Last week, posted a story about a
'prayer warrior' woman who
kidnapped her neighbour's 7 year old
son (Here )
..According to new information, the mother of four, Mrs.
Rosemary Chukwu, in Majidun area of
Ikorodu, Lagos,claimed in her statement
given to the police after her arrest, that
Pastor Ernest Nwankwo of the Holy
Family Happy Family Ministry (aka
House of Mercy) offered to pay her
N2.5m if he could deliver the child..
According to Chukwu’s statement, the
pastor had appeared to her many times
in her dream and had even made love
to her in dreams before she decided to
do his bidding.
Chukwu, who was said to have been a
choir mistress at House of Mercy, had
alleged at the time that the popular
pastor sent her to kidnap the child,
whom she gagged and stuffed in a large
luggage.
Chukwu, who was nearly lynched by
residents of the area before police
intervention last week Wednesday, has
now told the police that the genesis of
the kidnapping plan was when she
approached the pastor for a loan.
Our source said,
“The woman said that when she
told the pastor that she needed
some money, the pastor told her
that he could only lend her the
money if she could bring a child in
return.She told us that the pastor
promised to give her N2.5m in
return if she could get a child by
any means and deliver the child.”
However, we learnt that
the pastor who is being detained at the
Department of Criminal Investigation,
Panti, Lagos, has denied Chukwu’s
allegations.
Our correspondent noticed that
Nwankwo’s church has shut down its
website.
When our correspondent visited the
church premises at Majidun on
Wednesday, it was locked up. Residents
of the area said nobody had visited the
church since the police who had
initially barricaded the place against
looters left.
Our correspondent who spoke with
Kelvin Emeka, the kidnapped child’s
father on Friday, learnt of the
emotional struggle the young boy has
been combating since he was saved
from his kidnapper.
Emeka described Chukwu as a reserved
praying woman, who kept mostly to
herself.
He said,
“We only know each other as co-
tenants and within the two years
that we lived in the same
compound,nobody saw or knew her
husband.When we were at the
police station, she was asked of the
phone number of her husband, she
did not know it. She was also asked
to provide the address of his
workplace, she could not provide
that as well.All I can say is that God
loves my family. That was why she
did not succeed in taking my child
away to the ritual killers who sent
her.Emmanuel still feels pain on
his neck where the woman tried to
strangle him before she put him in
the luggage but the hospital did a
qgreat job on him. He is still
undergoing treatment but he has
been discharged.”
He said the boy has been having panic
attacks since he was discharged from
hospital.
Nobody can touch him anymore,
not even my siblings. The only
people whom he allows to touch
him now are his mother and I. He
sees every other person
suspiciously and
gets scared when they want to
touch him. But I know he would be
okay. God has delivered him"
Emeka said the day Chukwu was caught
by residents of their neighbourhood, a
green sports utility vehicle picked up
the suspect’s four children and they
have not been seen since then.
But the man is concerned for the safety
of his family.
“I don’t know what the members of
that pastor’s church are planning. I
don’t know the kind of
arrangement he (Nwankwo) must
have made before he was arrested.
The police should ensure nobody
harms my family because it is no
longer my family that has a case
with him. It is a criminal case
being prosecuted by the police, not
me,
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