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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