Pastor killed his secret lover at Ewekoro local govt.area of Ogun state.

Courtsey: Vanguard News paper.
An acclaimed Pastor of the Holy
Gathering Evangelical Church of God,
Papalanto, Ewekoro Local Government Area of
the state, Oluwatobiloba Ipense, has been
arrested for allegedly killing his secret lover,
Railat Sanni.
The victim was a 35-year-old divorcee with five
kids.
The Pastor, who claimed he was ordained at
the West African college, Sango in 2011, was
paraded alongside his accomplice, Daniel
Sopeju, who also claimed to be a prophet in
another church.
The Ogun State Commissioner of Police,
Ahmed Iliyasu, led newsmen yesterday to the
crime scene, saying, the suspect beheaded the
victim, severed the two hands and buried the
decapitated body in his uncompleted church.
When the Commissioner of Police and his
entourage, as well as newsmen, got to the
scene at Papalanto, thousands of residents of
the area bordering Lafarge Cement trooped out
to catch a glance of the incident.
Iliyasu, who supervised the exhumation of the
decapitated body of the victim in the church
located in the bush, said the suspect and his
accomplice were arrested last week Monday.
While explaining the process that led to the
arrest of the suspects, the police boss said the
command received a report of a missing person
at its Divisional Headquarters in Ewekoro on
Monday 26th March.
He said, “The case was reported by one
Adebola Saheed that his younger sister, Raliat
Sanni left home since 21st March and was yet
to return.
“On the strength of the report, our operatives
at Ewekoro Division led by the Divisional Police
Officer, OluwarotimiJeje, swung into action and
embarked on technical intelligence
investigation.”
Iliyasu said the suspect was arrested following
a discreet analysis of facts surrounding the
disappearance of the victim, as he was the last
person that had contact with her.
According to Iliyasu, the suspect was a pastor
in charge of Cherubim & Seraphim white
garment church, Elebute area of Ewekoro.
He added that in the course of interrogation,
the pastor confessed to the killing of the victim
and burying her inside his church after
removing her head and two hands for reasons
only ‘’known to him and God.”
He also mentioned one Pastor Daniel Sopeju of
Iyana Egbado as his accomplice.
Iliyasu claimed that the victim was a ‘secret
lover’ to the pastor, who reportedly hacked her
to death.
He, however, disclosed that forensic
investigation into the case has commenced,
adding that the case will eventually be charged
to court.
While speaking with newsmen, Ipense denied
the allegation that he killed the victim, but said
his accomplice, Sopeju, killed her.
Ipense claimed that Sopeju led seven members
of an occultic group to his house with the aim
of luring him to become a member.
Ipense who claimed to be teaching Accounting
and Commerce at Methodist High School
(Private), Arigbajo, said, the group had earlier
asked him to submit names of his church
members from which he alleged they eventually
picked Raliat.
He said, “It was not true that I killed a woman,
it was one Mr Sopeju Daniel and a woman that
wanted to initiate me into their occultic group
and they said that they are going to collect a
ransom.
“So they collected the names of my members
and picked the name of Raliat Sanni. Having
mentioned her name, they asked me where she
was living and I told them she was living in
Wasimi. They later got her and brought her to
my church.
“ Mr Sopeju brought out a knife and beheaded
the woman and after beheading her, he
collected her blood and put it in seven
calabashes”.
He further explained that the group told him
that the severed head and hands would be
shared by members of the occultic group.
When asked about his reaction, Sopeju denied
killing her, but, however, admitted that they all
belonged to white garment churches in the
area.
The elder brother of the deceased, Saheed
Adegbola said Raliat left home on the 21st of
March, 2018 and did not return.
Adegbola said “ But on the 22nd of March, my
mother came to meet her pastor to ask for her
whereabouts, and the pastor told her if she
sees Raliat, she will not know her again
because she was owing him N200,000.
“He claimed that she borrowed the money from
him. He even told my dad that they should go
to Police station together to report, but my
mother told him not to worry.
“But on the 26th of March, I went to report the
case to Police, and they gave me full support
to look for my younger sister.
“Since the day we have been looking for her,
she has been appearing to me in my dream. On
the 31st of March, I brought Policemen to this
church to ransack everywhere. When we got to
the exact position she was buried, I told the
Police that she was buried there because I was
seeing her spirit.
“She was a divorcee with five kids; she was a
hairdresser, living in her house with her children
in Waisimi. She was 35 years of age and 5th
position in the family.”