PHOTOS: OGUN POLICE UNCOVER HUMAN PARTS IN CHURCH

Prophet Samuel Babatunde,77,  who is the founder of Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Itedo Isinmi Ayo Parish, Egan Road in Iyana-Iyesi area of Ota in Ogun state, has been arrested alongside three others, by men of the Ogun State Police command, after some human parts were discovered to have been buried inside his church premises.

Ahmed Iliyasu, Ogun state Commissioner of Police in the state, while parading the suspects yesterday, told newsmen that the men were arrested after a serial children kidnapper, Jeremiah Adeola, who was also arrested last Saturday, confessed that he abducts children and delivers them to the 77-year-old prophet. The police boss said a 43-year-old herbalist, Haruna Afolabi, worked with the suspects to bury the human parts at the entrance of the church.

"Operatives attached to the police Area Command in Ota on Sunday received technical intelligence about Adeola and eventually apprehended him. On the strength of the intelligence, detectives from Ota Area Command were detailed to effect the arrest of the suspect; and at about 10:20am of the date, their efforts paid off when the said Jeremiah Adeola was promptly arrested".

He added that after investigations have been concluded, the police charge the suspects to court. 

SHOCKING : 13-TEAR OLD GIRL GANG RAPED AT LAGOS CHURCH

Two suspects, Oriko Samuel and Bassey Joseph have been arrested and charged before a Lagos court for their alleged involvement in the gang-rape of a 13-year old girl at a church premises.

The incident happened in the evening at the back of a Cherubim and Seraphim Church located at Oladipo Banjo Street in Oke-Ira area of Ogba, Lagos.


Police sources told our reporter that both the suspects and victim reside in the same area and attend the church where the incident happened. It was also gathered that the suspects lured the victim to the back of the church in the evening when other worshipers were inside the church auditorium praying.

Our correspondent gathered that Samuel first raped her before Joseph took over and it was in the process that they were caught in the act and the alleged rape incident became a subject of discussion in the area because of the place it happened.

The matter was reported to the police at Area G Command Ogba who arrested the suspects and detained them at the Command.

They were charged before Ogba Magistrates court with the alleged offence under the Criminal Code. They pleaded not guilty.

The presiding Magistrate, Mrs Tella granted them bail in the sum of N1 million each with two sureties in like sum. They were remanded in prison custody pending when they will perfect their bail conditions. The matter was adjourned till 26 June 2017.

SOLOMON OLADIMEJI: PREACHER, PASTOR ALSO OGBONI FRATERNITY HEAD

Solomon Oladimeji , 65, business man now Preacher is the founder of Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Orisun-Ayo, with branches at Alapere, Ketu, and Odogunyan in Ikorodu area of Lagos, revealed  that he is a church leader and also a top member of the Ogboni fraternity. According to him, he belongs to Saala Ogboni Fellowship of Nigeria (SOFN) where he occupies the position of Oluwo and the third in command to the overall head of the fraternity.

“I am not ashamed to confess my membership of the fraternity. I’m proud to be Ogboni member. In actual fact, being an Ogboni leader has made me not only a good disciple of Jesus Christ, but it has also gone a long way to make me a better citizen’’:

Prophet Solomon said he became a member of the Ogboni society over 20 years ago. ‘’ I was initiated into the Aborigine Ogboni fraternity, that is the one they call Ogboni Ibile, but later I joined Saala Ogboni fraternity, and since I made that decision, I have no regret.’’

As a member of Ogboni fraternity, my life is having a meaning. I have prospered. My coast has been enlarged. Members of my congregation are increasing every day. I also thank God that due to my diligence as a committed member; I have been able to rise to the enviable position of Oluwo within the Ogboni fraternity.

‘’What is there to be hidden? I am not ashamed of my association with Ogboni Society, and I don’t hide it from members of my church. They all know that I’m a leader in the Ogboni group. When you even come to my house, I openly display my regalia as Ogboni chief. Let me quickly tell you this, by making my members know that I’m Ogboni member, it makes me popular among them. They describe me as an open and honest person. For that, many of them have been voluntarily coming to me pleading to be initiated as a member of Ogboni fraternity’’.

Prophet Solomon claimed to be child of light and that darkness or anything evil has no place in his life or church but said: ‘’ I used herbs and leaves combined with other items to prepare soap, anointing oil for members and other people that are having spiritual problems.
Pastors that are not Ogboni members will have problem of church growth that is talking about membership that is why in some churches they don’t have up to 30 members, whereas in other ones you see a mammoth crowd.

For those who have large members, do you think it is by their own power that they do it?
No. Several pastors come to us and we do what we call ‘Aworo’  for them.(Aworo is a kind of charm that draws crowd to a place) and that is why you see many of them driving state of the art cars. For those pastors that don’t know their ways, you see them in penury, drinking garri and coconut most of the time’. He claimed.

Prophet Solomon also said that Ogboni fraternity is not  a cult, but  a society that is comprises of  transparent, honest , organized and disciplined people   While he described  cult as 'a group of people involved in secrecy, but Ogboni  are open to scrutiny.'

It is unfortunate that today a lot of Christians are suffering out of ignorance, deceit and manipulations, in as much as am not against Prophet Solomon association or membership of Ogboni fraternity because this act is still within the frame work of law, United Nation Chatter on the freedom of association , however , how can he then explain this ''You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for i the Lord your God am a jealous God......'' Exodus 20: 4-5 to his teeming congregations?