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A Ghanaian woman resident in Milton Keynes in the United Kingdom, by name Esther, is alleged by a Ghanaian Pastor resident in Kumasi called Zion Ogya Ba Oberempon of the Ogyaba Ministry Outreach, to be spreading HIV/AIDS disease among men having an affair with her.
He has posted this defamatory information about her on WhatsApp and has been sending further threatening messages to her Facebook wall.
How did all these come about, one may ask? Esther saw a video of the named pastor on Facebook performing miracles or saying things she felt had completely gone off at a tangent with the teachings of Christ and the apostles as enshrined in the Holy Bible.
She subsequently wrote a comment saying what the pastor was doing was the trait of fake pastors, thus, "atorofo3 adiifo3". This was on Monday, 23 January 2017.
The pastor who was not enthused by the written comments by Esther to his seemingly ungodly actions, took offence, and then wrote a message to her on Facebook saying, "I will bring psalm 109 upon you and will also make you cry".
On Wednesday, 23 January 2017, someone called from London to Esther in Milton Keynes to inform her of a disparaging message trending on WhatsApp about her. Whoever posted the message on WhatsApp with a picture of Esther curled from her Facebook wall attached, said she was suffering from HIV/AIDS and has intentionally been spreading it sleeping around with men. Therefore, he warned all those sleeping with her to have contracted, or been infected with, HIV/AIDS.
For the information of the reading public and all those currently in receipt of that WhatsApp message about Esther, I shall advise you to discard it. It is never true that she is suffering from HIV/AIDS. She is a family friend that I know very well for the past thirty years.
She is healthy, respectable and respectful. She does not suffer from any known or unknown communicable disease as is contrarily being alleged by the pastor in question. She has neither remarried nor slept with any man since the demise of her husband, a pastor of cherished memory, in the year 2012.
A true pastor worthy of his salt would not go down that demeaning route even if Esther had erred or offended him. His action really shows who and what he is vis-Ã -vis the principles and teachings of Jesus Christ that he claims to worship. Is his action not in divergence from the teachings of Jesus Christ or the apostles?
Would any interested person having a Facebook account go onto their Facebook page and in the search bar google “Zion Ogya Ba Oberempon†to view some of his videos to see whether or not all his actions are perfectly in conformity with the teachings of Christ?
It is only in Africa that any Tom, Dick and Harry, can rise up and claim to be a Man of God with all their dodgy ways and false claims to achieving miracles and yet, have a large following. How can a pastor claim to turn into either a snake, dog, cat, etc. without ever being able to, but is still trusted and followed by a large congregation?
Indeed, for lack of knowledge, Ghanaians perish!
Would the pastor please do himself a big favour by apologising to Esther and all the users of WhatsApp and Facebook for posting such false and criminal information about her?
In the United Kingdom, anyone who deliberately infects others with HIV/AIDS can be prosecuted and sent to jail. In the same measure, he who falsely accuses the other of spreading HIV/AIDS when reported to the police can be arrested, charged with defamation of character, prosecuted and subsequently fined or jailed. This is how serious the action taken by the pastor who is comparable to a WhatsApp or Facebook troll is.
When the pastor was contacted on the phone by one of Esther's friends, he denied having done that and has since been unreachable on his phone. He has switched his phone off.
He should bear in mind that the evil that men do, lives after them. I expect him to behave responsibly like a man of God, cease advertising himself on Facebook and cease spreading false information about people he does not know. His WhatsApp misinformation about Esther is far disproportionate to whatever comment Esther might have made about him.
By their fruits, thy shall know them, so the bible says. I pray for the day that Ghanaians will realise it is not only by infatuation with miracles that one can gain access to Heaven but by doing the word of God. Sadly enough, the present day Ghanaians are mostly miracle-seeking fanatics kowtowing to pastors rather than being salvation-seeking worshippers of God through obedience to the word of God.
A word to the wise is enough!
Esther, although it hurts, I shall strongly advise you to shrug off that false accusation levelled against you by the pastor. It shall be well with you.
False prophets, money-seeking pastors, please repent from your sins for the judgment day will start from the House of the Lord, thus, churches, with you pastors being the first to be judged.
