2 Pastors arrested for killing landlord

 Two pastors, Chuckwuka Stephen 43, and Ejim Stephen have been arrested for allegedly killing their brother-in-law, Peter Chukwuyem. The deceased, a brother- Inlaw, was married to the elder sister of the two suspects. He brought the suspects from their village in Delta State to Papa Ibafo in Ogun State to live with him and their sister. A senior police officer told Cornerstone News that: ” While they were living with the deceased,  they were using the frontage of his    for their church activities, but when  their conduct was no longer pleasant to their in-law,  he sent them away from the place .”

Sending away did not go down well with the pastors who started  planning how to kill him . On February  5, of February ,  the deceased went to his farm with two of his teenage daughters in the morning and met the suspects in  the farm  ,because of the presence of the two girls,  they were unable to do anything to him for fear of being exposed.”    In the evening of the same day,  the deceased went back to the farm alone,  and the suspects who had  been waiting for him in  the farm accosted him and  matcheted  him to death.

“It was when the deceased didn’t returned on time that his wife traced him to the farm where she discovered his dead body . She subsequently went to  Ibafo police station where she lodged a complaint. The two brothers were later arrested by the police at Ibafo on the statement of the  deceased’s two daughters who informed the police that they saw their uncles  earlier in their father’s farm “. 
Police Public Relations Officer( PPRO) in the state , DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi said , ” On  interrogation,  the suspects denied killing their brother in-law,  but when they were confronted by the two daughters of the deceased,  they confessed killing the deceased in his farm because he deprived them of using his frontage for their church activities.

” The corpse  was subsequently removed and deposited at the General Hospital mortuary for post mortem examination. Meanwhile,  the Commissioner of Police CP Ahmed Iliyasu has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to the  Homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation and intelligence Department( SCIID)  for proper investigation and prosecution”,