Man in police custody for stealing phones during prayer session in church

macfranc007 October 17, 2018 Nigeria News today & Breaking news ▷ Read Naija news 24/7 Adunni Amodeni

A man identified as James Adida has been arrested for stealing phones while the congregation closed their eyes during a prayer session. This took place on Sunday, October 14, at Excess Power of God Church located at Ipaja area of Lagos.

One of the victims Chinasa Akanazu went to church with her two phones and kept them inside her bag by her side during the service. The suspect, Adida, was also in the church, pretended to have come for service and sat beside Akanazu during the service.

It was gathered that when it was time for prayers, the presiding Pastor directed the congregation to close their eyes and go deep in prayer over their problems. Both the victim and Adida closed their eyes as directed by the pastor. However, in the middle of the prayer, Adida opened his eyes while Chinasa was still praying with her eyes closed. He opened her bag, stole her two android phones and escaped from the church.

When the young lady opened her bag, she did not see her phones and immediately raised an alarm which made the church security to go after Adida who had almost escaped from the church premises and they recovered the phones. He was then handed over to the police for his conduct in the church.

It was further reported that Adida confessed that he did not go to the church for prayers but was there to steal phones and sell them in order to raise some money to solve his personal problems. He was later charged before the Ogba Magistrates court for stealing in the place of worship and remanded in prison custody at Kirikiri, Lagos.

However, the incident shocked the members of the church as they no longer close their eyes completely during prayer sessions.

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NAIJ.com earlier reported that a video where a young man was spotted stealing has gone viral on social media. He was caught expertly stealing a phone right in front of the owner in the midst of people in a store.

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