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Placido Hilukilwa
\nA WAR of words that erupted earlier this year between Prophet Steven Hange of the End Time Message Prophetic and Healing Ministry and Djeimo Popyeinawa, the headman of the Engela village in the Ohangwena Region, has reached fever pitch this week forcing the prophet to suspend church services in the village, a move he described as a strategic retreat.
\nHeadman Popyeinawa said that the dispute was not really necessary.
\n\u201cThe dispute erupted only because of the prophet\u2019s arrogance and disrespect of the traditional authority. He appeared to be under the impression that just because he calls himself a prophet he is above the law,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pictured: The prophet and his congregation at the End Time Message Prophetic and Healing Ministry. \u2013 Photo: Contributed<\/caption>\n
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He explained that some months ago it came to his attention that an unknown preacher has established a church in the village using a traditional homestead as his chapel without informing the traditional authority and that church members were allegedly accusing some villagers of being witches, causing discord in the society.
\n\u201cMy own investigation later confirmed that what was alleged is indeed true. I ordered the suspension of the church services and summoned the preacher to come and explain himself to the traditional authority. The church services did not stop and the prophet refused to come to me. Instead, he sent a group of bad mannered youngsters to my house,\u201d he said.
\nPopyeinawa further said that the prophet\u2019s initial reasoning was that he did not need permission from the village headman because his church services are held in a homestead and that he was granted permission by the homestead owner.
\n\u201cSuch reasoning is invalid because land is allocated with a specific purpose. You cannot transform into church land what was allocated for agricultural and residential purposes,\u201d said Popyeinawa.
\nBut prophet Hange sees things differently.
\nSpeaking in an interview with Informante, Hange said that the village headman is a tribalist who is denying him land just because he was not born in the Engela village.
\nHange is originally from Okahandja and moved to Engela last year.
\n\u201cThey are falsely accusing my church of all kinds of misdeeds as pretext to hide what is essentially a tribalistic act. They think that people who were not born in Engela cannot be allocated land in Engela,\u201d he said.
\nPopyeinawa resorted saying that the issue has nothing to do with tribalism but has everything to do with following procedures and the law.
\n\u201cI did not receive any application for land from that preacher. By the way, one will not be given preferential treatment just because he calls himself a prophet. One must apply and land would be allocated where it is available. He never applied. He came in as a squatter and that we do not allow.\u201d
\nHange said he is not impressed by the fact that on several occasions Popyeionawa addressed him as \u201cthe so-called prophet\u201d.
\n\u201cHe is insulting me, calling me a \u2018so called prophet\u2019. I am not a \u2018so-called prophet\u2019. I did not stand up one day and the next day I became a prophet. I have got the necessary qualification. I have studied and paid for it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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