Celestial Church of Christ Prophet defraudS a widow of N18 million
Detectives at the Anti Fraud Unit of the Force Criminal
Investigation Department, Alagbon, Ikoyi, Lagos, have arrested a Prophet with
the Celestial Church of Christ, Cotonou Parish, for allegedly defrauding a
widow of N18 million, meant for the purchase of a property in Ibeju-Lekki area
of Lagos.
Anewa Onoloju The
56-year-old Prophet, Anewa Onoloju, was alleged to have collected the money in
three installment from the widow, with a claim to get her Governor’s consent on
the supposed land. But trouble started for the widow after several attempts to
get receipt of the land from the suspect, failed.
Preliminary investigation into matter, according to the
Commissioner of Police in-charge of the Unit, CP Dan Okoro, revealed that the
land in question belong to the suspect’s ex-wife and her present husband.
Briefing journalists on the Unit’s findings, Okoro said “ During investigation,
the whole transaction was discovered to be a scam. The suspect who claimed to
be a Pastor/Prophet collected N18 million from a widow, Mrs Oluchi Dillion,
claimed he was going to assist her procure a property somewhere in Ibeju Lekki.
The amount was given to him but there was no property. The receipt of the said
property purchased by his ex -wife was the one he wanted to hand over to the
widow. “ During the course of investigation, we discovered that his ex-wife and
the her new husband bought this very property. How the suspect got the receipt
was unknown to us and he could not disclose that.
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