Operatives of the Enugu Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC have commenced investigations into the activities of one self-acclaimed prophet, Godwin Sunday Ajuluchukwucheya (a.k.a Prophet Sunday Koboko), for allegedly defrauding his church members to the tune of N70, 391, 600. 00 (Seventy million, Three Hundred and Ninety-one thousand, Six hundred Naira).
A
petitioner, Okey Uwakwe alleged that Ajuluchukwucheya
presented himself as a true man of God, capable of luring his
brother who travelled outside the country since 1997 to return
home. He also alleged that he paid the “prophet” the sum of N6,
231, 400. 00 (Six million, Two hundred and Thirty-one thousand, Four hundred
Naira) for spiritual works.
According
to the petitioner, the suspect equally deceived him into believing that he had
the power to make his sister-in-law who has been childless for over 15 years to
conceive. Ajuluchukwucheya allegedly collected the sum of N3, 251, 200
(Three million, Two hundred and fifty-one thousand, Two hundred Naira), also
for spiritual works to that effect.
The
petitioner further alleged that the suspect announced to his church members
that he had won N33, 000, 000, 000. 00 (Thirty-three billion Naira) in lotto
game, assuring that members who contribute financially to him, shall
receive dividends from the said N33billion. Again, the petitioner
allegedly contributed the sum of N3, 349, 000. 00 (Three Million, Three hundred
and Forty-nine thousand Naira).
The
petitioner also alleged that members of Ajuluchukwucheya’s ministry were also
lured by the suspect to contribute to the suspect’s rice processing machine
worth N1billion to become partners in the business. He
allegedly contributed the sum of N500, 000. 00 (Five Hundred Thousand
Naira). He claimed that the total sum sent to the suspect was N13, 331,
600. 00 (Thirteen Million, Three Hundred and Thirty-one thousand, Six hundred
Naira), without results.
In
the course of investigation, members of the suspect’s ministry started flooding
the Directorate with claims of how they were defrauded by Ajuluchukwucheya. One
of the members said, “When I came there (the ministry) a whole lot of things
were going on as investments in the church which I partook in virtually all of
them…ranging from the issue of him winning N33billion with Baba Ijebu.
He said the money cannot be retrieved due to how huge the amount was. So,
members of the church will have to help him by buying holy ghost thunder to
blast the spiritual army being organized by Baba Ijebu. He sold
each of the spiritual thunder for N38, 000. 00 (Thirty Eight Thousand Naira)
and we had to buy 1000 pieces to fight Baba Ijebu's spiritual army”. The total
amount members of Ajuluchukwucheya’s church alleged he took from them is N70,
391, 600. 00.
Investigations
showed that the suspect’s modus operandi is luring the members of his
ministry into buying his “products” for prosperity which include; miracle
sticker, spiritual dragon and holy ghost thunder. One of the members and victim
of the suspect said, “he asked me to do what they tagged holy ghost
thunder, believing it was going to solve my problems, I bought it and
after all the payments, nothing happened and my problems still
persisted”.
The
suspect will be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded.
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