Lagos Spiritualist Rapés Lady Who Went to Him For Deliverance

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:

.” 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.

But the presiding Magistrate, Mrs 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.