Lagos Pastor Denies Asking To Kidnap Children For Rituals
Pastor Ernest Chukwuemeka Nwankwo, 49, who allegedly was involved in the abduction of a seven-year-old primary school pupil, Emmanuel Emeka, revealed the whole truth about this ugly incident.
When Mrs. Rosemary Chukwu, a mother of four, residing at a suburb of Ikorodu area in Lagos State, tried to bring 7-year-old neighbor's son to a den, she was stopped by the bewildered crowd. After that, she revealed that her pastor asked her to bring the boy.
The pastor, Ernest Chukwuemeka Nwankwo, was on the run but later was apprehended and handed over to the police at the State Criminal Investigations Department, Panti, Yaba, Lagos, for interrogation.
According to the pastor, who has a Ministry formerly called Jesus Divine Healing and Deliverance Ministry now called Holy Family, Happy Family Ministry, he doesn't know how these allegations of ritual actions against him started.
"My ministry has existed for 17 years and we have never been associated with any bad thing or any untoward allegation. We have been doing well in carrying out God’s work since we came into existence.
"When I got to the office on Wednesday, June 15, to do some work and leave for Abuja for another programme, within 20 minutes, around 7.30am, a group of people, armed with dangerous weapons invaded our ministry, breaking down everything at sight. They also descended on our members who were over 50 in attendance for the morning worship," he stated.
"They not only subjected our members to serious beating, they also took all their bags and stripped all the women and children naked. We were all seriously wounded and our bodies covered with blood," he added.
It was gathered that when the pastor was taken to Owutu police station where he made a statement, he found out that about a woman who claimed he had told her to kidnap somebody for ritual purposes.
"After I recovered from the shock, the policemen then advised that I should go and treat myself because I was bleeding profusely as a result of the beating. I then proceeded to the hospital for treatment only to start reading in the papers the following day a lot of other damaging stories and that I was on the run. I personally reported to the police at Owutu in Ikorodu after treating myself and also personally reported at Panti the following day on a Monday," Chukwuemeka Nwankwo said.
The pastor continued: "I can’t remember seeing or meeting the woman before. A lot of people come to my ministry so, it will be very difficult for me to know all of them. However, the police at Panti interrogated both of us.
"She claimed that Holy spirit told her that I should give her N2.5 million, and that she came and told me to give her the money but I told her that I had no money, that she came back again to me and requested for the money and I then told her to go and bring a child before I will give her the money."
However, the woman can't provide any evidence to show that she ever visited the pastor's ministry.
"She also claimed that I have been seeing her in the spirit to suck her blood and that of her daughter with two gallons since she failed to bring a child to me. She claimed that I used to stand at her door for two days, tormenting her, and that was why she had to go for the child when she was caught," the pastor stated.
"I have never had this kind of ugly experience and I pray never to have it again. I also pray that the police should endevour to get to the route of this case because I have suffered so much over a matter I do not know anything about," he added.
According to the suspect, his ministry operates an open door policy, both visitors and members of the ministry are never restricted even up to his personal office. "Why must I send her to bring a child to me when I am happily married with children, what will I do with the child?" the pastor asked.
Source: Legit.ng
