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Alleged rape: We’re happy court dismissed case against Fatoyinbo –Group

David Adenekan
David Adenekan
Alleged rape: We’re happy court dismissed case against Fatoyinbo –Group
Busola Dakolo and Pastor Fatoyinbo

A non-governmental organisation, Christian Prevailing Movement, CPM, has said the court decision which dismissed the rape case filed against the founder and Pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, COZA, Biodun Fatoyinbo, by Busola Dakolo, has vindicated faithful members of the church.

Busola is the wife of popular musician, Timi Dakolo.

She filed a suit against Fatoyinbo over alleged rape case which she said occurred about 20 years ago.

The group’s remark is contained in a statement issued in Abuja at the weekend by the Publicity Secretary of the organisation, Isaac Okonkwo, while congratulating the church and the pastor.

CPM said the verdict dismissing the case of alleged rape would increase COZA on all sides.

“We congratulate the Senior Pastor of COZA, his family, friends and the loyal members of the Church who refused to abandon the Church and the Pastor. The victory, no doubt, will help Pastor Fatoyinbo to do more for the Kingdom of God,” the group said.

It added:  “We learnt that there were pressure being mounted on members to leave the Church because of the claims which the judge described as “cruelty and injustice.”

The statement further affirmed the position of members of the church that they “have absolute confidence in our God-sent father, mentor, counsellor and great servant of God, Reverend Biodun Fatoyinbo.”

“You made a righteous choice to stand by him in the days of his adversity and the pains of public humiliations over claims which, according to the judge ‘carries more cruelty in them than justice’. We thank God for justifying His servant and for not allowing the will of the adversary to prevail over him and the huge heavenly ministerial assignment He entrusted in his hands,” CPM maintained.

The organisation which among other things advocated peace and unity of the Church in the country posited:  “From the beginning, we insisted against the earlier argument of his lawyers to have the case thrown out as a result of its ‘frivolous and borders on extreme wickedness’ because we wanted the whole case to be heard by all because we have been fully and firmly persuaded that Fatoyinbo, is innocent.

“We are however pleased the way the case eventually turned out with the Honourable Justice’s judgement saying ‘It is for the reasons I advanced herein before that I declare this action as a vehicle of injustice, judicial intimidation and thorough abuse of judicial process carrying in it an overload of dormant claims and injustice. It must and is hereby dismissed…’

“According to the Judge,  ‘…there is no escape route for the Claimant’s claims. They are all statute barred and the doors of this Temple of Justice are permanently shut against them. Forever and ever they can never be revived, litigated and/or ventilated.'”

The group added:  “We completely agree with the Pastor that this victory belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ and that he bears no grudge against those responsible for the trauma and public humiliations he and the Church suffered along with his immediate family. Our prayers include but are not limited to the healing of the wounds and genuine repentance of those who were used in one way or the other to attack the Church that our Lord Jesus Christ built with His precious blood.

The group said it was not unaware of the threat of Mrs. Busola Dakolo to take the rape case to a higher courts on appeal, but “counsel her to accept the historic verdict in good faith. To us it is a case of no vanquished and no winner. However, if she insists on appealing the matter, our God who delivered his Servant from the bear and lion shall surely deliver him from any Goliath that stands in his way in Jesus Name. We are against Christians taking themselves to court because it is not biblical and there are processes of reconciliation listed in the Bible. We are the Light of the world. We are in the world but not of the world. There are more persecution in the country than to be fighting ourselves.

“COZA is the Church of Jesus Christ and He has prayed that the gate of hell shall not prevail against her. The Church in Nigeria are marching on to victory over all forces of darkness in Jesus Name. Our God whom we trust will not fail us.”

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