By Brian Okoth (@BrianOkoth2)
28-year-old Sierra Leone woman has come out to claim that she ‘died’ and went to hell, where she saw former Libya’s president Muammar Gaddafi. She says she was later taken to heaven too, Africa Review says.
Sister Linda Ngaoja's ‘heavenly journey’ a few weeks ago has turned her into the equivalent of a movie star, risking destabilising a country renowned for its religious tolerance.
While in ‘hell’, the college student reveals that Muammar Gaddafi told her he wanted the mosque he built in Sierra Leone be destroyed and get replaced with a church.
She claims to have a message from late president of Guinea, Lansana Conte, to have all the mosques in his country brought down and be replaced with churches.
Linda ‘died’ after a short illness. She claims ‘because of her worldly crimes in her previous life, she suffered a traumatic experience in hell, where she met her parents and a host of other renowned people including the late US star Whitney Houston, “who are all suffering in Hell.”
All of these people had messages for their relatives and friends who are alive.
Linda further says if a “rapture” had occurred at that moment only five people in Sierra Leone could have gone to heaven; her three pastors and two other people.
Linda recorded all these claims via audio gadgets, and her audio tapes are making rounds in Sierra Leone. However, religious leaders are left with a difficult task of cleaning the mess due to Linda’s revelations upon her wake.
According to her revelations, all Catholics and Muslims are going to hell.
Sierra Leone’s Bishop Cole has expressed his worries arising from the revelations saying, “We consider such statements to be inflammatory among the Christian and Muslim communities.”
Sister Linda's "revelations" are causing confusion as there are reports of bitter arguments over them.
Two people reportedly stabbed each other over an argument as to whether the revelations were true or not, reported the Awareness Times of Freetown, a daily in the country.
But it is not just Muslims and Catholics who have reasons to be offended.
Linda is critical of the "born again" pastors in Sierra Leone who she said are more into money than spreading the message of God.
Her story broke on a popular religious radio called Believers Broadcasting Network (BBN), with the aid of her pastor.
A majority of pastors in the country see Linda as ‘of the devil’ and they say she needs deliverance.