Posted on: 09:31 Sat, 13 Feb 2016



The General Overseer of Agape Baptist
Church, Pastor Oprite Amakiri, has been
arrested in Rivers State.
The 50-year-old randy pastor confessed to
how he deceived a member of his church and
raped her 18-year-old sister before he was
exposed and dragged to the police.

Amakiri was said to have told about 200
members of his church that he had been
battling waste pain for the past two years and
stressed that God told him that a girl between
the age of 12 and 18 years old would be
needed to massage his waist for him to be
healed, Punch reports.

However, the gullible members of the church
did not see anything wrong in the randy
pastor’s ‘prophecy’ and one of them, the elder
sister to the victim (names withheld) decided
to make available her 18-year-old sister for
the massage job.

The pastor (Amakiri) decided to visit the
home of his victim’s sister to get massaged
while the owner of the house (victim’s sister),
who is a roadside trader, had gone to do her
petty trading.

It was learnt that the pastor raped the girl on
three occasions and threatened to deal with
her if she dared expose his deeds to anyone,
including her elder sister.

Not satisfied with the development, the
victim (names withheld) slammed the door
against the pastor on the fourth day and
stopped him from gaining access into the
room for another round of sex.

Angered by the girl’s effrontery, the randy
pastor put a call across to the elder sister
of the victim and told her that the 18-year-
old girl was trying to stop ‘God’s prophecy’,
an action that forced the naïve victim’s
sister to abandon her wares and rushed
home with dissatisfaction.

On getting to her house, the rape victim told
her sister how she had been defiled on four
occasions by the pastor. It was at that point
that the trader raised the alarm and Pastor
Amakiri was arrested.

Speaking with newsmen, the errant pastor
confessed to the crime and said nobody
should blame it on the devil and that he
(Amakiri) should take the blame because he
actually planned and executed the rape of the
teenager.

“The elder sister to the girl I raped is a
choir member of my church. It was after
choir practice one Thursday that I informed
the sister that I would like to visit her
house for a serious discussion and she
obliged me.

“The following day, I paid her the visit and
requested that she allow her younger sister
(his victim), to massage my waist, that I
had been having ache on it in the past two
years and every treatment, drugs and
injection had failed.

“She then went and discussed with the
younger sister, who accepted to help me.

So, we had the first massage treatment that
day while the elder sister was around and
nothing happened between me and the little
girl.

“On Saturday, I called her to inform her that
I was coming back for the treatment, I got
there while she was about to leave for choir
practice in the church. While the massage
was going on, I had the (sexual) urge. So, I
had carnal knowledge of the girl. I have
successfully raped her three times,”
Amakiri, whose church is located in
Rumuolumeni, added.

The cleric, whose wife is a health worker in
Degem Locl Government Area of the state,
explained that he could not tell his wife to
massage him because she only came home
from her work place once a week when she
was off duty.

Amakiri, who has four children, stated that it was during his fourth attempt at raping the girl that he met a brick wall and since then, he had not regained his freedom.

He said, “It was the fourth time that she
(victim) locked the gates against me. So, I
had to call her sister on her cell phone and
she rushed to the house from her shop and
began to interrogate the girl on why she did
not want to massage my waist again and
she disclosed what has been happening
between us.

“I sincerely regret my actions. It is like the
ground should open up and swallow me.
Don’t blame the devil for what has
happened, blame me because I was
tempted and I did it,” he added.

The victim, who simply gave her name as
Goodness, told newsmen that she never knew
the pastor that was respected so much by
members of his church could think of having
sexual intercourse with her.

She said the pastor had warned her on each
occasion he forcefully had carnal knowledge
of her not to disclose what happened to
anybody, including her elder sister.

“I was in the house when the pastor came
and asked me to massage his waist. On the
first day, I massaged him, nothing happened
between us. But on the second day, while I
was massaging him, he began to touch my
breast and raped me.

“I tried to escape, but he held me and
warned me never to tell anybody what he
did to me. He has raped me three times,”
the victim said, adding that she used
vegetable oil to massage the pastor’s waist.

Speaking on the matter, the State Police
Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ahmad
Mohammad, said the randy pastor had
confessed to raping the girl on several
occasions, adding that Amakiri would be
charged to court at the end of an ongoing
investigation into the matter.