Ondo pastor arrested for swindling church member

• Between 2019 and 2020, the suspect reportedly collected various amounts of money from the victim
• Another victim of the Pastor also accused him of selling land to her using a fake deed of gift for N800,000

One Adebolu Olulusi, a pastor, has been apprehended over alleged fraud.

The 43-year-old pastor was arrested by operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Ondo State Command.

He was said to have been arrested over allegations that he swindled one Taiwo Opesanmi of N1.2 million.

Between 2019 and 2020, the suspect reportedly collected various amounts of money from Opesanmi.

He had promised her that he would help her to securing a job at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

After receiving the funds, he went incommunicado as he was accused of shutting off all communication with the victim and could not be found at his residence, No. 1, Ore Ofe, Irese Road, in Akure, the state capital.

The Public Relations Officer of Command, Daniel Aidamenbor, stated that Opesanmi had encountered the pastor at a prayer mountain in Ijoka, Akure, where they met.

Aidamenbor explained that the Counter Terrorism Unit of the NSCDC, in collaboration with a commercial bank, successfully tracked down and apprehended the suspect, after obtaining a court order.

He said: “At the point of the investigation, another victim of the Pastor also accused him of selling land to her using a fake deed of gift for N800,000.

“She had to pay another N1 million to the rightful owner of the land since she already had a structure on it.”