Senior Pastor of the MegaFaith Ministries,
Calabar in Calabar South Local Government Area
of Cross River State, Rev Tony Amba has
revealed a harrowing experience with a snake
living in his ceiling for over 10 years and many
people are still astonished by his story.
He noted, “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.’’
Narrating the whole event, Amba said “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.”
“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.
“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.
“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 continued, “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.”
The clergyman ended up bringing Hausa snake
charmers who accepted N20,000 to deal with the
creature.
The reverend said that after killing the snake,
area boys in his locale did not allow the snake
charmers to take it away, as they turned it into a
delicacy.
One of the Hausa men who ended the life of the
serpent, Mallam Rabiu, speaking 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 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 appear
ordinary because it almost disappeared while
they were trying to kill it.
He said: “When we come inside the ceiling a
second timer (the first time was before
negotiating the price of killing the snake when
they checked to ascertain its size), 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.”
Senior Pastor of the MegaFaith Ministries,
Calabar in Calabar South Local Government Area
of Cross River State, Rev Tony Amba has
revealed a harrowing experience with a snake
living in his ceiling for over 10 years and many
people are still astonished by his story.
He noted, “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.’’
Narrating the whole event, Amba said “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.”
“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.
“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.
“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 continued, “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.”
The clergyman ended up bringing Hausa snake
charmers who accepted N20,000 to deal with the
creature.
The reverend said that after killing the snake,
area boys in his locale did not allow the snake
charmers to take it away, as they turned it into a
delicacy.
One of the Hausa men who ended the life of the
serpent, Mallam Rabiu, speaking 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 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 appear
ordinary because it almost disappeared while
they were trying to kill it.
He said: “When we come inside the ceiling a
second timer (the first time was before
negotiating the price of killing the snake when
they checked to ascertain its size), 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.”
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