A cleric, Prophet
Elikanah Ajibade, who was charged to court on Tuesday and was remanded
in prison, for alleged physical abuse of his son for attending a church
service against his instruction, has denied reports that he asked the
boy to roll on hot coal ashes.The boy who is now in the care of JWC
staff, reportedly left home for the new year eve service on Monday,
December 31, 2012, in a church which was not his father’s. The father, a
Cherubim and Seraphim prophet at Okinni, a town in Egbedore Local
Government area of Osun State, had earlier told his son who is his late
wife’s third son not to go to any other church for the service to usher
in a new year.
It was gathered that Prophet Ajibade,
in annoyance, went to the church, rudely interrupted the service and
brought David out, lashing him with strokes of cane. Despite efforts and
pleas by members of the church, Salvation Army Church, Okinni, to
rescue the hapless boy, the father continued his lashing.
Narrating his ordeal, David disclosed that his maltreatment in the
hands of his father, stepmother and stepbrother, began with the demise
of his biological mother. “When we got home, my dad, his wife and her
son descended on me. They tied my hands with a rope and started beating
me mercilessly”.
With tears streaming down his cheeks, David Ajibade said, “after
beating me, my stepmother locked my me and my father inside and took the
key away. Then my dad continued to beat me and when he was tired, he
ordered that I should be rolling on hot ashes”.
But Prophet
Ajibade would justify his inhuman treatment of his own son claiming he
was fond of running away from home for years. He said, “he used to run
away for weeks and would come back himself.On his last deed which got me
angry, he ran away for one week”.
informationng.com gathered that the father had never reported his son
as missing to the police thus rendering his excuse untenable. The
father further stated that he decided to punish the boy because of the
tension and anxiety he went through and the problems he encountered
while looking for the boy but denied his son’s claim that he asked him
to roll on hot ashes.
Confirming the arraignment in court, the Police Public Relations
Officer in Osun State, Mrs Folasade Odoro, said that the operatives of
JWC were administering proper care and medical treatment on the boy in
their custody.
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