A 44-year-old ex-convict, Festus Balogun, ended up in police detention where he is cooling his feet. For months, the suspect had been on the wanted list of Ondo State Police Command as detectives tried to smoke him out of his hideout, following complaints by some pastors of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) that someone was blackmailing them .
Balogun confessed to the police that he was lured into the act by a marketer who ended up duping him. The suspect, aka “Smart”, released from Kirikiri Maximum Security Prisons in December, last year, had released a compact disk (video) in which he allegedly blackmailed the 12 pastors of the church. Balogun said he was lured into the blackmail by the marketer, who promised him an initial reward of N300,000 with more to come subsequently.
Sunday Vanguard gathered that the marketer, in conjunction with the suspect, rolled out the CD, titled, Asiri Tu (secret exposed), in which he claimed that 12 prominent pastors engaged him to kill for them to gain spiritual power. The suspect alleged that the pastors were involved in ritual killing and other fetish acts.
“Some prominent men of God, numbering 12 and namely: Pastor Samson Olueamodede of Prayer Centre Church of God, Idanre Road, Akure and Pastor Samuel Kayode Abiara, the General Evangelist of Christ Apostolic Church Worldwide and ten others, engaged him to kill for them to gain spiritual power”, a police source said.
Speaking with Sunday Vanguard when he was paraded by the police in Akure, the suspect confessed to the alleged crime and admitted that he was convicted for cultism and imprisoned in the Kirikiri Maximum Security Prisons in the past. Balogun said he had never been in contact with any of the men of God he made the allegations against in his video and had never killed in his life. He said that all what he alleged in the video were lies in a bid to make money from the victims.
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The pastor said God had vindicated him and his colleagues. He, however, urged security agencies to ensure that people who engage in such blackmailing acts are dealt with as specified by the law, so that it will serve as deterrent to others. Speaking with Sunday Vanguard after the suspect was paraded, the state Police Commissioner, Mike Ogbodu, said the “ video CD was released and sold within and outside the country.”
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