It was gathered that the police at Idimu Division stormed the church and exhumed the body of the victim for autopsy and arrested the pastor of the church identified as Dare Ogunloye.
A police sources said the Divisional Police Officer, Mike Ochuko, instructed his men to exhume the corpse from the church premises for autopsy..
To get to the root of the matter, the traditional ruler of Egbeda Kingdom, Oba Samson Balogun has urged the Lagos State Government to close down the church permanently if the allegation was true.
The monarch told journalists that he was informed about the incident by his wife, saying the occurrence was strange to him and the residents.
Balogun said he did not know that the incident happened very close to him until journalists came calling for his comments on the matter, charging the police to thoroughly investigate the matter and bring those involved to justice.
To ensure that the premises was sealed a team of policemen was inside and outside the church auditorium, while their Mazda patrol vehicle with registration number BD 36 AW was used to block the entrance of the church.
The bubble was said to have burst on the pastor when a resident close to the church who had gone out to ease himself at about 2am and allegedly caught the pastor burying the child in a shallow grave within the church premises.
The neighbour whose identity was not disclosed, was said to have alerted other residents who reported the incident to policemen at Idimu Division.
The policemen dug the shallow grave where they discovered and exhumed the body of the baby girl.
The Police Command’s Deputy Spokesman, Damasus Ozoani, who confirmed the arrest of the pastor of the church in connection with the incident declined further comments.
It was further learnt that, operatives of the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Yaba, Lagos, have taken over the investigation of the matter.
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