+ Jailed for 30 years in Tanzania


By JUMI RHODES



Mr Chukwudi Okechukwu, a pastor who preached in Tanzania under auspices of Lord Chosen Church, has been handed a 30-year jail sentence after being convicted of smuggling cocaine worth Sh3.1 billion. Okechukwu, who is believed to be one of the top members of a drug syndicate operating in Tanzania, Nigeria and South Africa, was jailed along with compatriot Paul Ikechukwu, South African Stan Hycent and Pakistani Shoaib Mohammad Ayazi over the same offence. High Court Judge Amir Mruma has also ordered the accused to pay Sh9 billion in fines.



Okechukwu and the three accomplices were hiding in a mansion in Dar es Salaam’s Kuduchi Mtongani suburbs when the police surrounded the house and arrested them. There was a cat-and-mouse chase drama when the police tried to get hold of one of the suspects as he was attempting to jump over the fence. While three suspects were arrested inside the house, Okechukwu was the only suspect who managed to jump over the wall but was arrested after a dramatic chase by the police.



On searching the house, anti-drugs police seized 81 packets of drugs which were later confirmed by the chief government chemist to be cocaine hydrochloride. Going by reports, Pastor Okechukwu first came to Tanzania in January 2011 on an evangelical mission under the umbrella of his Lord Chosen Church of Nigeria. However, intelligence report show he had come to Tanzania some years back and had made a name for himself as a pastor at his Kinondoni Biafra church and won many followers.


http://dawntodusknews.com/nigerian-pastor-arrested-for-smuggling-cocaine/

Hmmm

If it were to be a Yoruba man.
Bigots will have much to say

Latter days pastor

Just to check the name


I am sure a Yoruba man made him do it

Even their pastors!

Pastor chukwudi was in love with "da co co"! I hope he still gats "baking soda" though...........

Igbo bastard frm d choky erosioned east. boy must survive now

demelza:
Even their pastors!

Na all of them dey do am

This church whose members are so fond of wearing banners all over the place. Anyways, he is first an heebo man before a pastor. . . . so why am I surprised?

y[size=20pt]EAST[/size] again?

Igbo kwenu!?

This is what their elders should be addressing. ........disgracing Nigeria everywhere.

Biafra church? Pls can someone tell me when Biafra become religion ? Or is typo error?