The last
has not been heard of the General Overseer of Tongue of Fire Restoration
Ministry, Chukwuma Nkwocha, who was arrested for allegedly camping and defiling
about 30 under-aged girls as eight more girls have claimed the pastor slept
with them.
It coukld be recalled that
Nkwocha, 38, was discovered to have camped and defiled kids aged 10 to 15 and
he was said to have lured the girls to his house based on their lack of places
to sleep.
DAILYPOST Reports that
Lagos police team and operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, who
arrested Nkwocha on 30 September, during a church service at the church
premises located in Sogunle area of the state, acted on a petition that the
pastor was camping and defiling girls.
Developments showed that
eight more girls on Thursday spoke out, accusing Nkwocha of sleeping with them
forcibly in his house.
This brought the number of
the girls allegedly abused by Nkwocha to 38.
The Attorney General and Commissioner
for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem, told newsmen that a detailed research was
carried out in February in all prison facilities in Lagos on sex convicts and
inmates awaiting trial for Sexual and Gender Based Violence, SGBV cases.
According to him, the
campaign against sexual crime should not be left alone to the women folk.
“All hands must be on deck
to frontally address scourge. There would be all male walk in the state to curb
the crime during a programme carefully selected and centered on the compelling
need to ensure men act as flag bearers in the fight against such crimes.”
The state Police Public
Relations Officer, PPRO, Dolapo Badmos, while confirming the development at the
state Secretariat, Alausa, said the Command is set to kick off a month-long
awareness campaign against all forms of domestic and sexual violent crimes.
“Religious leaders led the
pack in the crime.
“The Command rescued about
30 young girls from the pastor’s custody and two of them acknowledged he had
canal knowledge of them. Investigation is ongoing as eight more girl have
opened up, making the number of abused girls 38.
“The girls were taken to a
private hospital to confirm the allegation if they were actually raped by the
pastor and have been taken to the Protective Centre of the State Police Command
at Ikorodu.”
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