A cleric from the Celestial Church of Christ, Alpha and Omega, Ashipa Parish 4 has been remanded in Kirikiri Correction Centre by a magistrate’s court in Yaba, Lagos State, for allegedly poisoning two siblings, Michael and Mahoklo Agbah, to death near the Seme Border in the state’s Badagry region.
Oshoffa was remanded on Wednesday by Magistrate Patrick Nwaka after being charged with three murder-related offences.
The pastor, along with two other accomplices, is accused of poisoning the siblings before having them brought to his parish for spiritual deliverance.
The prosecutor, Thomas Nurudeen, told the court that the defendant did not only prepare the concoction using deadly chemicals which he knew were harmful to the children but gave them to drink in the name of dispossessing them of an evil spirit.
Nurudeen said Oshoffa committed the offence on June 18, 2023, at his church’s premises, adding that the offence contravened Section 222 and was punishable under Section 223 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The charge read in part, “That you, David Oshoffa, and two others at large, on June 18, 2023, at Celestial Church of Christ, Alpha and Omega, Ashipa Parish 4, Seme Border, Lagos State, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did unlawfully kill one Michael Agba, 12, Mahoklo Agbah, 8, by poisoning them with a concoction containing black soap and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 222 and punishable under Section 223 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015.”
Meanwhile, the defendant’s plea was not taken in court.
The prosecutor prayed the court to remand the defendant pending the outcome of the legal advice from the office of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions.
Granting the prosecutor’s request, Nwaka ordered the remand of the defendant to the Kirikiri Correctional Centre and adjourned the case till August 4, 2023.
