Winners Chapel Pastor slaughtered in cold blood

– From Mr Ifeanyi Nwanganga –

The entire members of the Living Faith Church, also known as Winners’ Chapel Owerri and the Ibekwe family of Umuokoro Lude Ahiara in Ahiazu Mbaise Local Government of Imo State have been thrown into deep sorrow and mourning following the gruesome murder of Pastor Chibuzor Ibekwe by unknown assassins on Sunday 6th March 2011 at about 8:45am.

Narrating the incident, the elder brother of the deceased, Mr.
Chijioke Ibekwe said that his Late Pastor younger brother invited him
on Saturday evening to come home and worship with him at his new
parish in Mbaise which he promised him that he would attend, pointing
out he became uncomfortable when he got to the church on Sunday
morning around 8:25am only for his brother to be absent in the
service. Mr. Ibekwe who resides in Owerri Municipal said that he
became too worried why his brother was absent but had to stay till the
end of the service.

According to him, “After this service, I rushed home only to see crowd
of people in our compound, I thought that may be one of our aged
mother’s has died but I was shocked to see my own younger brother,
Pastor Chibuzor Ibekwe in his own pool of blood in our parlour. The
assassins tied his hands and strangled him to death.

Mr. Ibekwe who has to stop speaking to fight back tears maintained
that: “my younger brother was never involved in politics and he hardly
offend people, everybody in our community loved him because of his
uprightness and kindness. I immediately alerted the police at Ahiazu
Mbaise. I’m yet to know or discover the rationale behind the painful
murder of my younger brother. What is the sin of the Pastor Ibekwe
that made them to kill him like a goat; the people that killed him
also broke into his rooms and removed all his C of O and other
valuable documents including a laptop”.

Pastor Chibuzor Ibekwe who owns a big fish pond in his community until
his death was the Pastor in-charge of Winners Chapel Emekuku before he
was transferred to Pastor Ahiazu Mbaise Parish. As of the time of
going to press, the remains of Pastor Chibuzor Ibekwe has been
deposited at Holy Rosary Hospital Morgue Ogbor, Nguru Aboh Mbaise by
the Ahiazu Mbaise Police Division as Police Officers from D2 State
police force headquarters are investigating the case.