Ogun State Police Command has captured a 50-year-old prophet, Tayo Shobowale, for purportedly allegedly raping a 17-year-old church member during a prayer session in the church in the Oke Igbala, Ifo area of the state.
According to sources, the police arrested Prophet Shobowale in charge of the Cherubim and Seraphim church in Oke Igbala, Ifo, following a report lodged by members of the victims family.
According to the Nigerian police Ogun command, the victim family reported that sometime in March 2021, the prophet invited the teenager to the church for prayers, and there, the prophet took advantage of her, due to both of them where the only one in the prayer session, and then the prophet forcefully had carnal knowledge of her.
The victim further stated that, after the illicit affair, the prophet ordered her to take a spiritual bath in the church with an already spiritually prepared candle, which he rubbed over her body.
Furthermore ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, stated that since then, the victim had complained of having a spiritual attack which always made her to fall down and remain unconscious for hours.
Oyeyemi said, “The 50-year-old prophet in charge of Cherubim and Seraphim church in Oke-Igbala, Tayo Shobowale,was arrested by the police for having unlawful carnal knowledge of a 17-year-old member of the church.
“The suspect was arrested, following a report lodged at the family support unit of Ota area command by the victim, who was accompanied by her mother to the station. Upon the report, the Area Commander Ota, detailed his family support unit to the scene where the randy prophet was promptly arrested.
On cross examination, the prophet at first denied the charges, yet when he was challenge by the person in question, it was extremely hard for him to vindicate himself of the claims.
“In the interim, the Commissioner of Police, Edward Awolowo Ajogun, has requested an intensive investigations of the case and that the suspect be charged to court when the investigation is closed.”
