This may sound weird but that’s what happens at the Christ Apostolic Church, Oke Itura, in Iju town, Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State.
A self-acclaimed pastor, Matthew Olakunle, has admitted praying for women in their nudity, claiming that God answers prayers of unclad women faster.
He said this while admitting to the allegation of specializing in praying for unclad women in the church.
A 32-year-old woman, Mrs. Omotola Akerele, had accused Olakunle while featuring in a programme on Adaba FM Akure of having sexual intercourse with her and making her pregnant in the course of a deliverance session.
She said it was her mother, a member of the church, who introduced her to the pastor when she was battling with a severe cough.
Omotola, who hails from the town, narrated that as a result of the sexual relationship she had with the pastor, she got pregnant and later aborted the pregnancy without her husband’s consent.
She told the radio station: “I had a severe cough and my mother took me to Pastor Olakunle Mathew for prayer in Iju. After praying for me he said I needed a shaving stick and a handkerchief to perform the deliverance, which I took to him.
“The pastor told me that he needed to use my pubic hair to perform some spiritual work that would solve my problem. On the first night after I had arrived for the deliverance prayer session, he asked me to undress in the presence of my mother so he could pray for me in the mission house.
“Since that day, he has been asking me to come for deliverance and when I got there he would ask me to undress and lie on the bed. He would lie on me naked while praying for me.
“On the seventh day, he shaved the hair on my private part and my armpit hair and tied it with the white handkerchief. Later, we had sexual intercourse, after which he asked me to go and bury the hair together with the handkerchief.”
Omotola added that she aborted the pregnancy but her husband later found out and sent her out of the house.
However, the pastor explained that Omotola’s case was a spiritual attack for which she agreed to undergo the deliverance ritual in the church.
Olakunle, who said he had been transferred by the C.A.C to another church in Ilorin, Kwara State, however denied having sexual intercourse with Omotola.
Rather he admitted having sexual intercourse twice with Omotola’s younger sister. Then he dropped the bombshell. Not only did he sleep twice with Omotola’s younger sister, he also claimed to have prayed for their mother in her nudity.
He went real vulgar, saying: “On the third day of the deliverance session, I shaved the hair on her private part and I touched it (her private part) with my penis and I told her to be using my penis to rob the entrance of her private part so that she would discharge.
“After that, I wiped the discharge off her private part with the white handkerchief and I prayed for her reading from Psalm 24.
“After the exercise, I asked her to go and bury the handkerchief in the bush. I asked her to call her husband to do it for her but she refused; that was why I did it for her but I didn’t have sex with her.”