Founder and Senior Pastor of the Tongue of Fire Harvest International Ministry at Dele Adegboye Street in Yetunde Brown area of Ifako, Lagos State, Pastor Promise Nkanga, has been arrested for marriage scam.
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Nkango, who hails from Uyo, the Akwa-Ibom State capital conned his victim (name withheld), a female member of his church, out of N850,000.00, The Sun reported.
The paper said that it happened that the 43-year-old self-acclaimed evangelical pastor promised to marry his victim who he was having affair with but after collecting the said sum for their wedding, reneged on his promise and severed ties with her.
The report added that investigation revealed it was Nkango’s trade in stock to swindle women under the pretext of wanting to marry them.
“In July, I gave him N400, 000 to start wedding plans and securing an accommodation at Ikorodu for us. But two weeks later, he started telling me that his aged father is ill and that he wants to use the money to treat him. I didn’t object,” she told the paper.
The publication added that Nkanga on September came up to tell her of another apartment at Ikorodu that would cost N300, 000, which she gave to him.
“He collected another N150, 000 from for the rent. It was at that point I began to ask him why he keeps coming to me to collect money for rent, and why he can’t even strive to raise at least part of the money. But he got angry and told me that at his place it is a taboo for women to query their men. He took the money from me and paid for the house in his name.
“After using my money to pay the rent, his attitude changed. He started being nasty to me, and making plans to move into the house alone. That was when I understood that he is a fraudster.
“On February, I came to his house to ask him why his attitude has suddenly changed towards me. It was then he told me that members of his church are complaining that I’m too proud and do not rapport well with them. He also told me that his father and relations have ordered him not to marry me again, and that even his uncle based in Lagos said that our marriage would be over his dead body,” she said.
