A member of Jehovah Witness has been reported dead after she allegedly turned down financial help from a Catholic Church member.
The deceased, Ogechukwu Ochiaga, had been reported sick for months. On December 26, 2021, a Facebook user, Bro Can Mbanefo shared her story on his wall and solicited financial donations for her.
An excerpt from the post said: “Ogechukwu Ochaga is a good friend of mine. She has neurofibromatosis with a spinal tumour. The main surgery at Memfys Hospital is about 4m but she can’t do it now because of poor health conditions and because of money. Now they want to do a minor surgery first at 82 Division military hospital in Enugu.”
However, Bro Can Mbanefo returned to Facebook on January 11. 2022 to announce the death of Ogechukwu Ochiaga. In a post where he announced the death, Mbanefo blamed Jehovah Witness doctrines as the reason why she died. According to him, a Catholic Church in Italy read her story and volunteered to pay for her surgery. The deceased, however, refused because the money for the surgery was from the Catholic Church, which her doctrine forbids.
He stated further that Mbanefo was only willing to take the money if it was from a personal account and not the church account. The money was, however, later donated to other sick people in the church. Bro Can Mbanefo claimed that he had Jehovah Witness background also but has since liberated himself.
Ogechukwu Ochiaga died on January 10, 2022. In a tribute post, Bro Can Mbanefo said: “You had always been a strong woman and you fought gallantly against this sickness but I guess the time was up. May your lovely soul rest in peace.’’
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Linda Ikeji
Hmm nawa oo oh chim
What kind of church doctrine will stop someone in dire straits from accepting genuine financial help from an NGO even at the point of death?
She is not the first. They are brainwashed by their teachings. Every other person is an unbelievable. We pray they know the truth one day.
Unfortunately, I grew up within the CULTure of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The leadership of this organization indoctrinates their members to believe any other religion upon this planet, and let me just say right here, especially the Catholic Church, is considered to be a false religion and not of the [true] God Jehovah, but rather under the influence of the devil.
( because the Catholic church is considered a Theocracy. { A Government ruled by the God of the Bible} Well the leadership of the Jehovah’s Witnesses call themselves a Theocracy too, so they {the JW Organization} definitely see themselves as being in competition with the Catholic Church ) They ( the JW leadership ) say that all other religions besides themselves are part of Babylon the Great, the great harlot whom is sitting on the Scarlet Red Beast from Revelations. Members are indoctrinated to believe that only JW’s are the true religion that the God of the Bible uses today. They see themselves as God’s chosen people.
Members have been taught that the JW leadership are the only one’s within the JW Organization that can interpret scriptures and then the leadership tells the members what these interpretations are.
So members don’t get to read their own bible and come up with their own conclusion and make their own decisions based on their own conscience, but rather what the leadership tells the members that their conscience is to be. This is calls, “a bible based conscience,” by the leadership.
JW members are for the most part good, loving and humble people who simply want to please their God Jehovah.
Unfortunately the leadership demands the same loyalty one would give to God and teach that the JW Organization is infact Jehovah’s Government. That’s why it is claimed that JW’s take a neutral stand when it comes to politics ( they do not vote ) or take part in any form of fighting within any form of Governmental service of the land in which they live in. When in actuality if JW members did, it would literally shaking as a form of treason against their own Theocratic Government that the JW leadership of the JW Organization actually run and rule over their members from. It is totalitarian, authoritarian, a high demand and a high control destructive culture.
That’s the kind of church doctrine that she had to go by that stoped her while she was in dire straits from accepting genuine financial help from an NGO even at the point of death. JW’s are to be loyal to the organization ( because being loyal to the JW Organization is the same as being loyal to Jehovah ) even unto death.
It is well