PastorPrincewill Basil, standing trial before an Abuja High Court over alleged rape of two girls, was on Tuesday confronted by a second victim who claimed the man of God raped her countless times.
Basil, the General Overseer, Mountain Movers Fire Ministry Church, Nyanya, was arraigned in 2012 for allegedly having unlawful carnal knowledge and impregnating two student-members of his church, aged 14 and 15.
Giving evidence under cross-examination by the defence counsel, Mr Sunday Kekere, the victim said the pastor raped her to “cleanse her spirit of dirt’’.
“I cannot remember the number of times he raped me.
“Papa told me it was a continuous deliverance, and he had to sleep with me to clean all the dirt inside of me and also cleanse my future’’, she told the court.
When asked if in her statement to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, she admitted living with the accused, she answered `no’.
NAN recalls that at the last sitting of the case on February 11, the first victim had told the court that Basil allegedly told her that her father’s wife was trying to kill her and that the Lord told him to perform a quick deliverance on her.
If convicted, the pastor is liable to 14 years in prison. The accused had pleaded not guilty to the charges.