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From Prison To TB Joshua
Halima Bangida
Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former chief security officer of Nigeria’s military leader, General Sani Abacha, paid a surprise visit to Pastor T.B. Joshua of the Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) in Lagos, merely hours after release from a 15 year incarceration.
Mustapha was released from Kirikiri Prisons, Lagos on Friday 12th July after the Court of Appeal judgement acquitted and discharged him over the charge that he conspired to murder Alhaja Kudirat Abiola on 4 June, 1996. Kudirat was the wife of Chief M.K.O Abiola, the popular winner of Nigeria’s controversial 1993 presidential elections which were then annulled by Ibrahim Babangida.
Mustapha’s trial has been the subject of intense media interest across Nigeria, his release yesterday coming as a surprise to many as only last year he was condemned to death by hanging in a Lagos high-court for his alleged involvement in the killing.
From the prison, Mustapha made his way immediately to Ikotun, the Lagos suburb, where Joshua has his popular church.
Joshua, the pastor recently lauded as one of Africa’s 50 most influential figures, explained in an interview that their relationship dated to the Abacha years when he was arrested and detained for nine days over a petition sent to the Chairman of the NDLEA about his ministry.
“I got to know him many years ago when a petition was addressed to General Bamaiyi who was the then Chairman of the NDLEA. As you know, several efforts had been made by my detractors to bring me and my ministry down. One of those efforts was that petition. I was arrested and spent nine days with them for investigation and they found the whole thing to be a fabrication. From there, I was taken to Aso Rock (City of Power) to see the president. It was there that I met Mustapha.
“I was able to reveal to them who I am by telling them what was to come as a prophet. One of those things I mentioned to them and to Mustapha in particular, was what he went through, though he did not believe me then. That was why when it came to pass, I was the first person he remembered. I told him that he would spend several years in prison and would be finally released which no one else had ever told him.
“That is why you see him coming here as his first port of call. When you know your picture of tomorrow, it will impart a strength to endure your present difficulty. When you know what you are passing through now will not last long, you will endure it. This is vision; this is prophecy. This can only come by revelation. This is what the Bible means by, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish’ (Proverbs 29:18).”
Mustapha was arrested in 1998 on the orders of the then General Abdulsalami Abubakar regime, over the killings during the Abacha era.
Coincidentally, T.B. Joshua is also reported to have personally prophesied to Chief M.K.O Abiola, Kudirat’s husband, during his presidential campaign, that he would win the election but never rule Nigeria.
Halimat Babingida is a freelance Nigerian journalist who followed Al-Mustapha from prison to T.B. Joshua’s ministry where she conducted this exclusive interview.
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tease
July 15, 2013 at 11:00 am
Joshua and his stinking mouth
Blessed
July 15, 2013 at 11:05 am
You seem to be the son of Lucifer who is against all good. May God forgive you.
I've never been haunted by the fear of God or the Devil
July 15, 2013 at 11:17 am
Take your madness somewhere else iwe musatanyoko…you son of a hule! Go and clean joshuas sh!thole with you tongue, you brainwashed monkey! Your God is an i d i o t and joshua is just a conman to the wise.
tembo
July 15, 2013 at 2:57 pm
you need serious prayers
Specialist
July 15, 2013 at 1:25 pm
I love his breath! Too bad that you find it stinking!Just watch out it is the devil in you that stinks and you mistake its smell for T B Joshua.
GABRIEL
July 15, 2013 at 11:15 am
@tease, THE WRATH OF THE LORD WILL BE UNLEASHED UPON YOU AND THAT’S A PROMISE!
tease
July 15, 2013 at 11:26 am
FAK YOU & YOUR SAVAGE GOD you brainwashed Id!ots! Go and tell your god to go fúck off! I believe in evolution you dunderhead… Your god only exists for you not for everyone i d i o t. I have been to countries they have not even heard of that son of a ***** called jesus
Blessed
July 15, 2013 at 11:38 am
You will indeed reap what you sow!
African God
July 15, 2013 at 1:15 pm
Brainwashed coward!
Jesus "saves'' baloney
July 15, 2013 at 11:54 am
One mans God is Another mans Devil.
tease
July 15, 2013 at 11:27 am
B I T C H
GAY GOD
July 15, 2013 at 11:44 am
No one likes their religious belief to be questioned. When it happens, most people get upset or offended or even display shock.
But what they forget is that religion is based on what you believe and if YOU believe it, “it is true.” But to me that is just bad logic. If you think about it pragmatically you’ll discover that just because you believe does not mean everyone believes. It only means YOU believe it.
I can believe that God is a ‘tree’ and if I believe that long enough and intensely enough, I can actually see my life change and see great miracles (unexplainable happenings explained by my belief) because of my devotion to my ‘tree’. It is possible for the tree to actually give me great blessings of great joy and magnitude because I believe. I can pray to the tree and the tree answers my prayers. I can love my tree and my tree (God) can love me back. If I believe it to be so… IT IS.
And please do not challenge my deep religious beliefs about the tree that brings such great joy into my life. I do not want to hear it. And so it is with the Gods we choose to worship and believe in, and our ideas of good and evil.
Leecher Preachers
July 15, 2013 at 11:56 am
T.B. Joshua you are arrogant. Christ teaches to be humble, you sell anointing water with your smug arrogant PICTURE on there? A picture of YOU?! You PIG, you lead people astray. Do not look to “prophets”, look to Jesus, not people who spend way to much time admiring their reflection in the mirror. You arrogant PIG, rich, smug, self centered, lying, con man, trash bag, pile of feces, manipulator of the weak minded, oppressor of the poor, worshiper of money and vanity, child of the demons!!
Mystic
July 15, 2013 at 12:04 pm
One man's religion is another man's belly laugh
July 15, 2013 at 12:11 pm
.TB. is arrogant, manipulative, con-artist, false prophet or a “for profit”, another Joseph Smith.
Blessed
July 15, 2013 at 12:13 pm
You seem to know the true prophet, who is a true prophet?
I'm what I am
July 15, 2013 at 1:12 pm
What is it with people always wanting a guy in the sky or in another dimension? GOD IS US! I AM GOD, YOU ARE GOD WE ARE ALL ONE CONCIOUSNESS.. thats why the so called god said i am what i am
joelove
July 15, 2013 at 1:57 pm
Someone has insulted our suprem God. My brother/sister(TEASE), you have invited a curse on yourself. Please repent and ask for forgiveness and accept Jesus christ as your lord and saviour.
bigbuttman
July 15, 2013 at 3:29 pm
Zambians are wasting time with TB Joshua. This man is not even Zambian and is merely advancing his own interests. I have no time for this man. I neither like nor hate him. He is irrelevant.
Godfrey mine
July 15, 2013 at 4:09 pm
He is a man of God test his spirit & spiritualy God will reveal who he is to u. He has de greatest gift frm God (prophecy)
cherry
July 16, 2013 at 8:30 am
INDEED TB JOSHUA YOU R TRUE MAN OF GOD.I TRULY BELIEVE IN YOU.
Blessed
July 15, 2013 at 11:51 am
This work was initiated under the ocean by Lucifer himself and most of the people who were behind the making of these vedios, CDs have confessed and denounced the devil. They did this because their kingdom is under fire and most demons who are sent to attack TB Joshua do not go back to the dark kingdom. So agents of Lucifer are out there denouncing and insulting the Man of God. You will never hear an insult coming from a child of God, that is a prominent characteristic, because we know that by the cross we conquered the world – that is the reason TB Joshua does not respond to insults.