A pastor has been arrested by the Delta State Police Command for allegedly being in the possession of a gun, drugs and about 3,871 live car...
A pastor has been arrested by the Delta State Police Command for allegedly being in the possession of a gun, drugs and about 3,871 live cartridge. All well concealed in his bedroom
The man identified as Rev Ignatius Ogboi is a pastor of Salvation Army Church, Mbiri, and at the same a suspected kidnapper.
Parading the suspect, the state Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Mustafa, said Rev. Ignatius Ogboi, 51, was sponsoring kidnappers and armed robbers operating within Agbor and Umunede and its environs.
Police command also recovered some prohibited drugs and over N4 million, believed to be ransom collected from kidnapped and armed robbery victims from him.
The cleric owned up to the ownership of the exhibits but denied the suspected case of kidnapping, illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition and prohibited drugs, including Tramadol, levelled against him.
Ogboi said he only helped the vigilantes in his community to procure the recovered items found in his possession after they complained that they were buying them at exorbitant rates elsewhere.
According to him, he is still a minister o f God and the money found by the security operatives in his possession was little compared to what he used to have when his business was thriving
He said:
In a similar case, a pastor was gunned by security operatives in Sapele Delta state just last month while he was trying to escape after him and his gang had been apprehended
The man identified as Rev Ignatius Ogboi is a pastor of Salvation Army Church, Mbiri, and at the same a suspected kidnapper.
Police command also recovered some prohibited drugs and over N4 million, believed to be ransom collected from kidnapped and armed robbery victims from him.
The cleric owned up to the ownership of the exhibits but denied the suspected case of kidnapping, illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition and prohibited drugs, including Tramadol, levelled against him.
Ogboi said he only helped the vigilantes in his community to procure the recovered items found in his possession after they complained that they were buying them at exorbitant rates elsewhere.
According to him, he is still a minister o f God and the money found by the security operatives in his possession was little compared to what he used to have when his business was thriving
He said:
But Mustafa disagreed. He said Ogboi was doing an illegal business of the highest degree of suspicion and suspected that drugs in his possession were being used on his victims.
“I am still an ordained minister of God in Christ Army Church, Umunede. The bulk of the money being paraded is very small compared to what I usually have with me, if my business was still booming. I am not a kidnapper as being speculated.”
In a similar case, a pastor was gunned by security operatives in Sapele Delta state just last month while he was trying to escape after him and his gang had been apprehended
