The General Overseer of Tongue of Fire Restoration Ministry, Chukwuma Nkwocha, has been arrested by the police for allegedly camping and defiling about 30 underaged girls.
Nkwocha, 38, has his church located in Sogunle area of Lagos State.
According to available information, the girls camped and defiled by the pastor were aged 10 to 15.
He was said to have lured the girl to his house based on lack of places for them to sleep.
The police team that arrested Nkwocha swopped on him on Tuesday evening during a church service.
They were operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad.
The policemen were said to have acted on a petition that the pastor was camping and defiling underaged girls.
Nkwocha was taken away from the church premises along with the girls.
The spokesperson of the Lagos State Police Command, Dolapo Badmos, confirmed the arrest of Nkwocha.
Badmos said the State’s Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, has ordered thorough investigation of the case.
She said: “The Command rescued about 30 young girls from the pastor’s custody and two of them acknowledged he has canal knowledge of them.
“Investigation is ongoing.”
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