Pastor In Police Net Over Murder Of A Virgin

Controversial Lagos preacher, who moves around with a fleet of yellow Sports Utility Vehicles and claims to heal all sicknesses from earache to diabetes, Pastor Ofuche Ukoha, also known as Sign Fireman, is still being detained over the alleged murder of a 12-year old virgin girl, police said on Thursday.

The Public Relations Officer of the Lagos State Police Command, Ngozi Braide, said Fireman was still being investigated over the murder of a virgin girl allegedly killed by an 18-year old boy.

According to Braide, “he is still in detention and will be charged to court soon.”

The teenager alleged that he was sent by Fireman to obtain faeces from a virgin girl for a reward of N100,000.

The teen, who attends Perfect Christianity Ministry, Fireman’s church in Aguda, Surulere area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria, allegedly strangled the girl to obtain her faeces for ritual purposes, he admitted while being paraded by the police. He was reported as saying that he had wanted to become rich and had approached the pastor personally after years in the church without a financial breakthrough.

He alleged that Fireman told him the way to get his financial breakthrough was to get the faeces of a virgin girl and bring it to him.  The suspect alleged that Fireman promised him a reward of N100,000 for the assignment.

He narrated how he sought and killed the 12-year-old girl simply known as Bose. Fireman has been embroiled in many controversies in the past.

—Simon Ateba