Female Pastor In Bayelsa Burns And Disfigures 10 Year-old Niece.

                                                                                                                                                                               

Pastor Fine Oru who is the Assistant General Overseer of the ‘Heart Beat of God Bible Church,’ on Ompadec road, in Yenagoa,  reportedly burnt the face of her 10 year old niece, Grace Opion, with a hot spoon. She has since been arrested by the police.

Oru, 46, hails from Otueke, the Ogbia local government area of Bayelsa , and resides at the Egbenda community, off Ox-Bow road, in Yenagoa.

Opion, according to Oru, is the daughter of her younger sister, who is a pupil at Kingdom Success Academy, within the neighbourhood.

Oru, who said she has been a pastor for 16 years, said that she had left her one year old grandson in the care of the girl, and travelled to Otueke, on Friday, for a burial.

According to her, when she asked the girl what happened,  the young girl told her that she had used the spoon to slap him, as they were cooking.

''I said okay, don't worry. What you did to him, I will also do to you. As I was trying to do to her, the same thing, she was struggling.

“I and my sister, we were telling her to keep her face steady so that the hot spoon will not touch all her face, but she refused. So the thing now burnt her face like this,’’ the pastor said.

The pastor abandoned the girl, leaving her in pain, and even the boy she claimed was also burnt, and she went on to the market.

It was the cry of the girl in pain that drew the attention of neighbors, who in turn alerted the police.

In the re-telling of the story, Opion said that while she was cooking, the little boy picked the spoon up where she kept it, and touched it on his face.

A concerned resident contacted the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Dickson on Girl Child Education, Juliet Konodufaowei, who arrived at the scene sometime afterwards.

Before the arrival of the governor’s aide, police officers from the Azikoro Division were already on ground to carry out the arrest the pastor

The Police Public Relations Officer in Bayelsa Mr. Alex Akhigbe confirmed the incident, and said that he had detailed the Azikoro Division to arrest the pastor immediately, once he had gotten wind of it.