General Overseer of the Victorious Sacred Solemn Healing and Deliverance Ministry, Prophet Oluwaseyi Idowu has been arrested for allegedly impregnating two sisters.
The pastor, it was
gathered, also allegedly attempted to sell their father’s two-storey building
without his consent.
Policemen from the
Oko-Oba division in Ojokoro Local Council Development Area of Lagos State
stormed the church last Sunday to arrest the pastor.
The Nation learnt that
the pastor was invited to set up his church and manage a flat in the sisters’
father’s compound when he had accommodation problems in Agege.
Their brother said: “I
and my brothers bought my father a two-storey building in Ogunsola close,
Abule-Egba and at that time, Pastor Oluwaseyi had rent issues. My father
allowed him to set up his church in his compound and also manage a flat. We
never knew that was the beginning of our problems.
“The pastor held several
vigils to create awareness and public attention. As time went on, he invited
people to stay in the church and from the church they moved into the main
house. Occupants left the house for the pastor’s people to move in and they
lived there without paying a kobo.
“Months later, the pastor
said he wanted to marry my 20-year-old sister, a virgin, who just graduated
from secondary school. We never knew he had been sleeping with her for months
before then. Recently, we found out that he also impregnated my 25-year-old
sister who has been indoors for the past nine months.”
He said that their
parents were not talking because the pastor’s congregation and family have
taken over the building.
He added: “I called my
elder brother who told me to report the case to the police. It was at the
police station we found out that he intended to sell our building to build a
new church elsewhere.”
Since the incident, it
was gathered that members of the church have vowed never to return.
An officer at Oko-Oba
Police Station said: “This is not an issue of rape; the two impregnated sisters
could have resisted or lodge a complaint against the pastor; it was when they
got pregnant that a complaint was sent to us and we intervened. But even if
Pastor Idowu is charged to court now; it’s useless because the girls were not
raped. However, the neighbours and residents at Ogunsola Close are claiming the
pastor used charm to sleep with them, and that is not an issue to be resolved
in the court.”
When The Nation visited
the house, the reporter was told that Pastor Idowu has relocated.
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