Nigeria: Clerics Accused Of Sexual Assault

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    Clerics Accused Of Sexual Assault


    Biodun Fatoyinbo, pastor:
    This week, Nigeria’s ‘Gucci’ pastor, Biodun Fatoyinbo, stepped down as senior pastor of Commonwealth Of Zion Assembly (COZA) following an allegation by Mrs Busola Dakolo that he raped her twice before she turned 18 some 20 years ago. Busola, who is the wife of a popular musician, Timi Dakolo, narrated her experience with the pastor whom she said was a friend of her family then in Ilorin where she lived at the time. According to the video interview, she lost her virginity to Pastor Fatoyinbo who groomed and raped her twice in a week, first at her parents’ house and ...


    Chukwuemeka Ezeugo (Rev King), pastor:
    Lagos pastor, Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, popularly known as Rev King, is the General Overseer of Christian Praying Assembly (CPA) Worldwide. The pastor who has been jailed 20 years for a six-count charge of attempted murder and death by hanging for murder and presently on death row, was also during his trial accused of sexually assaulting members of his church. The pastor was said to have made one of his church members, Susan Chizobar Onuorah, serve him naked in his house for several years. According to the victim, the pastor ordered her never to tell any member of her house that she ...


    Habeebulah Abdul-Rahman, cleric & teacher:
    After he was accused of raping a 16-year-old female student of his Islamic school, Osun State Muslim cleric, Habeebulah Abdul-Rahman, popularly known as Al-Edewy, quickly announced to the world that the teenager in question was his wife and he had the right to have sexual relations with her. But as far as the teenager and her family members were concerned, there was never a marriage. What happened was that the cleric took a liking to the girl and actually asked her hand in marriage. She refused his proposal and her family backed her up. That notwithstanding, she continued to go ...


    Pastor Princewill, pastor
    On June 25, this year, a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Maitama, sentenced one Pastor Princewill, of Mountain Mover Fire Ministry International, Nyanya, to seven years imprisonment for having sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl over a period of four months in 2011. Pastor Princewill was said to have had carnal knowledge of the minor in his church and at his house in Nyanya several times, without her consent. When the girl became pregnant, the pastor attempted to have the girl abort the pregnancy, it was reported. He was charged to court on four counts of rape, impersonation, ...


    Abdulsalam Salaudeen, cleric:
    Late last month, 43-year-old Abdulsalam Salaudeen, a Muslim cleric, was accused of raping a 5-year-old girl inside a mosque in Lagos State. In this peculiar case, it was people who suspected something wrong was going on in the mosque that decided to unravel the mystery. What these concerned citizens did was to plant a hidden camera in the mosque and, true to their suspicions, on December 22, 2018, Salaudeen, who is popularly known and addressed as Alfa of the mosque, was caught defiling the poor girl who was under his tutelage right there in the mosque. Salaudeen has since been ...


    Rev Isaac Newton-Wusu, raped some female pupils of the Stephen Centre International School in Abeokuta
    Four months ago, a septuagenarian cleric, Rev Isaac Newton-Wusu, was arraigned before an Ogun State High Court sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta, for allegedly raping some female pupils of the Stephen Centre International School in Abeokuta. Newton-Wusu, the director of the home school, was accused of assaulting and raping some pupils of the school between the ages of 12 and 16. The cleric was charged with a five count charge of rape and indecent assault.


    T.B. Joshua, pastor:
    Not even the founder of The Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, T.B. Joshua, has been spared the allegation of rape. Following the video accusing Pastor Fatoyinbo of rape last week, a member of T.B. Joshua’s church has come out to claim that she, too, was sexually molested by the cleric for 14 years. According to Bisola Hephzi-bah Johnson, the general overseer of her church also assaults and molests minors of 8, 11 and 14 years. She encouraged other women, who have suffered the same fate as her in the hands of the cleric, to speak out and be set ...


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