It was like one of the scenes from a Nollywood movie when
22-year-old Cassandra from Ihiala, in Anambra state vomited padlock and
also delivered a live turtle in a church in Lagos recently.
The Sun reports that at about 5am on Wednesday, December 2, during a
‘Rhema water programme’ organised by the Elijah Faith Assembly Church,
Ajao Estate in Lagos, many worshipers were taken aback. While some ran
off the church’s premises, fear engulfed some of the worshipers who
waited due to the irritation of seeing a pool of blood that gushed out
of the private part of the woman, Mrs Cassandra Amaka Obi, before the
turtle eventually came out.
Narrating her ordeal after delivering the turtle, Amaka Obi said that
she had always known that she has a living turtle right inside her
body. And that it was invoked on her at an early age by her father who
is still a herbalist back in Anambra. She said:
“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.
“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.
“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.
“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…..”
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