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This may be how your archbishop, prophet or pastor �heals� the epileptic, fibroid, demonized, the impotent or barren: first, he contracts men and women as fit as a fiddle, or as stout as the elephant; pay them to feign ill and healed, and, next, arouse the congregation to praise God for a big miracle performed! The Heritage epoch-making investigations have suggested that may of the so-called miracle performing Christian prophets sprinkling the air with Florida Water, Anointing Water, and Israel Oil, among others and riding plush cars as reward for their deliverance services are all tricksters; or, more plainly, �azaa� people, At least, this reporter can say without any fear of later contradiction that Prophet Elisha Osei Kofi, aka, Ayigbeni, who responds to such other names as Prophet Half; a well built, very handsome man about 35 years old, hires fit persons to feign seriously ill and jump up after his false miracle to deceive innocent members of his Power Embassy International Church at Pig Farm in Accra and the general public. Elisha Osei Kofi has no healing powers; even if he ever did, he has long lost it completely. He plays unimaginable tricks so dexterously to extort monies from his poor congregation and other believers, pittances of which ill-gotten money he shares among his hirelings. Here is a typical chronology of the modus operandi of Prophet Elisha of the Power Embassy International: It�s Sunday and the Man of God, highly possessed with the Holy Spirit, steps majestically out of his luxurious ash Infinity cross-country care and is welcomed by the believers with appellations, drumming and cheers to the church premises that is already filled with thousands of souls ready to serve their maker or extracts a healing today from the Almighty God. The prophet mounts the pulpit and spits God�s words. �I want to create my own miracles so that when they write the Bible again, they will write my name�� There is no doubt at this state that Prophet Osei Kofi is, indeed, a great and genuine miraculous man of God leading a congregation of close to a 1,000 to heaven. �Hello, the person who would be faking paralysis during tomorrow�s service is wearing white, she is very slim, you would like her.� That is a caveat for you, the reader; the prophet has long been given a tip off by one of this agents. And this classified telephone info is given him 24 long hours before he mounts the pulpit. At the very bottom of his heart, he is the devil-incarnate, fully committed to state-managing fake miracles by hiring the services of �ghetto boys� and girls� to deceive the unsuspecting children of God. (Didn�t the Son of Man say, �for lack of knowledge, my people perish�?) The self-styled Man of God employs the services of people, preferably, very slim ones, who can perfectly fake such serious diseases as paralysis, stroke, deaf-and-dumb and any believing thing under the sun that has the potency of capturing the faith of the congregation and even the casual visitor. Even before the anointing service segment, he is fully aware of clients who he would heal through briefings from his professional partners-in-crime. He was called the previous day or earlier and given vivid descriptions of what ailments they would fake. The paper�s back-breaking investigations revealed one of such nefarious activities between October 2 and 5, this year. Two healthy persons, a very slim lady but who was too fit to have agreed to feign paralysis or suffering from stroke; and a young man from the Bukom suburb of Accra, in the company of an agent of Prophet Ayigbeni, were trailed from home to the road side. The agent stops a taxi and gives vivid description of the location of the church, Power Embassy International, to the driver and pays him off. He does not join them ostensibly for fear of being noticed. He later calls Prophet and gives him description of, for instance, the colour of attire and body size of individuals involved and, more importantly, the kind of sickness they have been contracted to feign. The taxi arrives at the church premises and, all of a sudden, the slim lady who was walking briskly at home is �paralyzed� and has to be carried by her colleague, with the anxious assistance of the unsuspecting ushers inside the church to join others who are equally presumably sick. The service begins minutes later, and the prophet communes with Holy Spirit and delivers the good news from the Holy Bible for about 25 minutes. The next is the anointing segment where miracles are done like nobody�s business. The �paralyzed� slim lady receives instant healing, gets up on her own and goes to urinate: She has been healed, praise the Lord! The congregation goes bananas and the name of the Lord is praised. For a step-by-step audio and picture accounts of the activities of the popular prophet, plus confessions of agents, as well as the monies involved please check out the Friday edition.