By: Oluwatosin Adesola
After being held for almost two years, the founder of Sotitobire Praising Chapel, Babtunde Alfa, who was imprisoned for life over the disappearance of a toddler, Gold Kolawole, in his church was on Tuesday released from the Akure prisons.
Alfa was last week set free by the Appeal Court sitting in Akure last Friday, after nullifying the judgement of the Ondo State High Court which sentenced him to life imprisonment over the missing baby.
The founder of the Sotitobire church who was received by members of the church after spending two years in prison, with some of his supporters who followed him from the Akure Correctional centre.
The Prophet who was flanked by his wife, friends and family members as he was set free and walked away from the prison premises.
Members of his church who converged on the church to give him a rousing welcome waited endlessly as the prophet never showed up at the church.
Dressed in white sport attire, the prophet rained curses on those behind his travails, saying he was picked from to the altar and sent to prison.
Speaking after regaining his freedom, Prophet Babatunde prayed that God should exposed the evil people who abducted the body.
Prophet Alfa Babatunde, said that God will expose those who are behind his travails.
“Either man or woman, who sent me to jail without investigating, my God that took me away from prison will expose those who perpetrated the evil.
“I was taken from the pulpit to the prison over what I don’t know anything about. God will expose the evil doers,” he said.
The court of appeal sitting in Akure had on Friday 3rd, December 2021 upturned the life Imprisonment handed the prophet over the missing of a one year old boy Gold in his Church in November 2019.
It will be recalled that the lower Court on October 6, 2020, through Justice Olusegun Odusola of the Ondo State High Court sentenced Prophet Alfa to life imprisonment over what he described as his complicity in the mysterious disappearance of the 13-month-old boy, Gold Kolawole from his church.
The prophet was sentenced on a two-count charge of conspiracy as well as aiding and abetting kidnapping along with five other persons who are member of his church .
Some of those convicted along with Alfa were teachers in the children department which included, Omodara Olayinka, Margaret Oyebola ,Grace Ogunjobi, Egunjobi Motunrayo and Esther Kayode.
