BREAKING: Port Harcourt-Based Pastor Miracle of Dynamic Flame of Fire Ministries Arrested for Unlawfully Detaining Wife for Five Days

Confirming the development to Reporters, the state police commissioner, CP Olugbenga Adepoju, said, “I have told them to take him to the State Criminal Investigation Department (CID). The DC (Deputy Commissioner) will handle it there.”

The leader of the Dynamic Flame of Fire and Miracle Ministries, Prophet Umueke Miracle, has been arrested by the police for detaining his wife, Success, for five days in a house in the GRA area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Reporters had earlier reported on Sunday that Success had been freed, and that Prophet Umueke Miracle had been invited by the police over the alleged illegal confinement of his wife.

Confirming the development to Newsmen, the state police commissioner, CP Olugbenga Adepoju, said, “I have told them to take him to the State Criminal Investigation Department (CID). The DC (Deputy Commissioner) will handle it there.”

Reporters learned that Prophet Miracle was taken into custody after honoring a police invitation to appear at the station. This came after DPO Abacha led a police team to his house to free Success from detention.

At the house, CP Adepoju contacted Prophet Miracle by phone and confronted him directly about the allegations of detaining his wife.

However, Prophet Miracle denied the accusation. When the commissioner requested to speak with Mrs. Miracle, the cleric insisted that he was the husband and that the commissioner should speak with him first.

CP Adepoju then directed that both Prophet Miracle and his wife accompany the police team to the station for questioning. However, Prophet Miracle said he needed to preach in church since it was a Sunday.

The commissioner allowed him to proceed with the church service but ordered the police team to take Mrs. Miracle to the station to ensure her freedom and allow her to give a statement.

Reporters followed the police team to the station to ensure Mrs. Miracle’s safety.

At the station, Success confirmed that her husband had denied her access to her family and restricted her communication.

“Any little thing, he would seize the phone. Everyone in the house does not have a phone because of me, so that I would not get any phone to make calls,” she told the police.

According to Success, the incident stemmed from a long-standing pattern of control and financial abuse in their marriage, which began in 2017.

She revealed that her husband had imposed strict rules forbidding her from opening a bank account or having independent financial resources, despite not providing her with money for personal expenses.

“We have been married since 2017. Anytime we have issues, he would put me under house arrest. He made it clear that I should not have my own money or even open a bank account, but he wasn’t giving me money either,” Success exclusively told Reporters.

“Regarding the current issue, he made some rules that I should not have my own money, I should not even open bank account. But he is not giving me money.”

She alleged that Prophet Miracle had been accumulating properties in his name while engaging in extramarital affairs. Attempts to request financial settlement from him were dismissed, with the pastor insisting he could not use church funds to settle their marital issues.

Faced with financial hardship, Success said she secretly opened a bank account with Access Bank and started a small business selling water and other supplies needed for the ministry.

She disclosed that some ministry staff supported her by helping with sales and depositing proceeds into her account.

However, Prophet Miracle eventually discovered the account through one of his secretaries. Success alleged that her husband tricked bank staff into revealing her account balance by falsely claiming he intended to deposit ₦500 million into the account. The staff disclosed that Success had a balance of ₦5 million.

She said, “Anytime I tell him that he should settle me (give me money) that I want to go, I want to leave him, he will say he has no money. I keep telling him that he should remember how I helped him, how I suffered with him and it will be my loss to leave him without being settled.

“So I thought of having a bank account. I opened Access Bank account. And I started doing some business. I started selling water and other stuff needed in the ministry. I told some of the staff about it and they helped me in getting sales.

“They always send money made from the business into my Access Bank account. My husband did not know about it.”

“Then he accused me of stealing his money and running a business under his ministry without his permission,” Success said.

On Tuesday night, Prophet Miracle forced his wife into his car and took her to a house in GRA, behind Casablanca, opposite the former Rita Gate.

Success said that he confiscated all her phones to prevent her from contacting anyone.

She said, “He lied to the bank staff the he wanted to make a deposit of N500 million in the account since I am his wife. This is what made the bank to check what I had in the account. They told him my balance.”

“He told me he was going to sue me and has kept me here since Tuesday night. It’s not a prison; it’s a normal house that I think he rented,” she added.

Following allegations that Prophet Miracle had police leadership in the state in his pocket, Reporters contacted the Rivers State Police Commissioner, CP Olugbenga Adepoju.

The commissioner swiftly mobilised a police team, led by DPO Abacha, to the house where Mrs. Success Miracle was being held.

“I don’t know any pastor. How can I allow someone to be locked inside the house? Am I an animal? How would a commissioner of police allow that? Even a DPO would not allow that? For what reason? People exaggerate a lot,” he said.

“They will say these things so that the situation will look very serious. They will say, ‘Someone is dead,’ and when you rush there, ‘they will admit that nobody died, and say ‘my husband was beating me but if I didn’t say that, the police may not come.’ That is how they tarnish people’s image. I don’t even know the pastor; they say his name is Pastor Miracle. I’m a very decent human being who was brought up well; I’m not that kind of person.”