Shammar Children's School, Udu Road, near
Sedeco area in Udu, Mrs. Onyi Ikemefuna and a pupil, has led to the arrest of two men, suspected to be fake pastors, by the the Delta State Police in Warri.
Anslem claimed to be the "Bishop" of a
Pentecostal church in Warri, while the other,
Joseph, said he was a prophet.
The suspects were, yesterday taken to the church allegedly run by the "bishop" for a search of the premises.
"Luck ran out of the duo when the proprietress, who initially reported the kidnap attempt on her, petitioned the Area Commander, Warri, alleging
that the police at Enerhen Division collected N2 million bribe to pervert justice."
In the petition by her lawyer, Mr A.E. Efole,
dated May 20, 2013, Ikemefuna said that the
fake prophet, who claimed to be working for the
"bishop" was apprehended in her school when he
came to kidnap a pupil in her school under the
guise of coming to give prophecy to her.
"On May 15, 2013, at about 9.45 am, one of the
suspects, Joseph, came to our client's school and
introduced himself to one of the administrative
staff as a man of God from Voice of God Prayer
Ministry, 40, Peter Odili Road, off Trans-Amadi
Slaughter Abuluma, Port Harcourt and
requested to see the victim. The administrative
staff said the victim was not around.
"Consequent upon that, the suspect became
agitated, which made the administrative staff to
corner him into a privacy to know why he was in
that mood and he confided in her that two of the
victim's staff are planning to kidnap her, which
they attempted the day the victim travelled with
all the school people, but that the plan was foiled
due to God's intervention.
"The supposed man of God also revealed to the
administrative staff that the victim would find
herself in a big predicament due to jealousy by
others. He was entreated to wait, but he insisted
he has to return to Port Harcourt that same hour
but that he could drop his phone number.
"When the victim returned at about 11.00am, the
whole episode was narrated to her and she opted
for the phone number and got in touch with
Joseph who eventually agreed to return from
Port-Harcourt since he was already there with
the understanding that the victim would foot the
bill.
"To the consternation of the victim, within an
hour after the last conversation with him,
Joseph called to say he was already from Port-
Harcourt and was at Enerhen Junction and that
he wants to see the victim privately and when
coming out from her office, she should be with a
little child to make the prophecy more
efficacious."
"The victim having assured him of the privacy he
opted for, yet would not see him, she came out
and saw a Toyota Camry car light brown in
colour facing Udu Road with some one in the
driver's seat and another occupant at the back
right hand side of the car and called his line but
he refused to pick.
"Nevertheless, after a while, the victim saw a
young light complexioned man with a Bible in
his arm whom she eventually ascertained to be
Joseph. Joseph became very uneasy due to the
victim's hot interrogation, which made her
furious, hence she raised alarm and at that point,
the standby car sped off."
"Consequent upon this, Joseph became afraid
and he agreed to confess if only he would be
allowed to go and the police not invited and the
victim agreed. He started saying that it was a
bishop whose church is along DSC Express Way
on the Ovwian Express that sent him to come
and kidnap her and a female pupil for ritual for
the expansion and growth of his church, while
money would be extracted from the victim's
family as ransom.
"At this, the victim decided to call Enerhen
police and Joseph repeated same confession
before he was taken away," the lawyer stated.
After the arrest of Joseph by the police at
Enerhen, the "bishop" was invited, but he
maintained the suspect was a mad man who
goes about blackmailing him, and a woman who
claimed to be Joseph's mother was allegedly
brought to corroborate the lunacy story, sources
said.
He added, "After some days, Joseph was let off
the hook by men of the Enerhen Police with
conclusion that the victim was mentally
deranged, a situation, which made the victim to
petition the Warri Area Command that the
Enerhen Police has compromised after allegedly
collecting N2million."
A police source who crave anonymity said,
"Since the arrest of the "bishop" on Wednesday
evening, some influential persons have been
mounting pressure on the Area Commander, and
our boss had to switch off his phones at a time."
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