Many
people were left in a state of shock after suspected herdsmen stormed a
Cherubim and Seraphim church before causing untold pains to the people.
A gunman
Members of Angwan Kwaso, Tunga-Maje, community in Zuba, Federal
Capital Territory, Abuja, were yesterday thrown into fear after
suspected armed herdsmen attacked a church, New Ona Iwa Mimo Onimajemu
Cherubim and Seraphim church, before escaping with with monies, phones
and other valuables.
The hoodlums numbering 4 and on Nigerian Army and Nigerian Security
and Civil Defense Corp uniforms, attacked the church around 2 am on
Monday. They also abducted three women who were participating in the
church’s vigil in the process.
According to The Nigerian Tribune,
while the bandits were leaving with the women, the leader of the
Church, Prophet Oladejo John, picked a bottle, threw it in the direction
of the bandits, upon breaking, the bottle made a gun-like sound which
forced the bandits to shoot back and disappeared, leaving the women
behind.
Narrating the incident, one of the victims of the attack, Mrs komolafe Bose said “as
they came midnight, they are four in number, one of them stayed outside
with his face covered, two of them wore army uniform, while the
remaining two wore civil Defense uniforms, when then entered the church,
they ordered everyone to lie down, they asked after the pastor, then
Daddy (Prophet Oladejo John) stood, they searched everyone, took our
phones, money and other valuables in the church.
“They asked Daddy where is his gun, Daddy asked them to
introduce themselves first, then one of them used a stick and hit Daddy,
another one attacked Daddy and beat him, asking him where he kept his
money and phone.
“After robbing us, they took four women away including Daddy’s
wife, they took me with my daughter, when getting outside the Church,
they asked me to go back, while my daughter was taken away, one their
way inside the bush, they told one of the women to go back, and then
left with the remaining three, they told the Daddy to pay N5 million for
the women to be released.
“Immediately they left, Daddy came out, he followed them, on
his way, he saw the woman that was released, then he asked her where the
other women were, she told him that they took them away, then Daddy
came back, took a bottle of soft drink around the Church premises, then
threw it in the direction of the bandits, it then hit a rock and sounded
like a gunshot, they fired back at Daddy’s direction and ran away,
leaving the three women behind”.
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