Self-proclaimed prophets Go Mute Over Anglophone Crisis As Gov’t Arrest Surges

Since the escalation of the Anglophone Crisis in November, 2016, many self-proclaimed Prophets, Apostles, Evangelists, Right Reverends and other men of God went amok with a galore of prophecies over the envisaged new polity.

But ever since Government responded with a heavy fist, characterised by haphazard arrests, intimidation and threats of incarceration, most of the Prophets, whose pulpits were gradually transformed into liberation rally grounds under the guise of prophesies, have suddenly gone taciturn.

Many of such Pentecostal preachers, who were noted for issuing minute-by-minute prophecies on what twist the crisis was going to take next have since gone into oblivion.

Rumour mill are already grinding that the rather change of attitude by the clerics is due to the fact that most of the Churches are yet to be granted authorisation by the Government.

The situation is further compounded by the fact that the Government recently launched a fierce war against clandestine churches in Cameroon. So, many of such men of God are scared to attract unnecessary attention, because of such prophecies.

But a pastor in one of the Pentecostal churches, who spoke this reporter, asserted that “Government has nothing to do with our prophetic messages. It is not every message that God gives his servants that must be made public,” he said.