Hoodlums have invaded a Residing Religion Church in Daura native authorities space of Katsina State, looting about 205 chairs, musical devices, and different precious objects value thousands and thousands of naira.
The assaults befell within the wake of #EndBadGovernance nationwide protests on Thursday with attendant violent clashes between hoodlums and safety operatives.
The pastor in command of the church, David Jato, disclosed this to LEADERSHIP, lamenting that they couldn’t maintain Sunday service within the auditorium of the church as a result of the hoodlums went away with all the pieces contained in the church constructing through the protests.
Pastor Jato defined, “We have now two safety males working within the church, one was on obligation whereas the opposite was off. When the protest started round 10:00am, the hoodlums simply diverted to the church, a lot of them in Keke NAPEP (Tricycle), and broke the doorways and courses and penetrated the church auditorium.
“They packed all the pieces contained in the church auditorium, together with the wall digital clock, musical devices, pupit, pastor’s chairs, plastic chairs, and a desktop laptop on the reception, in addition to a scoreboard the place the accountant often saved church paperwork. They scattered all the pieces.”
He added that three church buildings have been focused however the hoodlums solely succeeded in invading the Residing Religion Church and Deeper Life Church, however couldn’t power themselves into the Anglican Church due to the sturdy iron protector on the gate.
“We’ve knowledgeable the police and the Military about it, and the police instructed us yesterday that they’ve made some arrests.
“I’m shocked by this assault; once we are interested by ending unhealthy governance, which now escalated to the invasion of church buildings, it’s one thing that everybody ought to significantly condemn. It’s not meals that we retailer within the Home of God. It’s a place of worship. Why is it solely church? The federal government ought to come to the truth they’re serving humanity, and God will decide us all, whether or not political or spiritual leaders.
“My prayer to the perpetrators is that they need to repent from what they’re doing as a result of so that you can enter church, a spot of worship, is flawed and you already know you aren’t combating man, they need to search for repentance. I do know God is forgiving and He’ll forgive them,” he added.
Equally, the previous state chairman of the Christian Affiliation of Nigeria ( CAN), Very Rev. Nelson Onyekachuku, whose church is called ‘Energy of Resurrection’, was additionally affected in Katsina city, the place the hoodlums vandalised the church home windows, however they couldn’t enter due to the iron protectors of the church.
He, nevertheless, condemned the motion in whole, including that the hoodlums mustn’t add ache to the church, whilst he referred to as on the federal government to vary its coverage and handle the grievances of the folks and at all times guarantee to guard the church each time such an incident occurs.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Sadiq Abubakar, was but to repond to the message despatched to him on the time of submitting this report. Nevertheless, LEADERSHIP noticed heavy deployment of safety personnel round church buildings throughout the state on Sunday to make sure hitch-free Sunday worship.
