Killer pastor, Chidebere Okoroafor of Altar of Solution Church who gruesomely murdered three of his church members in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has confessed before a Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Killer pastor, Chidebere Okoroafor talking to the press

The pastor has narrated to the court how he killed his victims – Ada Concilia Ezenwa, Uluoma Onweagba and 11 months old Christabel Joseph Ezenwa… “I murdered Uloma by strangling her, while Ezenwa died when she hit her chest on the ground after I pushed her. The 11-month-old Christabel, died during the process.”

However, police investigation revealed that Okoroafor allegedly lured his victims to an uncompleted building in a farm in Afam axis of Oyigbo Local Government Area of the state, where he allegedly committed the murder of the three. It was also alleged that the pregnant victim was in a relationship with him before she was murdered alongside the two others.

Be that as it may, Pastor Chidebere Okoroafor is now facing a three-count charge of murder in suit PMC/456c/2018. The charge read: “That you, Pastor Chidebere Okoroafor, on the 11th day of December, 2017, at Izuoma Community, Oyigbo, within the Port Harcourt Magisterial District, did murder one Ada Concilia Ezenwa by strangling her on the neck till she died and, thereby, committed an offence punishable under Section 319(1) of the Criminal Code, Cap 37, Vol. II, Laws of Rivers State Nigeria, 1999.”

“That you, Pastor Chidebere Okoroafor, on the 11th day of December, 2017, at Egberu village, Afam, within the Port Harcourt Magisterial District, did murder one Uluoma Onweagba by strangling her on the neck till she died and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 319(1) of the Criminal Code, Cap 37, Vol. II, Laws of Rivers State Nigeria, 1999.”

“That you, Pastor Chidebere Okoroafor, on the same date and place in the aforesaid magisterial district, did murder one Christabel Joseph Ezenwa, a child of 11 months old, by pushing her off from the back of Uluoma Onweagba to the ground, where she broke her skull, which caused her death and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 319(1) of the Criminal Code, Cap 37, Vol. II, Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria, 1999.”

Meanwhile, Magistrate Kariba Braide, in her ruling has ordered that the accused be remanded in the prison and directed the court prosecution to transmit the case file to the high court, where the accused would be tried accordingly. The case was adjourned till March 27 for mention.