Pastor Idowu and the building
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, our reporter was told that Pastor Idowu has relocated.
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