For allegedly setting her nine-year-old daughter ablaze during a ‘spiritual cleansing’ to cast out the ‘spirit of witchcraft’, a self-acclaimed prophetess,... Bose Oluwole, has been arrested and charged to court by the police in Epe, Lagos State.
The victim, who was identified as Damilola Oluwole, was rescued by neighbours when her screams rent the air. The neighbours, it was, who alerted the police from Epe Division after they had doused the raging fire.
She was immediately rushed to the emergency unit of Epe General Hospital by the policemen where she is currently receiving treatment for first degree burn.
Speaking to the investigation police officer in charge of the case, the victim said her mother had on that fateful day informed her that a deliverance session would be carried out on her.
THISDAY gathered that the deliverance was allegedly to cast out the spirit of witchcraft, which the mother said had possessed her daughter.
The victim told the police that her mother had during the deliverance session poured kerosene on her and struck a match, setting her ablaze.
As the flames licked her body in relish, she said she ran out in pains and screamed as loud as her voice could carry her until neighbours ran to her aid.
She lost consciousness at a point and the next time she opened her eyes was at the hospital where she is being treated of the burns.
The suspect in her statement, said she was merely obeying ‘God’s’ purported instructions, adding that the divine order was supposed to cast out the spirit of witchcraft that had possessed her daughter.
The prophetess who attends a white garment church, told the police during interrogation that the deliverance came about after she had a vision while praying, where it was revealed that her daughter was from the witchcraft world.
She said: “When I prayed to God over it, I received an instruction through the Holy Spirit to burn my daughter’s body in order to deliver her from the evil society.”
After concluding its investigations, the police had initially charged her to Igbosere Magistrates Court, on a two-count charge of felony to wit and attempt to commit murder, but the case was transferred to Family court 2 owing to the victim’s age.
When the suspect pleaded not guilty to the offence, the magistrate in charge of the Family Court, Mrs. O. O. Oshin, ordered her to be remanded in Kirikiri prison until June 2, when the next sitting would take place.
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