A man has st@bbed a Bishop of a Church in Osogbo, Rapture Empowerment International, Dr Sina Olaribigbe, for allegedly having an affair with his wife.
Vanguard reports that the jealous husband and his wife were separated after a disagreement which the deceased was trying to settle between them.
According to residents of the area, the deceased visited the wife, who lived in a different apartment located around the BCGA area behind Olorunda local government in Osogbo, the state capital.
The husband who had been suspecting the cleric of having an affair with his wife, trailed him to her house and attacked him, stabbing him multiple times in the chest.
A member of the Church, Isaac Oyeleye confirmed on his Facebook page on Thursday that the Bishop was stabbed to death, describing his death as unfortunate.
The Osun Police Command spokesperson, CSP Yemisi Opalola confirmed that the suspect and the estranged wife had been arrested.
She said the couple was not living together and the deceased Bishop was an arbitrator trying to settle the dispute between the couple.
“They are a couple but not living together. They are not separated by law yet. The Bishop, (deceased) used to settle the fight between the couple. We were told the pastor was at the wife’s place today when the estranged husband got there. We were also told the husband stabbed the pastor. We were also told the deceased was on the wife’s bed when the incident happened. The husband stabbed him severally and he died,” she said.
