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MANNING AND THE OBEAH OMAN!!!!!!!
New details have emerged about the mystery church being constructed in the Heights of Guanapo to which Prime Minister Patrick Manning has been linked but about which he remains so silent.
Work may have begun in January of this year, but the Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago (UDeCOTT) had hired two local firms some four years ago to do design and engineering works on the project, according to an exclusive TV6 report last night. UDeCOTT has denied it’s responsible for the project, but key people in engineering and architecture say otherwise. Furthermore, there appears to be what sources describe as a shocking link among the church, the prime minister and a spiritual woman.
TV6 last night stated it had confirmed that controversial State-owned UDeCOTT is the State organisation hired by Prime Minister Patrick Manning himself to construct the multi-million-dollar mystery church up in Guanapo Heights in Arima.
’TV6 investigations have found out that back in 2005, the project was conceptualised by the prime minister himself. Back then, he contracted UDeCOTT to execute design and engineering jobs. The UDeCOTT team, which was led by its controversial executive chairman Calder Hart, then hired two top, respected local firms to do these engineering and design works,’ the report stated.
These were Tragarete Road-based engineers Consulting Engineers Partnerships, CEP and Maraval-based architects Design Collaborative Limited. These firms, TV6 News indicated, had actually prepared the design of the church, but when it came to executing the project, they were told at the last minute they would not be used any more.
Instead, Chinese firm Shanghai Construction Limited was hired to do the job and has, so far, been executing works on the controversial project. UDeCOTT has, so far, denied that it’s behind the construction, but the company is yet to comment on its role regarding its commissioning of the design of the church.
TV6 News reported in its exposé of this apparent ’secret project’ that the church is being constructed on State lands up in Arima.
According to sources, the projected cost of the project is close to $20 million. Residents of the area have said they observed Manning on the site last year. The church, reportedly to be called ’The Lighthouse of the Lord Jesus Christ’ had its cornerstone laid on December 30, 2005 by Reverend Juliana Pena.
TV6 said its sources have confirmed she is a spiritual adviser to the prime minister. Sources say her correct name is Juliana Pierre Devenish, and she hails from Arima.
This was the woman who American televangelist Benny Hinn claimed to have been introduced by Manning during his crusades in Trinidad in 2006. On international television, Hinn had criticised Manning for claiming the woman had a special gift. Hinn had said then that Manning told him: ’I want her to pray for you and give you the Word. ’I take her with me everywhere,’ he (Manning) said. ’God speaks to me through her. She’s been a great blessing to my Government.’ And I’m (Hinn) thinking: ’you foolish man’!’ Hinn’s rebuke of Manning was raised in the Parliament by then Oropouche MP Roodal Moonilal, who made fun of the prime minister.
Manning later stated he had forgiven Hinn for the ’inaccurate statements’ he made about events that transpired during a meeting at the Crowne Plaza in 2006.
TV6 said it was told that the woman travels, at taxpayers’ expense and afforded diplomatic courtesies, with the prime minister on foreign trips. She goes a day or two before Manning actually lands in his destination to determine whether the prime minister is spiritually safe, TV6 was informed.
TV6 said it was also told by insiders that she was commissioned to visit Zimbabwe last year as a special envoy of the Trinidad and Tobago Government, but this was never made public. Manning has, so far, refused to comment on this entire issue. He has publicly said though that when he retires from politics, he wants to be a full-time preacher in the born-again Christian faith.
The issue of the church was raised in Parliament last Friday by UNC MP Jack Warner. Warner displayed a large photograph of the church and asked Manning whether it was being built with taxpayers’ money. Warner repeatedly called on Manning to respond, but the prime minister failed to do so. Warner later noted that Manning’s lack of response to his queries raised even more questions about the church.
I WONDER IF SASHA MOHAMMED KNOW THIS IS NOT HIS FIRST OBEAH CHURCH?
THERE IS ANOTHER MULTI MILLION DOLLAR ONE IN GEORGE VILLAGE TABLELAND.........
THE PPL NEED TO KNOW!!!!
