The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday arraigned one
Pastor Afolabi Samuel, at the Ikeja Special Offences Court, Lagos for
allegedly stealing $90,000 and N4.5m property of the Registered Trustees
of the Living Faith Church, Canaan land, Ota, Ogun State.
Samuel, who was a church accountant, was brought before Justice Mojisola Dada.
The
EFCC prosecutor, S. O. Daji, alleged that the defendant committed the
alleged offences sometime on September 24 and December 31, 2018, in
Lagos, Vanguard reports.
The
commission said that Samuel and one Mrs Blessing Kolawole, a staff of
Covenant University (now at large), converted the said sum to their own
personal use.
A
petition submitted to the EFCC by Chioma Okwuanyi & Co legal
practitioners, said: “The duo started carrying out various acts of
breach of trust and fraudulent commission of unconscionable economic
crime and sabotage, by unlawfully diverting to their private use, the
Church’s money in Pastor Samuel’s custody without the permission of the
Church.
“The
duo continued doing so until sometime in the month of December 2018
when they ran out of luck and all their secret acts of economic sabotage
and financial crime of fraudulently tampering with the church’s money
were revealed.
“When
confronted by the church, Pastor Samuel, who lives around the church at
Raji Oba, Lagos admitted committing the act and even voluntarily made a
written confession where he detailed how they have been stealing from
the church”.
Justice Dada remanded him at the Correctional Centre and adjourned the matter till
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