A Magistrate Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State has remanded a pastor, Makanjuola Olabisi, for allegedly raping 3 biological sisters in Ilorin, the state capital.
The court stated that his act is contrary to the penal code law of Kwara State, Nigeria.
The state police said that the pastor convinced the victims to remain consistent with Church attendance as his parish, the Revolutionary Insight Church, located at Agba Dam, Ilorin sometime in 2018.
He is said to have invited the eldest sister for prayers after she declined his proposal to be his lover.
Reports add that the pastor eventually raped the victim and her two siblings at different times. The statement noted that “When the complainants (victims) discovered that the pastor has been taking sexual advantage of them, they stopped attending the church and the development made the pastor to threaten that calamity would befall them.”
The court declined the plea of the accused person. The prosecutor, Inspector Matthew Ologbonsaye, informed the court of a motion exparte attached to the charges, urging the magistrate to remand the him pending the outcome of the legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecution in the state Ministry of Justice.
The magistrate, Fatimah Salihu, while ruling that the court lacks jurisdiction to take the pastor’s plea ordered that he be taken to the Federal Correctional Facility, Ilorin, pending the receipt of advice from the DPP.
The case was adjourned till September 14, 2022 for further mention in court.
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