POLICE ARRESTS COZA PASTOR
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| Pastor Biodun Fatoyimbo. |
Punch reports that detectives are presently
questioning him over the rape allegations levelled against him by Busola, a
photographer and wife of popular singer, Timi Dakolo.
The Force Public Relations Officer, DCP Frank Mba, disclosed
this,and reassured that the arrest was a proof that the police
had not swept the matter under the carpet as was being insinuated in some
quarters.
“We have done a whole lot of background investigations
and spoken to a whole lot of people before now. It was a deliberate
investigative procedure to bring him last. Although we may invite others later
depending on how investigations go.
“We were not in a hurry to bring him because we wanted
to have enough background information that would be used in interrogating him.
We have done an extensive investigation.”
Mrs. Dakolo accused him of raping her 20 years ago
while she was still a teenager.
The pastor had shunned a panel set up by the
Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria to investigate the rape allegations, stating
that he was advised by his lawyers not to appear before the panel because it
was prejudiced and may not conduct an impartial session.
The cleric in a statement last Friday, however, said
he could appear before the panel after the police investigations.
The PFN had disclosed on Thursday that its probe into
the allegations against Fatoyinbo was inconclusive because he failed to honour
the invitation to appear before the panel.
But the Senior Assistant to the COZA Pastor, Ademola
Adetuberu, in a statement in Abuja on Friday, disclosed that the legal advice
was also premised on the statement issued and personally signed by the PFN
President, Bishop Felix Omobude, “where our Pastor was publicly disowned.”
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