Bev lashes at Prophet Magaya

RAUNCHY dancer Beverly Sibanda, widely referred to as Bev, claims that Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries' Walter Magaya's prophetic mission is ungodly and would rather do her prayers in her house than go back to PHD Ministries.

Magaya, a self-proclaimed prophet, leads PHD Ministries. Magaya was in Mutare since yesterday (Thursday) and is expected to round up his crusade today (Friday).

The PHD leader "lured" Bev to his ministries on the back of financial support to help the lively dancer start up a boutique in the Harare's city centre.

Magaya fulfilled that.

But during Easter, while Magaya and his church were commemorating the death and resurrection of Jesus, Bev made a cameo strip show at one of the clubs, announcing that she had set her sights on returning to the pole dancing world.

The candid dancer told The Manica Post on Wednesday that she ''will never go back to mud'' as she fell short of discrediting Magaya's mission as a money-spinning venture.

"Handidzokere kumadhaka (I will not revert to child play). Where have you seen someone genuinely healed relapsing the next day?

There is nothing godly about what they (PHD Ministries) are doing. In fact, I would rather have my prayers in my house than go back to congregate with PHD Ministries.

"I am told they are coming down to Mutare, you shall see for yourselves that the whole thing is like a well-orchestrated money-spinning venture. I can never be part of it again and pretend to be a born-again Christian," said Bev.

Bev's conversion into the church drew widespread criticism and debate with leading men of the cloth denouncing the way the dancer was lured into the church.

The PDH Ministries leader has said he was linked to popular Nigerian man of the cloth TB Joshua.

"TB Joshua is my spiritual father and I frequently visit him for mentorship," Magaya was quoted as saying in some sections of the media.

Magaya is battling an adulterous saga in which he is being accused of having  an affair with a married woman.

Repeated efforts to get a comment from the PHD Ministries or Magaya were fruitless at the time of going to press as the availed numbers were either not reachable or not being picked.

However, Magaya through the church's spokesperson, Oscar Pambuka, was quoted in the media recently as saying they were no longer concentrating on Bev.

"If she wants to come back, it will be because of her own consent and she is welcome. As far as I know, we are not concentrating on such issues," Pambuka said.

Mutare-based preacher and political analyst Mr Shame Isaki urged people to be wary of the new phenomenon of prophecy.

"This has seen people engaging in clandestine activities to acquire both wealth and supernatural power. It is a fact that the devil is in constant contestation against God because he rebelled against him and was banished and so the devil hates God and his children with a passion.

"Because the devil is a banished spiritual being everything about him has become negative including the so-called 'miracles' being administered by these so-called prophets. Negative miracles are very temporary and this has resulted in many people losing a lot of cash and property believing that they will receive more miraculously. In one scripture God says these people have run to prophesy, but I never sent them''. So some people are busy doing God's ''work'' but He never sent them and this exposes them to demonic spirits which makes them prophesy in rebellion," said Mr Isaki.