Mystery! This Python Lived With A Nigerian Family For 10 Years Without Them Knowing (Photos)

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
domicile.

Unknown to the oracle of God, 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.’’

Angelic visit

Rev Amba told Niger Delta Voice, “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.”

Shocking discovery

“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,” he said.

His words, “I just came back from a journey where I went to
see my father in the lord in Abuja and also attended a conference there. My
coming into Calabar was to prepare for our yearly programme, ‘September to
Remember,’ but before coming back, I already knew that a battle had been won
because God is always in control.”

September to remember

“The occurrence did not come as a surprise but it was not natural,
because what could the snake be possibly eating for those years it has spent in
that place, it is indeed a September to remember for me ,my family and the
MegaFaith Ministries,” he added.

Amba further said, “When I was alerted, I decided to call the
police so that they can kill it because I am not the kind of person, who reads
meaning to every little thing. But they refused, arguing that they could kill
it and it transforms into a human being based on the incident that led to its
discovery, so they left without doing anything.”

Snake charmers

The clergyman said neighbours referred him to some Hausa
snake charmers from Bogobiri. He complied and invited them. According to him,
”When they came (the Mallams), they first went into the ceiling to ascertain
the size of the snake and came down to tell me that they will collect N60,000,
but we bargained till they came down to N20,000, which we paid. I left them to
continue the work of my Father because I had communion to administer that
evening.”

He disclosed that by the time he returned, they had killed
the snake but area boys did not allow the snake charmers to take it away, as
they turned it into a delicacy.

Attack: An eyewitness, who preferred anonymity, told Niger
Delta Voice that the snake almost disappeared after they (Mallams) led by
Danzaria Rabiu climbed the ceiling the second time to kill it.

“When one of the ‘aboki’ climbed the ceiling, they could not
find the snake anymore, so they started breaking the ceiling all over and the
creature fell down in fury, started attacking them, but the four of them over
powered the about 20 meters long creature” he stated.

The eyewitness added, “The incident was really strange
although there is a little bush behind us, but it still does not explain how
the snake entered and have been living for years, how did it survive for that
long in that place, what was it feeding on? He asked.

Not an ordinary snake

Mallam Rabiu, who spoke in Pidgin English, 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.”