Pastor Finds Python Living in His Roof For 10 Years

Senior Pastor of the MegaFaith Ministries in Cross River State, Rev Tony has recounted his experience with a 19-year old snake that lived in the roof of his house for a period of 10-years. 

Senior Pastor of the Mega Faith Ministries, in Calabar South Local Government Area of Cross River State, Rev Tony is said to have seen numerous miracles in his life and undeniably, the Almighty God has used him to do the extraordinary even for others.

All the same, the messenger of the Most High did not plan for the unusual that he witnessed, last weekend, at his 10 Ekpiken Close home.

Unknown to the pastor, a 19-year-old python, measuring 20-metre, supposedly feeding on dogs, fowls, rats and lizards for ages, had been a co-dweller with him and his children in the same apartment for about a decade. The moment he stepped out on the revelation day, the ravenous python from its hideaway in the roof, decided it was time to materialize and use one of the children for its next meal.

Amba’s words, “Everything that happened that day was nothing less than a miracle. What if this beast had injured anyone, they would have said a lot of things about me and the ministry, I cannot thank God enough for what he did for my family and me because I have been living in that house for about a decade. Only God knows how long the snake came into that place.’’

“Two of my children were home alone when they saw that a something like a machete was piercing through the ceiling so they ran out of the house. Fortunately, one of our members was coming to the house at that time, and he is the one, who inquired from them what the matter was and they told him what they noticed in the ceiling.”

“In trying to find out if there was someone with a machete in the ceiling because the opening made was quite obvious, they set up a form of ladder to climb and look into the place, but saw something that looked like a tyre, but they discovered it was shining. They decided to use a bigger torch light, what they saw was a python and they were shocked,”

The man of God was contacted which prompted him to call the police due to the size of the snake. The policemen arrived at the scene and refused to kill the snake considering the way the snake made into the ceiling and how it lived. They had a feeling it could turn into a human being after being killed. The man of God was later advised to contact some Hausa snake charmers from Bogobiri. The snake charmers numbering 4 decided to kill the snake for N60,000 considering the size of the animal. Their price was later beaten down to N20,000.

After payment was made, they attempted to kill the animal but on entering the roof, the snake disappeared. This caused them to begin to break the ceiling till the snake fell out and started attacking them despite the charms they possessed to command the respect of snakes. The snake was eventually killed by the charmers. The charmers confessed the snake was strange.

One of them named Mallam Rabiu said: “The snake don live there for a very long time don live there for up to 10 years and when we kill am. I discover from the counting say the snake don live up to 19 years. There is a way we dey take count the mark wey dey the belle to know how long the snake don live.”

“The snake enter there when e still dey small , na for there wey the snake stay grow because we see different kind of fowl , rat ,lizard and dog bones, that na wetin we see for inside that ceiling be that.”

He, however, said that the snake did not look ordinary because it almost disappeared while they were trying to kill it after they had finished negotiating with the pastor, who called them to come and kill it.

He said: “When we come inside the ceiling the second time, we did not see the snake again. We come begin break the ceiling before the thing come fall down.

“With the kind things wey dey our body, the snake no suppose attack us. I surprise when e begin open mouth to bite us.” 

Area boys however took the snake from the Hausa snake charmers for nutritional purposes.