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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Lekki, Lagos State, Nigeria · 2024

Nigeria: Lagos pastor sentenced to life imprisonment for raping a church member

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

founder and bishop, iReign Christian Ministry

Organization

iReign Christian Ministry

Spiritual nexus

The complainant was a congregant and former assistant pastor under Daniels's direct pastoral authority; she was drawn into private one-on-one contact at his residence specifically because of that clerical relationship, and the court treated his subsequent payment to her as an attempt to leverage the same relationship to buy silence.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2024-01-26 · trial and sentencing

    Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja, Nigeria. Justice Rahman Oshodi convicted Feyi Daniels (also called Daniel Oluwafeyiropo) on one count of rape and one count of sexual assault of church members, acquitting him on a second rape count and an attempted-rape count. Sentenced to life imprisonment on the rape count and a concurrent three-year term for sexual assault; ordered registered in the Lagos State Sex Offenders Register.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • pastoral authority over a congregant, including a former assistant pastor of his own church
  • isolation at the pastor's private residence under guise of counsel/prayer
  • payment to the victim after one assault, cited by the court as an attempt to buy silence

Primary record

Sources

national press sentencing report Punch, 'Lagos pastor Feyi Daniels bags life imprisonment for raping church member' (26 January 2024).

Reports that the Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja, sentenced Feyi Daniels, founder of iReign Christian Ministry, to life imprisonment for rape and a concurrent three years for sexual assault of a church member, after Justice Rahman Oshodi found him guilty on the first and third counts of a four-count charge. States the assaults occurred at the pastor's Lekki residence and on church premises in Ikeja, and that his name was ordered added to the state Sex Offenders Register.

national press victim testimony report Sahara Reporters, 'Nigerian Pastor, Bishop Feyi Daniel Raped Me Twice In His Lekki Home, Sent Me N5,000 To Treat Myself — Assistant Pastor' (9 May 2023).

First-person account from the complainant, a former assistant pastor at Daniels's church, describing two assaults at his Lekki residence and a subsequent payment of N5,000 which the prosecution characterised at trial as an attempt to silence her.

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