The General Overseer of Winds of Liberation Prophetic Church, Amagu Ugwu Road, Gariki, Enugu State, Pastor Samuel Emenike Orji, was on Tuesday arraigned before an Enugu Magistrate’s Court in a sex scandal currently rocking the church.
The pastor allegedly promised to marry him, got her pregnant in the process, but refused to go ahead with the marriage proposal and wanted her to abort the baby.
The two-count charge of which the pastor pleaded not guilty to indicated that the defendant in April 2020 did with intent to procure an abortion on Miss Onyema Gift Chinenye, by giving her N10,000.
He was also alleged to have threatened Chinenye that she must abort the pregnancy which he was responsible for and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 214 of the Criminal Code Cap 30 Vol II Revised Law of Enugu State of Nigeria, 2004.
Part of the second charge reads thus:
“That you Pastor Samuel O. Emenike threatened to kill her (Miss Chinenye Gift Onyema) and wipe away her family if she tells anyone that you are responsible for the pregnancy she is carrying and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 120 (a) of the Criminal Code Cap 30 Vol II revised laws of Enugu State, 2004”
Magistrate J. I. Agu, after listening to the charges, granted the defendant bail at the sum of N500,000 with one surety. The case was adjourned to October 16, for hearing.
