This is really perilous times as one is not even sure of our so called men of God. This is so as a certain pastor,
Ernest Nwankwo, who is the General Overseer of Holy Family Ministry a.k.a House of Mercy, located around the Ogolonto area of Ikorodu, Lagos State, was discovered to be involved in ritual killings.
The
church which is very popular and draws a lot of worshippers, turned out
to be pastor Nwankwo's killing field and God exposed him yesterday,
June 25, 2014, after a failed attempt by a female member of the church,
Mrs Rosemary Chukwu, to kidnap her neighbor's 7-year-old son, Emmanuel
Emeka, to the den for rituals.
According to the
Vanguard Newspaper,
an eye witnessed in the area informed that at around 6.30 am, Mrs.
Chukwu lured the little boy who was on his way to fetch water from a
well down the road and took him to her house where she locked him in the
toilet.
To keep her neighbors from hearing the little boy's
screams for help, Chukwu then instructed her own children to begin a
prayer session which they did, shouting on top of their voices.
Trouble
however started when the boy's mother who stays four buildings from
Mrs. Chukwu raised an alarm after she could not find her son. A search
for the young boy began and Mrs. Chukwu also partook in it. Minutes into
the search, Mrs. Chukwu was said to have excused herself, went into her
house and then came out with a box on her head, saying she was
travelling.
Suspecting foul play, some of the 'area boys'
instructed her to put down the suitcase which was opened and the
unconscious body of the 7 year old boy was discovered.
A resident
of the area, Oyetoye Gbemi, who spoke with Vanguard, said the area boys
descended on her and she confessed it was her pastor who sent her
She
told us she was travelling to the village. But one of the area boys who
was among the search party, ordered his colleagues to search the box.
Immediately she heard that, she flung the box away and took to her
heels.
We all
suspected something was amiss. When the box was opened, Emmanuel was
found inside, half dead. The area boys descended on her and stripped her
naked.
On
interrogation, she said her pastor, the General Overseer of Holy Family
Ministry a.k.a House of Mercy, asked her to bring the boy. The area boys
followed her to 319, Lagos Road, Ikorodu, where the church is situated,
where they saw her pastor waiting for her. But on sighting the crowd,
he took to his heels.
But
for the arrival of policemen from Owutu division, the woman would have
been lynched. The angry mob also attempted to set the church ablaze but
were also prevented by the policemen. They, however, succeeded in
torching some parts of the property.
In the process of chasing the
fleeing Pastor and burning some part of the church building, area boys
forced open a door to a building at 7, Oshodi Street, which was directly
at the back of the church building and owned by Pastor Ernest.
To
everyone's amazement, men and women, eight in number, chained and
looking frail were found in the building. The captives upon
interrogation said they were kidnapped from various places like Ogun,
Anambra, Bayelsa and Oyo states
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Stationery Stores of Lagos goalkeeper and coach, Yomi Peters is dead.
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