Thursday, January 23, 2025 - A Magistrate Court in Osogbo has remanded a 42-year-old man, Wale Ogunsanmi, for allegedly stabbing to death a bishop and founder of Rapture Empowerment International Church, Shina Olaribigbe.
The Osun State Police Command, through its Criminal Investigation
Department, CID, arraigned Ogunsanmi on a single count of murder.
According to the charge sheet, marked MoS/19c/2025 and signed by B.
Adaraloye, the head of the legal/prosecution section of the state CID, the
crime occurred on January 1, 2025, at approximately 8:55 p.m. in the Fan Milk
area of Ajegunle, Osogbo.
The charge reads: “That you, Wale Ogunsanmi, on the 1st of January,
2025, at about 8:55 p.m., at Fan Milk Area of Ajegunle, Osogbo, in the Osogbo
Magisterial District, did unlawfully stab one Shina Olaribigbe to death and
thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 319 of
the Criminal Code, Cap 33, Volume 1, Laws of Osun State of Nigeria, 2002.”
The court did not take the defendant’s plea due to lack of jurisdiction.
Presiding Magistrate A. O. Odeleye ordered Ogunsanmi to be remanded in
Ilesa Correctional Centre pending further proceedings and adjourned the case.
Ogunsanmi allegedly attacked the bishop after finding him in the company
of his estranged wife.
The suspect’s wife, an interpreter at the deceased’s church, had
reportedly been separated from Ogunsanmi for a year due to marital disputes.
Yemisi Opalola, the spokesperson for the Osun State Police Command,
said, “The bishop was in the woman’s residence when her husband arrived and
stabbed him several times. It is believed the suspect acted out of suspicion
that the pastor was having an affair with his wife.”
Opalola also confirmed that Ogunsanmi and his wife had been living apart
for about a year.
The bishop had reportedly been involved in mediating before the
separation.
On the night of the incident, Ogunsanmi allegedly broke into his wife’s
house and attacked the bishop, who was in the bedroom.
Police from the Dugbe Division had arrived promptly at the scene,
arrested the suspect, and recovered the weapon.
The deceased’s body was deposited at the UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital
Mortuary, Osogbo, for an autopsy.
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