Rights campaigners in the United Kingdom have urged the government to
ban Nigerian pentecostal preacher, Lady Apostle Helen Ukpabio from
coming into the country. They also want her deported right away, on
grounds that her preaches are ‘harmful to the public’.
Ukpabio who
styles herself a ‘witch-hunter’ claims any child who cries is a
‘servant of Satan’. The 45 year old preacher and founder of Liberty
Foundation Gospel Ministries is reported to be in the UK at the moment,
holding a number of church services to promote her belief in witchcraft
and offer help to those ‘under threat’ from the wizardry.
The Mail
of London reported today that the Witchcraft and Human Rights
Information Network (WHRIN), the Bar Human Rights Committee of England
and Wales and the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) have
written to the Home Secretary in an attempt to get Ms Ukpabio deported
under the Immigration Act 1971 – on the grounds her presence here is not
conducive to the public good.
“In
a letter to Ms Theresa May, the campaigners warn: ‘Whilst the
Government has moved swiftly to block entry to the UK for Islamic
preachers whose presence is considered as harmful to the public good,
there have been no cases of Christian pastors facing such measures.’
The groups are hoping the pastor will be banned from returning to the UK once she has completed her final tour.
A
poster advertising one of Ms Ukpabio’s most recent talks – which was
cancelled after the venue was leaked online – claims to offer help to
people who are under ‘witchcraft attack, ancestral spirit attack or
mermaid spirit attack’ and claims to help ‘disconnect’ them.
However,
campaigners have warned her controversial views are dangerous to
children – including the belief that ‘if a child under the age of two
screams in the night, cries and is always feverish with deteriorating
health, he or she is a servant of Satan’.
Is she really a Servant of God?
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