Pastor Must Offer Sacrifices For Killing Snake – Anambra Community

An altercation has ensued between members of the Pentecostal
Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, and Umuoji community in Idemili
North
Local Government Area of Anambra State over the killing of a
snake in
the community by the General Overseer of the Mercy Throne
Assembly, Umuoji,
Rev Jude Chubueze. Rev Chibueze said a snake stormed his house
at night when members of his family were already
sleeping.
He said he heard his children screaming and rushed there to
find a snake where his children had been sleeping. “When I
got to their room, I saw a big snake lying with them and I
had to kill it and threw it into
the nearby bush. The following day, some community members
marched to my house and accused me of killing their god. They
beat me up mercilessly. “They wrote a list of items amounting
to N54,890 which they said I should buy to appease their god.
Being a Christian, I told them that it is against my faith and
more over, I killed a snake and not a human being.”
One of the community leaders, Chief Paul Edekobi said, instead
of the pastor doing what he earlier agreed to do with the
community by providing the items, he dragged them to Ogidi
Police
Station where six of the community leaders were arrested.

The Chief threatened that what he did was capable of wiping out
his entire family if sacrifices
were not made to appease the gods. “We do not want to
destroy his property and that is why we used the palm fronts
to tie round the church to stop him from worshipping there for
now,” Edekobi said.
But the pastor said: “What they are talking about is not
tradition; they see the killing of a snake as a taboo in their
world of idol worshipping and not same in Christian faith “If
they do not desist from this act, our next port of call will
be the court for the enforcement of our fundamental human
rights.”