Bishop rapes 15-year-old girl in Port Harcourt
From TONY JOHN, Port Harcourt
A cleric that described himself as the chairman of bishops in Rivers
State, Bishop Chibuike Nwabueze, has been arrested for allegedly raping
a 15-year-old girl and sponsoring the abortion of the baby.
The incident was said to have occurred at about 2p.m on April 29, at
Calvary Army Ministry in Rumuoji Eneka, in Obio/Akpor Local Goverment
Area of the state.
The cleric allegedly admitted that he had a carnal knowledge of the
victim (name withheld), but attributed the crime to a set-up by his
enemies.
Bishop Nwabueze, who was paraded yesterday, at the Rivers State
Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) in Port Harcourt, told
journalists that anyone could fall victim under manipulation.
He alleged that it was his fellow bishop and the host where he went
to minister as a guest preacher that planned the incident because there
had been a tussle for the chairmanship seat of the communion of bishops.
“We have different colleges of bishops. I am the chairman of
Communion of Bishops in Rivers State. Well, what actually happened was a
set up. It was set up by my enemies. I have so many people who are my
enemies. The man who is in charge of where I went to minister is my
enemy. He is the person that set me up.
“He invited me to his church for a programme, claiming to be my
friend and after the programme, he set me up because of what we were
dragging. We are in a tussle for chairmanship of the communion and that
was why he set me up.”
He told newsmen that it was after praying for the girl in his office
on the fateful day that she allegedly seduced him into having sex with
her, pointing out that he did not rape her. I was surprised when I saw
her pulling off her clothes . But, before you knew it, I had carnal
knowledge of her. That is the truth of the matter.
“She laughed at me and said ‘are you angry? I told her that I did
not know what she had hypnotised me for and she said I should not
bother. I was so angry that I called some of my pastors and made a
confession that I did not know what happened.”
The suspect maintained that if he raped her as alleged, the girl
would have raised the alarm, because many people were within the church
premises.
According to him, it was after a month that the victim’s father called him on phone, saying that his daughter was pregnant.
Though, the cleric admitted funding the victim’s laboratory test and
other hospital bills, he stressed that it was the girl’s father that
insisted on abortion, adding that he took her to a clinic, where it was
confirmed that the victim had aborted the child.
Meanwhile, the police have advised parents to carefully choose where their children worship and be wary of some clergies.
The Deputy Commissioner of Police in-charge of SCID, Samuel Okaula,
who paraded the bishop and a male nurse, said the arrest of Bishop
Nwabueze should serve as a deterrent to other so-called clerics.
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