Monday, April 13, 2026 - A 16-year-old schoolgirl, Precious Okafor, has revealed how a pastor in Anambra State s3xually abused her during a purported deliverance session.
Okafor spoke in an interview with Punch after
being rescued by operatives of the Anambra State Special Anti-Touting Squad
Agency in Onitsha.
"My aunt said her pastor told her I was possessed and
needed deliverance. She brought me to his house at night and left me with him,”
she said.
She alleged that the pastor, Evangelist Dozie Ezani of Jesus
Is Ontop Ministry, later made advances toward her.
"Later, while I was asleep, the pastor came into the
room and started touching me, but I pushed his hands away. After several
attempts, he eventually left. I later overheard his wife asking him where he
had been, and he told her he was ‘checking on the children’,” she said.
"The following day, he took me to his church in Amichi
to carry out a ‘special deliverance’.
"He told me that I urgently needed God’s special
intervention to be freed. But while the deliverance was going on at the altar,
he attempted to force himself on me, but I resisted.
“For days, he didn’t give me food. At one point, I became
very weak due to hunger, and the pastor overpowered me and started forcefully
having intercourse with me. He did that several times on the altar during the
deliverance session.
“He forcibly had intercourse with me, both in the church and
sometimes at his poultry farm in Igboukwu, a neighbouring town in Aguata
LGA."
The suspect admitted to misconduct but claimed “the devil’s
handiwork” influenced his actions.
“It is the devil’s handiwork. I didn’t know what came over
me,” he said.
"I was arrested on my farm. The security operatives
took me to their office in Onitsha, the same day and later transferred me to
the State Criminal Investigation Department in Awka
“I appeal to the security operatives to temper justice with
mercy. It is not entirely my fault, as the girl was brought to me. I also
promised to cover her medical bills if I am released.”
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