The pastor of Agape Baptist Church, Pastor Oprite
Amakiri, 50, has been arrested and detained at the Rumuolumeni Police Division
in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers state for raping an 18-year old
choir member.
Pastor Amakri who has confessed to raping the
chorister before he was exposed and arrested by the police had allegedly prophesied
to about 200 members of his church that he had been battling waste pain for the
past two years and stressed that God told him that a girl between the age of 12
and 18 years old would be needed to massage his waste for him to be healed.
PM NEWS gathered that the gullible members of the
church swallowed the randy pastor’s ‘prophecy’ and one of them, the elder
sister to the victim (name withheld) decided to make available her 18-year old
sister for the massage job.
The pastor then decided to visit the home of his
victim’s sister to get massaged while the owner of the house (victim’s sister),
who is a roadside trader, had gone to do her petty trading.
During massage the pastor raped the girl on three
occasions and threatened to deal with her if she dare expose his deeds to
anyone, including her elder sister.
Not satisfied the pastor on the fourth day went
after his victim but she refused him access into the room for another round of ‘massaging’.
Angered by the girl’s audacity, the pastor called
the elder sister of the victim and told her that the 18-year old girl was
trying to stop ‘God’s prophecy’, an action that forced the naive victim’s
sister to abandon her wares and rush home with rage.
On getting to her house, the rape victim in tears
revealed to her sister how she had been defiled on three occasions by the
pastor. It was at that point that the trader raised the alarm and Pastor
Amakiri was arrested.
The randy pastor confessed to the crime and said
nobody should blame it on the devil and that he (Amakiri) should take the blame
because he actually planned and executed the rape of the teenager.
“The elder sister to the girl I raped is a choir member
of my church. It was after choir practice one Thursday that I informed the sister
that I would like to visit her house for a serious discussion and she obliged
me.
The following day, I paid her the visit and requested
that she allow her younger sister (his victim), to massage my waist, that I had
been having ache on it in the past two years and every treatment, drugs and
injection had failed. She then went and discussed with the younger sister, who accepted
to help me. So, we had the first massage treatment that day while the elder
sister was around and nothing happened between me and the little girl.
“On Saturday, I called her to inform her that I was
coming back for the treatment, I got there while she was about to leave for
choir practice in the church. While the massage was going on, I had the
(sexual) urge. So, I had carnal knowledge of the girl. I have successfully raped
her three times,” Amakiri, whose church is located in Rumuolumeni, confessed.
The pastor whose wife is a health worker in Degema
Local Government Area of the state, explained that he could not tell his wife
to massage him because she only came home from her work place once a week when
she was off duty.
Amakiri, who has four children, stated that it was
during his fourth attempt at raping the girl that he met a brick wall and since
then, he had not regained his freedom. “It was the fourth time that she
(victim) locked the gates against me. So, I had to call her sister on her cell
phone and she rushed to the house from her shop and began to interrogate the
girl on why she did not want to massage my waist again and she disclosed what has
been happening between us.
“I sincerely regret my actions. It is like the ground
should open up and swallow me. Don’t blame the devil for what has happened,
blame me because I was tempted and I did it,” he added.
The victim, who simply gave her name as Goodness,
told journalists that she never knew the pastor that was respected so much by members
of his church could think of having sexual intercourse with her.
She said the pastor had warned her on each occasion
he forcefully had carnal knowledge of her not to disclose what happened to
anybody, including her elder sister.
“I was in the house when the pastor came and asked
me to massage his waist. On the first day, I massaged him, nothing happened
between us. But on the second day, while I was massaging him, he began to touch
my breast and raped me. I tried to escape, but he held me and warned me never
to tell anybody what he did to me. He has raped me three times,” the victim
said, adding that, she used vegetable oil to massage the pastor’s waist.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr.Ahmad
Mohammad, said the pastor had confessed to raping the girl on several occasions,
adding that, Amakiri would be charged to court after investigations are concluded.
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