The latest gist in town now is the ugly and shameful story
of a spiritual head who betrayed his spiritual post by allowing his flesh to
win over his spirit, thereby molesting an innocent lady who ran to him for
spiritual assistance….sighs…read the full gist below after the cut:
A popular spiritualist, Ifatade Elegbeleye, has been
arrested by men of the Nigeria Police Force in Lagos and charged before an
Ojokoro Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for defrauding a woman seeking husband. He
allegedly swindled the gullible woman of N2m and forcefully slept with her in
his ‘chamber’.
31-year-old Temidayo Akinwale, a businesswoman who is now
pregnant, suffered the ugly fate when she went to the spiritualist to
deliver her from strange spirits that prevented her from getting a husband.
Funny enough, in his response, Ifatade told the court that
he indeed delivered her of spiritual husband. Asked if he slept with her
and got her pregnancy, the spiritualist said:
“No comment.” But the incident allegedly happened right
inside his ‘chamber’ located at Ayobo in Lagos.
The accused was arraigned on a six-count charge of fraud,
stealing and obtaining sex under false pretences.
Elegbeleye who is cooling his heels in prison custody,
according to the police, lured his victim to a shrine and told her that he
needed to perform some rituals to deliver her from spiritual husband that
prevented her from getting a husband all these years.
The 65-year-old mother of the victim, Mrs. Mary Akinwale,
while testifying before the court, narrated how the accused lured her daughter
to his shrine, raped and impregnated her.
The distraught mother told the court that Elegbeleye
prophesied to her daughter that she was possessed with a spiritual husband that
would prevent her from getting married and asked her to pay some
amount of money for spiritual cleansing.
She said that her daughter who was afraid of the prophesy,
paid the money and was taking to a river in the midnight at Ipaja area, where
she was bathed with spiritual soap, adding that after the bath, she still could
not get a husband. She said the accused invited her daughter again to his
shrine and rapéd her, adding that she is now pregnant.
The presiding Magistrate, O.A. Layinka granted him bail in
the sum of N200,000 with two sureties. The matter was adjourned till 21
December for continuation of trial.
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