A United Kingdom (UK)-based cleric, Pastor Paul-Kayode Joash has been remanded in the correctional facility, Agodi, Ibadan for allegedly defrauding three persons of N305 million.
   
Joash, who is the Senior Pastor, The Great House Nation Church, located at former BJ Rentals building, bordering Sango cemetery, Ibadan, allegedly collected the huge sum from the three people. 
   
The fund was meant to procure certificates of sponsorship for those intending to migrate to the UK for healthcare jobs.
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The cleric was arrested in his church by the police following a report by the victims.
  
He was said to have charged between £3,500 and £5,500 per candidate but failed to provide the certificates after one year. He was said to have been sneaking in and out of Nigeria to escape those he allegedly defrauded.   

Joash was arraigned on by the police before a Magistrate’s court in Ibadan on October 30,  
   
He was arraigned on a 10-count charge bordering on obtaining money under pretence, an offence which is punishable under criminal code of the laws of the state.
   
The police alleged that he obtained a sum of N134,823,750 from a victim; N30 million from another; N135,177,750 from one and N5,881,000 from another victim totalling N305,882,500.
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