An Ondo State Magistrate Court has remanded Alfa Babatunde, general overseer of Sotitobire Miracle Center, Akure, at Olokuta Correctional Centre over the missing of one-year-old boy, Gold Kolawole, in his church.
The State Services Service (SSS) had arraigned Babatunde before an the court on two counts of felony and kidnap.
He was arraigned alongside six others: Omodara Olayinka, Margaret Oyebola, Grace Ogunjobi, Egunjobi Motunrayo, Esther Kayode and Peter Anjorin.
The arraignment was in connection with the disappearance of a one year old boy inside Sotitobire church in November.
The mother of the child had dropped him at the creche section of the church but the boy went missing before the end of the programme.
As the rumour spread across the town that the boy was buried in the church, aggrieved youths in the area burnt the church completely.
Femi Joseph, spokesman of the Ondo police command, later said fake news led to the burning of the church.
The DSS had earlier arrested Babtunde following a petition on the missing child.
At the end of the court session on Monday, members of the church wept openly as Babatunde was ordered into a van better known as “Black Maria”.
The van is used to convey bail suspects and convicted persons from the court to prison. (The Cable)
