How woman was delivered of a horse : Nurse, pastor give accounts

Culled from Nigerian Tribune

DETAILS emerged on Wednesday of how a woman, whose name has not been given, gave birth to a foal (baby) on Tuesday in a church in Benin City, the Edo State capital.

The yet to be publicly identified woman reportedly gave birth to the strange creature at the World Liberation Ministry, during a 'prophecy programme' of the church.

Another woman, Mrs Veronica Egiebor, a nurse, who incidentally was at the church programme and who was said to have joined about three other women in providing cover and immediate care for the woman that gave birth to the horse-like creature, gave an eyewitness and graphic account of what happened.

According to Mrs Egiebor, as the programme progressed, "The pastor came out and picked this woman and asked if she was pregnant. She replied “yes”. He said her pregnancy was being off and on. The pastor told the woman she was not carrying an ordinary baby. He said “do you want to go to a doctor and flush out what you are carrying because what you are carrying is not a baby or do you want it to happen here?” and everybody shouted “yes”.

"The pastor asked four women to donate their wrappers to form like a canopy to cover the woman and asked the men to move back, saying that it was a women affair. He invited me to the scene again. I was there it’s not a story, yesterday (Tuesday), it seemed like a miracle.

"The pastor poured the same anointing oil and a sachet of water on the woman and asked everybody to pray. He said labour is going to start now. So she was swinging her body and finally she held somebody’s leg with the cloth, she pressed and she pushed harder and something dropped and she fell. We now removed the cloth to see what she had expelled.

"Behold, my brother, I have never seen that kind of thing in my life before. People were calling it goat. But that one looked like horse. The object had long neck, the ears were long. It was exactly like horse, although it was in a baby form. But the pastor said nobody should touch it because it’s demonic. Everybody ran away; I don’t know when they took the woman away.”

The General Overseer of the church, Evangelist Silva Wealth, said: "This is not strange to us; we have been seeing miracle. Yesterday (Tuesday) when we were praying, a word of knowledge came of somebody who had an issue with pregnancy. Sometime, when she went for ultra-sound (scan), the pregnancy was either confirmed or not there.

"While the deliverance was on, we noticed that the woman was bleeding. We asked her to stand out; barely a few minutes after, we heard people screaming. We thought it was a child, but I remember that when we were praying I saw what had been a hindrance locking her womb to get pregnant, something of that nature. I'm not a medical doctor, so, I don’t know the appropriate word to use.

"So, when it came out, everybody was weeping. It’s something we haven’t seen for a very long time. So, she was still bleeding and she collapsed. So, we had to order everybody outside for ventilation to come in before she was revived and the women around cleaned her up."

Asked if the woman was a member of the church or had had pregnancy related complaints, Evangelist Wealth said, "Our prophetic services are always packed full of 90 per cent of people that we do not even know. If you go in now and sample opinions of members who are coming for the very first time, you will discover that it’s almost all the members. She mainly came to my office yesterday (Tuesday) asking for prayers.”

The General Overseer further said that he did not think the woman was a Benin person, because the woman, according to him, told him, ‘“I don call my mummy in the village and my nurse.’ As of yesterday (Tuesday) evening, I gave her my number that she should call me when she gets home and I’m still surprised that she is yet to call.”