The General Overseer of the City of Liberation and Comfort Ministry, Bishop Ginika Obi, has been arrested for allegedly swindling his members to the tune of over N500 million. His ministry, located on Enugu-Port Harcourt highway, became a beehive of activities last year as people from various walks of life, especially miracle seekers, trooped to the church. Enugu Pastor arrested for scamming members of N500m.
But the place became a shadow of itself after it was discovered that the non-governmental organization he floated to lure members into investing on the guise of reaping “bountiful dividends” was aimed at defrauding them.
Enugu Pastor arrested for scamming members of N500m
Following his deceitful tactics, he was nabbed by the Enugu State police command but absconded, abandoning his church and members. He was, however, arrested at a hotel in Enugu at the weekend, where he was said to be taking refuge. After his arrest, many of his victims are trooping to the office of the officer-in-charge of the monitoring unit in Enugu to catch a glimpse of him. Many of them wore long looks with tears rolling down their cheek.
The Guardian is reporting that the Unuaku Uli self-acclaimed preacher had used his non-government organization, ‘Build Your Generational Organization’ to allegedly defraud his members and other unsuspecting members of the public of various huge sums in the hope that they would reap bumper financial dividends after some time.
When the bubble burst last year, he abandoned the church and escaped to Asaba, Delta State capital and started operating a new church with a new name. He was also said to have changed his title from ‘Bishop’ to ‘Prophet.’
The Enugu State government, following the discovery and public outcry over his activities, had dismantled the church building and gave the land to a private developer as part of the ongoing HELIU residences project.
Confirming the arrest to newsmen yesterday, the Enugu State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Ebere Amaraizu, stated that “luck ran out of the suspect over the weekend as he was trailed based on intelligence information to a hotel at Amechi Road, off Agbani Road, Enugu.”
Amaraizu said, “He is now helping operatives in their investigations in relation to his nefarious activities. The ‘prophet’ said he never knew his financial non-governmental organization would turn out this way. However, he disclosed that the amount he defrauded is not up to the sum of N500 million but N186 million.”
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