Two days ago Pastor Ofuche Ukoha popularly known as Sign Fireman of Perfect Christianity Mission, Surulere, Lagos, was arrested in connection with a ritual murder scandal.
An 18-year-old boy, Ikechukwu Egbo, who is a member of Fireman’s church, was arrested by the police for strangling a 12-year-old girl, Bose, while trying to obtain faeces from her.
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As he was paraded by the police in Lagos, the teenage boy confessed to the police that he was sent on a ritual mission by Fireman, who promised him the sum of N100,000 if he could bring the faeces of a virgin girl.
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Egbo’s mother, Mrs Esther Egbo spoke to reporters on Thursday January 9th 2014. She said they are members of the Badagry branch of Fireman’s church and have never met the Pastor personally. She said her son had been arrested four different times by the police for attempted rape and had even been charged to court and was only released on December 10, 2013.
Mrs Egbo said:
“My son has been under as spell since 2009 when he was cursed by one of my neighbours in Badagry. Sometimes, he suddenly sees young girls, grabs them and starts trying to molest them. He only behaves like that in the afternoon and the whole neighborhood knows.
In 2011, he was arrested after touching a 15-year-old girl inappropriately. Later, he was arrested for attempting to rape a 17-year-old girl. Most times, it is residents that call to tell me that my son has been detained at the Badagry Police Station when I am looking for him.
In November, he did it again and was arraigned before a Badagry Magistrates Court for attempted rape and remanded in Badagry Prison for 19 days. He was released on December 10 after he was acquitted. It was three weeks later that he killed the little girl.I asked him what happened that day and he said he was eating at one woman’s shop and saw the woman’s daughter pass. He stood up and followed the girl and dragged her into an uncompleted building where he killed her. He was caught as he attempted to run. He said something came over him.
We even started a deliverance programme for him at the church and he never even met Pastor Fireman. After his interview with journalists, I asked my son why he lied against the pastor and he said it was because he was threatened.I have spoken to the boy (Ikechukwu) and he told me that he was coerced into saying what he said to the press. Pastor Fireman is a very rich man. What sort of money ritual would he want to do? His father owns a gold factory in Russia while his mother is a professor at ABSU. This is a man that has distinguished himself.”
Speaking to reporters, Fireman’s lawyer, Peter Oboyi said the police had no evidence against the pastor adding that his client’s home had even been searched on Wednesday and no evidence was found.
Oboyi said:
“Pastor Fireman has over 100,000 members worldwide and does not even know one tenth of them let alone a small boy in the Badagry branch of the church. The boy has even confessed to the police that it wasn’t the pastor that sent him to the dastardly act. The allegations are frivolous and based on hearsay. If you want to send someone to kill another person, you will send someone that you trust, someone that wouldn’t give your name up easily. How could pastor have done such?”
