Armed men early Sunday morning broke into a Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) parish in Ogun State, killing the pastor and kidnapping some worshipers.
Commander of the Ogun State So-Safe Corps, Soji Ganzallo, on Sunday morning, reported that the event happened at about 12 am on Sunday, July 2, at Abule-Ori in the state’s Obafemi Owode Local Government Area.
According to him, his officers have already freed seven churchgoers and killed one of the captors during a raid.
In a statement signed by the So-Safe Director of Information and Public Relations, Moruf Yusuf, Ganzallo “the special operation team of the Corps, Owode-Egba Zonal Command, under ACC Jimoh Rasaki Omoniyi, received a distress call that some of the members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Desire of Nations Parish, under Ogun Province 22, Abule-Ori in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area were attacked during a vigil, while seven members of the church were kidnapped and the pastor killed.”
He stated that officers of the Corps were charged to go after the suspects to rescue the victims unhurt, stating that “the officers swung into action immediately.”
Ganzallo further disclosed that the efforts of the corps yielded a positive result as “the seven victims were rescued unhurt while one of the kidnappers was killed and many of the suspects sustained serious injury during a fire exchange.”
He also said that a manhunt had been started for the fugitive alleged kidnappers by the combined police and So-Safe Corps squad.
He observed that the deceased kidnapper’s body had been left at a neighboring mortuary.
