Federick Ugah, a robbery suspect arrested in Nasarawa State, has said clerics are his targets after a Catholic priest frustrated him for not agreeing to his sex entreaties.
Ugah was arrested by the Nasarawa State Police Command allegedly snatching a car from a reverend father.
Narrating his ordeal, the suspect said he had to drop out of the university as a 400 level student of Law after his frustrations at the hands of a Catholic reverend father he served in Kaduna.
According to him, he lost his parents at a tender age and decided to serve reverend fathers as an altar boy so that in return, they would help him to foot his education bills to achieve his ambition of becoming a lawyer.
He noted that he served in Kogi and Abuja dioceses before he moved to Kaduna State, where his life turned around for the worst.
Ugah explained that had first secured admission at the University of Abuja to study English before he secured another one at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria to study Law. He, however, stated that his ambition was thwarted by a particular priest who was sponsoring him because he refused his request to have sex with him.
He claimed that the priest, whose identity he did not disclose, subsequently stopped sponsoring his education. He stated that there were further repercussions as to frustrate him out of the Catholic Church by falsely accusing him of stealing some money belonging to the parish.
“I have vowed to deal with reverend fathers across the country. They are my target and I will continue to rob them of money and snatch their cars,” Ugah told The Nation.
“I served many of them in Abuja and Kaduna as a house help and they were helping to sponsor my education up to final year Law at the Ahmadu Bello University.
“I initially got admission to study English at the University of Abuja, but my choice was Law.
“In my 200 level, I got a fresh admission in ABU to study Law and was at ABU up to 400 level before I met my frustration.
“I have always been a good boy, going by the fact that my parents are not alive. I grow up in the Catholic Church, but my decision to become a reverend father was opposed by my parents before they died.
“I decided that I would become a lawyer when I grew up. That was why I left the University of Abuja as a 200-level English student to start all over again at ABU.
“My life had been to serve reverend fathers. I washed their clothes, cooked for them and served as their altar boy while they helped to sponsor my education
“I was in Abuja with them before I moved to Kaduna State when I got admission in ABU. Then one day, the reverend father I was serving demanded to have sex with me before my sponsorship could be guaranteed.
“I was wondering how a reverend father would turn gay. When I refused, he brought up an allegation against me that I stole parish’s money and should be driven away by the parish.
“He also poisoned the minds of other reverend fathers who intended to help me.”
Ugah explained that he was arrested by the police while negotiating to sell a Toyota Corolla I stole from the reverend father in Kaduna.
He insisted that he does not rob with a gun, saying he took the car key in the priest’s absence and drove to Abuja before taking it to New Nyanyan to sell.
He said he does not have any regret over his action and vowed that he would continue to torment reverend fathers across the country for the rest of his life.
“I kept wondering why a man would want to sleep with another man. Because I refused, I was unable to graduate from the university, because there was nobody to foot the bills. But I have also decided that no reverend father will find peace with me as long as I live.
“I will continue to torment them for the rest of my life because they frustrated me,” he said.
Bola Longe, the Commissioner of Police in Nasarawa State, who paraded Ugah in Lafia, said the suspect is a notorious criminal who specialised in tormenting priests and Imams only.
“He steals cash from them at gunpoint and snatch their cars,” he said.
CP Longe said Ugah would be charged to court once investigations were concluded.
