The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Wednesday April 26,2017 arraigned an Onitsha based businessman Chris Onyebuchi Ijeoma alongside his company, Tellers International Limited before Justice I.B.Gafai of the Federal High Court, Awka, Anambra state on a two-count charge of obtaining money under false pretense and stealing the sum of N10,000,000 (Ten Million Naira Only) belonging to the head pastor and general overseer of a Pentecostal church in the commercial city.



Ijeoma’s ordeal started after a petition was written to the commission alleging that sometime in 2014, he approached the complainant (General Overseer) with a business proposal to help raise funds to finance the importation of insecticide/ pest sprayer from the USA, to the tune of N10m, with a promise to pay back within three months, after the sale of the products.


The complainant further stated that having advanced the sum to the suspect, who was also an elder if the church council, on March 18, 2014, he waited for more than after three months without receiving any payment as promised. He then approached Ijeoma and demanded to know why the products were not yet imported, to which he said he had invested the money in a US-based cream company and that NAFDAC approval was needed before the goods would be exported to Nigeria; a development different from what was agreed upon.


When the case was called, the suspect pleaded not guilty to the charge.


Defense counsel, C.M. Obijagwam thereafter applied orally for his client’s bail which was denied by Justice Gafai stating he had to apply formally. He further ordered that the suspect be remanded in prison custody pending the hearing of the bail application.
The case has been adjourned to June 6.

http://politicsngr.com/2017/04/26/efcc-docks-church-elder-duping-pastor-n10m/

nawa,see the papa face,sef....instead of drawing close to his creator, at his age.

Church elder indeed..

To the dey scam just dey their blood

Elder respect yourself.

Apostle family

This is a welcomed development, no be only pastor get right to dupe member.

Elder and pastor. In Daddy Freeze's word, yahoo elder scam yahoo pastor .

I'm not in the mood to check names tonight, in fact , its not my style. I leave the rest to NCAN.

Yahoo Yahoo Pastor s

Taking from the taker is not a crime. The pastor has been duping people in tithes, offerings, miracle seeds, thanksgiving, and all manner of acronyms used to blind the sheeple in order to extort money from them.

na wa

Bush meat don finally catch hunter.

Pastor please forgive and forget after all his tithe money is there too na

hmmmmmm

Both the elder and the pastor na the same runs guys but the elder is smarter this time around

It's normal.
Wtf.
The greedy pastor been taking all the money.forgetting its Gods Money.and got less financial regards 4d other elders in church.so rather than rob d pastor directly.
As an scammer and fake ass elder.
He uses importation format
To capture the funds.
Just 10m.
Pa James why

Criminal pastors everywhere

the hustle is real, oya pastor come explain

Na wa o, what about the advice given in the bible about settelement out of court when brethren are having issues?

End-time church elder

comon wealth

Elder aye.


He dupe Pastor Danu

So this forgiveness they preach to us in church na mouth ?

It could just be a case of business gone bad. Elder got pastor involved in a business which even the elder had scanty expertise in and the whole thing went down south and elder has only been struggling to find a way out of the hole till pastor got him arrested.

Oma shey o