Source: Africa Publicity
The pastor of Nigeria’s Mission House of Divine Land of Joy and Prayer Ministry, Ajiboye Olayinka, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping little girls in his church.
Pastor Olayinka was jailed by Kwara high court in Ilorin on Wednesday, May 13, 2026.
Local media reports say on Wednesday, Hammed Gegele, the trial judge, convicted Olayinka of multiple offences bordering on unlawful sexual intercourse with minors, illegal abortion, and unlawful possession of firearms.
The Punch, a local media outlet reported that judge Gegele described the pastor as a “pedophile and philanderer”, who took advantage of religion to manipulate and sexually abuse underage girls in his care.
The trial judge says the pastor repeatedly impregnated some of the victims and forced them to terminate the pregnancies while threatening them not to report.
The judge noted that the victims were asked to swear oaths of secrecy with the Bible under threats of death should they disclose the incidents to anyone.
Gegele recalled how one of the victims told the court how the pastor raped her inside the generator house, while using anointing oil as a lubricant.
According to the judge, the victim told the court that the pastor often woke her up from sleep after vigils to have sexual intercourse with her.
The judge says “The convict turned his victims into sex machines, abusing them physically and mentally.”
“One of the victims narrated how the defendant took her to a generator house where he forcefully had sexual intercourse with her after applying anointing oil as lubricant.”
Gegele sentenced the defendant to three separate life imprisonment sentences for offences relating to unlawful sexual intercourse with minors.
The trial judge sentenced Olayinka to 14 years imprisonment for carrying out illegal abortions for his victims.
The judge then ordered that the pump action gun recovered from the convict be forfeited to the federal government.
