The Cross River State Police Command on Saturday said it has arrested one Mr. Hossana Okoi, Senior Pastor of Gate of Testimony Church, for allegedly raping a lady and threatening to kill her if she tells anyone, Igbere TV reports.
The police also said it arrested a 400-level student of Medicine and Surgery, University of Calabar, Nnamdi Kingsley Ikezue, for allegedly being in possession of arms and military uniform.
It said the student confessed to being a member of a secret cult.
Igbere TV learnt the student told police that the locally-made pistol found on him was for protection.
Okoi and Ikezue were among 25 suspects paraded by the state command for various crimes in Cross River state capital.
The State Commissioner of Police, Austen Agbonlahor said Okoi, who claimed that his church was located in Sierra Leone, was arrested after a lady reported that a pastor, who was supposed to pray for her, had raped and threatened her with a gun not to divulge the incident to anyone.
But Okoi denied any wrong doing, saying that he only took the lady to a wedding and later to a drinking joint.
He said the lady was only framing him up, insisting that he didn’t take her anywhere aside the joint.
On his part, Ikezue who said he was a student of Military School, Zaria before coming to UNICAL, confessed that he was a cultist and was using the locally-made pistol to protect himself.
The police commissioner appealed to parents to monitor their wards, stressing that the police would do everything to rid the society of criminals.
