A pastor, identified as Kingsley Amayo, has been
arrested by the police in Edo state in connection
with the death of his wife, Faith Amayo.
arrested by the police in Edo state in connection
with the death of his wife, Faith Amayo.
The deceased’s family had written a petition to the
Zone 5 Police Headquarters in Benin, Edo State,
alleging questionable circumstances surrounding the
death of their daughter.
The police swooped into action and reportedly
arrested Amayo, the pastor of a popular Pentecostal
church in Uromi town, Esan North-East Local
Government Area of the state.
He was arrested alongside three other pastors of
the church.
The Zonal Public Relations Officer, ZPRO, DSP
Emeka Iheanacho, who confirmed the arrests to
newsmen in the state on Thursday, said the
discrepancies in the report made to the police on
the death of the 38-year-old woman informed the
investigation.
According to him, a case of motor accident was
reported at Ekpoma Police Division by the pastor
while the family of the deceased wrote a petition to
the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in the
zone, alleging murder.
Iheanacho said, “The matter was reported at the
Edo State Command where initially they were
investigating a fatal motor accident, before the
family of the late woman, Faith Amayo initiated a
petition to the office of the Assistant Inspector-
General of Police alleging foul play.
“So the petition before AIG is from the family of the
deceased where they suspected that the husband
must have used the woman for ritual. So, that is the
matter we are investigating presently.
“Officials of the Zone 5 Police Headquarters
arrested Amayo and three other pastor of his church
which will not be named until investigations are
complete.
“The investigating team will unravel the
circumstances of the woman’s death,” the ZPRO
assured.
Speaking before newsmen, the embattled brother of
the deceased, Engineer Fidelis Evbuomwan, said
the deceased who was yet to have a child was
properly married to Pastor Kingsley Amayo in 2011.
He said, “On Tuesday, July 26, 2016, Pastor
Kingsley Amayo had through his elder brother, one
Chief Iso, informed the family that their daughter,
Mrs Faith Amayo, had died in a motor accident at
Ujogba, while her husband was driving her to Benin
City.
“We had to instruct our lawyer to initiate a petition
when Amayo gave conflicting accounts of how our
sister, his wife died in an accident he was also
involved in.
“Our findings revealed that no case of accident was
recorded at Ujogba nor reported at Ekpoma Police
Division in charge of the area that fateful day.
“There was no report of the other vehicle which was
allegedly involved in the head-on collision with
Pastor Amayo’s Sienna car.
“Who rescued them and the hospital where my
sister was pronounced dead, who embalmed her
corpse before she was taken to mortuary in Uromi?
“Why was it not reported to the police or why did
they not wait for her family members to see her,” he
quizzed as he appealed to concerned authorities to
ensure that justice prevail in the matter.
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