How Pastor beheaded secret lover, buried body in Church

The Police in Ogun State have unravelled how a Pastor of the Holy Gathering Evangelical Church of God, Papalanto, Ewekoro Local Government Area of the state, Oluwatobiloba Ipense, allegedly killed his secret lover, Railat Sanni, for ritual purposes. The victim was a 35-year-old divorcee with five kids. The Pastor, who claimed he was ordained at […]

The Police in Ogun State have unravelled how a Pastor of the Holy Gathering Evangelical Church of God, Papalanto, Ewekoro Local Government Area of the state, Oluwatobiloba Ipense, allegedly killed his secret lover, Railat Sanni, for ritual purposes.

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 to the crime scene, saying, the suspect beheaded the victim, severed the two hands and buried the decapitated body in his uncompleted church.

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.

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, Oluwarotimi Jeje, 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.