By Just N186m, Not N500m! Enugu Pastor Arrested For Defrauding Church Members Clarifies On Amount
Enugu State Police Command on Monday, August 7th confirmed the arrest of Bishop Ginika Obi, General Overseer of City of Liberation and Comfort Ministry for allegedly swindling his church members to the tune of over N500million.
It was gathered that his church, situated on Enugu-Port Harcourt Highway became a sought after location in 2016 as people trooped there in numbers as they were seeking for miracles.
It however dawned on the people when it was discovered that an NGO set up by the Pastor to lure members into investing with the promise of reaping “bountiful dividend” was aimed at defrauding them. The church has seen been disserted as even the preacher has not been seen anywhere near the location.
He was however caught over the weekend in an undisclosed hotel where he was taking refuge after abandoning his church and escaping with members money.
Pastor Obi had used his NGO, ‘Build Your Generational Organization’ to allegedly defraud his members and other unsuspecting members of the public of various huge sums in the hope that they would reap bumper financial dividends after some time.
When the bubble burst last year, he abandoned the church and escaped to Asaba in Delta State and started operating a new church with a new name. He was also said to have changed his title from ‘Bishop’ to ‘Prophet.’
The cleric, however, said he never knew his financial NGO would turn out the way it did and disclosed that the amount he defrauded is not up to the sum of N500 million but just N186 million.
