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The General Overseer of the Divine Chosen Vine Church, Dr. Godwin Chukwudire, was shocked on Monday morning when he entered church to collect about N1.5m, which was used to sow seed by members during Church service only to discover that the money was no longer in the offering box.
        According to reports, one of the teenage workers 18-year old Elikor Ehud and one Lucky allegedly conspired, sneaked into the church in the evening, broke the seed offering box and carted away the whole money. Thereafter they lodged in a popular hotel known as High Power Point in Ejigbo and squandered the money. The incident happened at Church’s headquarters located at Furniture Avenue, Jakande Estate, Ejigbo area of Lagos. The alleged theft was reported to the Police at Ejigbo Division. The Police officers, led by CSP Olabisi Okuwobi, moved into action and arrested Ehud while his accomplice, Lucky, escaped and is now at large. The suspect, Ehud, confessed to the Police and explained that the thought to steal the money came to him when the Church organized special prayer and he was in the prayer camp for five days before they carried out the operation. He reportedly revealed that he knew that there was huge sum of money in the offering box because many of their members sowed seed on Sunday during Church service. So, they sneaked into the Church on Monday, broke the box and stole the money. After we stole the money, we lodged in a hotel and I used part of the money to buy phone worth N120,000, clothes and other needs before I escaped to River State. However, Ehud said that the money was not up to N1.5m as claimed by the Church because he got his share of N370,000 while Lucky got N300,000. Ehud was brought to the Court to be arraigned before he was taken back to the Police Station in order to be arraigned later because the Court did not sit on Wednesday.