An Assemblies of God Church Pastor, Esom Jehovah,
and his 21-year-old daughter reportedly stabbed a trainee
nurse, Callista, who approached the pastor over a missing phone battery
and charger a neighbor gave to her to charge, to death.
It was
gathered that the Pastor reacted angrily to the confrontation that
happened in Umuohiagu Autonomous Community of Ngor Okpala Local
Government Area of Imo state, with his daughter running to the house to
fetch a knife with which the Pastor stabbed the deceased with, who bled
and died on the spot.
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A boy in the compound had given the deceased a phone battery and
charger to assist him recharge it, but Pastor Esom Jehovah’s first
daughter stole the items, which were later found in her custody five
days after.
“But the Pastor reacted
angrily to the allegation against his daughter and beat up the deceased
mercilessly before his daughter went and picked a kitchen knife and
stuck it deep into her back while her father held her down” an
eyewitness said.
Though his daughter is currently on
the run, the Pastor who almost fled after stabbing Callista with the
knife that pierced through her back and came out through her chest, was
arrested by policemen attached to the Umuneke Ngor Divisional Police
Station.
The victim’s corpse has been deposited at the Holy Rosary Hospital morgue.