Seyi Adekunle of Living Faith Church, aka Winners Chapel was on Saturday
evening abducted by gunmen who invaded the church while he and other
pastors were having prayer session in the church in preparation for
Sunday services.
The gunmen numbering five were said to have
stormed the church at about 7.50 pm when the pastors were praying in the
main auditorium of the church and shot sporadically into the air before
grabbing the pastor and bundling him into their car and drove off.
“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”. A source
in the church told Vanguard.
Pastor Seyi who is the head pastor
of Province Two of the Church located along IBB Way, opposite the
Margaret Ekpo International Airport according to our source has been in
charge of the church since 2014 and has been carrying out massive
construction work in the crouch.
‘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”.
When Vanguard visited the church at about 1.00 pm on
Sunday afternoon, the second service in the church was in progress
handled by Pastor Seyi’s assistants and there was police presence
outside inside the hall and in the 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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