Telling a person their mother is the witch behind their predicament is always an ungodly and unwise thing to do for a minister of the gospel.

You can never predict how the person you have told would react to the news and how much damage it would do to the person both psychologically and emotionally.
What makes it worse is the fact that the child or relative of the person being accused of witchcraft will have to take your word for it.
You can’t offer any evidence, you can’t offer any precedent as regarding how the person has harmed you as a minister of the gospel but in one breath you redefine how the person is perceived by their child or relative. You turn entire generations against another and you colour forever the mindset and perception of the coming generations.
They go for endless deliverance sessions and insist on placing endless hurdles between themselves and the one you have accused of bewitching them.
Pastors love to do this finger-pointing and endless accusations in Africa.

Almost everybody’s mother or grandmother is a witch.
It is how they were trained and how they see everything through the cloak of evil and the demonic they all seem to obsess on everyday.
The wise keep far away from such pastors but the not-so-wise, in a bid to solve problems that are mostly of their own making go to these pastors and get told lies which they hold on to as an excuse for their failure in life.

I met a woman whose first child was born with Down syndrome. It was nobody’s fault that she found herself saddled with a child so severely afflicted from the womb.
I have seen so many parents dealing with children who were born with one special need or the other.
I know the pain in the heart of these parents, their one prayer focus, and their one hope in this world.
They live for these special children.
They wake up caring for them and the last thought on their minds, as they sleep, is about these kinds of children.

A witch would not be that loving and compassionate. By the nature of witchcraft, the affliction must be supported with negligence and wickedness for the evil they intend to be accomplished.
This mother carried this child all by herself to the United Kingdom, looking for a cure for his disability.
The doctors did all they could but they could not help his situation.
This mother then decided to stay put in the United Kingdom and raise this child in the country because of their advanced welfare system which would enable her to care for this special child of hers.
She was married, and her husband was in Nigeria but she was a citizen of the United Kingdom and she chose the welfare of this child over being in the loving arms of her husband and giving birth to more children.
Her husband was a quiet and loving man, he wrote her many letters asking her to return to him as his wife and allow them to raise this child together.
Eventually, she returned to Nigeria with this child and she got pregnant again.
This time, she got pregnant with a daughter, a son, and another daughter. Three children in six years.
She however, noticed that her oldest son, the one with the special needs was suffering as a result of lack of attention and the way people generally treated him as if he was less than human.
It broke her heart that she brought him to Africa.
The other children were thriving but her first child was hidden away and treated like a vermin by his own father.
She saw the child suffering and at a point, she decided to return him to the United Kingdom and place him in a home over there. He was a citizen and so was she.
Why leave him to suffer in Nigeria when he would be in a home where he would be well catered to in England?
She informed her husband of her decision and he promised her that if she would leave him with three children, he would be forced to divorce her and remarry.

It was a difficult choice. She didn’t have the means to take all the children.
Even if she wanted to, her husband refused to entertain the idea of losing all his children and starting all over again with someone else.
It was a tough decision, but she made up her mind. She was right in trying to care for the child born with a disadvantage.
So she left for the United Kingdom.
Her husband remarried and the children got a stepmother.
It was a difficult journey but they all survived. She sent financial support to all her children from the UK.
As soon as they were old enough, they were sent off to boarding schools by their father.

She paid for their education and worked hard to be a part of their lives even from abroad. The children graduated from the university and her first daughter wrote to her asking to be brought to the United Kingdom to live with her.
She sent a form for the children to fill. When the form was sent back to her, she discovered that her daughter didn’t complete her university education.
She had collected school fees, house rent, feeding allowance; money for handouts and practicals but had been living with a man who had been encouraging her to fleece her mother!

The same man had coached her to talk her mother into bringing her over to the United Kingdom so that she can, in turn bring him over to the United Kingdom.

It was a disappointing revelation. She was blamed by everybody for not being a present mother.
“If you had been here to tend to your children, they wouldn’t be so desperate to leave their father’s house where they were being maltreated by their stepmother and run into the arms of anyone offering them a semblance of love”.
She took it in her stride and asked her daughter what she wanted to do with her life outside of coming to the UK.
She had nothing to offer in the UK and she would just be an additional mouth to feed if she does not have any skill.

As their mother, she was not growing any younger
She left them when the last child was four years old, that last child was already an undergraduate by this time.
The physically challenged child was in his forties and still alive and coping with life as best as he could.
She did not have the time to bring another liability into the United Kingdom.
The daughter told her she wanted to learn how to be a tailor. So she enrolled her in school.
The other children thrived in school, they earned their degrees and began to work, get married and have children. This first daughter was taken to a church to pray by her boyfriend.
Why wouldn’t her mother help her?
Why are the younger ones making headway in life while she was stagnant?
Why was her mother refusing to bring her to the United Kingdom?
It has to be a spiritual problem?
The enemy must be firing an arrow that has turned her mother against her.
The pastor they went to told her, her mother was a witch who was afraid of the fire she carried.
He said her mother didn’t bring her to the United Kingdom so that she would not destroy her coven with her anointing and she believed the pastor.
She began to tell everyone who would listen to her that her mother was a witch who was scared of her anointing and for that reason refused to bring her to the United Kingdom.

It was foolish talk but Africans are funny people.
They will believe you are witch as long as a relative labels you as such and he or she was able to demonstrate a pattern of failure in his or her life which he or she will refuse to be responsible for.
All she had to say was “I had a dream in which my mother was chasing me or drinking my blood or cutting my hair or trying to initiate me with kola nut etc”

Being a witch in Africa is purchased for the price of a bad dream or a nightmare.
You go to a pastor or spiritualists to relate this dream or nightmare.
You also tell a story of how your life has been difficult for one reason or the other.
You say nobody ever helps you.
You never own up to your mistakes and your flaws so that you get good counsel that can bring you out of the miry clay.
You get a diagnosis of being afflicted by witches in return.

Some pastors only give this diagnosis but they never give you the cure for it.
The witch never gets delivered or overpowered by the Holy Spirit.
The pastor then tell you to keep away from the witch, run far away from your father and mother, do not go to the village, keep away from family and friends.
Once you believe them, you become their cult member.
They didn’t deliver you.
They isolated you from help and now as a church member you get to believe whatever they tell you.
Give them your tithes and offering.
Go to them for counsel.
You never miss a church service.
You have officially joined a cult!
This was how the reprogramming of this young lady began.
She never got around to earning a degree or any tangible skill.
She got pregnant for the boyfriend and had two children.
While her siblings thrived financially and in their families, she remained poor.
She lived on monthly handouts from her mother “the witch” who paid the school fees of her children and ensured that they had food to eat.
One would think she would show a little bit of appreciation to a 74 year old woman who kept working so that she and her children would not die of hunger.
She continued to tell whoever paid her any attention that her mother was a witch who ruined her life because she did not take her to the United Kingdom.
Sometimes last year (2024) this lady fell gravely ill, her mother reached out to me begging that I pray and do all I can to ensure she does not die.
A doctor I know travelled to Ibadan and swung into action.
She moved this woman and her children to Lagos, rented an apartment for them and put the children in school under the supervision of a governess.
The woman began some serious treatment and she was healed.
Thank God!
The doctor and I met in London some months later.
While we were speaking, the doctor’s phone rang and she said she was not going to pick the call because it is a call from this same person and the person had been trying her best to convince her that her mother was a witch.
I was shocked.
I encouraged the doctor to pick the call and asked her to put the call on speakerphone so that I can hear the accusations for myself.
She called again.
The doctor picked and the call was put on speakerphone.
This lady started by saying “My mother said she would like to come to Nigeria to pay me and my children a visit. I don’t want it because i dont want her to initiate me into witchcraft.
Then she began to tell a story about their great grandmother being a witch and that the woman passed the witchcraft to her mother.
I was shocked.
I remember how much the mother had spent and also prevailed upon this lady’s siblings to spend on her in order to save her life.
Millions were spent by a witch to keep this ungrateful wretch alive.
I had to speak and I did.
I reminded this lady that witches delight in stealing, killing, and destroying.
Her mother had exhibited only Christlike behaviour towards her since I met the woman.
The woman went on her knees in tears in order to convince the lady’s brother to send the funds the lady and her children were surviving on monthly.
To make matters worse, this lady who had just been saved from the jaws of death and separated from her leech of a husband who was not working but persistently used spiritualists and pastors to rob her of the funds sent to her by her mother suddenly said she was feeling horny and had started sleeping with a Muslim cleric down the street from the apartment her mother just rented for her.
Wow.
Even while she was accusing her mother of witchcraft with all the energy she could muster, she was engaging in self-destructive behaviours that proved over and over again that no one was afflicting her but herself.
I was really firm in my words to her and she had to stutter a lot of apologies before ending the call.
I realized that she was one of those people who had to blame others for all the dark pits they dug or were dug but they found themselves in deep.
She kept making wrong decisions, the way victims do and that mindset kept her in chains even though she had no reason to be in chains.
True to form, she found a sex partner because she could not stand up straight and see life from the mountaintop.
Her relationship with the Muslim cleric only served one purpose. It exposed her to another level of demonic influence for which when all went awry, she conveniently blamed her mother again.
When the Bible told us to honour our parents, it gave no conditions.

As a born-again Christian, you are not allowed to be hurt by anyone, therefore caring for your parents, regardless of what you were told about them gives you the license to live a long and full life.
Always remember this.

-GSW-

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