Gospel Singer Caught Stealing SUV In Winners’ Chapel Church.

Everyone else thought when 22-year-old Mr. Samuel
Sunday walked into the Living Faith Church, AKA
‘Winners Chapel,’ located at Sango-Otta, Ogun State,
last week Sunday, he came to worship God – little did
they know he came into the worship centre to steal a
car.
So while the rest of the congregation were singing and
praising God, Sunday was frantically searching for the
perfect vehicle to steal. The perfect vehicle would be
one, whose owner forgot the gate pass inside the car.
Whenever church members were driving into the church
premises, security guards at the gate would give them a
gate pass.
Nobody is allowed to drive in or out of the church
premises without the gate pass. Sunday was almost
giving up hope of ever finding the perfect car, when he
chanced on a Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV).
The owner, apparently in a hurry, left the gate pass in
the car. The hunter crowed joyfully. He had successfully
broken into the car and was struggling to undo the
security device of the car, in order to turn on the
ignition, when a woman sighted and watched him.
When he noticed the woman, he smiled sheepishly,
grimaced at himself and said: “ I have lost my car key .”
He didn’t know the woman was the owner of the car.
Needless to say, Sunday was whisked away by
policemen from Obasanjo Police Station, Ogun State.
After his arrest, Sunday blamed everything on his
action, including his father’s early demise and devil.
The police said:
“Sunday broke one of the rear glasses of the SUV
and forced himself into the driver’s seat. He was
battling with the security device in the vehicle,
when he was discovered.”
The owner of the car, who refused to give her name,
said:
“It happened last week Sunday. We had just
finished the fourth service and decided to eat at
the restaurant. We were still at the restaurant,
when one of our neighbours called that we
should wait for him. He said he wanted to drive
home with us. I told one of my daughters to go
and wait for our neighbour at the point we parked
our car. When she got there, she saw the young
man and rushed back to tell us.”
The woman continued:
“Initially, the suspect didn’t know that the
vehicle was ours. He told us that he owned the
vehicle and that he had lost his key.”
Sunday, who claimed to be 19-year-old and later 22,
described himself as a gospel singer. He also described
himself as an undergraduate and a driver. He said:
“I don t know what came over me. I wanted to
take the vehicle home. It has been long I left
home. I’m behaving this way because my father
died when I was very young.
I have not gone to my mother’s house in
Lamgbasa, Ajah for some time. I have been
staying with my nephew. I wanted to go back
home with the vehicle.”
A police source at Obasanjo Police Station, said:
“The suspect is a car thief! We recovered wraps of
Indian hemp from him. He went to the church just
for the purpose of stealing a car from the park.
We found out that he had moved round the
parking lot before he finally saw the SUV. The
owner left the gate pass inside the vehicle. He
wouldn’t have been allowed to drive the vehicle
out of the premises without the gate pass.