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Post by Wayne Smith on Dec 12, 2020 12:19:43 GMT 10
Court jails Genesis Parish televangelist for fraudIsreal Ogundipe, a popular televangelist and the head Genesis Parish of the Celestial Church of Christ, Alagbado, Lagos has been jailed for a year by an Ikeja High Court for unlawfully converting a woman’s property and stealing. Ogundipe, who has been on trial since 2011, was charged with seven counts of obtaining by stealing, inducing delivery of money by false pretences, unlawful conversion of property and forgery. Delivering the judgement, Justice Olabisi Akinlade found the prophet not guilty of five counts of stealing, inducing delivery of money by false pretences, giving false information to a public officer forgery. She, however, found him guilty of two-count of stealing and unlawful conversion of property not delivered and sentenced him to a year in prison on each count. The judge ordered that he should pay the complainant, a London-based architect, Mrs Oladele Williams-Oni the sum of N11 million which he illegally obtained from her.
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