On Monday, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, arraigned one Pastor Afolabi Samuel at the Ikeja Special Offenses Court, Lagos for allegedly stealing $90,000 and N4.5 m of the Living Faith Church, Canaan Land, Ota, Ogun State Registered Trustees ‘ land.

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.

“In the face of the congregation, Pastor Samuel, who lives around the church in Raji Oba, Lagos confessed that he was committing the act and even willingly made a written confession in which he explained how they were stealing from the church.”

At the Correctional Center, Justice Dada remanded him and adjourned the matter until December 10, 2019 for bail application hearing.

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