The State Criminal Investigation Department of the Lagos State Police Command has arrested a man known as Pastor Chibuzor Nnaegbo for fraud.
Speaking after his arrest, Pastor Chibuzor confessed that his victims believed he was in Israel trying to open a church so they donated millions of Naira to his ministry. He however said he gave out most of the money he collected to other churches, including Pastor EA Adeboye’s Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) and Bishop David Oyedepo’s Winners Chapel, as ‘seed’.
“My problem started while I was pastoring a church in Onitsha; I read a book written by Bishop Oyedepo on how to sow seed. After reading the book I sold all the church properties and sowed the proceeds in another church.
“When I relocated to Lagos, I started collecting money from people, deceiving them that I am in Israel. I told them that I had issues trying to set up a church and needed money to grow the ministry.
“I used all the money I collected from them to sow seed in Redemption camp. I collected N1.9 million from one of the victims, N1.255 million from another, N2.5 million from the third and N900,000 and a Toyota Camry from the fourth victim. I sowed the Camry as seed in Winners Chapel in Otta.
“I was arrested through my younger brother who I sent to collect money from one of the victims, unknown to me that he had discovered that he was being defrauded and had reported to Ilemba Divisional Police, and they arrested me.
“Concerning the porn videos that were found in my phone, I watch the pornography videos on my phone whenever I have sexual urge because I don’t have sexual intercourse with women,” he said