25/09/2026
Idahosa’s grandmother was a witch. She was a member of the Ogboni fraternity. At that time the Oboni dominated Benin city. They told her to warn Benson that he was disturbing their meetings with the kind of prayers he prayed and if he does not change they will kill him. Because his grandmother loved him, he called him and told him to calm down “my son you don’t know these people as I know. They will kill you if you don’t stop.”
He replied, “Ah, for saying that, the head of the fraternity is already dead.”
His grandmother started crying and said, “No, no, no, don’t talk like that.You are provoking them more.”
Benson firmly said, “I said he has died.” The man died.
Benson said to the people who had gathered for the funeral “Anybody who attempts to bury him will die."
When they were about to lower the man, the secretary fell into the grave and died. They sent the grandmother to ask him for mercy and put things right with him.
Among other remarkable things where he acted with faith and boldness is when a boy fell from a three-story building and broke his skull on the concrete floor. His skull was cracked, his brain was pouring out. They called for Archbishop Benson. When he arrived, he gathered the skull and began to pray in tongues and the skull joined back
together. There was no need to go to the hospital.
