{"id":1083230,"date":"2022-05-10T23:03:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T23:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/10\/court-arraigns-pastor-who-demanded-5k-cedis-from-his-members-to-prepare-them-for-rapture\/"},"modified":"2022-05-10T23:03:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T23:03:13","slug":"court-arraigns-pastor-who-demanded-5k-cedis-from-his-members-to-prepare-them-for-rapture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/10\/court-arraigns-pastor-who-demanded-5k-cedis-from-his-members-to-prepare-them-for-rapture\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Arraigns Pastor Who Demanded 5k Cedis From His Members To Prepare Them For Rapture \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>The Ekiti State Police Command has filed a lawsuit against Pastor Noah Abraham for allegedly demanding the sum of N310,000 from his church members for Rapture.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman Sunday Abutu confirmed the incident yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Abraham is the founder of Christ High Commission Ministry, Araromi-Ugbesi, Omuo Oke Ekiti, Ekiti East Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>The pastor allegedly camped dozens of Nigerians in his church for Rapture after collecting N310,000 from them.<\/p>\n<p>The police invited him for interrogation.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>According to multiple reports, the police arraigned him at the Chief Magistrates Court sitting in Ado Ekiti.<\/p>\n<p>Abraham pleaded not guilty to the charge.<\/p>\n<p>His counsel, Adunni Olanipekun, urged the court to grant his client bail. The police prosecutor, Inspector Johnson Okunade, did not oppose the application.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate Titilola Olaolorun granted Abraham bail and adjourned the case till May 24 for mention.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive chat with The ICIR, Abraham had said the people he kept in his church were waiting for Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you hear that a whole city descends from heaven and a mighty palace appears in Nigeria here in Ekiti, know that the man speaking here is the one to be contacted because the whole world will hear,\u201d Abraham said.<\/p>\n<p>He said he would keep dozens of people in the church as long as the \u201cone who sent\u201d him told him to hold them.<\/p>\n<p>While neighbours said Abraham\u2019s activities were suspicious, many of his former church members revealed more damning revelations about him in the subsequent investigation by this newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>After visiting Abraham\u2019s church in Ekiti, The ICIR\u2019s crew were in Kabba, Kogi State, where Abrahan had run a church and was banished by the town for operating a \u2018strange\u2019 ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The reporters found that Abraham had separated from his wife and allegedly eloped with the woman who called herself his daughter in his Ekiti church.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was his choirmaster\u2019s wife in Kabba.<\/p>\n<p>Abraham\u2019s real wife, his alleged mistress\u2019 husband, Kabba monarchs and the pastor\u2019s former church members confirmed the pastor had eloped with the mistress \u2013 and the Kabba community banished him.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, The ICIR published the report on how Abraham ran a strange ministry in Kabba, among other alleged atrocities.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; The Ekiti State Police Command has filed a lawsuit against Pastor Noah Abraham for allegedly demanding the sum of N310,000 from his church members for Rapture. Spokesman Sunday Abutu confirmed the incident yesterday. Abraham is the founder of Christ High Commission Ministry, Araromi-Ugbesi, Omuo Oke Ekiti, Ekiti East Local Government Area of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1083232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[12948,1457,64,12949,6490,750,5102,12950],"class_list":["post-1083230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-arraigns","tag-cedis","tag-court","tag-demanded","tag-members","tag-pastor","tag-prepare","tag-rapture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}