Fr. Ebube Muonso Pronounces Death On Critics

By Adesina Soyooye

“For writing  against me, your death is near”, Ebube Muonso to Commissioner Mefor

An unusual New Year wish has gone out from the  Spiritual Director, Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry Uke, Anambra state, Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Obimma, to his critics, and especially, the Commissioner for Information, Anambra  State, Law Mefor.

Fr. Obinma, popular as Ebube Muonso, was angered by Commissioner Mefor’s attack on him in an article titled: “Ebube Muonso, fake prophet and insecurity.”

Mefor wrote the article in response to Muonso’s strong criticism of Governor  Chukwuma Soludo’s handling of insecurity in the State.

In the past few weeks, Anambra State has been engulfed by unprecedented violence, blood, anguish, deaths. Both kidnapping and death have boiled and reached high heavens. Nobody is too scared to be kidnapped or killed. A Rev. Fr. had been killed in cold blood, a retired Anglican Archbishop and his driver had been kidnapped, held for about a month before their release, two Catholic Nuns had been kidnapped, held for a week and released; beer parlours had been invaded and dozens killed, and so were funeral venues. It’s been unprecedented in the history of the State.

So, in his New Year message, Ebube Muonso, no fan of Governor Soludo dismissed him as the worst thing that has happened to the State. He called Soludo a failure and a disappointment and a disaster. He gave the impression that nobody was in charge of the State and that criminals had taken over. He told the story of how he “bribed” the Police in the State with the sum of One Million Naira before they agreed to go and rescue a kidnapped Rev. Fr. whose location had been identified.

It was Muonso’s New Year message that Mefor responded to, a response which has attracted a death wish from the Rev. Fr. against Mefor. “Your death is near for writing against me”, Ebube Muonso pronounced against Mefor.

In the article, Mefor has put the root cause of insecurity in the South-east and, especially, Anambra State on the door steps of “Muonso and his ilk.”

Mefor:  “The new wave of insecurity in Anambra in particular and the South East has its roots in preaching wealth without work championed by the likes of Fr. Emmanuel Obimma, aka Ebube Muonso. They are merchants of fake miracles and fake prophecies who, for decades, have taught our youths to believe they can become wealthy and great without work, perseverance, and morality, all vital virtues for which Ndigbo were reputed in the past.

“Such virtues that accounted for the outstanding successes of Ndi Anambra and Ndigbo in general are now assailed by their wrong teachings.

“Ndigbo work their way to the top, to borrow Soludo’s expression. The greatness attained by some is never by sudden flight but through their toiling upward at night while their contemporaries went to bed, to paraphrase the philosopher. Ndigbo persevere. They work quite hard and believe in God, who promised in Deuteronomy 28:12: ‘The Lord will bless the work of your hands.’ That’s the foundation and Igbo wealth code that Ebube Muonso and his fellow miracle merchants want to uproot”.

Irked by Mefor’s response, Muonso, who never allows any criticism get him by fired back: “Just the other day, the president was in Enugu to commission some projects in the state. In Anambra, what do we have to commission?

“Anambra under Soludo has no project to commission, except the blood of the innocent killed by kidnappers. Even the roads the governor claims he is building are all substandard. Go and look at them.”

Specifically on Mefor who dismissed him as a false prophet, Muonso said: “One thing that is good is that I’m the one they are attacking. They will meet their end soon. All of them those media rats  writing nonsense against me they will see.

“Instead of channeling their efforts to tackle the problem of insecurity, they are busy attacking a man of God. Just yesterday, on Tuesday, two Reverend Sisters were kidnapped at Ajalli. This government has failed”.

For the records, the two Reverend Sisters were released a couple of days ago after about one week in the den of their kidnappers.