A prophet, Adeleye Akingbaso, has been remanded in Nigeria’s Ado Ekiti Correctional Center for allegedly molesting a teenager.
An order to have the 45-year-old man remanded in custody was issued by the Ekiti State Chief Magistrates Court, based in Ado Ekiti.
According to the indictment, the Prophet Adeleye Akingbaso was suspected of having committed the crime of raping a 13-year-old girl on July 25, 2022 in the Ajowa area of Ado Ekiti.
In her statement to the police, the victim said: “The Prophet is my mother’s boyfriend, he used to sleep in our house; That day my mother went on night duty, but the Prophet slept in our house.
At midnight he woke me up and said I was bedwetting, I said no, he gave me shea butter and salt to rub my privates, I did as he directed, when I woke up on the second day I saw him next to me and discovered that I had been raped, he warned me not to tell anyone or I would go insane.
“He came back on the third day he said he wanted to renew what he used to give me by having sex with me, I ran out of the house and informed our neighbors they called my mother and told what happened to her happened, he was arrested and handed over to the police.
