During a delivery service, Pastor Mathew Oladapo rapes a 19-year-old church member.

During a delivery service, Pastor Mathew Oladapo rapes a 19-year-old church member.

Mathew Oladapo, the pastor of Life and Power Bible Church in Ogijo, has been charged with “forcibly having illicit carnal knowledge of a 19-year-old member of the church during a deliverance session.”

The anonymous woman told the Ogijo police division that the Pastor told her on February 20 that he got a vision that she (the victim) had a “spiritual husband” from whom she needed to be released.

The woman is reportedly said to have told police that the suspect recommended three nights of fasting and prayer in the church for absolute deliverance.

She added that the suspect told her to come to the church with an N1,000 note and a bottle of anointing oil.

The Ogun State Police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, told newsmen on Wednesday that, “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 inserted his finger into her private part.”

“When she protested, the pastor pinned her down, covered her mouth, and forcefully had sex with her with the claim that it was the only way to break the bond between her and the spirit husband.”

After her report, the DPO of the Ogijo division, CSP Onatufe Umoh, was said to have detailed detectives to the scene, where the pastor was arrested.

Oyeyemi disclosed that the said pastor while being interrogated, “confessed to the crime, but claimed to have been overwhelmed by a spirit.”

Meanwhile, Oyeyemi said the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole had ordered the transfer of the suspect to the Anti-human Trafficking and Child Labour Unit of the State CIID, Eleweran, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, for further investigation and diligent prosecution.