{"id":7448,"date":"2012-02-24T08:58:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T08:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=7448"},"modified":"2012-02-24T08:58:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T08:58:56","slug":"3-nigerian-pastor-held-in-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/24\/3-nigerian-pastor-held-in-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Nigerian Pastor held in Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bible-study.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bible-study.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bible study\" width=\"276\" height=\"182\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7129\" \/><\/a>The police in Lilongwe, Malawi on Monday arrested a Nigerian pastor who was reportedly making some predictions in the city.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Daily Times of Malawi the pastor identifed as Sunday Chikwui was in the process of fortune-telling and collecting money from his victims when he was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Chikwui, who ministers for DAPP Ministry International, was released the same day on police bail.<\/p>\n<p>Central Region police spokesman John Namalenga confirmed the arrest of Chikwui on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He said Chikwui was making the prophecies at different places in the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can confirm that Chikwui was arrested on Monday by Fiscal Police at Capital Hotel where he booked a room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is being accused of soliciting money from people who were attending his prayers. The people were paying for the predictions he was making about their lives,\u201d Namalenga said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the police managed to confiscate K711,345 (Malawian Kwacha) from the Nigerian pastor.<\/p>\n<p>According to Namalenga, Chukwui has been charged with the offence of obtaining money by false pretence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police in Lilongwe, Malawi on Monday arrested a Nigerian pastor who was reportedly making some predictions in the city. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[836,258,968,1637],"class_list":["post-7448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-arrested","tag-malawi","tag-nigeria","tag-pastor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}