Man rapes 20-year-old girl inside Ogun church

Police in Ogun State have arrested a 30-year- old man, Ajibola Akindele, for allegedly raping a 20- year-old girl inside a church in Abeokuta, the state capital. The suspect was arrested following a report lodged at Lafenwa police divisional headquarters in Abeokuta by the mother of the victim. The woman had told the police that […]

Police in Ogun State have arrested a 30-year- old man, Ajibola Akindele, for allegedly raping a 20- year-old girl inside a church in Abeokuta, the state capital.

The suspect was arrested following a report lodged at Lafenwa police divisional headquarters in Abeokuta by the mother of the victim.

The woman had told the police that the incident happened when she sent her daughter and the suspect on a decoration service at a church in Ita Oshin area of Abeokuta.

According to her, when they arrived at the church premises, they met some other women who came to sweep the church in preparation for  the Sunday service.

The mother said “Soon as those women left, the suspect took advantage of being alone with the victim and forcefully had sex with her right inside the church.”

The police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, on Thursday, told newsmen in Abeokuta that following the report, the DPO Lafenwa division, CSP Kayode Shadrach, detailed his detectives to go after the suspect.

He said the suspect was arrested and had confessed to the crime.