An Akwa-Ibom-based pastor, Nsikanabasi Ese, has
knocked down a Customs officer on Thursday, May
4, while trying to evade duties check.

Premium Times reports that the general overseer of
Kairos Rhema Embassy, Uyo, was driving in an SUV
along Eket-Ikot Abasi-Port Harcourt highway, in
Onna local government area of the state, when he
was reportedly flagged down by Customs officers at
a checkpoint around 10.30 a.m.

“He (the pastor) slowed down the vehicle, so we
naturally thought he was pulling over. At the point
that we were relaxed, he fired back the engine at
full throttle, and before I could dive to safety he
had already hit me, ” the injured officer, Daneke
Emmanuel, told journalists at Immanuel Hospital,
Eket, where he was receiving medical attention.

The pastor, Mr. Ese, was said to have sped off
after hitting the officer. But when he saw that a
Customs vehicle had started following him, he pulled
over his brown colour Toyota Highlander.

"He flung open the car door, walked away from the
car and then suddenly slumped on the ground as
though he was in great pains. As we were about to
find out what was wrong with him, another
occupant of the car jumped onto the steering and
ran away with the car,” another witness said.

The Customs team drove both its injured officer and
the pastor to the hospital.

The injured officer, a deputy superintendent of
customs, was complaining of pains in his waist
region when journalists met him. He could not move
his right leg and was assisted to sit on a hospital
chair by two other Customs officials.

When the condition of the pastor was asked, Dr.
Okonjko smiled and then responded:

"I have directed that x-ray should be done on him
here in the hospital since he is complaining of
chest pain”.

The pastor declined to comment on the incident
when journalists met him in one of the wards in the
hospital. An unidentified young lady was with him.
One of the customs officials said that they
suspected that the pastor was pretending to be in
pains to forestall the possibility of him being
charged to court.

Source https://naijacrooks.com/2017/05/pastor-allegedly-knocks-customs-official-akwa-ibom/

Pastor disobeying the law of the land, yet the Bible asked us to respect constituted authority.

That is irresponsible of him