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Bishop Ginika
Obi of the City of Liberation and Comfort Ministry, has been arrested
by the police in Enugu state after allegedly defrauding members of the
public of over N500 million.
According to the statement released by the spokesman of the police
command in the state, Ebere Amaraizu said, Bishop Obi, who is
in-charge of the City of Liberation and Comfort Ministry in Enugu, had
been trailed by police operatives for three months.
Amaraizu said;
“Bishop Ginika Obi
in-charge of City of Liberation and Comfort Ministry is now helping
police operatives of the Commissioner of Police Enugu Monitoring Unit
following his arrest over the weekend in a Hotel in Enugu where he has
been taking refuge.“Before now, the suspect who hailed from Umuaku in Uli community of
Ihiala Local Government Area in Anambra was also in-charge of an alleged
financial Non-Governmental Organisation known as `Build Your
Generational Organisation’ where his victims are made to invest with a
hope of reaping a bumper financial dividend.“It was gathered that his victims are numerous and with various
degrees of complaints of a huge amount of money swindled from them
without anything to show for it.“The suspect on noticing that police are on his trail based on
complaints of alleged swindling of some suspected members of the public
to the tune of N500 million with his wife and some of his eight alleged
pastors, disappeared for months.“The bishop, however, left his wife in Enugu Prison over the matter.
“During his disappearance from Enugu, preliminary investigations
revealed that he escaped and relocated to Asaba in Delta to avoid being
nabbed by police operatives for months.“It was further gathered that luck ran out of the suspect over the
weekend as he was trailed based on intelligence information to a hotel
at Amechi Road off Agbani Road in Enugu where police operatives acting
on a tip-off nabbed him,’’ he said.
The spokesman of the police also revealed that the bishop did not expect the alleged financial NGO to “turn out this way”.
“The suspect (Bishop)
disclosed that the amount he defrauded was not up to the sum of N500
million but N186 million while regretting his action.”
The victims told News Agency of Nigeria that the bishop had defrauded them of various sums of money and disappeared.