By our reporter| A pastor of Christ Apostolic Church, Ogo-Oluwa parish, Oluwafemi Oyebola, has been arrested by officers of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly raping and impregnating his daughter.
Oyebola, 44, was also said to have in the past had abortions done on his daughter three times.
The Ogun state police public relations officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who made the disclosure to newsmen in Abeokuta, said the suspect was arrested after his daughter lodged a complaint against him at Owode-Egbado divisional police headquarters.
According to Oyeyemi, the victim alleged that her father had been raping her since 2015 when she turned 19 — shortly after the demise of her mother.
He said, “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.
“After the third abortion, the suspect did family planning for her so she would not get pregnant again.”
The state police public relation officer further stated that the victim later ran away from home and narrated her ordeal to Advocacy for Children and Vulnerable Persons Network, a non-governmental organisation, who brought her to the station to report her father.
“Consequent upon which she was taken to the Owode-Egbado Police Station to complain,” he said.
“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.”
Kenneth Ebrimson, the state commissioner of police, 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.
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