Ekiti State High Court has sentenced a self styled prophet and founder of Palace of Mercy, Mathew Street, Odo Ado Area,Olakanye Oni to life imprisonment for man slaughter.
He was found guilty of being instrumental to the death of one of his followers, Mrs Omowale Gbadamosi who sought deliverance over bareness .
Justice Abiodun Adesodun held that that the prosecution had proved the case beyond reasonable doubt.
He ruled that the defendant was guilty of the offence of manslaughter and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
The prosecution team led by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Ministry of Justice Ekiti State,Julius Ajibare expksibed that the convict sometimes in March, 2017 lured one Mrs Gbadamosi Omowale from Lagos to Ado Ekiti on the pretence that he has solution to her barrenness.
On getting to his Church at Palace of Mercy, Mathew Street, Odo Ado Area, Ado Ekiti, the convict hypnotized the victim and lured her into his room. He thereafter spread a white cloth on her and raped her.
The convict was said to have deployed unsavoury tactics to hypnotised his victim by using white handkerchief to clean the victim’s private part and inserted a substance believed to be potash into her vagina.
The victim’s vagina got decayed as a result of the substance inserted into it by the convict which led to the victim’s eventual death.
The convict was found to have collected a sum of fifty two thousand naira from the victim.
The prosecution called six witnesses to prove the case while the defence counsel, Chris Omokhafe Esq, called the convict and one other person as witnesses.
