Pastor Arrested With Miracle Machine





A man of God of Ghanaian extraction was recently arrested and interrogated at Entebbe Airport in Uganda, after he attempted to clear a machine which, police say, he has been using to deliver electric current on unsuspecting worshippers during church service.

Pastor Obiri Kojo Yeboah, head of ‘We Are One ministry Church’ in Makarere, on July 5, 2009 failed to convince Aviation Police Officers why he needed an electric machine to do God’s work, and is facing serious charges including fraud and false pretence, Police Spokesman, Ason Kasingye announced.

According to the police, the machine, which generates up to 12 volts of electricity, can be worn like a corset on the body. “When he touches his flock, they fall down, thinking he is using super natural powers. The machine is placed on any part of the body and gives a pleasant electric shock to whoever touches you,” Mr. Asan Kasingye said.

The waterproof electric machine is activated within 10 seconds and can emit sparks of static electricity between the user’s fingers while in darkness. The Yigal Mesika Company in Los Angeles manufactures the machine known for freaking people’s minds.

Mr. Kasingye said the machine, using the body as a conductor of electricity, transfers the current to the person in contact but the one using the device remains unaffected. “We are out to find out really if these pastors are using tricks to obtain people’s property and money,” he said. Other ‘born again’ pastors including the head of the National Council of Born Again Churches (NCBC), a body that regulates Pentecostal Churches are calling for prosecution of Yeboah.

Police should interrogate him properly, know where he stays and the people he works with so that we can get a clear picture of it all,” said Pastor Alex Mitala who heads NCBC. Yeboah is a pastor in ‘We Are One Ministry Church’ on Sir Apollo Kaggwa Road, Makarere. His father, other pastors say, is Obiri Yeboah the controversial pioneer of miracle healing in Uganda. Allegations against some of the church ministers in Uganda include sodomy and dubious miracle healing.


Pastor Solomon Male said: “it’s a pity they have arrested Yeboah but police should not allow him to use a machine to deceive others that he has supernatural powers. The new “electric touch” is an electric system you can strap on your body, conveniently hidden under street clothes or religious vestments, for the purpose of supplying a supposedly ‘pleasant’ 12V electric shock to someone just by touching them.

But according to Vincent Karuhanga, a general medical practitioner with Kampala Polyclinic, even though 12 volts is not really much if it is applied on one person for a long time, it can damage the nerves. Pastor Yeboah has denied any wrongdoing claiming he was being ‘victimised’ by police and some fellow pastors although he did not say why he was being picked on.




Source: News-One

its stupid story. You want to prove what with the one crazy persons action?
In the Soviet Union during Stalins era they used simple technique to "convince" the schoolchildren that there is no God, it was I ve been told massive: Teacher tell the new pupils that there is no God in Heaven and as the proof asked them to pray to Him to send them down a candy. They clcose their eyes pray and...nothing. Then..."please children do pray to the Camerade Stalin"...of course afterwards the candy was always there...
The problem is- the Christians use that kind of methods as an exception since long time but the atheists or anti christians love to do it till now as a rule...

[edit on 24-10-2009 by ZenOnKwalsky]

I'm not much of a believer in any religion but using this story to denounce all of Christianity smacks of a person with an agenda. Ridiculous.

Originally posted by really
I'm not much of a believer in any religion but using this story to denounce all of Christianity smacks of a person with an agenda. Ridiculous.

Observing another nail in the coffin of xtianity is not denouncing xtianity but merely an observation.

However I do admit that I denounce xtianity on the whole as delusional.

This case in point gives a fine example of the lengths some people will go to in order to dupe the deluded.

No doubt if any of this particular pastors' congregation had been asked about their spiritual experience before he had his collar felt ( I've waited a very long time to fit that pun in somewhere lol) they would have probably have swooned in memory of the holy spirit of jesusyahwhegod tingling into their bodies through said pastor.

Ah the power of suggestion is a beautiful thing eh?

Pastor=

It's unfortunate that so many use these fringe stories to generalize a whole sect of people. However I understand what the OP is saying.

It's just one after the other these days, probably because we have SOOO many different sects of the same damn religion going on.

Sad but true. I can't wait till someone opens the official humanity religion, I'll be ALL up in that.

Until then, pay no attention to these fools who dupe people. Real christians know the difference, and that's all that matters I guess.

~Keeper

FACT: all Christian churches use brainwashing techniques in one form or another, this bozo just took it to the next level. Such techniques are widely documented, everything from low hz soundwaves to affect human brains, to voice roll hypnotic techniques, I could go on for pages about all their tricks. All churches do it, it's all a sham. It's truly sad to see people fall for it. I owe my father a great deal in this regard.. he gave me common sense and skeptics mind so early on I was immune to this BS.. others (in this thread for example) were not so lucky.

Originally posted by reasonable
FACT: all Christian churches use brainwashing techniques in one form or another, this bozo just took it to the next level. Such techniques are widely documented, everything from low hz soundwaves to affect human brains, to voice roll hypnotic techniques, I could go on for pages about all their tricks.

It may well be that some other beliefs employ ultrasound techniques to create ingrown toenails too... but holy mother of Maalox... I don't offer myself up that easy and damned sure wouldn't try to ply that upon a world of thinking people.