wedding, my father did not come to the
church, he only appeared when we wanted
to take photographs and he joined us.
Could you believe that immediately we
finished taking a photograph with my
father, I did not get myself again, I lost my
memory, pulled my wedding ring and threw
it to my husband and told him that the
marriage was over. I ran away and they
caught me. In fact, our guests and
everyone present were surprised. Even
when they managed to take me to my
father’s house, I wanted to jump the fence.
It was when my father brought kola nuts
and prayed that I regained my senses and
followed my husband that I was able to
calm down.”
That could be said to be the beginning of
Cassandra’s marital problems. After about
six years of their marriage, she could not
conceive probably due to the padlock, turtle
and other dangerous concoctions her father
put in her body. She and her husband went
to so many places in search of solution,
and lots of money, energy and time were
wasted, but all were fruitless.
Meanwhile, as these were going on, Cas
sandra did not reveal to her husband what
was wrong with her. “Though, I knew that
all the things inside my body were the
cause of the problem we were having in our
home, I did not want to tell my husband
because he will be scared and may decide
not to continue with the marriage.”
While the search for solution to their prob
lem continued, their neighbour introduced
them to the Elijah Faith Assembly Church in
2013 where they received prayers and deliv
erance. Shortly after, she conceived and
had her first baby girl.
“The problem that brought us to Elijah
Faith Assembly in August 2013 was six
years of childless marriage. As I came out
in the church that first day to give offering,
the prophet sighted me, and told me to
stop making up. Also, when we went for
service the next Sunday, the prophet still
told me that we came to the church
because of fruit of the womb. In fact, I did
not take him seriously. When we got home,
I thought it was due to the same headtie I
put on that made the prophet to recognize
me as such. So, I decided to change the
headtie. Yet, when we went to service
another time, he prophesied that my
problem started from my family, and that
my father was responsible for my problems.
He, therefore, asked me to see him after.
But, while coming, I should buy whatever I
knew my father would like and bring them
to him. So, I bought wrapper and drink, and
the prophet anointed them and directed me
to send the gifts to my father in the village
and return to Lagos next day.”
Cassandra explained that when she took
the gifts to her father, he prayed for her to
give birth to as many children as she likes.
“After that, I returned to Lagos and became
pregnant in September and delivered my
first child. Meanwhile, the objects were still
inside my body. But, it was during the
Rhema water programme of the church that
I vomited the padlock, after delivering my
first child. Then, I delivered the turtle, six
months after delivering my second child
during the church’s Rhema water
programme.”
She said the turtle delivery miracle started
when her husband travelled home recently
and visited her father, and he was given
some coconuts by her father’s maid.
“Although, when my husband was
travelling, I warned him not to visit my
father because I understand him well, but
he insisted. When he brought the coconut,
it did not occur to me not to eat it. So, I
broke one, ate and gave some to my
neighbours. After eating it, I started to
experience severe stomach pains. Later, my
stomach began to swell like a pregnant
woman. So, when I could not bear it any
longer, I reported to Prophet Chinonso, he
prayed for me and advised me not to worry
about it. But after sometime, I started
bleeding. Then, I attended a Tuesday
church programme and the prophet prayed
for me. Then, following day, being
Wednesday, I returned to the church for the
Rhema water programme. And, during
deliverance prayer by Prophet Chinonso, the
bleeding became more serious, as if I was
in labour. Meanwhile, before the bleeding, I
had contractions and those sitting close to
me became curious and were asking
whether I was pregnant. But I told them
that I was not pregnant, rather I am
nursing a six-month-old baby.”
Cassandra stated that when the bleeding
was on, the prophet was busy praying from
the altear. So, he sent the Assistant Pastor,
Chukwuma Aniebo to give her Rhema water
to drink, while some was poured on her
body. “After drinking the water, the turtle
rushed out with blood from my vagina and I
became relieved immediately.”
She thanked God for the miracle that
caused a stir in the church. “I do not know
how to explain this because I have been in
bondage. But now I am free, therefore, I
promise to use everything I have to serve
God.”
Her husband, Mr Onyeka Obi also narrated
his ordeal throughout their eight years of
marriage. According to him, “Since the time
I married her, it has been from one problem
to the other. Sometimes, she would tell me
that she made love with cat in her dream.
And anytime I made love to her, my
business would suffer a misfortune. In fact,
it had been spiritual attacks all along and
all the places we went for solution and
spent huge amount of money, did not yield
any positive result until we were introduced
to Elijah Faith Assembly Church. And thank
God, all the problems that have been taking
us from one place to the other are now
over. We have two kids, and all the spiritual
attacks have stopped. Meanwhile, I went
through hell, trying to find solution to her
problems.”
Prophet Chinonso, who was busy at the al
tar conducting the deliverance service when
the miracle took place at the nursing
mother’s section of the church, described it
as one of the greatest God has performed
through him. “I thank God that He proved
himself in the lives of the couple who have
been suffering from spiritual bondage. In
fact, this miracle is hard to believe. But God
did it to uplift his name. We have been
praying that God should perform a miracle
that would shake the world. And we are
happy that He has done it.”
One of the Church members, Mrs Chimezie
Nwabugo who witnessed the incident
explained that she was the one that
pressed Cassandra’s stomach before the
turtle came out. “I sat close to her in the
church. Eventually, she called my attention
to come and press her stomach. Initially, I
was reluctant because I did not know what
was happening to her. But after much pres
sure, I decided to assist her. When I
pressed her stomach gently, she insisted
that I should help her remove her undies
and press her harder. And, when I did, she
told me that the thing was coming out.
Then, I wondered what she meant since she
was not pregnant.
Thereafter, she said it has come out. I did
not see anything, until when we pulled her
away from the pool of blood where she was
lying and I saw something like a congealed
blood that fell off her cloth. When I looked
closely, I noticed that it was a live turtle
covered with blood. Because of that, I ran
away and almost everyone close to the
place left in fear. In fact, that experience
was a very strange one and I have not had
it before. Since that time, people on the
streets call me midwife that helped a
woman to deliver a turtle, instead of a
child, but I do not bother because God
knows why it happened like that”, she
stated.
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