Two Pastors Jailed 7 Years Each For Stealing N32million | Photo

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Two Pastors have been jailed for deceving people into investing in a Mustard Seed Micro Investment Limited.

Read below, the EFCC Press statement..

"Justice F. O Ohwo of Delta State High Court, Warri, Delta State, on Wednesday, December 10, 2014, convicted and sentenced Pastor Glory Okeoghene Abrefera and Reverend Vincent Okpogu to seven (7) years imprisonment each for stealing depositors' funds amounting to N32million ( Thirty- Two Million Naira only)."

The two clergymen were nabbed after deceiving unsuspecting members of the public into investing in Mustard Seed Micro Investment Limited, a wonder bank, and defrauded them of their hard-earned money.

Justice Ohwo today convicted the suspects on all of the nine count charges tabled against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

Each of them were sentenced to seven years imprisonment. The sentence is to run concurrently.

The judge also said that the convicts will serve the seven-year term at Okere Prisons in Warri, Delta State, after completing the ten years sentence they are currently serving for illegal banking.

It would be recalled that Abrefera and Okpogu were on January 7, 2013, convicted and sentenced to ten (10) years imprisonment by Justice I. N. Buba of the Federal High Court Asaba, on a 4-count charge, for operating a wonder bank called Mustard Seed Micro Investment Limited.

According to the prosecutor, Mr. G. K. Latona, "the convicts are still answering to other charges at Otor-Udu High Court for related offences.