The leader of Rivers State Intercessors for Righteous Governance, Bishop Friday Nwator, has announced that the leader of the Niger Delta Vigilante, Ateke Tom, has… given his life to Christ.
This, according to Nwator, was after some pastors visited the wanted militant leader in his camp and preached the sermon to him.
The cleric, who said this in Port Harcourt, the River State capital, during an empowerment programme for 100 repentant militants, said that one of the intercessors in the group, Pastor Reuben led Ateke to Christ, and that copies of the Holy Bible were distributed to the militant leader and his followers.
He said: “Ateke has converted. We gave Ateke and his group 300 copies of the Bible. Pastors go from me to Ateke’s camp, and there is church service in four of his camps. We are helping him, we are helping them, we want to get them out, they have made mistakes.”
Nwator appealed to both Rivers State and the Federal Government to grant amnesty to the militants and assist him to fully rehabilitate and reintegrate the repentant militants.
According to the cleric, there are over 2000 militants in the creeks that need to be preached to, adding that his group had arranged to distribute more Bibles to the militants.
He insisted that “the idea is to bring them from the creeks and deliver them.”