“I Don’t Like Sex”Says C&S Pastor WhoRaped Woman InChurch

42-year-old pastor of the Cherubim and
Seraphim church, Segun Olawale was
accused of raping his church member
during a deliverance session.
Olawale who is being held in detention by the
Ogun State Police Command says he did not
know what came over him on that day during
the prayer session with his 32-year-old victim
who was persuaded by her mother to meet with
him for counselling and deliverance.
He claimed that the devil was behind his action
as sex was the least of his cravings as a man. He
told newsmen that he could not explain what
happened and the incident looked like a trap set
for him.
"I don't like sex and I really don't know
how to explain how it happened. There was
nobody there except God and me. I was in
the church for my usual prayer and
counselling session with some members
when she was brought to me for prayers
and deliverance," he said.
"It happened on August 11, 2014 in the
church around 10am. The name of my
church is Sacred Order Church in Sabo,
Ijebu-ode. Her mother, who is also my
church member, brought her to meet with
me for deliverance. She is around 32 years
old. I really don't know what overpowered
me to make her sleep with me.
"I was about leaving the church that day
when her mother brought her to me for
prayers. I was about going back home from
the church. I did not know why her mother
wanted to destroy my life. She told me she
was being brought from her father and that
they had a vision about her. I was not the
person who saw the vision.
"As she was brought in, I prayed for her
and gave her some anointing water. That's
all. Some people were in the church, we
were in my office; it was when I was
praying for her in my office that it
happened. I cannot say how it happened."
When Olawale was asked if that was his first
victim, he said he has never raped anyone before
and he just started his ministry 2 years ago, he
added that he also prayed and counselled other
women and no such thing has ever happened in
the process.
Olawale said, "Nobody else was there with
us. I don't want this to spread. The police
invited me to come to their office and I was
arrested. I cannot say what the lady's
problems were but I was asked to pray for
her which was what I did. She too is a
member of the church.
"In everything we do, we should remember
the future. I just started the ministry. I
started two years ago. I am 42 years old, I
am still single. That was the first woman I
would sleep with in the church. I have never
done that before, that was the first woman I
would rape. She was not the first woman I
would pray for, yet nothing like that ever
happened to me."