How Two Pastors Connived To Kill Brother In-law

LUCKY LAWAL

Two blood brothers, 43-year old Chukwuka Stephen and 39-year old  Ejim Stephen, who had been parading themselves as Pastors under the pretence of operating a church, have been arrested by the men of Ogun State Police Command for killing their brother in-law, Peter Chukwuyem, on 5th February, 2019.

According to the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspects allegedly committed the dastardly act in the victim’s farm.

He further stated that the victim was married to the elder sister of the two suspects. The deceased actually consented to and facilitated their coming to Lagos from their village in Delta State to Papa Ibafo in Ogun State where they lived with the couple for some time.

While they were with the deceased, they were using the frontage of his house for their church activities. But when their conduct was no longer pleasant to their in-law, he sent them away from the place which led to them nursing animosity against him.

On 5th February, 2019, the deceased went to his farm with two of his teenage daughters in the morning and met the two suspects at the farm. And because of the presence of the two girls, they were unable to do anything to him for fear of being exposed. In the evening of the same day, the deceased went back to the farm alone. The suspects, who had been waiting for him there, accosted him, attacked and use a machete to kill him.

It was when the deceased did not returned in good time as expected that his wife traced him to the farm and met his dead body. She subsequently went to Ibafo Police Station where she lodged the complaint. The two brothers were later arrested by the police at Ibafo on account of the two daughters of the deceased who informed the police that they saw the two of them earlier in their father’s farm.

During interrogation, they denied killing their brother in-law but when they were confronted by the two daughters of the deceased, they confessed killing the deceased in his farm because he had deprived them of the continued usage of the frontage of his house for their church activities.

The corpse of the deceased was subsequently moved and deposited at the General Hospital mortuary for post mortem examination. Meanwhile, the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, CP Ahmed Iliyasu, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department proper investigation and prosecution.