An Ondoh high court in Akure-Nigeria has sentenced
the Founder of Sotitobire Praising Chapel, Prophet Babatunde Alfa and five
others to life imprisonment over the disappearance of a one-year-old boy, Gold
kolawole in the church in 2019.
Justice Olusegun Odusola in his judgment convicted the
defendants, having found them guilty of the two-count charge of kidnapping and
aiding and abetting kidnap based on circumstantial evidence presented by the
prosecution.
Justice Odusola also accused the police of complicity in the
entire episode. The Prophet and the other defendants had been on trial for
months after Gold disappeared mysteriously from the church’s children’s
department during a Sunday service on November 10, 2019.
Prophet Alfa who is the founder of the church, located at Oshinle
quarters area of Akure, was accused by the parents of the missing child over
the mysterious disappearance of their son, who has not been seen until date.
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