The Akwa Ibom State police command has arrested a 35-year-old pastor, Nnamso Friday Jacob, for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl inside his church.
Spokesman for the police command, Mr. Nnudam Frederick said in a statement that the ‘pastor’, who is also known as ‘Major Prophet Honesty Jesus,’ drugged the victim before committing the illicit act.
He said the incident occurred on June 23 at Jacob’s church, The Living Power of Zion Church, Ndue Eduo, Okon Eket in Eket local government area of the state.
The police said the girl went for “counselling and deliverance” which was fixed by the suspect who is the general overseer of the church.
“While she was in the prophet’s counselling room, the suspect administered an intoxicating liquid substance to the victim and thereafter took advantage of the victim and had unlawful carnal knowledge of her,” said Fredrick.
Jacob is the second pastor to be arrested for rape in Akwa Ibom in less than a month.
The police on Wednesday said a pastor was arrested in the state for keeping eight teenage girls in a so-called deliverance centre and allegedly raping one of them said to be 15 years old.
The police said the girls are between the ages of 13 and 16.
The pastor, identified as Inimfon Eyo Inyang, 33, was said to have also made an attempt to rape a 21-year-old girl.
He was among the 12 people arrested for rape in the state.
Meanwhile, the commissioner of police in the state, Mr. Imohinmi Edgal, has wowed to prosecute “sexual predators” arrested in the state.
