A popular Nigerian pastor based in Zimbabwe has been arrested in an alleged bribery scandal.
Nixon Chibuzor Ohizu, head pastor of Empowerment Ministries Church, is said to have offered $2,000 bribe to National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) officials in Harare.
The bribe was to reverse the cancellation of a lease agreement between his church and the transport utility, reports say.
Pastor Ohizu who was served the lease agreement on August 7, met Colonel Nyabambi and Clive Ncube at the NRZ office.
The two NRZ officials, pretended to be in agreement with Ohizu in order to catch him in the act.
They accepted a bribe offer of $2,000 and agreed to reverse the cancellation on the lease agreement once he had delivered the agreed amount.
The pastor paid the bribe and returned to his office to meet an arrest team waiting for him.
The bribe money which was in $100 denominations was recovered by the police and is currently being kept as an exhibit.
He was not asked to plead to the allegations when he appeared before Harare magistrate Richard Ramaboa. He was remanded out of custody to October 1 on $10, 000 bail and was ordered to surrender his passport.
