Convicted Ondo Pastor Friday Okeneji reveals why he stole

 An Akure Magistrate’s Court has convicted a 29-year old pastor, Friday Okeneji for stealing.

The Pastor was sentenced to two years after he was found guilty for breaking into a shop and stealing some chemical substances worth N130,000.

Pastor Okeneji is the presiding pastor of a church in Iwaro Oka Akoko, Ondo State.

It was gathered that Okeneji committed the offences on July 2, 2023, at Iwaro Oka Akoko in Ondo State.

Okeneji while pleading guilty to the two-count charge read to him, confessed that he committed the offence to survive.

He said he had no means of livelihood, forcing him to commit the offence.

In his words:

 “I had to pay N150,000 for my mother’s burial coming up in August and I have no means of getting the money.”

The Trial magistrate, Damilola Sekoni, in her judgement convicted Okeneji on a two-count charge, adding that the prison term will run concurrently with an option of N100,000 fine.

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She further enjoined the now convicted pastor to turn a new leaf and live a righteous life, urging him to imbibe true Christian attributes of hard-work and be prayerful as stated in the scriptures.