In a recent interview with Saturday Beatz, Nollywood actress turned Pastor, Patience
Ozokwor said people can still call her Mama G even though she’s now a born again.


On giving her life to christ, the actress said,


“I did not just give my life to Christ. I have been a Christian all my life. The
problem was that there were some compromises God wanted me to remove from my
life. He wants me to be the face of Christianity so that when anyone sees me, they
will know that I am a child of God. The world has mingled with the church a lot and
there is no difference between the world and the church.

The way the worldly people dress is the way Christians are dressing nowadays. God
told me he does not want his people to dress in that manner anymore. The men
would plait their hair and use earrings, all these things are making God angry and even
the women should be modest according to the way it is written in the Bible. People
should be known to be Christians through the way they dress, talk and approach life
situations. You cannot call yourself a Christian and you drink alcohol. God does not
want all that. I did not just repent now, I have been a born again Christian all these
years, it is just that everybody has gone astray and we are now like unbelievers. That
is what God said.

“It is not true that I said I do not want to be referred to as Mama G. I did not say
so. It is the people that want to sell their papers that told that lie. God did not say I
should retire from my work; after all, we act dramas in church. He did not tell me to
stop acting and he did not tell me to stop bearing Mama G. Mama G is not a bad
name, there are people who have bad names and he said they should drop them.
Mine is not bad. The meaning of Mama means mother and the G stands for General.
I am everybody’s mother.

Even the scripture says that I am a mother to everybody, even the motherless children.
I am just lucky because everything is falling into place. My name is not bad. The
world should know that Mama G is still Mama G; I am still Mama General and in
other parts of Africa, they call me Mama Africa. How can I deny my fans of that?
God did not ask me to quit my job, neither did he say I should renounce the name
Mama G because there is nothing wrong with the name. However, if he asks me to
stop bearing the name, I will throw it away because it is all about what he wants and
not what any man wants.”


Speaking further, She said,


“My faith would not affect my career or movie roles. The movie I am about to shoot
is an action movie. I am using it to expose some ills in the society. There are some
obscene scenes that I cannot take part in because I am a child of God. If you watch
my films, you will know that I have never shot any movie that is obscene. I tell my
stories but you will never see me naked. Even when I try to portray some nude
scenes, I do it moderately.

“My children are Christians and my daughter got born again at the age of five. She is
in London and she has nothing against my faith. I should be with them on Thursday.
It was when I had an encounter with God that people started calling her to inform her
that I was running mad and they became worried. After I finished my 30 day
encounter with God and came out of it, when she saw me, she knew I was fine. I
have been like this since I was a member of the Scripture Union. I don’t have any
problem with my children, we are all fine and they are proud of me.

In fact, they are my best friends. I go to places where I can talk not only at churches
or crusades, I talk about the word of God anywhere I can. I need to tell everyone the
truth about the word of God. The Lord said that I should remove my dreads because
even though my dread is from my natural hair, whenever I am preaching against
weaves and telling ladies that it is demonic, people may think I am carrying one and
they begin to ask why I have such on my head.”