The  General Overseer of
Divine Winners Ministry International, Prophet Confidence Ozor narrated his experiences in the hands of kidnappers, saying it was not a pleasant one.
Prophet Ozor who was kidnapped  at Owerri, Imo state while attending a crusade was released by his abductors last Tuesday after spending five days in the hands of the kidnappers whom he said confessed to him that they were hired to kill him due to his overwhelming and spiritual prowess which had made him to win so much members within a short period of his stay in Bayelsa State.
Prophet Ozor’s freedom did not come without payment of ransom money of five million naira to his abductors.
Narrating his ordeal, the Anambra state-born cleric said  he would still consult his God before he would be able to understand the whole scenario, saying, “people don’t like success”.
He said, “I travelled to my village with my team on Thursday and that day I also stopped by to see my God’s son in Irete town,  very close to  Owerri,  the capital of Imo state,  who was preparing for his birthday that was coming up on the 17th of October, and I am supposed to be one of the guest speakers at the occasion.
“As I was having a look at the posters, six men just barged on us and forced us  into my car but my car  refused to start, they forced us out to my God son’s car and took us away.
“Immediately, they started beating us and collected all our belongings, blindfolded us and took us to a faraway desert .On getting to their destination, they started asking us how much we have in our account and all of that,
“When we said we don’t have any money  in our account they continued with the beating. In fact, they fired five shots at us but I don’t know what happened but it did not enter, at that point, they asked us what kind of charms are we using.
They went back to the car and searched, saw bottles of olive oil and Bible, they broke the olive oil and threw the bible into the bush,  came back to us and started using the head of the gun on us”.
“They claimed to have been monitoring me and they said something as if pastors are behind it, they also asked whether I am the only pastor in Bayelsa State that am so known every where for this little time I have spent in the state”.
“When I tried to tell them that am a pastor I don’t deserve this kind of treatment, they said they were given order to kill me and  not to negotiate any ransom but one of them noticed that we are from the same place, a  nearby village to my own, he now took it upon himself and said to me he will make sure am not killed  as earlier planned”.
The prophet said, it was at that point that they asked him to contact somebody to bring N50 million, with stern warning not to involve the police, but they later brought it down to N5 million after much negotiation with my people.
When asked why he did not have the premonition as a man of God, he explained that for the past two weeks, he had noticed weakness in him and had asked his prayer warriors to pray against impending danger, but he never knew the manner the danger would come
He, however, said that the incident had proved the power of God to,protect His own at all times, promising his resolve to carry on with the task of saving souls for the Creator.