Popular Catholic priest, Reverend Father Ejike Camillus Mbaka yesterday
relocated to his new duty post at Our Lady Parish, Umuchigbo, Njinike
accompanied by hundreds of his parishioners admirers and well wishers.
He was recently transferred from Christ the King parish, GRA, Enugu where he
had, over the years, built a cult like fellowship on the strength of precision
of most of his prophecies and miracles recorded during prayer sessions at his
Adoration Centre .
Mbaka prophesised the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari ahead of last
election and also warned him last month of a plot to kill him.
His followers believe his transfer is a punishment.
Mbaka himself said yesterday that his posting is a witch hunt.
As early as 7am yesterday, a crowd had started forming at the Christ the King
(CKP) GRA, Enugu preparatory for the movement.
Several lorry loads, buses and cars filled with people lined the streets as he
made his way to Emene.
Band groups dished out music to which people were dancing.
Some were overcome by emotion that they broke down in tears.
Social and economic activities along the major streets came to a temporary
halt.
The journey lasted about four hours.
It was a triumphal exit sort of.Mbaka addressed the crowd and said: “I know we
are going to suffer between now and a few months to come. I am going to suffer
and suffer. I know that.
“I’m going to suffer because I have no place to put my head. I am going to
suffer because I have no place to keep the Adoration Ministry’s assets.
“I know I’m going to suffer. Fortunately, it is going to happen in the month of
lent. So, I am going to use my exit here as a Lenten observance but Jesus said
it all in John 16:20 to his apostles that you will be sorrowful and the world
will be rejoicing but very soon I will turn your sorrow to joy.
“But for now I know you are going to suffer. The Adoration Ministry is passing
through suffering right now even though I’ve accepted that is the will of God.
Is the will of God through suffering? It is a mega suffering
“The quantum of the assets of the Adoration Ministry is the only thing I am
bothered about for now.
“Where am I going to keep them? I am going to stay in one small room that has
only one small bed, one small table, little toilet and bathroom. So where am I
going to keep all the adoration assets?
“My clothing and books I can keep in the car or somebody’s house but where will
I keep these assets that I have given to the Catholic church of Enugu?
“But I say may God take the glory and whoever that has offended me, I have
forgiven.
“I won’t fight anybody or even dream of battling anybody. If anybody allows the
devil to use him, the same that advised you to make a mistake will laugh at you
when you cry over the error. The baby is born, there is no going back.
“We are moving out. We have been doing it and we will do it again. Moses was
going out with a rod in his hand, Mbaka is moving out with his Bible and this nobody
can take away from me.”
Decrying what he described as “attempt by some persons to politicise the
church”, by feeding the Bishop falsely, he declared: “I am giving God the glory
and I welcome the church’s choice and action with absolute acceptance and
obedience.
“So there is no negation to what God has approved and what the church
suggested. Nobody should see me as a recalcitrant priest. I am not.
“I have taken an oath of obedience and I stand on it. I pray God to bless all
of you who in one way or the other have supported the work of God here and
those who have sincerely allowed God to use him or her for the work we did here
all these years.
“God will bless the people of God here and reward you according
to your labour. The parish is not going to collapse; the church will continue
to grow.”
He likened his posting to Njinike to the journey of the Israelites out of
Egypt.
His words: “God has planned a future and hope out of disaster and where I am
going. He will go before me to level mountains.
“The Bible says that He will deliver me from all evil; He will keep my going
out and coming in both now and forever… I am praying that God will keep his
church and my fellow adorers so that our journey to Umuchigbo will be a
journeyof Israelites out of Egypt.
“Some of them were grumbling leaving Egyptian soil because they were having the
phobia for the unknown but
I am telling you people as a courageous leader, do not be afraid.
“We are moving and in not distant time, you people are going to smile.”