Yemisi Olusina
A viral audio conversation of the Founder of Mercy House Church International, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Bishop Felix Okpara Duruebube, and a 16 -year- old girl who he allegedly raped for one year has emerged.
The voice note purportedly detailed how Bishop Duruebebe was scolding the teenager for not bathing and how that could affect her private part.
“If you don’t bathe, it will make your pussy to be smelling,” the voice said.
The girl, in turn apologised and promised to bathe and take care of her lady parts. The girl then informed the clergyman that it appears “mama” is aware of what is going on between them and has warned that she will die if she continues.
It is however, not clear who the “mama” in the audio is. 38- year- old Duruebebe was remanded at the Port Harcourt Correctional Centre in June 2022 by a Chief Magistrate’s Court in Port Harcourt.
Hr was arraigned on a two-count charge by the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department of the Rivers State Police Command.
Reading the charge, the prosecutor had said Bishop Duruebube between the month of April 2021 and May 2022 had unlawfully and sexually abused a 16-year-old girl.
The Magistrate was also told that sometime in the month of December 2021, at Mercy House Church International headquarters in Eliozu, the suspect unlawfully forced the minor to take an oath not to sleep with another man or tell anybody about the abuse, otherwise she would run mad and die.
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However, the accused pleaded not guilty to the charges and was granted bail by Chief Magistrate Anugbum, with two sureties in the like sum of N2 million.
One of the sureties must be a Bishop, while the second surety must be a relative with landed property within the Magisterial District.
He was remanded after he failed to meet up his bail conditions.
