The wife of the Ogun State Governor,
Mrs. Olufunso Amosun, has taken up the sponsorship of nine-year-old
Korede Taiwo, the boy who was allegedly chained by his father for over a
month.
The sponsorship, it was gathered, would be from primary school to the university level.
On July
23, Taiwo was allegedly chained by his father, Francis Taiwo, a
pastor in the Ajibawo, Atan Ota area.
It had also been reported that the boy
was rescued inside his father’s church by policemen from the Onipanu
division and operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.
Francis, who is pastor of the Celestial
Church of Christ, Key of Joy, in the Ajibawo area, had accused the boy
of habitual stealing, saying his son needed deliverance.
The 40-year-old pastor had allegedly
chained his son to the altar in the church for more than a month and
starved him until he went into a coma, in an attempt to cast out the
supposed spirit that made the boy to steal.
The father was thereafter arrested and transferred to the Ogun State Police Command headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta.
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