PASTOR 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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