Popular Nigerian Pastor In Serious Trouble as Siblings Seeking Spiritual Deliverance Dies
David Oshoffa, a pastor with the Celestial Church of Christ, Alpha and Omega, Ashipa Parish 4, has been detained at the Kirikiri Correction Centre.
A Magistrates’ Court in Yaba, Lagos State, remanded him for allegedly poisoning two siblings, Michael and Mahoklo Agbah, to death near the Seme Border in the Badagry region of the state.
Magistrate Patrick Nwaka remanded Oshoffa on Wednesday after he was charged on three counts bordering on murder.
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When the siblings were escorted to the cleric’s parish for spiritual deliverance, he allegedly poisoned them along with two escaping accomplices.
The prosecution, Thomas Nurudeen, told the court that the defendant not only prepared the cocktail with lethal ingredients that he knew were hazardous to the youngsters, but also offered them to drink in the name of exorcising an evil spirit.
Nurudeen stated that Oshoffa committed the act on June 18, 2023, in his church’s premises, and that the offence violated Section 222 and was punished under Section 223 of the Lagos State Criminal Law, 2015.
The charge read in part, “That you, David Oshoffa, and two others at large, on June 18, 2023, at Celestial Church of Christ, Alpha and Omega, Ashipa Parish 4, Seme Border, Lagos State, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did unlawfully kill one Michael Agba, 12, Mahoklo Agbah, 8, by poisoning them with a concoction containing black soap and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 222 and punishable under Section 223 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015.”
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Meanwhile, the defendant did not enter a plea in court.
The prosecutor asked the court to hold the prisoner pending the outcome of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions’ legal guidance.
Nwaka granted the prosecutor’s plea and sent the defendant to the Kirikiri Correctional Centre, adjourning the case until August 4, 2023.
