Singer and songwriter, Timi Dakolo, has lent his support to a former Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA) employee who made rape allegations against Biodun Fatoyinbo.
The former employee whose name has been withheld appeared in a video on Thursday with Chude Jideonwo on YNaija TV.
Reacting to the video, Timi Dakolo wrote: “THEN ANOTHER PERSON FOUND HER VOICE AND BOLDLY STEPS FORWARD.THIS TIME A FORMER CHURCH MEMBER AND STAFF IS HERE TELL HER TRUTH.THIS ISN’T ABOUT THE CHURCH,IT HAS HAS NEVER BEEN.SO DON’T GET IT TWISTED .NOBODY CAN FIGHT THE CHURCH OF GOD.WE ARE AGAINST INDIVIDUALS USING THE CHURCH AS AN AVENUE TO RUIN WOMEN.LET US NOT EXPECT TO DO WHAT GOD EXPECT US TO DO?!THIS TRUTH IS NOT GOING ANYWHERE.MUST WE CONTINUE IN EVIL SO THAT GRACE MAY ABOUND? GOD FORBID!!!”
The new accusation comes less than a week after Busola Dakolo, wife of Timi Dakolo accused Fatoyinbo of raping her about 20 years ago.
The lady said the incident happened in the last quarter of 2017 at the pastor’s house.
She said she joined the church in 2009 and steadily grew close to Fatoyinbo’s wife, Modele, who made her guardian over her children in a city outside the country.
According to her, Fatoyinbo asked her to come to his house on the fateful day (a Thursday morning) to take some instructions and go for an errand.
“He was my boss. I worked with him. Sometimes I had to do errands for them. So it was not the first time that I was going to be at their house.
“I was there sitting on the couch with him and he started addressing something that has to do with the church.
“Everything moved quickly from there and then he started trying to pull me into a hug and started kissing me, which I found shocking. I had known him as a spiritual leader and I was about to witness opposite of everything that I thought he stood for.
“I was too shocked. It was a couch. I don’t know whether I should hold on to something. I remember telling him continuously ‘You can’t do that, you can’t do that.’
“He just kept going. Took off my button and my trouser. And then he had his other hand holding me back to the couch. And another hand right inside my pants.
“I remember he kept saying, ‘Relax. Just relax.’ He didn’t flinch,” she said.
After the alleged rape, she said she continued to work for the church and Fatoyinbo’s family until July 2018.
The lady said Fatoyinbo apologised to her for the incident on two different occasions in 2018.
