Helen Ukpabio

Helen Ukpabio is the founder and head of African Evangelical franchise Liberty Foundation Gospel Ministries based in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. She is widely accused of causing widespread harassment, torture and violent deaths of children accused of witchcraft.

Quotes

• There is witchcraft all over the world. So I will not join the campaign that says there is no witchcraft, because that is the devil speaking. And when the devil speaks, he makes a lot of people powerless and intimidates them. So I am not going to be part of that campaign. There are witches and those witches have to be delivered as they come for it.
  • [1] Helen Ukpabio speaking on an interview with the Nigerian voice.

• When you cast out demons and use matchet or nail, then it is no longer spiritual. In our church, we do not even use olive oil. I don’t like it. There is a book I am writing on Inconveniencing the Devil. It is criticising the use of addictives. There are churches that ask people to bring cloth, oil and other things for prayers, we don’t.
  • [2] Helen Ukpabio speaking on an interview with the Nigerian voice.

• I have never had a scandal. I have members of my church who are in top positions in government. They should have reacted since. People should come to the church to see what we are doing.
  • [3] Helen Ukpabio speaking on an interview with the Nigerian voice.

• Believe in that but my only reservation is whether government will have the willpower and sincerity to implement it.
  • [4] Helen Ukpabio speaking on an interview with the Nigerian voice.