The Calabar pastor that lived with a python for 10 years with his family
How Calabar pastor’s family lived with python for 10 years
CALABAR—Senior Pastor of the MegaFaith Ministries, Calabar in Calabar
South Local Government Area of Cross River State, Rev Tony is said to
have seen numerous miracles in his life and undeniably, the Almighty God
has used him to do the extraordinary even for others.
All the same, the messenger of the Most High did not plan for the
unusual that he witnessed, last weekend, at his 10 Ekpiken Close
domicile.
Rev Tony Amba
Unknown to the oracle of God, a 19 –year-old python, measuring
20-metre, supposedly feeding on dogs, fowls, rats and lizards for ages,
had been a co-dweller with him and his children in the same apartment
for about a decade. The moment he stepped out on the revelation day, the
ravenous python from its hideaway in the roof, decided it was time to
materialize and use one of the children for its next meal.
Amba’s words, “Everything that happened that day was nothing less
than a miracle. What if this beast had injured anyone, they would have
said a lot of things about me and the ministry, I cannot thank God
enough for what he did for my family and me because I have been living
in that house for about a decade. Only God knows how long the snake came
into that place.’’
Angelic visit
Rev Amba told Niger Delta Voice, “Two of my children were home alone
when they saw that a something like a machete was piercing through the
ceiling so they ran out of the house. Fortunately, one of our members
was coming to the house at that time, and he is the one, who inquired
from them what the matter was and they told him what they noticed in the
ceiling.”
Shocking discovery
“In trying to find out if there was someone with a machete in the
ceiling because the opening made was quite obvious, they set up a form
of ladder to climb and look into the place, but saw something that
looked like a tyre, but they discovered it was shining. They decided to
use a bigger torch light, what they saw was a python and they were
shocked,” he said.
His words, “I just came back from a journey where I went to see my
father in the lord in Abuja and also attended a conference there. My
coming into Calabar was to prepare for our yearly programme, ‘September
to Remember,’ but before coming back, I already knew that a battle had
been won because God is always in control.”
September to remember
“The occurrence did not come as a surprise but it was not natural,
because what could the snake be possibly eating for those years it has
spent in that place, it is indeed a September to remember for me ,my
family and the MegaFaith Ministries,” he added.
Amba further said, “When I was alerted, I decided to call the police
so that they can kill it because I am not the kind of person, who reads
meaning to every little thing. But they refused, arguing that they could
kill it and it transforms into a human being based on the incident that
led to its discovery, so they left without doing anything.”
Snake charmers
Man carrying the dead python
The clergyman said neighbours referred him to some Hausa snake
charmers from Bogobiri. He complied and invited them. According to him,
”When they came (the Mallams), they first went into the ceiling to
ascertain the size of the snake and came down to tell me that they will
collect N60,000, but we bargained till they came down to N20,000, which
we paid. I left them to continue the work of my Father because I had
communion to administer that evening.”
He disclosed that by the time he returned, they had killed the snake
but area boys did not allow the snake charmers to take it away, as they
turned it into a delicacy.
Attack: An eyewitness, who preferred anonymity, told Niger Delta
Voice that the snake almost disappeared after they (Mallams) led by
Danzaria Rabiu climbed the ceiling the second time to kill it.
“When one of the ‘aboki’ climbed the ceiling, they could not find the
snake anymore, so they started breaking the ceiling all over and the
creature fell down in fury, started attacking them, but the four of them
over powered the about 20 meters long creature” he stated.
The eyewitness added, “The incident was really strange although there is
a little bush behind us, but it still does not explain how the snake
entered and have been living for years, how did it survive for that long
in that place, what was it feeding on? He asked.
Not an ordinary snake
Mallam Rabiu, who spoke in Pidgin English, said: “The snake don live
there for a very long time don live there for up to 10 years and when we
kill am. I discover from the counting say the snake don live up to 19
years. There is a way we dey take count the mark wey dey the belle to
know how long the snake don live.”
The python
“The snake enter there when e still dey small , na for there wey the
snake stay grow because we see different kind of fowl , rat ,lizard and
dog bones, that na wetin we see for inside that ceiling be that.”
He, however, said that the snake did not look ordinary because it
almost disappeared while they were trying to kill it after they had
finished negotiating with the pastor, who called them to come and kill
it.
He said: “When we come inside the ceiling the second timer, we did
not see the snake again. We come begin break the ceiling before the
thing come fall down.
“With the kind things wey dey our body, the snake no suppose attack us. I surprise when e begin open mouth to bite us.”
