One Paul Morah, a minister at Enyibichiri people group in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State has been captured for supposedly debasing more than 24 male youngsters.
His casualties are said to be between the ages of 12 and 17 years, New Telegraph reports.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, DSP George Okafor, who affirmed the report on Wednesday, said he would brief columnists when examination was finished up.
The PPRO said Morah, who hails from Orji River in Enugu State and guaranteed to be a reverend with Anglican Church, was on a peaceful mission in Ebonyi.
It was charged that he utilized an insidious hanky to bait a portion of the youngsters, particularly the individuals who attempted to oppose him.
The PPRO said, "We know about the matter. It has recently been exchanged from Ikwo Police Division to the central station.
"We are as yet exploring the matter. In any case, most recent tomorrow, we will return to press."
Talking on the occurrence, the group town union president, Hon. Nwoba Sylvanus, said, "It was in the early hours of yesterday morning that one of my directors, Sunday Nwibo, of a sub-ward called me and conveyed the data to me.
"I let him know he ought to go and orchestrate some young men to go to the man and capture the man for him to be given over to the police for examination. At that hour it happened, we just recognized four youngsters – the most established is around 17 years.
"One of them is in essential six, two are in JSS II and the other one is in JSS III. Be that as it may, from the examination of the divisional cop at Noyo intersection, the kids are up to 24 now."
Prior, the Coordinator of Ikwo East Development Center, Hon. Chinedu Ogbuoji, affirmed the occurrence and portrayed it as terrible.
Ogbuoji said, "The episode is a woeful one on the grounds that nowadays some individuals shroud themselves under the umbrella of religion to execute fiendish.
"He let us know that his name is Paul Morah from Enugu State. He guaranteed to be a minister yet when we cross examined him further, he said he spent just three weeks in the congregation before he was suspended by the Anglican Church in Enyibichiri people group.
"Individuals from my zone reported the episode to me and I mediated with the backing of the town union pioneer and the adolescent.
"We went there; he was captured and gave over to the police. We need to guarantee you of more examination. A portion of the youngsters asserted they are individuals from the congregation. No one realized what he used to bait the youngsters however we heard that now and again, he utilizes malicious cloth to draw them."
"He let us know that he is a minister in Anglican Church however when one of the ministers of Anglican Church was reached, he said they have suspended him for more than three months.
"The minister said when he came to them, in the wake of watching him; they found he was fake and was not working in accordance with the tenets of the congregation," the facilitator expressed.
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