Ebola is manufactured by Satan – T.B. Joshua

Nigerian Prophet T.B. Joshua of The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) declared in his church service on Sunday 17th August 2014 that the killer disease Ebola currently ravaging West Africa is from ‘the pit of hell’.

According to Joshua, who led his congregation in prayer for the nations and individuals affected, time was up for the ‘strange ailment’ and life would soon return to normal for the affected countries.

“The so called strange ailment coming from three nations – Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia… satan is the manufacturer, the source,” Joshua defiantly declared to the faithful.

“Begin to capture the covenant of that strange sickness,” the cleric then enjoined the congregation. “Command that strange ailment to come out and go to the pit of hell, in the name of Jesus Christ!”

“Because of Christ, people of Liberia, Sierra Leona, Guinea, you are released,” Joshua bellowed, accompanied by the vibrant congregants in a service allegedly viewed by millions worldwide through Joshua’s Christian television station Emmanuel TV.

The controversial pastor boldly declared that God had spoken to him to pray for the nations affected by Ebola as its reign of fear was close to closure.

The pastor, cited to be one of Africa’s most influential individuals, decried the toll Ebola had taken on society, especially in the areas of kinship and kindness.

“People are no longer their brother’s keepers because of this strange disease,” he lamented, adding that if someone publicly collapsed from any form of sickness, people would likely abandon the invalid as opposed to lending a helping hand.

“Once satan takes love out of people, he has taken life. Satan is not happy that we are one; he is against oneness. He knows when we are not one, we can be defeated,” he fumed.

“The weapon satan is afraid of is love,” Joshua continued. “Satan can fight anything but he cannot fight love.”

The cleric then cited a poignant question asked by Jesus in Luke 18:8: “When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"

He added that the prayer Jesus offered for His followers’ faith not to fail indicated challenges would arise in the last days which would make many ‘abandon their faith’, Ebola being one such challenge.

Joshua made headlines this week in local and international media for sending 4,000 bottles of ‘Anointing Water’ to the Ebola stricken nation of Sierra Leone on the request of the government, alongside $50,000 in humanitarian aid.

Last week, Joshua had to debunk a rumour attributed to him that went viral in Nigeria claiming that bathing in salt water would prevent the disease. With over 1.2million followers on Facebook and 90,000 YouTube subscribers, it is easy to understand why Joshua is touted to be among Africa’s most influential individuals currently.

The National Information Technology Agency (NITA) is set to begin investigations into a tape making rounds on social media alleging the conspiracy by political leaders to cover up the outbreak of the deadly Ebola disease in Ghana.

Director General of NITA, William Tevi told Joy News the agency IS making sure that it is able to get to the source of the WhatsApp message.

“We will use all technology available to us to unravel the source of this false message which has been on WhatsApp.

The claims were supposedly made at an Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana.

The group has disassociated itself from contents of the tape and challenged anyone who has evidence of such statement at the AGM to come out boldly and not “hide behind the faceless and nameless tape to create such fear and panic and further distort the critical issues discussed at the meeting”.

However, the Mr. Tevi said the agency will conduct a more detailed investigation and details will be requested from WhatsApp in order to determine the origin of the tape.

He said government is keen on finding out the motive with which the tape was circulated in order for it to understand what it is all about.

The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is known to be the deadliest to date after the first case was reported in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Zaire in 1976.

The Ebola virus has sickened about 2127 people and killed 1145 of them in the worst hit countries; Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria with Liberia recording the highest death toll of 413.

Even though there is no known vaccine or cure for the disease an experimental ZMapp drug has been sent to Liberia where three doctors suffering from the virus have been put on a six day treatment programme.

Two American health care workers who have received the drug are said to be responding to treatment while a Spanish missionary who was also administered the drug has died.