By Joe Udo
A Lagos-based pastor, Feyi Daniels, popularly known as Bishop Feyi, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by an Ikeja Court, for r@ping his church member.
Feyi was sentenced on Friday, 26 January 2024, by the presiding judge, Justice Rahman Oshodi.
Oshodi found Feyi, who is the founder of iReign Christian Ministry, guilty after several shreds of evidence were tendered against him.
Delivering judgment, Justice Oshodi, said he believed the testimony of the complainant as well as other witnesses who gave direct evidence which weren’t contradicted at any point during the trial, despite the denials of the defendant.
“The cleric used his dominant character and position to S3xually violate two members of his church.
“R@pe carries a mandatory life imprisonment and s3xual ass@ult carries a jail term of three years, which can’t alleviate the harm on your victims,” the judge ruled.
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CONVERSEER learned that Feyi’s victim, a 23-year-old lady (name withheld) was his assistant.
Recall an Ikeja S3xual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on 24 May 24 2023, remanded a bishop identified as Oluwafeyiropo Daniels, for allegedly r@ping a 25-year-old woman while “speaking in tongues.”
According to a report published on the subject matter by NAN, the clergyman reportedly r@ped the woman at his residence in Lekki, Lagos state.
The clergyman was earlier remanded for allegedly r@ping two of his church members at his residence in June 2020.
During the trial, the victim, a member of the bishop’s church, was led in evidence by Babajide Boye, the state lead counsel.
The victim told the court that she heard her cousin listening to the bishop’s sermon on the phone while they were at her sister’s shop in Osogbo on 2 January 2019.
CONVERSEER further gathered that Feyi’s church, iReign Christian Ministry is located at 1, Gbolade Adebanjo Crescent, Beside Spar (Adebola House), Opebi, Lagos, and the clergyman was to have a programme today (26 Jan. 2024) at 10pm, tagged “Prophetic Download (Prayer Edition)”. It
