Israel Oladele Ogundipe
A Lagos State High court on Wednesday 18th November, 2020 sentenced prophet and Sheperd-in-charge of CCC Global Genesis church world wide, The Unstoppable Generation, Israel Oladele Ogundipe to two-year imprisonment for defrauding a United Kingdom based woman.
The trial judge, Justice Olabisi Akinlade jailed Prophet Oladele after she found him guilty of two count charges out of the seven he was charged with.
Justice Akinlade in a judgment that lasted for about four hours sentenced the defendant, prophet Oladele to a year imprisonments for count two and four. She however discharged him of counts 1,3, 5 ,6 and 7 for lack of evidence against him.
Oladele was charged with seven counts charges bordering on fraud and obtaining money by false pretenses, preferred against him by the Lagos State government sometimes in 2007.
Mrs. Olaide Williams-Oni, told an Ikeja High Court how she was allegedly defrauded of over N17 million by the Shepherd-in-Charge of the Celestial Church of Christ, Genesis Parish, Alagbado, Lagos , Prophet Israel Ola-Ogundipe.
Oni alleged that after defrauding her, Ola-Ogundipe also tried to blackmail her, acccording to the witness , she met the accused person in 2002 during her visit to Nigeria through her half-sister, Mrs. Ogungbemi.
''He told me something about my husband in one of his prophecies that I should not have anything jointly with him because he was having an affair behind me. He gave me a liquid to drink and I started vomiting. I was asked to sit down and he lit a candle and said I should be there until the candle-light goes off', she said.
Williams-Oni also alleged that she was later taken by the prophet in company of her half-sister and cousin to a bush in Sango Ota area of Ogun State where she was bathed with some concoction.
She said that she entrusted the accused person with her money to buy some landed property on her behalf because she thought he was a 'good pastor'.
According to Williams-Oni, on her return to London, Ola-Ogundipe called her and advised her to invest in landed property in Lagos, an advice she heeded after consultation with some persons.
Williams-Oni said she sent money to Ola-Ogundipe in five installments of N900,000, N2.5 million, N8.5 million, N2.7 million and 12,000 pound sterling between 2002 and 2005 to purchase the property on her behalf.
She claimed that after collecting the money, the prophet converted some of the said property for his personal use and refused to refund the money for the others.
'When I confronted him about this, he started threatening my life and blackmailing me. He was saying that I had a son for him, which became an embarrassment to my family', she claimed.
Williams-Oni told the court that the issue nearly ruined her 16-year-old marriage, adding that it was only resolved when the said child was made to under-go a paternity test, which refuted his claims.
He had however pleaded not guilty to the charge .
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