Kogi State
Police Command has
paraded seven persons
for allegedly posing as
bishop, pastors and
prophets during a
revival programme in
Lokoja, capital of Kogi
State.
Those paraded include
Bishop Bamidele
Abraham of Eagle
Kingdom Church,
Lokoja and Pastors
Chucks Ingalis Kelvin,
Chinedu Okosisi,
Samson Prince, Osita
Chuckwu, Samuel Ike
and Nnenanaya
Anthony Ikechukwu.
They were said to have
come from Port
Harcourt, Rivers State
into Lokoja.
State Commissioner of
Police, Muhammed
Kastina who paraded
the suspects said they
were arrested while
conducting
‘deliverance’ for people
at a revival programme
organised by one of
them in Lokoja.
According to
Muhammed, Bishop
Bamidele who is the
pastor-in-charge of
Eagle Kingdom Church,
Lokoja was said to have
contacted Pastor Chuks
from Port Har-court to
help raise money for
his book launch.
Sources said Chucks,
who was an expert in
such ventures came
with members of his
team, some of who
acted like mermaid;
deaf and dumb
persons while others
claimed to have been
afflicted with other
sicknesses during the
revival to sway the
sympathy of those in
attendance.
However, a member of
the congregation who
felt uncomfortable with
the way the pastors
were conducting the
deliverance, reported
them to the police
which moved in swiftly
and arrested the
suspects.
One of the suspects,
Pastor Chuks, however
defended his action
saying, “This is not
robbery, its pure
professionalism. Every
profession has its own
way of surviving. The
police have their own
way, the lawyers have
their own way; even
you journalists have
your own way; what I
did is pure business
and survival instinct.’’
Also, Pastor Osita
Chukwu who posed as
mermaid said she was
promised N16, 000
while leaving Port
Harcout to Lokoja but
they only got N1, 000
pending the conclusion
of the botched revival
programme.