Top Redeemed Church Pastor In A N9mn Fraud Mess
CYRIACUS IZUEKWE
Pastor Kolawole
A top minister with The Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Ikosi Parish, Ketu district, Pastor Jamiu Ishola Kolawole has been arrested and charged before a Lagos court for allegedly defrauded one of his tenants, Dr Emeka Ugwunze to the tune of N9 million in Lagos.
The incident happened at 2 Gbagada Road, Gbagada, Lagos where Ugwunze rented an apartment on a two-storey building owned by Kolawole.
The defendant is now facing Criminal charge of obtaining money under false pretence and stealing before Isolo Magistrate’s court presided by Mrs O.A. Adedayo.
The 57-year old Kolawole, who was once deported from abroad, approached his tenant, Dr Ugwunze and asked him to pay seven years rent arrears because he was facing financial challenges due to his deportation.
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P.M.EXPRESS learnt that about one month later, he approached Ugwunze again and informed him that he had hectares of land in his Ikorodu hometown and he needed money to perfect the land documentation so that he would sell part of the land and use the rest to build houses on the remaining.
Kolawole then told his tenant that he wanted to sell his two-storey building, and use the money to process the Ikorodu land document at the Lagos State Land Bureau.
He explained to the victim that he did not want to sell the house to another person because he had assisted him in the past.
And to prove how serious and commited, Kolawole handed over to Ugwunze all the house documents to prove to him he actually wanted to sell the house.
During the court proceedings, Kolawole admitted that Ugwunze paid him the total sum of N9 million out of the N20 million they agreed with further agreement that he would pay the balance at a further date.
However, after obtaining the initial money, he then disappeared and refused to sign deed of transfer to Ugwunze.
When it was time to balance him the remaining N11 million, Kolawole said he had changed his mind as his family advised him against selling the house.
When Ugwunze requested that the suspect should refund the initial N9 million paid to him, it was then he allegedly started dribbling Ugwunze for almost seven years now.
The scam was reported to the Special Fraud Unit and Kolawole was arrested and charged to court.
He pleaded not guilty and was remanded in prison custody pending when he will perfect the bail condition.
During the trial, Kolawole admitted that he actually obtained the money and wanted to sell the house but reneged when Ugwunze defaulted by not paying the balance.
He also told the court that he actually handed the house documents and was unable to return the litigant’s money because he took him to court.
The matter was adjourned till 11 April for cross examination and continuation of trial.
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Your head line and body of the message are conflicting. He is not guilty yet until the court gives Judgement. Junk journalism. You want to make news because he is a pastor.
the man has not been fear God,if he is a pastor ,he is a disgrace,hebrew 13:5
let the above pastor use the building as collateral then sout himself out of this mess
Not all that call on the Lord are Christians. There are millions of wolves in sheep clothing
Is very bad for him who called himself a man of God should DUP somebody God have many things to Judg on this earth oo. and it will start from those so called pastors.
christianity is a religion founded on deception as practiced by devil paul the founder.it follows,therefore, any christian can exploit his followers with deceit.in fact christianity was evolved from paganism of mithraism of old inspired by the devil.it is a mixture of some heresay stories about what jesus taught with roman paganism and jesus was elevated to the status of god himself like pagan mithra.thus,the spirits talking to christians are demons not god.
You must be foolish to comment on something u don’t know nothing about. It is an open secret dat your mohamend grafted people into the religion of killing by force.
Because the founder of your sect believes in sucking blood, in fact that is why you people cannot do without shelding blood. You and ur religion are demonic.
God punish u and all of u.
christianity is a religion founded on deception as practiced by devil paul the founder.it follows,therefore, any christian can exploit his followers with deceit.in fact christianity was evolved from paganism of mithraism of old inspired by the devil.it is a mixture of some heresay stories about what jesus taught with roman paganism and jesus was elevated to the status of god himself like pagan mithra.thus,the spirits talking to christians are demons not god.pastor kolawale examplifies many nigerian christian deceives collecting from vulnerable followers ,top among them go received slushes from govt monies stolen under jonathan and now flying private jets and having sex with female followers.
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All these churches are for money not for the purpose of serving christ if not why can,t they become one bks none of them agrees to be under each other, everybody becomes master, money mongers.
This is one sided report.firstly when people make report its suppose to be true and fair.Those who have attacked God don’t last.This is a transaction between two people why drag the church and denomination into it.It was never done on the bases of church account.Also its a court case why make it look like the suspect is already condemned.The reporter is biased.favouritism is the key eminent of the story .junks!!!
There are bad people in both christians and Islam and there are also good people there. It depend on an individual who will give account of what such person did under the belief
The likes of Ibrahim just demostrated and exposed his illiteracy and his low intelligent quotient which measured up to his insane utterance, the likes of Eden lacks wisdom of evaluation and judgment.
When Jesus was here on earth didn’t we see the likes of Judas. I believe some good Muslims detest what Shekarau is preaching. When you generalise a statement that shows you are a “baby-adult” and you will never grow up. please guys grow up
We are in 21st century
I hv gone through this story and I found out that the Landlord Pastor is innocent and will win the case. That he collected N9m and disappeared may not be true. He ran away from his home and church? I put it to you that the buyer did not hv the balance to pay when he (the Pastor) needed it. After all, he handed him all the land documents without hesitation. So the buyer wasted time and the man-Pastor changed his mind. What else? He has to refund the said N9m. QED. All these was as a result of non completion of the negotiated price on the spot and thereafter. You’ll see how this case goes. There’s nothing special about it. It’s happening everywhere. Is’t it bcos he’s a Pastor? Mennnnnn!
The matter is simple. If Landlord has changed his mind about selling the property, he should refund the N9m collected from the Tenant, period. End of the matter.