The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 44-year-old pastor of Christ Apostolic Church, Ogo-Oluwa parish, Oluwafemi Oyebola, for allegedly raping, impregnating and procuring three abortions for his daughter.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this on Tuesday in a statement.
The cleric was said to have been living with his daughter since his wife, the girl’s mother, died a few years ago.
According to Oyeyemi, the pastor’s arrest followed a complaint by the daughter at the Owode-Egbado Divisional Police Headquarters.
He said the victim whose name was not given, informed the police that her father had been forcefully sleeping with her since 2015 when she was 19 years old shortly after her mother died.
She also told the police that her father put her in the family way three times.
“The victim further reported that she got pregnant for her father three times after which her father took her to a nurse where those pregnancies were aborted.
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“After the third abortion, the suspect did family planning for her so she would not get pregnant again,” Oyeyemi said.
The PPRO disclosed that the victim, when it dawned on her that her father didn’t mean well for her, ran away from the house and reported to a non-governmental organisation, Advocacy for Children and Vulnerable Persons Network.
He said: “Consequent upon which she was taken to the Owode-Egbado Police Station to complain.
“After the report, the DPO Owode-Egbado division, SP Olabisi Elebute, led her detectives to the pastor’s house where he was promptly arrested.
“During interrogation, the suspect made confessional statements that all his daughter said was nothing but the whole truth.”
According to the PPRO the state Commissioner of Police, Kenneth Ebrimson, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the anti-human trafficking and child labour unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and prosecution.
