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How celestial church pastor chained, tortured 9-year-old boy

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A nine-year old boy, who was chained and tortured by a Celestial Church in Ogun State, Southwest Nigeria was rescued by officials of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Friday.

The security outfit said the nine-year old boy had been chained for weeks by the church, the Celestial Church of Christ (Key of Joy Parish, Ajiwo) at Ajibawo in Ado Odo/Ota local government area of Ogun State.

The NSCDC operatives had gone on surveillance of petroleum pipeline in Ajibawo when neighbours of the pastor informed them about the boy’s ordeal.

They swung into action and arrested Korede’s step mother, Kehinde, who told the police that the father had chained ant tortured the victim for stealing.

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The NSCDC said in a statement on Saturday that the boy, Taiwo Korede was on Friday rescued from the church.

The security agency said the tortured boy was rescued while in chains, and that the case had been transferred to the appropriate authority for further investigation.
According to the statement: “On the 22nd of July, 2016,at about 10:30hrs at Ajibawo in Ado Odo Ota Division 2, NSCDC officers rescue a boy, named Taiwo Korede, aged nine years old, who had been chained for weeks at Celestial Church of Christ, key of Joy Parish Ajiwo. The case has since been transfer to the appropriate authority for further investigation.”

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On Sunday, Ogun State Police Command announced that it has arrested the fleeing pastor who chained Korede, his son for over a month.

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The state Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, said Pastor Francis Taiwo was arrested with the help of the members of the Celestial Church of Christ, Ota.

The police said the suspect, a father of five, confirmed that Korede’s mother, Marine Taiwo, who hailed from Delta State is late. And that she had four children for him, two boys and two girls, before she divorced him in 2007, just after she gave birth to Korede.

Adejobi said Francis confessed that he chained Korede because he felt “he’s possessed and he’s not comfortable with his habit of stealing.”

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Adejobi said, “According to police investigation, none of Korede’s siblings stays with the pastor.

‎”Pastor Francis, a Beninois born in Nigeria, into the same Celestial church, was ordained as a pastor in the church in 2012.

“He was married to two wives before he got married to Kehinde, the step mother to Korede, who is a suspect in the ongoing case with the command.”

Adejobi said the Assistant Inspector-General in charge of Zone 2, Abdulmajid Ali, had directed that the case be transferred to the Anti-Human trafficking and Child Labour Unit of the Command for necessary investigation and actions on the welfare of Korede.

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