A pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Bolanle Ibrahim has been killed inside his church parish.
Ibrahim was an Assistant Pastor at the King of King Parish of RCCG located at Maidan village in the Mile 1 area of Lagos State.
Reports say he was praying for mothers and their children during a child dedication service when the assailants stormed the church auditorium and headed for him at the pulpit.
They seized him and tried to drag him out but another pastor demanded what his offence was and attempted to stop the killers.
An aunt to the deceased, Mrs Justina Alebiosu said when the other pastor demanded what the killers’ mission was, they hit his mouth with the butt of their gun.
Alebiosu added that “even before they killed him, they showed him his picture to identify if he was actually the right person they came for.”
She said “his death was was an unfortunate one, we have lost a gentleman, it was true we were as Muslims, bu we converted to Christianity. My thinking is that is that my brother had business transaction with someone.
“I was told the assailants wanted to drag him out of the pulpit where he was praying for women who brought their children for dedication, he begged them to kill him there and that was where they eventually killed him.
The Pastor’s older sister addd that, “the assailants also threatened to shoot any of the members of the church who dare come close to them.
“We still have an aged mother, and his wife just gave birth, his children are still young. I am appealing to the state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu to release his remains for us to bury, presently we are all down morally, because of his sudden death.”
The wife of the deceased, Kudirat Ibrahim said on the fateful day her husband was killed, he was fasting. She said for the period they courted she never suspected her husband to be a cultist, wondering where people heard that he was a cult member, “what they are saying about him are blatant lies, my late husband was a man of God and he served him to his death.”
“I wasn’t at home on the fateful day of the incident, I went to take care of my sick mother at the hospital, I had no premonition about his death, after the deed was done, nobody called to inform me.”
“I never knew my husband had been killed, I was still busy calling him to bring something for me from home, not knowing that he had already been killed, whenever I called him the person who is picking his call kept telling me my husband is preaching, it was later around 7pm that my elder brother came to break the news to me about the gruesome murder of my beloved husband.”
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