Pastor gets church member arrested after confessing to offering theft of N450K

After making confession a confession to his pastor about stealing N450K from church’s offering box some months ago, man gets arrested and asked to refund every penny.

A Twitter user identified as dexterouz11 took to the microblogging platform to share the tale of a church member’s theft while he was a worker.

Even though he was never caught, conscience pricked him enough to make a confession to the presiding pastor of the church.

The clergyman had him locked up pending a refund of the money regardless of whether he came out clean or not.

“One of my neighbours go confess to pastor say em thief money when E be worker for the church. N450k for about 3 months. This pastor arrest am. He won’t come out till his family raises the money. So do you think he did the right thing🤷🤷🤷???” the user wrote.

Reactions trailing pastor who arrested church member for stealing

abgacollins said: “That pastor is wicked. This will discourage people from confessing in church. He would have found another way.”

destinypaul6 commented: “450k in this economy? Them suppose arrest your family join o.”

jujju666 said: “A church should be a place of refuge. A pastor has no justification to call the police on someone.”

sarahhh reacted: “Hmmm this one pass me.”