Police arrested a pastor for alleged car theft in ohafia (abia state)

The pastor who stole a car

Operatives of the Abia State Police Command have arrested a pastor, Onyenweaku Chibunnam, for allegedly stealing a Toyota Camry in Ebem Ohafia community, of the Ohafia Local Government Area of the state.

confessed that they belonged to a car-snatching syndicate.

Parading the suspects at the Police Officers Mess in Umuahia, the state capital, the Commissioner of Police in Abia State, Leye Oyebade, said the suspects were arrested after stealing it from the Toyota Camry packed last Saturday where its owner.

Oyebade added that the suspects, who were arrested on Sunday based on a tip-off, six Toyota Camry cars confessed to have stolen and sold some of them from Aba to one Maxwell in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

Chibunnam, who is identified as the founder of a new generation at the Assembly of the Redeemed Ohafia church, said they did not snatch the car, but it stole from where it was parked.

He explained that it was their sixth in the last few months, adding that he usually sold at 60,000 to one of the cars Maxwell who resided in Port Harcourt.

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He said, "Maxwell contacted me sometime last year to buy my car that I put up for sale, but he did not give me a good price for it, so, I could not sell it to him. But when I stole an old model Toyota Camry last year, I called him to come and take the car I stole.

"We started having a misunderstanding when he requested the car's original papers and I could not provide a specific information to them. I later told him that I stole the car. Maxwell became more interested in the business and gave me a master key with which I could Steal cars Toyota Camry. "

Chibunnam, who said he used the money from the crime to fund his 30-member church, however, blamed the devil for his Stealing Lifestyle.

He promised not to return to crime if he was set free by the police.

It was learned that the owner of the stolen black Camry Saloon had recovered it.

Meanwhile, the Abia State has warned Criminals CP to relocate in the state, saying the command would not relent in its war against criminality in the state.

The CP also advised members of the public to purchase their vehicles from car dealers only natural.