According to Mr Samuel Ogunbayo, the Osogun community head, the incident occurred on Feb. 25.
Ogunbayo said that the decision to ban Opadijo was reached after consultations with elders of the community.
According to him: “We are able to apprehend him because the villagers already had eyes on him. He jumped into the victim’s house through the window.
“He was aware that the husband had gone to farm and the wife, a mother six, was sleeping after her normal morning routine.
“He never knew that people were watching him when he jumped through the window and forced himself on the woman.
“He was caught red-handed forcing the innocent woman, when public-spirited people rushed to the scene and sent for the husband.
“If not for my intervention and that of elders, he would have been lynched to death.
“As it is now, we have banished him and his family from this community for 25 years."
Osogun, located about 20 kilometres from Iseyin, is the home town of Bishop Ajayi Crowther, the first man to translate the Holy Bible from English Language to Yoruba in 1843.
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