A total of 77 persons — including 26
children — have been rescued by police
officers from the basement of a church in
Valentino area of Ondo state.
Funmilayo Odunlami, police public
relations officer (PPRO) in Ondo state,
confirmed the development to TheCable
on Saturday.
Odunlami said the rescued persons have
been evacuated to the police command in
Akure, the capital of Ondo state.
The police spokesperson although an
investigation has been launched into the
incident, early findings indicated that the
persons were kept in the basement by a
pastor preparing for rapture.
Rapture — according to the Christian
doctrine — refers to the period of the
second coming of Christ when all
believers are expected to be taken to
heaven.
“It’s a case of suspected abduction,” the
police spokesperson said.
“It’s a church-related issue — a pastor
who claims that Jesus is coming soon
and rapture will take place by September
and he harboured all of them in a house.”
Speaking further with TheCable on
Saturday night, the police spokesperson
said two pastors of the church have also
been arrested over the incident.
Josiah Peters, assistant pastor of Hope
Bible Believers Church where the persons
were discovered, said the decision to
keep people in the church was in
obedience to an instruction from God.
“We were having seven days meeting on
God’s instruction, that we should lock the
gate and be with him for seven days,” he
said.
The development comes weeks after the
Ekiti police command invited Nuah
Abraham, the pastor of Christ High
Commission Ministry, Kaduna state, for
questioning over allegations of asking
church members to pay N310,000 to
prepare them for rapture.
According to the police, Abraham had
asked his church members to relocate
from Kaduna to a camp in Araromi-Ugbesi
in Omuo-Oke, Ekiti state.
The pastor was said to have told his
church members that the relocation was
in order to “prepare for the end of the
world”.


Source: https://www.thecable.ng/police-rescue-77-persons-including-26-children-kept-in-church-basement-by-ondo-pastor-updated/amp



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