A pastor, Seyi Adekunle, of the Living Faith
Church, aka Winners’ Chapel, has been
kidnapped yesterday, 13th June, 2015,
during a prayer session inside the church.
Vanguard reports that the pastor was
kidnapped while he was having a prayer
session in preparation for Sunday service
when five gunmen stormed the church
premises, shooting loudly into the air. He was
however thrown into the car and they
zoomed off with the pastor at about 7:
31am
The kidnapped pastor Seyi is the head pastor
of Province Two of the Church situated along
IBB Way, opposite the Margaret Ekpo
International Airport. Major construction
works have been ongoing in the church since
2014 that the pastor joined the branch of the
church.
An anonymous member of the church talked
about the incident saying:
“Normally on Saturdays, we have a number
of activities but the pastors prayer session
comes last, it was while the session was in
progress that the boys came in, shot into the
air and took our pastor away”.
‘He came here in 2014 and has been doing a
lot work through the construction of a
massive complex for the church auditorium
and office accommodation which might have
given the kidnappers the impression that he
has money to give them as ransom”.
The church had its normal service today with
pastor Seyi’s assistant in charge but not
without the heavy presence of the Nigerian
police force all around the church’s presence
premises.
“There was no policeman on duty here
yesterday when the incident happened but
this morning we had to request for some
policemen from the Airport Police Station
close by and these six policemen you see
here were deployed to forestall any
recurrence of what took place last night”
Mr Hogan Bassey, the spokesman of the
Cross River State Police Command says the
kidnappers are yet to make any demands
“but we are closing on them and very soon I
shall inform you on how far we have gone”
he said
Church, aka Winners’ Chapel, has been
kidnapped yesterday, 13th June, 2015,
during a prayer session inside the church.
Vanguard reports that the pastor was
kidnapped while he was having a prayer
session in preparation for Sunday service
when five gunmen stormed the church
premises, shooting loudly into the air. He was
however thrown into the car and they
zoomed off with the pastor at about 7:
31am
The kidnapped pastor Seyi is the head pastor
of Province Two of the Church situated along
IBB Way, opposite the Margaret Ekpo
International Airport. Major construction
works have been ongoing in the church since
2014 that the pastor joined the branch of the
church.
An anonymous member of the church talked
about the incident saying:
“Normally on Saturdays, we have a number
of activities but the pastors prayer session
comes last, it was while the session was in
progress that the boys came in, shot into the
air and took our pastor away”.
‘He came here in 2014 and has been doing a
lot work through the construction of a
massive complex for the church auditorium
and office accommodation which might have
given the kidnappers the impression that he
has money to give them as ransom”.
The church had its normal service today with
pastor Seyi’s assistant in charge but not
without the heavy presence of the Nigerian
police force all around the church’s presence
premises.
“There was no policeman on duty here
yesterday when the incident happened but
this morning we had to request for some
policemen from the Airport Police Station
close by and these six policemen you see
here were deployed to forestall any
recurrence of what took place last night”
Mr Hogan Bassey, the spokesman of the
Cross River State Police Command says the
kidnappers are yet to make any demands
“but we are closing on them and very soon I
shall inform you on how far we have gone”
he said
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