Court sentence Pastor to death by hanging for killing choir mistress, others

Pastor Chidiebere Okoroafor was given a death by hanging verdict for murder by a high court in Port Harcourt.

Orlunma Nwagba, his choir mistress whom he allegedly impregnated, was killed, and Okoroafor, the general overseer of the Altar of Solution and Healing Assembly situated in Oyigbo, Rivers State, was charged with her murder.

In addition, he was accused of murdering Chigozie Ezenwa, a friend of Nwagba, and her 11-month-old daughter Cresabel on December 11, 2017, in the state’s Oyigbo Local Government Area.

The pastor’s confessional confessions and the evidence, according to the trial judge S.O. Benson, proved that he committed the crimes.

Justice Benson ruled that the cleric should be either by hanging from a tree until he is dead or by being given a fatal injection, which also kills more quickly, because the prosecution had proven its case of murder against him.

According to our source, the pastor lured the women into a bush and allegedly committed the crime twice when they were there to discuss the claimed pregnancy at the pastor’s home in Oyigbo.

On December 17, 2017, men from the Rivers State Police Command detained Okoroafor after Ezenwa’s husband alerted them to the killing of the three people.

Precious Ordu, the prosecution attorney from the state Ministry of Justice, expressed her satisfaction with the verdict in a statement to reporters outside the courtroom.

Ordu noted that during the trial, the prosecution got multiple threats, but she was happy that justice had won out.

“Justice has been served to the state, the complainant and the convict.

“This will serve as a deterrent to all those who intend to commit the same offence because it is justice for all,” he said.

On his part, counsel for the defendant, Innocent Ekwu, said he and his team would appeal the judgment.

“We, as counsel for the defendant, have decided to appeal the case. We are going to file our notice of appeal as quickly as possible because we have grounds on which we believe that the defendant did not commit the offence,” he said.