Gunmen storm Lagos church, kill pastor

- Hoodlums stormed a church in Iju area of Lagos at about 3am on May 30th

- They stabbed the pastor, who they met praying and left without saying a word

- The pastor's wife said the criminals did not take anything and they left by scaling the church's fence

A group of hoodlums believed to be armed robbers allegedly stormed a church in Iju Ishaga on May 30 and stabbed the pastor of a Christ Apostolic church to death.

Legit.ng learnt that the the criminals, numbering up to four, stormed the Christ Apostolic Church, Sanctuary of Blessing, Iju and stabbed the senior pastor to death.

Punch reported that the 56 year old senior pastor was taken to a private hospital from where he was referred to Lagos state Teaching Hospital where he was eventually pronounced dead.

The victim's wife, Mrs Olasunbo Olayinka said it happened around 3am on May 30th and that the hoodlums didn't say a single word when they attacked the church.

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Olayinka said: “We were asleep when they entered the church. They came to our house and we didn’t know anything was happening until we heard a sound like something was falling. There was a power outage, so we couldn’t see clearly. My husband was the first to wake up. They broke into the house through the front door.

“They didn’t say anything to us even as we asked what they wanted from us. I just heard my husband shouting, ‘In Jesus name’. I also re-echoed it, saying ‘Amen, in Jesus name.’ I never knew they had stabbed him in the chest.

“They left by scaling the church’s fence. I saw that my husband had become weak. That was when I knew that they had stabbed him. There was a lot of blood in the room.

“They didn’t take anything. Up till now, I can’t say who they are and why they did what they did. He had a lot of ministerial assignments in June, which will now be on hold. It is painful,” she added."

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However, a nurse, Amah Eze, who posted about the incident on Facebook, said the hoodlums were escaping after a robbery operation when they took the church as an escape route.

She said: “He was always ringing a bell at 12 midnight for prayers. So humble that whenever he greeted a small girl like me, he always bowed down.

"Only for absconding thieves to run into his church while he was praying as usual, and cut him with a machete. That’s how he met his death; but God knows best.”

Meanwhile, a thief who broke into a Christ Apostolic Church, Ughelli, Delta state, was apprehended after he tried to steal some of the church's electronics.

The thief was caught with the church's plasma screen TV, and some other electronics. He was handed over to the police while his accomplices escaped.

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