A 54-year-old pastor, Mike Oliseh, has been arrested by police after he allegedly defiled 12-year-old twin daughters of his bosom friend, identified by the pseudonym Okoro, in the Okota area of Lagos.
Oliseh, an Assistant Pastor of the Anointed Chosen Vessel Ministry, Okota, Lagos, committed the act in his friend’s house, The Punch reported.
The suspect reportedly penetrated the private parts of the first victim on many occasions, while he allegedly inserted his fingers in the private parts of the twin sister.
Oliseh, who lived opposite the residence of Okoro, in Ago Palace Way, Okota, regularly slept in Okoro’s house.
The Delta-born Oliseh, a borehole drilling contractor, was said to have employed the services of Okoro, whose bus was used to convey equipment to sites.
The duo was said to have become bosom friends and ate from the same plate.
However, Oliseh, who regularly slept in Okoro’s house, was alleged to have started abusing the first victim when her mother travelled in 2017.
Although the twin girls slept on the floor while Oliseh slept on the bed with his friend, the first victim said he would come down to sleep with her on the floor, threatening to stop giving her father work if she told anyone about his actions.
“He started it (rape) last year. He used to come to sleep in our house. He said there was heat in his apartment. So, while my twin sister and I would sleep on the floor, he used to sleep on the bed with my father. While my dad slept, he would come to the floor and sleep with me. He has done it many times.
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“He put his male reproductive organ in my private parts. He threatened that if I told my father, he would not take him to work again. He and my father eat and work together, and they both sleep on the same bed,” the first victim said.
But Oliseh reportedlty met his waterloo in the process of defiling the second victim.
He was said to have inserted his fingers into the victim’s private part before he was caught by an elderly woman who visited her son in another apartment in the building.
The victims’ mother said, “On that Thursday, my daughter did not go to school; she was alone in the compound. Mike (Oliseh) came and chased her. The girl ran into the backyard to hide. He went there and started pulling her pants; the girl shouted.
“An elderly woman, who came for omugo (the Igbo practice of female parents tendering their daughters’ newborn babies) in our compound and was in the room, saw him. When she opened the door, Mike quickly brought out a phone and pretended to be speaking to my husband on the telephone. He said he wanted to give my daughter something, but she was not ready to collect it. He then put his phone in his pocket and left.
“The woman, who observed that he did not dial any number on the phone before putting it to his ear, called my husband to ask the children what his friend had been doing to them. That was how the secret was blown open. He slept with my first daughter regularly, but had only succeeded in inserting his fingers into the private parts of my second daughter.”
The suspect has since been arrested and transferred to the Gender Unit of the Lagos State Police Command.