HOW SOLDIERS, TOUTS, INVADED & LOOTED OUR CHURCH PROPERTIES – RESIDENT PASTOR
it was a horror show on the no. 13 Forlonsho Street mechanic bus stop Ogba Lagos, Ajayi road when some group of Touts and soldiers invaded a Church named his presence Redemption Ministries International chasing members of the church away, destroying and looting some of their properties.
The resident pastor said he was called on the phone when the invasion was taking place as he was not on the Church premises at that very moment. He said that though their security was stationed there at their Church, but couldn’t do anything because of their numbers.
“It happened last week Thursday around 10 am. I was called by the pastor of the church that soldiers and Touts invaded the church premises.
“I tried to relate to them when they called me and it got to a time when I couldn’t talk to a person again because I couldn’t hear anything over the phone and I didn’t know what happened.
“The Touts were many when they invaded the church and they met people having their meetings though we have our security stationed at our premises.
“The meetings were going on when they invaded our church and started beating our members up, bringing the church wall down, climbing, and destroying the roof. Because of the number of their numbers, our members started running away. Ever since they chased everyone away, they locked our gate”.
He further said that they stopped Church members from capturing what’s going down with their cell phones while looting church property.
“This incident happened for almost 6 hours. We later discovered that they started stealing church property and they even stopped our member from videoing what went down that very day by grabbing and smashing their phones and at the same time trying to delete what might have captured them like their faces.
“We found out that they were protecting their faces so we didn’t know who they were or where they came from”.
Speaking further, he said that they don’t really have serious issues with anyone except the one they have with Landlord which is still in court.
“We didn’t have any issue, it’s a church where we held our services every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday. The issue we have is the landlord which was the court, that is what we have and it’s still in court”.
He further pleaded to the government to come to their rescue and help them solve the problem because their members are now afraid to come to Church.
“I want the government to come to our rescue because if we’re not safe we cannot be in service and while service is going on, things like this is happening.
“Ever since that day, the church members have not been coming because they’re afraid of what might happen. Even as I speak right now, we don’t have access to our properties because the day they came, they chased everyone away. As I speak now, we also don’t have access to the compound”.
some of the Church members who were around on that very day narrated how they were chased away from the Church premises. A member names Blessing Pedro said they were surprised when their Churxh was overran by their unexpected visitors.
“It happened on Thursday morning by 10 am we were having a meeting at that church, a all of a sudden, we had a group of people, they came in their numbers. Everybody was like what is going on because we weren’t expecting such movement as of that time, so we stood and they were shouting at people and everyone was running around looking”.
