SATANIC IMPOSTOR
•Man who poses as pastor to rob churches in police net
Thursday, April 17, 2008

A 32-year-old man in Lagos State, John Jerome, who the police accused of presenting himself as a pastor only to rob churches with his gang members, is now in the police net.

Jerome, a native of Ogori in Kogi State and members of his robbery gang, were also fingered by the police for most of the robbery attacks on the Lagos – Ibadan expressway, using police uniforms.





For instance, when the suspect was arrested, he was found putting on black polo with the inscription, "Raider SCID Panti," exclusively worn by detectives at the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID), Panti, Yaba, Lagos.

According to the police, the gang’s mode of operation was to visit churches, listen to sermons, interact with members after church services, thereby monitoring the finance of the church before robbery operation.

The suspect was on a similar mission in a church at Somolu, Lagos, before the bubble burst.

Daily Sun gathered that Jerome had been worshipping in the church for about seven weeks before the church received revelation about a wolf in sheep’s clothing among them.

It was further learnt that based on the revelation, Jerome and the church workers were asked by the pastor of the church to stay behind where he was confronted on his mission to the church.

Members of the church were, however, shocked to the marrows to see the police polo shirt when the suspect was asked to remove his shirt and tie.

According to him, the police uniform was for robbery operation as it was used mainly to deceive victims.

He confessed belonging to a robbery gang that had been operating in churches, adding that he had earlier been arrested and set free for undisclosed reason.

He also confessed how the gang forged a letter, using The Redeemed Christian Church of God letter-head and sending same to any pastor or church the gang targeted to rob.

In such a letter, members of the gang would tell their would-be victims that Jerome was a pastor who was endowed with talents that could be tapped from and later request the church to assist him in any way possible.

Daily Sun was told that when his request was eventually granted, he would send a text message purportedly from RCCG, thanking the pastor for assisting "pastor John."

The suspect, it was further learnt, would be very active in the church in such a way that every member of the church would notice his "zeal" for God.

The suspect explained that the ploy was to monitor the church programmes, especially, the financial transactions. He said while in the church, he would keep members of the church abreast of developments in the church in readiness for possible robbery attack.

But his activities in the church at Somolu aroused the suspicion of the pastor. According to the pastor, when he came to the church with the letter from a pastor from RCCG, he also told him he he was looking for a job and handed over his CV to him. Within a short time, he came and told the pastor that he would like to get married to an usherette who is also in charge of the church finances. The pastor asked him why he should be talking of marriage when he is still looking for work.

He was said to have sent a prophetic text message to the lady, to expect a husband before the end of the month, using the name, Pastor Amos. Nobody knew him as Amos. The lady was said to have told her pastor of the curious prophetic message she had received from one Pastor Amos she had never seen nor met.

By divine insight, the pastor opened the text message he received from the RCCG Pastor thanking him for accepting John into his fold and surprisingly it was the same phone number.

And that was how the church immediately handed the suspect over to the police. At the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja, (SARS) where the suspect was detained, the officer in charge told Daily Sun that he had earlier been arrested for robbing a church.

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hmm!
These people have employed all methods.

Poverty, joblessness etc can make men perform wonders.

Modifications with loads of mistakes,using the same cell number,this is what happens when people are pushed to the wall.

Prophecy gone digital,jesus will be amazed.

Prophecy gone digital,jesus will be amazed.

Jesus will not be amazed, He said it over 2000 years ago.

Cadet:

From sick patients to inheritance to pastors! this people won't give up! Only if they put same effort in trying to earn money the right way!

i agree completely,these people will have done wonders if their brain s channeled towards positive endeavours with government backing and basic welfare programmes

Government backing and basic welfare programmes my foot.
Do you really believe there are no criminals in welfare countries?
Criminals will always be criminals unless they are caught and punished.

well then guess you should check out the amount of criminals in a cosmopolitan area like new york and london and see if welfare makes a diffrence or not, of course there are criminals everywhere but the teenagers in kirikiri awaiting trial or the yahoo yahoo boys who are prolly in some cell or maximum prison now will have done better if they had basic welfare like health,unemployment e.t.c and brand new graduates as well with free or affordable housing subsidized by govt, give me an example of one country where the packing and destroying of criminals has deterred or eliminated crime

Seun:

Government backing and basic welfare programmes my foot.
Do you really believe there are no criminals in welfare countries?
Criminals will always be criminals unless they are caught and punished.

There are lots that have been caught and punished and still turned out to be more hardened. I think the Capital Punishment should be the solution. I could remember the "Jungle Justice",there were lesser cases of armed robbery compared to now when the "law" has taken over.

well then guess you should check out the amount of criminals in a cosmopolitan area like new york and london and see if welfare makes a diffrence or not, of course there are criminals everywhere but the teenagers in kirikiri awaiting trial or the yahoo yahoo boys who are prolly in some cell or maximum prison now will have done better if they had basic welfare like health,unemployment e.t.c and brand new graduates as well with free or affordable housing subsidized by govt, give me an example of one country where the packing and destroying of criminals has deterred or eliminated crime

I disagree, I don't know about London but the number of criminals in NY are more than the whole criminals in West Africa and not Nigeria alone.

There are lots that have been caught and punished and still turned out to be more hardened. I think the Capital Punishment should be the solution. I could remember the "Jungle Justice",there were lesser cases of armed robbery compared to now when the "law" has taken over

Capital punishment for what? In this age and time?

Needlelady:

I disagree, I don't know about London but the number of criminals in NY are more than the whole criminals in West Africa and not Nigeria alone.

we are saying the same thing actually,the other dude,disagreed with me because i said welfare makes a difference and i was tryna say in a multi cultural city like london where there are more welfare packages, there are less criminals than a multi cultural city like new york where they do not have as much welfare packages, i used an example of london and new york because of their diffrence even though they r both in the western world and both a melting pot of diffrent ethnicities,cultures e.t.c

that guy looks so pathethic, poor him

all nigeria pastor now preach is money , what do they expect people in their churches to become,  Good or bad,  Nobody is bother about  old time religion.

Churches in Nigeria or by Nigeria have to go back to the real teaching of Jesus. they have gone away from the truth. What ever you feed people that is what they would become. If you look at our society our leaders are reflection of who we are. They are thief, because the rest of us most be thief. If a society uphold truth, the society would be better.

We worship money in Nigeria. Look have billion like Dagote. The moment you die. IT is over.  i remember pastor ekor mfom also  caught a thief in freedom hall those day. robbing people too, this time a lady.

It's unfair to lump them together like that, some pastors are still focused and preach the word. Kumiyi, Anselm mado(something), Ezekiel, Tunde Bakare, Adeboye etc still preach the word.

AHAAAHHHHH with nigeria we will see all kind of funny shits AAAAhhh a Crook as pastor what kind of bible he holds right Hand gun left hand Bible trouser crook uniform shirt monk robe Ahha

Dog eat dog.A vicious circle,a way of life,it is just the beginning,until people learn to do the right thing,chaos will prevail.

Think about the french revolution,the russian,what led to them was not as bad as what is happening in africa today.

A hungry man is an angry man.There is no system in place.

if u want to hear the real, unadulterated word of God, then go to that corner chruch not too far from urs. u know that guy that guy that wakes u up very early in the morning to preach? thats the guy u r meant to listen to? u know the church that organisez evngelism? that is the church u need to attend. make una forget all the hip hop and funky churches