Justice Olusegun Odusola of the Ondo State High Court has sentenced the Founder of Sotitobire Praising Chapel, Pastor Samuel Babatunde, also known as Alfa Babatunde, to life imprisonment over the disappearance of a one-year-old boy, Gold Kolawole, in his church.
The one-year-old boy was declared missing on November 10, 2019, during a church service at the children’s section of Sotitobire Praying Ministry located at Oshinle Quarters in Akure, the state capital.
The clergyman was arrested, alongside seven other members of the church, and were arraigned before a magistrate’s court on six counts.
Delivering his judgment in the case today Tuesday, October 6, Justice Odusola said based on the evidence provided by the prosecution team, the clergyman and the five others were found guilty of two counts of kidnapping, and aiding and abetting to kidnap. He thereafter sentenced them to life imprisonment.
Babatunde Samuel Alfa,is the founder of Sotitobire Miracle Centre, Akure, Ondo State, where a one-year-old boy was declared missing on November 10, 2019.
According to mother of the ( Eniola Kolawole) child, Modupe Kolawole, had disclosed that she dropped him at the creche of the church and even registered him as no 87 on the lists while service was going on that Sunday morning.
The young mother also claimed that she noticed a strange person in the children section attending to her son and might be the one to have made away with her boy.
Modupe and her husband are said to have joined the church in June 2019 and it was the first time their child would be kept at the children’s section of the place.
