Court remands pastor in prison for allegedly turning abducted girls into sex slaves

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.