Little more than month after Pastor Timothy Omotoso’s acquittal, the televangelist was rearrested in East London on Saturday.
It is believed that Immigration Services effected the arrest on Saturday at about 5:45am outside a church on the corner of Fleet and Currie streets in East London.
He is being detained for the alleged contravention of the Immigration Act and is expected to appear in the East London magistrate's court on Monday.
Police commissioner Gen Fannie Masemola confirmed Omotoso was arrested on Saturday morning and the charges relate to the violation of the Immigration Act.
"Members of Department of Home Affairs and police arrested Omotoso. He will surely appear in court on Monday and everybody will know what charges he is facing, but it is immigration-related matters," said Masemola.
Masemola said the department would elaborate more on the charges in due course.
Omotoso, 63, who is the leader of the Jesus Dominion International Church, and his co-accused and church members Lusanda Sulani, 41, and Zukiswa Sitho, 33, were found not guilty on 32 charges including rape and human trafficking.
Delivering the judgment earlier in April, judge Irma Schoeman found that they were not guilty due to technicalities, mainly that the former prosecutors in the case had acted improperly and the accused had not been sufficiently cross-examined by the state.
The Herald
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