Gay PASTOR GOES TO JAIL
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Gay PASTOR GOES TO JAIL
•Remanded for having sex with
male church members
From NGOZI UWUJARE
The Founder and General
Overseer of a Pentecostal Church
in Benin City, Pastor Phillip
Ogbebor is now an unusual
inmate at the federal medium
security prison, Oko after a
magistrate court ordered that
he be remanded for having sex
with male members of his
Church.
Surprisingly, the randy pastor of
Breakthrough Ministries, Owina
Street, off Sakponba road Benin
city, neither denied the
allegation of homosexuality
levelled against him by the
parents of one of his victims
nor blamed the devil as many
culprits will do. Instead, he told
Saturday Sun that “I am only
passing through temptation. I
only did it four times with the
man who is 22 years old and a
regular member of my church. I
can’t claim that it was the devil’s
influence , let God decide my
case.”
The Commissioner of Police, Mr
Foluso Ayodeji Adebanjo told
Saturday Sun that the Pastor
was apprehended recently by
men of the State Criminal
Investigation Department of the
Edo state police command
following a complaint lodged by
the father of one of his victims.
Trouble started when the victim
who had been put under an
oath of secrecy by the pastor
decided to report his ordeal to
his parents who in turn decided
to inform the police.
The victim who doesn’t want his
name in print told Saturday Sun
that he has been unduly
harassed by Pastor Ogbebor
since 2007 when he was only
fifteen years old and that he
made him to take several oaths
of secrecy in order not to reveal
the secret to anybody.
He further said that the suspect
threatened to kill him if he
disclosed the act to anyone.
According to him, “each time, I
told him it is painful and that I
don’t want to do it again. I told
him I will tell my parents but he
forced me to take oath saying if
I ever tell anyone I will not live
to see the next day”
He furthered revealed how
Ogbebor mixed olive oil with
sand and robbed it on his head
while chanting incantations in
an unusual language and casting
spells on him, with an emphasis
on the fact that if he tells
anybody he would die like a
fowl. He said to buttress his
threat he gave him the liver and
gizzard of chicken to eat saying
these acts were usually
performed at 12.00 midnight
under the guise of a night vigil.
The victim who said he is a
regular member of Pastor
Ogbebor’s church said he was
disturbed by his deteriorating
health and was forced to
narrate his ordeal to another
pastor.
He said the man of God advised
him to report the bad conduct
of Pastor Ogbebor before the
congregation which he did but
Ogbebor was said to have
denied it before the
congregation. After the
confession by the victim to the
congregation, his father who is
also a member of the church
promptly confronted Pastor
Ogbebor on the matter and as
the issue was degenerating into
rowdiness in the church, Pastor
Ogbebor was said to have
confessed to the crime and
pledged to take the victim who
has been battling with spiritual
and health challenges to the
hospital for medical treatment.
It was at that stage that the
father of the victim who was in
shock over the development
reported the matter to the
police for proper investigation.
Speaking to Saturday Sun, the
Edo State Commissioner of
Police, Mr Foluso Ayodeji
Adebanjo commended the SCID
Benin under the leadership of
Deputy Commissioner of Police J.
Ibim for a good job done.
He sai d the suspect will soon be
charged to court after the
completion of investigation.
The police boss had about three
weeks ago paraded Pastor
Ogbebor along with 25 other
crime suspects at the command
headquarters, Benin city.
Saturday Sun however gathered
that the 42 year old randy
pastor has been arraigned
before a Magistrate court in
Benin city on a charge bordering
on indecent assault contrary to
Sections 214(1) and 353 of the
constitution respectively.
The Magistrate was said to hae
ordered his detention at the Oko
medium security prison in the
state capital pending the
commencement of trial.
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