Court jails pastor for allegedly turning abducted girls into sex slavesń

A Makurdi Magistrates’ Court on Thursday
remanded a cleric, Elijah Ebimone, in
prison for allegedly abducting three girls
and turning them into sex slaves.
Ebimone, 32, is facing a two-count charge
of abduction and causing miscarriage,
punishable under Sections 274 and 233 of
the Penal Code, Laws of Benue State, 2004.
The Magistrate, Mrs Theresa Wergba,
ordered the remand of the accused and
adjourned the matter till Dec. 28 for further
mention.
Her action followed the application for
adjournment made by the Prosecutor,
Inspector Daniel Suende, who said that
investigation by the police was ongoing.
Suende told the court that a team of
detectives led by Inspector Attai Sule,
attached to the State CID, Makurdi, received
information about the activities of the
cleric on Oct. 20.
He said that the detectives immediately
launched an investigation into the matter
and arrested the accused.
The prosecutor said that Ebimone, who
claimed to be a prophet, had been
abducting young girls and using them as
sex slaves.
He said that the cleric went all the way to
Delta last June and abducted one Victory
Mieturda, Dolor Dinah and Esther Young
and brought them to Makurdi.
Suende said that the man had deceived the
girls’ parents into believing that he was
assisting the girls to travel to Ukraine to
seek greener pasture.
“However, they got to Makurdi and he
turned them into sex slaves impregnating
all of them at different times and also
causing them to miscarry the pregnancies,’’
the prosecutor said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports
that when the case was called, the court
did not take the plea of the accused
because it lacked jurisdiction.