Emmanuel lkpeama
Wonders they say shall never end as a Pastor of Jesus Disciple Ministry, Pastor Anthony Israel from Akwa lbom state who was living with a widow Mrs Temitope Olugbade has murdered her son and buried him in one of the two rooms apartment.
The incident which took place at 2 Jesus Assembly street,Ejigbo Lagos on Monday 2nd September,2024 revealed that the widow helped the pastor who was stranded 2years ago and offered him a room in her house only to come back from a travel to discover that the said pastor had killed,buried the son and ran away.
Investigator news gathered that luck ran out of the man when,as no one knew what brought him back to the house and he was apprehended.
According to an eye witness report,the clergy on Monday borrowed a shovel and hammer from a neighbor who felt that he wanted to do some bricklayer work,not knowing that the suspects wanted to carried his evil act in killing the 18years old boy named Abdulrahman Olugbade who passed his Waec and Jamb results and was waiting for admission into the university of his choice
The eye witness went further to say; the yoruba woman traveled to see her aged mother who is sick and she left the house with one of her children, the second son who works in a factory had gone to work only for him to come back on Monday night and was looking for his brother. He searched for his brother everywhere only for him to discover splash of blood around the house, the matter got exposed after a dog in the compound continued barking giving signals to the shallow grave dug inside one of the rooms.The brother then called some neighbors and his mother,who quickly came back the following day (Tuesday), they tried reaching the deceased on the phone but it was not reachable but luck ran out of the so called pastor,he came back and was apprehended.”
“Upon interrogation,he confessed to have committed the heinous crime as he took the neighbors to the place where he buried the innocent son and some parts of the body missing as he was said to have hit the 18years old deceased with a hammer and shovel when the deceased was having his siesta”he stated.
Further investigation revealed that the widow who is a photographer left her shop for the suspect to be using for his ministerial work and has been leaving with the woman for over 2years since both of them attend the same ministry.
Investigator news reports that the pastor would have be lynched by the angry youths of the area but for the intervention of the police,he was whisked away.
Speaking to lnvestigator news,Mrs Temitope Olugbade who was still in shock and never believed that a man he harboured for over 2years would kill a boy who is described by many as a quiet and cheerful boy.
” I don’t know him from anywhere, just that he is a member of the same ministry with me and he was stranded and l accommodated him, not knowing that he will kill my son today. What has my son done to him, what is his offense,l am still in shock”she.submitted.
However the suspect has seen been arrested and would be transferred to the SCID Yaba for further investigation and may likely be charged to court for alleged murder as the people of the area has urge the Nigeria Police force not to handle the case with kid cloves.
The Ejigbo DPO, CSP Vera Akpa-Ameh, was said to have directed Police operatives to exhume the corpse from the shallow grave and deposit same at the mortuary for autopsy reports.
