Enugu
State Police Command on Monday announced the arrest of a popular Enugu
cleric, Bishop Ginika Obi of the City of Liberation and Comfort Ministry
for allegedly defrauding some members of his church and the general
public through an illegal financial institution.
A press
statement by Enugu State Police Public Relations Officer, (PPRO) Ebere
Amaraizu, Superintendent of Police (SP), and made available to
journalists, stated that Bishop Obi is now helping the operatives of the
Commissioner of Police Enugu Monitoring Unit, following his arrest over
the weekend from a hotel in a Enugu from where he has been taking
refuge, having evaded arrest for several months.
“Before now,
the suspect, who hails from Unuaku Uli in Ihiala Local Government Area
of Anambra State, was a Bishop in charge of City of Liberation and
Comfort Ministry Enugu and in charge of an alleged financial NGO known
as Build Your Generational Organisation (BGO) where his victims are made
to invest with a hope of reaping a bumper financial dividend.
“It
was learnt that his victims are numerous and with various degrees of
complaint of huge amount of swindled from them without any thing to show
for it,” Amaraizu said.
According to the PPRO, the suspect on
noticing that police operatives were on his trail based on the complaint
of alleged swindling of some suspected members of the public/victims of
money to the tune of N500 million, escaped and relocated to Asaba in
Delta state to avoid being nabbed by the operatives.
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