By lduozee Paul, Benin
Edo State commissioner of Police, Dan Mallam Muhammed has paraded a 38 yearsold fake Apostle of Glory Land Ministry, Samuel Ekene for impregnating one ofhis church members, by name Miracle Nwabueze and other suspects involved invarious crimes ranging from kidnapping, stealing, raping, cultism to armedrobbery and other criminals acts in Benin City, the state capital. A total of 120suspects were total number of suspects paraded before the press.
The police boss while addressing journalists in his office, said 100 suspectshave been apprehended so far in connection with the cult clash betweendifferent rival cultist groups in the state. He solicited for the support ofthe public for collective well being of all, to enable the police bring morehoodlums in the state to book.
CP Muhammed said all the suspects found with dangerous weapons and ammunitionwill be charged to court for proper prosecution. He alleged that most of thesuspects are from Ondo, Delta and Kogi states.
The police boss also disclosedthat 11 suspects had been arrested in connection with the killing of policeofficers at Afuze Police Station on March 12, 2019. He said the suspects are inpolice custody.
According to him, the Edo Police embarked on a mass aggressive hunt of hide-outsof criminals and apprehended them and some of the exhibits recovered included, threecut to size guns, four single- barrel guns, 103 varied arms and ammunition,charms, native white chalk and others.
ln an exclusive interview with fake Apostle Samuel Ekene, he acceptedimpregnating his church member.
He narrated the ordeal thus:
“My name isApostle Samuel Ekene, pastor of Glory Land Ministry in Benin City. I am 38years old, married but no child. The reason why l was pararded is because I hada girl in my church named Miracle Nwabueze. Sometime last year in August, l hadpre- marital affair with Miracle. ln January 2019, she complained she hadstomach pain, that it looked as if she is pregnant. So, l told one of mymembers, named Happy Johnson to take her to the hospital. When they got to the hospitalthe doctor confirmed that Miracle is two months pregnant.
The doctor also said Miracle had been taking anti-botic drugs to stop the baby,which led to bad complications in her stomach or womb.
“Then the doctor referred us to another hospital where we did surgicaloperation and it was successful. The following day my wife and one of my memberswent to see the girl. My wife was arrested and l went to the station to meetthe IPO in charge of the case. The police arrested me, and said l am the primesuspect, took me to my church and got confessional statements from me. Duringthe search the police saw palm kernel, white native chalk, concoctions, nativemedicines, and other items. It is members of my church that brought it to mychurch which l used to conduct deliverance and prayer,” he lamented.
Ekene said he has not heard any comment from the girl’s parents since theincident occurred, but claimed his family is in touch with the girl’srelatives. The charms,concoction, native chalk oil found with him, he claimed heuses to do healing deliverance for his members explaining that while some ofthe items belong to him, others werebrought there by members for their deliverance.
Narrating how she took the girl to the hospital, Happy Johnson, a 32 years oldwith four children said it was Apostle Samuel that told her to take Miracle tothe hospital. She said Miracle was complaining of stomach pain which shesuspected to be as appendicitis, but getting to the hospital the doctor saidshe was pregnant and that the baby had died in her womb because of the anti-bioticdrugs she took to stop the pregnancy. She said she regretted being paraded bythe police.
