Woman Dies In Church After Drinking Substance For Deliverance

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

There was commotion in a Cherubim and Seraphim Church in Ijegun community, Lagos, after a woman was forced to drink a substance by the Church Pastor, Olowomeye Ola, for deliverance but she collapsed and died in the process.

The death of the woman identified Taibat Kareem provoked reactions from the residents who went to the church and brought out the Pastor to mob him on the street.
However, before he would be mobbed, the Isheri Police Division moved to the church, arrested two suspects including the pastor and took them to the police station for interrogation.

The incident happened at Oriofe Street in Ijegun in the outskirts of Lagos where the church was located.

According to the residents, the late Taibat who deals on local herbs was invited by her supplier, one Ayodele Isaac, an herbalist, to take some herbs for sales. She was going to take the herbs when Pastor Ola accosted her and told her that she needed deliverance. He then took her to the church for prayers; it was during the prayer session that Pastor Ola gave her a liquid substance to drink. Immediately she drank the substance, she collapsed on the ground inside the church.

Pastor Ola reportedly took her to his own room where he removed her bra and earrings by then she was already dead. It was in the midst of the confusion that the residents raised alarm, attacked the pastor and attempted to mob him before the police rescued him.

The corpse of the deceased, Taibat, was deposited at an undisclosed mortuary for autopsy while the two suspects mentioned over her death, Ola and Isaac were transferred to the SCIID Panti Yaba, for further investigations.

When P.M.EXPRESS correspondent visited Isheri Oshun Police Division, the DPO was not around to comment on the incident.
However, police sources at the station said that the matter has been transferred to SCIID’s Homicide Department.

When P.M.EXPRESS correspondent visited the church, it was under lock and key. But the residents confirmed the incident and said that the pastor had been arrested by the police.

The late Taibat was 51 and married with many children before she died last Thursday inside the church during the purported healing for an undisclosed ailment.
It was gathered that the suspects had denied killing the deceased as Pastor Ola claimed that he gave her spiritual healing water to drink. But what surprised many was the claim of giving her spiritual water that ended up causing her death instead of healing her.