Policemen attached to the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Adeniji Adele, Lagos state, have dragged two pastors before an Igbosere Magistrate Court on a two-count charge of felony, obtaining money by false pretence and stealing.
The pastors, Sunday Omogbehin and Olawale Adeniyi were arrested for allegedly swindling a man, simply identified as Ojomo of N6 million.
Omogbehin and Adeniyi allegedly collected the money last year to conduct spiritual cleansing on Ojomo to enable him travel out of the country.
DailyPost gathered that the suspects allegedly held false prayer sessions for Ojomo where they told him that his inability to secure a visa was due to a foul odour from his mouth and therefore needed to be delivered.
According to the police, the suspects took their victim through hellish deliverance and prayer sessions and in their bid to get money out of him, they concocted lies that the “alleged foul odour” from Ojomo’s mouth was a spiritual affliction, which will need cash to procure several spiritual condiments to break the yoke.
Ojomo, a resident of Aguda in Lagos State, fell for the trap as he had made series of efforts to obtain a Canadian visa to no avail.
He therefore bought the story by the pastors and paid N6 million in instalment to the pastors but in spite of this move, he still could not get the visa.
The cat was let out of the bag when he suspected that he had been swindled and reported the matter to the police who promptly arrested the pastors.
A police source at the Adeniji Adele Police Station said; “The complainant claimed he met these pastors last year.
“He said he was hypnotized and brain washed as the pastors made requests each time there was no head way for the young man and collected more money from him.
“They told him that they needed this money to buy this and that ingredient and the man will bring the money to them but when he goes back for his visa, he will face more challenges but the pastors will demand more money from him to conduct more deliverance and prayer sessions.
“So that was how the money got to that huge amount as the man kept paying.”
The police source added that Ojomo is not the only victim of the pastors.
The court granted bail to the pastors in the sum of N250,000 each but the pastors were remanded in the police custody as they could not fulfil their bail condition.
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