A large scale scandal has
broken out in a church
known as the City of Truth
(a.k.a Holy Ghost
Embassy), Uyo, Akwa
Ibom State as the founder
and general overseer of
the church, Bishop Israel
Usoro, has been accused
by his pastors of
engaging in fake instant
healing and false
prophecies. The
revelations below...
“On Tuesday, August
13, 2013, I took an
independent step to
verify the stories and
this step brought me
face to face with the
truth . That evening
during the regular
Power Night
programme, a clean-
shaven young man
dressed in torn T-
shirt and dragged
along by another
young man was
intercepted as they
were about to enter
the church and
interrogated in the
studio room.
“During interrogation,
both the young man
and his accomplice,
who earlier claimed
that the young man
he was dragging into
church was mad,
confessed to me
(with Elders
Idorenyin Mfon,
Effiong Usoro and
Evangelists Anietie
Walter and Harrison
Eke as witnesses)
that he 'was NOT
MAD and that he
was arranged to
dress like and to act
as a madman in the
church for you to
"deliver" him so as
to boost the faith of
members in your
anointing and
increase the
membership of your
church' .
They said what they
were doing was a
new method of
‘evangelism’ which
you have since
embraced.”
But Bishop Usoro is
however denying the
allegations, claiming that
he never knew whether
those who claim to have
been instantly healed of
their ailments during the
church’s tarry nights
programmes were real or
fake.
According to The SUN
report, Usoro, whose
church is situated at No
12, Paul Bassey Street,
Uyo, began to experiment
the fake instant healing
after a Ghanaian pastor,
one David Amousou came
in as a guest preacher
earlier in the year and
arranged with some boys
to act as sick people to
receive instant cure after
being prayed for.
A letter of resignation by
one of the elders and
former protocol officer of
the Church, Mr Idorenyin
Aquaisua, to Bishop
Usoro and other key
officials of the church,
chronicled with dates a
series of fake miracles the
bishop had performed by
paying people, sometimes
as little as N2000 to come
and pose as if they were
mad, blind, infirm or
afflicted by evil spirits...
“It bears recall that I have
served God in your
Church, City of Truth
Chapel Int’l, for well over
seven (7) years now.
Within this period, I stand
vindicated before God, my
conscience, and man that
I have been selfless,
diligent, truthful, faithful
and committed in my
services to God. Since
2006 till date, I have held
very many sensitive
positions in the church
with enduring legacies.
“At a time when the
Church was almost
grounded by severe moral
crisis occasioned by your
activities that generated
intense feeling of distrust
in your wife, I was
persuaded, out of trust by
you and some faithful
members of the church
then, to head the Protocol
Unit in your office in 2010
so as to encourage and
give you the needed
support to continue your
ministerial duties with
minimal distraction,”
Aquaisua wrote.
“I came to know you
closely as a prophet who
professed total
dependence on God.
Therefore, until certain
events unfolded recently, I
had no cause to doubt
your prophetic grace.
When news first came to
me early June 2013 that
the regular instant healing
miracles that were taking
place during the Tuesday
Power Night programme
in the church were stage-
managed, I almost beat
up the person who
brought the news," he
added.
But in a chat with The
SUN in his church, Bishop
Usoro refuted the
allegations of fake or
false instant miracle
claiming that they were
peddled by some former
officers of the church who
are no longer members of
the church. He likened
them to Lucifer who was
thrown out of heaven.
“Since then, he can never
say any good thing about
heaven.”
Usoro denied ever
delivering the supposedly
mad man on Tuesday,
August 13, 2013, even
though he admitted seeing
such a person in church
that night.
“I saw two young men
and one said the other
was partially mad. I told
them to be coming to
church because if I don’t
see anything about you, I
can’t heal you. It is not
the work of the flesh. It is
only when you are under
the unction of the holy
spirit; that you can do all
these things. That’s all.”
Bishop Usoro showed two
other patients, a lady with
goitre and a man
supposed to be mentally
deranged whose
conditions he said had
been improving since they
were brought by their
relatives to the church.
The SSS in the state have
gotten wind of the story
and invited Bishop Usoro
for interrogation. He has
gone to the SSS to state
his own side of the
story...
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