Pastor Felix Otulukwu has been arrested and charged before Igbosere magistrate ’s court after the police allegedly discovered seven suspected stolen vehicles parked inside his church for sale .
PM NEWS gathered that the estimated value of the stolen vehicles found in the church was over N 30m .
According to the police , the suspect opened a church in Agbor , Delta state and was using the premises to hide stolen vehicles which he reworked and sell to innocent people .
The arrest and arraignment followed, after his manager informed the police at Zone 2 of Otulukwu’ s alleged activities of using his church premises as park for selling stolen vehicles .
Following the report , the police went into the church and recovered the suspected vehicles .
Among the vehicles recovered from Pastor Otulukwu include two Toyota Hilux worth Over N15 m . Two Toyota Camry worth N 3m , Toyota Hiace bus worth N 15 m and Toyota High lander worth N 3m .
The police alleged that in February 2015, Otulukwu and others conspired and stole a Camry car at 24 Ondo street in Oke Ina in Ogba , Lagos which belonged to one Emmanuel Imo and escaped .
The police also alleged that Otulukwu sometime in February 2015 at Demeru road in Ketu did receive a suspected stolen Toyota hilux and other vehicles worth millions of naira .
According to police , to conceal the act , he allegedly presented some documents which the police , during investigation discovered to be fake .
When Otulukwu was arraigned , he pleaded not guilty .
The presiding Magistrate , Mrs S . K . Matepo granted him bail in the sum of N1 m with two sureties in like sum.
He was remanded in prison custody at Ikoyi pending when he will perfect his bail .
The matter was adjourned till 9 December 2015.
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