Chikere and Udoamaka on Mothers'Day +Daniel Dickson
Saharareporters has received details of how a prophet tricked a mistress of former Governor James Ibori to engage in lewd acts and scammed other associates who were recently convicted on money laundering charges by a jury at the Southwark Crown Court in London. Our sources revealed that Ibori’s mistress, Udoamaka Okoronkwo (nee Onuigbo) and his elder sister, Christine Ibori-Ibie, became victims of a rogue priest after the two women sought “spiritual help” in order to stave off conviction as a jury in London court deliberated over the criminal charges preferred against them by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

Desperation set in on the defendants when it dawned on them during the jury trial that prosecutors had successfully pinned them in a corner by establishing their guilt in handling of Ibori’s criminal money. “Each of the women’s seven lawyers collected 3,000 pounds in cash daily for their court appearances,” revealed a source, an insider in the Ibori camp. Yet, the three women were seized by panic as the trial progressed, with Udoamaka described as “trembling with fear and hysteria.” One of our sources added that the women had earlier “believed assurances by the lawyers hired for them by Chief Ibori that the case against them would be easily rubbished.”

With their defense falling apart in court, Udoamaka and Christine decided to “ask God to be on their side,” according to one of three sources who spoke to us about their maneuvers. They first approached Pastor Chikere Nwafor (Nee Onuigbo), a senior pastor of Heavens Gateway Ministries located on Penarth Street in the South East area of London, but “Pastor Chy” – who is Udoamaka's blood sister – told the accused women that she did not possess the gifts of changing the minds of juries in a trial of a huge magnitude.

One of our sources said that Pastor Chikere’s decision not to get involved in the “spiritual game” was to avoid getting into trouble with the Ibori team or UK law enforcement. Pastor Chikere had been banned from attending the trial after she tried unsuccessfully to approach a member of the jury on a London bus on their way to court. The juror immediately reported her to the judge who sent her away and warned her not to show up for the rest of the trial, but she was allowed to attend the sentencing proceedings.

As the trial neared conclusion, and continued to look bad for them, Ibori's associates decided to go for “prophets” in the Celestial Church of Christ in the London Parish based on Harton Street. There they met a notorious minister and spiritual curator named Prophet Daniel Dickson a.k.a "Lukuluku" who lives in the Shooters Hill council flats in southeast London.

One of our sources, an associate of Pastor Dickson’s, disclosed that Dickson recommended that Udoamaka, the better looking of the women, engage “in late night spiritual rituals.” He told the women that the "Lord" wanted to “use Udoamaka to solve their problems.”

Three days after the women started attending spiritual sessions, Prophet Dickson (who had recently been divorced by his wife, who initially brought him from Nigeria) asked Udoamaka to strip naked “in order to open herself for spiritual help.” The third time he got her to strip, he made sexual advances on her, but Udoamaka curtly refused. “She told Prophet Dickson that she was looking for freedom, not sex, ” said a source. She offered to pay the prophet any amount of money he asked if he could get them acquitted. She also promised to buy the pastor a house in London and another one in Lekki, Lagos if Dickson “could arrange the separation of Ibori and his recent wife, Senami Sossu .”

Our sources revealed that Pastor Dickson billed the women N5 million to be paid to “his spiritual assistants in Nigeria.” He reportedly told the women that the payment would be used to make so-called Oshoffa chairs and garments to effect their miraculous acquittal. The late Bilemi Oshoffa was the spiritual head of the Celestial Church worldwide. Dickson told Ibori’s associates that “the making of Oshoffa chairs and garments was essential if the women were to be liberated from jury conviction,” said a source.

Our source revealed that Udoamaka instructed her brother in Nigeria to pay N2 million as the first installment to Prophet Dickson's contacts in Lagos. Soon after the money was deposited, Prophet Dickson requested for an additional N1.5 million to enable him to go to Nigeria “for the spiritual assignment to be completed,” assuring Udoamaka that the case would certainly end in her favor.

However, Udoamaka and Ibori's sister found out they were in the hands of a scammer when another pastor of the Celestial Church (the Harton Street parish) told them that Prophet Dickson was not to be trusted. He alerted Ibori’s associates to the fact that Dickson’s wife had driven him out of his matrimonial home because his late night spiritual revivals had turned into love feasts that saw him duping and bedding many women .

Our sources disclosed that Udoamaka tried to recover the payment she had made to Dickson’s representatives in Lagos, but the men eluded her brother until the jury’s guilty verdicts came down on Udoamaka and Christine Ibie-Ibori. Ms. Pogoson was discharged and acquitted.

Two weeks ago, Judge Christopher Hardy sentenced the convicted women to five-year jail terms. They are currently incarcerated at Holloway Prison where Udoamaka Okoronkwo’s prison number is A-11-01-AT while Christine Ibori-Ibie’s tag is A08-20-A-T. [font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font]