Python Killed in Pastor’s House

A victim being swallowed

The snake killers

CALABAR— A suspected 19-year-old threatening python was killed at the residence of Rev Tony Amba the Senior Pastor of Mega Faith Christian Assembly, Calabar, by the head of the Hausa snake killers Danzaria Rabiu. He disclosed how they killed the snake.
Rabiu, spoke through an interpreter, that he and his colleagues were not snake charmers or hunters. He said they hail from a family in Zaria with abilities to handle snakes without being harmed. He spoke about discovery of remains of lizards and dogs in the ceiling but it was unconnected to the pastor’s apartment as the reference was to another incident. He said his knowledge of snakes and certain characteristics he observed pointed to the fact that the snake would have lived in the ceiling for about 10 years.
Holding the dead python Rabiu said “I dey praise Allah for the Pastor because e be like say the snake get mission for that place, but God dey with pastor well well, because me wey kill the snake believe say e get as e be. But I still thank Allah because na God know everything about the snake,” Another snake keeper, Mallam Idris Lawal said: “Since I was born, I grew up to see my father keeping snakes without anything attached to it, you know we also have people like us in Cross River, especially in northern part of the state, but I will not blame anyone who believes that we use charm or diabolical means to keep them.” “If the snake is too violent, I just remove the teeth. I have been beaten many times but they cannot harm me because it is my culture and not charms at all. I do not know about other people, but most people from my axis like Yusuf and Rabiu do not use any black magic at all.”
Speaking about the incident, Rev Amba  said: “Everything that happened that day was nothing less than a miracle. Only God knows how long it has lived there. “But for me, my family and the ministry which he has given to me to oversee, it is a September to remember.”