Suspected arsonists burnt down a Living Faith Church on Wednesday December 12, destroying property worth millions of naira. According to the provincial Pastor of the church, Timothy Olaniyan, he got a distress call at about five in the evening informing him about the incident at his church on Airport road, Ilorin.
Reports claim the church and a group were involved in a land dispute and recently the co- secretary of the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC), Prof. Ish’aq Oloyede had visited the site with some members of the group.
“We had reported the matter to the Commissioner of Police and wrote a letter to Gov. Abdulfattah Ahmed, who directed his Deputy Chief of staff, Mr Leke Ogungbe, to handle the matter. “Also one Sharia Court judge, Alhaji Saliu Mohammed, came and said that the Emir of Ilorin instructed him to mediate in the matter in order to ensure peace.
“At about 8.pm on Monday, we noticed some strange people flashing touch light to the church from a distance. “Again, we reported to the police only for us to wake up to see a burnt church on Wednesday morning,’’ he said.
Ogungbe, who visited the scene, appealed for calm and urged the church members not to embark on reprisal attack. “It is quite unfortunate that the incident happened, even the security agency is aware of my mediating role,’’ he said. Quite sad
Islam is a religion of peace, and i have the believe that no right thinking muslim wil do such a barbaric act,even thuogh the land rightly belong to mssn and was aqcuire by the set of former vc unilorin prof oloyede. And all dat said oloyede threaten to burn down the church are propergander because he never follow us wen we visited the to see wat is on the land.
ReplyDeleteThat is pure rubbish. And besides who has said anything about islam being a religion of peace or violence!. May be a member of the winners chapel burnt down their own church!
ReplyDeleteMoslem are violet people and ignorant people
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