A popular pastor in charge of Life and Power Bible Church, Ogijo, Mathew Oladapo, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command, for “forcefully having unlawful carnal knowledge of a 19-year-old member of the church during a deliverance session”.
According to the report, the unnamed woman had reported to the police at Ogijo police division that the Pastor, on February 20, told her that he saw a vision that she had a ‘spiritual husband’, and needed deliverance.
The woman was said to have also told the police that the suspect prescribed three nights of fasting and prayer, which must be done in the church, for total deliverance.
She further disclosed that the pastor told her to come to the church with N1,000 note and a bottle of anointing oil.
According to the PPRO, Abimbola Oyeyemi, on the first night of the fasting and prayer, the woman was taken to a room within the church where the pastor ordered her to pull off her clothes and undies and lay down on a piece of cloth on the floor which she obeyed.
Oyeyemi stated that while lying on the floor, the pastor started rubbing the anointing oil on her body and when she protested, the pastor pinned her down, covered her mouth and raped her with the claim that it was the only way to break the bond between her and the spirit husband.
Oyeyemi disclosed that the said pastor, while being interrogated, confessed to the crime, but claimed to have been overwhelmed by a spirit.
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