Officers of the
Lagos State Police Command have apprehended and arraigned a 46-year-old pastor,
before a Yaba Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, over allegations that he duped 499
women of N3.5 million.
Information gathered
suggests that the suspect, Archie Morrow, deceived the women to pay N7,000 each
into his bank account with the assurance to give them a loan of 150,000 each.
The accused then
disappeared to an unknown destination after he had gotten the money – which
amount to N3.592 million – from the complainants.
All efforts made by
the angst-ridden women to reach him proved unsuccessful as he stopped picking
their calls.
However, his luck
was short-lived after some of the women, acting on a tip-off, located him
somewhere around Oke-Aro, a suburb of Ogun State, and he was then apprehended
by policemen attached to the Pen Cinema Division of Lagos State Police Command
in Agege.
Speaking on the
incident, one of the women said: “Pastor Archie told us that we should pay
N7,000 into his bank account and that he will help us secure loan of N150,000
each. We got our friends and neighbours involved and they parted with the
amount, but all efforts to get pastor to give us the loan proved abortive.
“He stopped picking
our calls and he relocated from his house. We prayed and went looking for him
and somebody told us that they saw him in Ogun State. We got the police to go
after him and he was eventually arrested.
“However, he is
claiming that he had spent our money and that we should forgive him. I trusted
him because I felt he was a man of God.”
Although the pastor
pleaded not guilty and was granted bail in the sum of 200,000 with two sureties
with evidence of tax payment for three years, the crime was said to have
contravened Section 312 of the Criminal Code Law of Lagos State.
The case was
adjourned to September 28 and he was remanded at Kirikiri Prison, Lagos,
pending when he will meet the bail conditions.
Source:360nobs
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