+ How they demanded for N18million Ransom!
The Federal Special Anti Robbery Squad SARS has arrested a 38-year-old
journalist, Ohio Ojeagbase, who allegedly specialised in blackmailing popular
pastors in the country.
The command also arrested another Lawyer, Barr. Uche who was accused of
working together with the journalist to extort money from highly placed men of
God and prominent people in the country.
According to investigations and counter investigations we gathered that
Ohio had blackmailed many clergymen and business men in the country.
The suspect according to information made available to us are used to
planting people in form of staffers into the homes and working place of their
target to understand all about them and then plan how to penetrate.
On the case of Bishop Chris kwakpovwe, the publisher of popular daily
devotional booklet Our Dailly Manna, and the general overseer of manna Prayer
Mountain, they had planted a lady in his ministry to function as a staff whose
job is to get the blackmailers updated with information about the Clergy man to
ease their blackmail plans.
It was reliably gathered that one Ms Rita, had been working with the
ministry since about six years, and she was functioning in the media
department, and about two years ago she was promoted as the Head of Department
in the media department of the church. She later was connected to the missing items
that were stolen from the department, which runs into the tune of N5.6million
and when she was asked to defend her department which has been the norm of the
ministry from inception, for the missing equipment she absconded from the
church claiming she is not a thief.
This prompted her arrest by the church management and a case was filled
at the area H police command in Ogudu, Lagos. It was the arrest that now
brought out Barrister Uche who claimed to be her counsel and asked for her to
be released with immediate effect.
But as soon as the release was made, the journalist surfaced and sent a
letter with his letter headed paper, Probiters Report, addressed to the bishop
for trying to maltreat and threaten the life of one his staff and that they
were going to publish a story in that regards.
This was where the issues of blackmail started occurring where they now
started demanding for millions of naira to kill the story.
A meeting was held with this team of people who involved Barr Uche, Mr
Ohio and the suspect Ms Rita. And in the meeting after a lot of empty
accusations and threat to publish negative story about the Bishop, they agreed
to make a settlement so the thing will not go viral claiming they don’t want to
damage the name of the fisher of men.
The lawyer therefore asked for N15million for inconveniences
tagged as professional fees and inconvenient her client Ms Rita had gone through
during her arrest, while the Journalist requested for 50% of whatever is paid
to the lawyer.
In the pretense of agreeing to their terms the money was negotiated and
they later arrived at N18million for both the journalist and the lawyer.
But when the man of God complained of not having up to such amount of
money, they suggested to him to bring a property document and they will help
him facilitate a loan from the bank so he can make the payment without stress.
This was where the man of God knew it very clearly that this plan was
meant to be blackmail.
We gathered that another meeting was then arranged for the payment to be
made on Wednesday 12 April, 2017 and for them to finally meet with the Bishop
at an arranged venue around Ogudu Lagos state. When everyone had arrived for
the meeting and they were almost starting, the men of the special anti-robbery
squad stormed the place and arrested everybody there sited.
The case according to the investigative Police Officer IPO, will be
charged to court today Thursday 13 April 2017, while other investigations are
still ongoing.
Speaking on the plot to be blackmailed by the notorious blackmailers, The
Bishop told Journalist that he had planned this arrest from the beginning of
this whole matter. “The Holy Spirit had told me that this was a plot to bring
me down as a man of God but I was proactive in my approach to get to the bottom
before they will carry out their nefarious acts and go scot free”.
He added that “hence this arrested” Let the court decide on what their
fate will be.  | |||
| OHIO (PROBITERS REPORT) |
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| BARR. UCHE ILOANI |
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