Daddy G.O Bags Life Imprisonment for Raping Three Minors in Church Mission House

A Kwara State High Court in Ilorin has sentenced a church founder to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of raping three underage girls within his church premises.

Prophet Ajiboye Abayomi Olayinka, General Overseer of the Mission House of Divine Land of Joy and Prayer Ministry, received three separate life sentences for unlawful sexual intercourse with minors, each victim aged 13 at the time of the offences.

The trial judge, Justice Hammed Aliyu Gegele, also handed down an additional 14-year custodial sentence for procuring illegal abortions on his victims and coercing them into silence, bringing the total weight of punishment against the convict to a crushing judicial reckoning.

All the offences were committed inside the church’s mission house in the Agah area of Ganmo, where Olayinka wielded authority as spiritual head over a congregation that included the minors he preyed upon.

Justice Gegele, in his verdict delivered on Wednesday, described Olayinka as “a pedophile and philanderer whose conduct should be deprecated by all and sundry in society,” and noted that the prosecution had successfully proved the charges of rape, unlawful sexual intercourse with minors, and illegal abortion.

The victims testified that Olayinka administered anointing oil on their private parts in what he framed as a spiritual ritual before subjecting them to sexual violence. 

He reportedly took at least one victim to a generator room on church grounds to assault her, and would wake others after all-night vigils for repeated abuse.

To sustain the secrecy, the pastor allegedly compelled his victims to swear on a Bible, threatening them with death should they ever speak out. 

He was also said to have used his position of religious authority to manipulate them psychologically over an extended period.

Olayinka had been arraigned on eight counts bordering on criminal conspiracy, unlawful sexual intercourse with minors, illegal abortion, and unlawful possession of firearms, under sections of the Penal Code, the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provisions) Act, 2004, and the Kwara State Child Rights Law, 2006.

The prosecution, led by Chief State Counsel Issa Zakari, called 12 witnesses and tendered a series of exhibits during the trial. 

Cross-examination of the defendant and his witnesses was completed on February 11, 2026, after which written addresses were filed and the matter adjourned for judgment.

While convicting on the major counts, Justice Gegele discharged the defendant on the charge of bigamy, holding that the prosecution failed to establish sufficient evidence on that particular count.

The court ordered that a pump-action gun recovered from the convict be forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.