Bishop Arrested & Remanded In Prison For
Defrauding Church Members Over ₦500M
The Police Command in Enugu says a cleric, Bishop Ginika
Obi, recently arrested over his alleged advance fee fraud involving over N500
million, has been remanded in Enugu Maximum Prison. The spokesman of the
command, Mr Ebere Amaraizu, disclosed this in a statement issued in Enugu on
Tuesday.
The bishop whose church/office is at Km 111, Enugu-Port
Harcourt highway, Enugu, had been alleged to have tricked many people to pay
huge amounts of money to him. He was said to have claimed that he would help
his victims reap bumper financial dividends in return.
Amarizu said Obi was arraigned on Oct. 11 in an Enugu
Federal High Court presided over by Justice A. Liman. He said the suspect had
been in prison custody since Oct. 12 and that further hearing on his case had
been scheduled for Nov. 1 and Nov. 2.
“His offences ranging from conspiracy and advance fee fraud
were committed in conjunction with others now at large.
“On Oct. 11, he took his plea after his 82 count charges of
conspiracy and advance fee fraud was read to him.
“He was later remanded in police custody based on the plea
of his defence counsel to be brought to court on Oct. 12 for further hearing.
“He was later remanded in prison custody as he could not
meet his bail conditions,’’ the command’s spokesperson said.
Amarizu said that the suspect’s arrest and arraignment
followed several petitions against him and others now at large for allegedly
swindling unsuspecting members of the public. He said that the bishop and his
alleged cohorts disappeared without traces until the command, through
intelligence, closed up on him in a hotel in Enugu.
Source: NAN
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