The Ondo State Command of the Nigeria Security
and Civil Defence Corps has arrested a pastor of the Christ Apostolic Church,
identified as Moses Abiodun for burying fetish items inside his church located
at Ikota in Ifedore Local Government Area of the state.
The 34-year-old suspect
who hailed from Esa Oke in Osun State was arrested on Wednesday evening
by men of the state command of NSCDC following an information that the cleric
allegedly used human being for rituals in the church.
Speaking with journalists on the matter on
Thursday, the State Commandant of the NSCDC, Mr. Fasiu Adeyinka said the
suspect was the founder of the C.A.C ‘Dagunro’ and he was suspected to have
buried something suspected to be human head inside his church.
Having got the
information, the NSCDC boss explained that his men and went to Abiodun’s church
where some fetish items were exhumed. Consequently the pastor was arrested.
Adeyinka said, ” He was
asked to dig some spots inside the church where various items such as cow head,
pigeon head tied with colanut, big clay pot wrapped with white clothes and
other numerous fetish items and charms were exhumed from the ground both at the
entrance and inside the church.”
The commandant said the
command had begun investigation on the matter while the pastor was still in the
NSCDC’s custody.
He enjoined the people
of the state to be very vigilant and always give useful information to the
Corps in order to tackle all forms of criminality in the state.
-Punch
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