The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a female pastor and nine members of her church for allegedly stoning an Oro traditional worshiper to death in Lagos.

The church, Truth and Spirit Prophetic Church, at the Sanni Taiwo Lawal Street, Poposhola area of Oko-Oba was having its monthly vigil and prophetic hour when Oro traditional worshipers were also having their vigil.

A witness, Benedicta, said: “While we were having our vigil, the Oro traditional worshiper came into our church and ordered us to stop worship, but our pastor was trying to explain to them that we were inside the church and not outside the premises.

“It was when they started beating us that some of us ran away, while the courageous ones resisted the Oro worshipers.

“It was later that we heard that one of them died. But what is the offence we committed for doing our thing inside the church?”

A senior police officer from Oko-Oba police station, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: “While we were in the Station, at about 6.30am, we got a report that a church was about to be set ablaze by Oro traditional worshipers; so we raced to the church and discovered there was a serious fight between Oro traditional worshipers and the church members.

“We were told that while the church was having its vigil, the Oro worshipers were also having their sacrament. The Oro worshipers, who felt that the church should not be robbing shoulders with them, ordered the church to stop their programme and the church refused; so there was a fight between the two worshipers.

“During the fight, a traditional worshiper, Akeem Agboola, 25, was stoned to death by the church members. We arrested the pastor of the church, Mercy Okocha, 50, and nine other members of the church, while the body of the Oro worshiper was evacuated and deposited at a public morgue for autopsy.”

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer! PPRO), SP Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed the story, said that 10 people, including the pastor of the church, had been arrested, while investigation was ongoing.

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/lagos-pastor-9-others-arrested-for-stoning-oro-worshiper-to-death-2/

Fantastic!

Should be made to face the law, and dealt with accordingly!

freedom of religion please. Unless the Christians want us to start stoning them to death too.

I don’t want to jump into conclusions, cos I feel both parties were performing their different activities. Why tell one to stop?

But it's the church that was attacked, right?

Blitzerz:
But it's the church that was attacked, right?

I understand defending one's self but stoning a human to death.... that is despicable.

Ofunaofu:
A senior police officer from Oko-Oba police station, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: “While we were in the Station, at about 6.30am, we got a report that a church was about to be set ablaze by Oro traditional worshipers; so we raced to the church and discovered there was a serious fight between Oro traditional worshipers and the church members.

“We were told that while the church was having its vigil, the Oro worshipers were also having their sacrament. The Oro worshipers, who felt that the church should not be robbing shoulders with them, ordered the church to stop their programme and the church refused; so there was a fight between the two worshipers.

“During the fight, a traditional worshiper, Akeem Agboola, 25, was stoned to death by the church members. We arrested the pastor of the church, Mercy Okocha, 50, and nine other members of the church, while the body of the Oro worshiper was evacuated and deposited at a public morgue for autopsy.”

Make them investigate and make sure all wrong doers face justice abeg.

Kobojunkie:
What do you mean by that? What right do they have to stone anyone to death?

I understand defending one's self but stoning a human to death.... that is despicable.

Oga, anything can come out from self defense.

If you attack someone, u could get killed.
Keep your hands to yourself. Simple

Blitzerz:

Oga, anything can come out from self defense.
If you attack someone, u could get killed.
Keep your hands to yourself. Simple

We are told he was stoned to death by a bunch of people not accidentally killed. No be the same story we dey read for here?

Who's the first to attack?

Kobojunkie:
We are told he was stoned to death by a bunch of people not accidentally killed. No be the same story we dey read for here?

How can you attack someone and also then be the one to narrate story and claim victim?

Something isnt right.

Blitzerz:
How can you attack someone and also then be the one to narrate story and claim victim?
Something isnt right.

Na police talk say the man was stoned to death and that is what I am reacting to. The attack on the church was definitely unlawful so also the supposed stoning of a man to death.

Ofunaofu:


“We were told that while the church was having its vigil, the Oro worshipers were also having their sacrament. The Oro worshipers, who felt that the church should not be robbing shoulders with them, ordered the church to stop their programme and the church refused; so there was a fight between the two worshipers.

“During the fight, a traditional worshiper, Akeem Agboola, 25, was stoned to death by the church members. We arrested the pastor of the church, Mercy Okocha, 50, and nine other members of the church, while the body of the Oro worshiper was evacuated and deposited at a public morgue for autopsy.”


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Sorry, oro worshippers, for your loss.
How dare the Church have the audacity to rub shoulders with you?

As you people went inside the church to intimidate and attack them as usual because they are Christians and are meant to watch helplessly while you attack or even kill them, as in the case of the Owo Catholic Church massacre and the Christmas Day bombing of St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, among others, where scores of Christians died in the hands of the Islamic State of West Africa Province and the Islamic terrorist group, Boko Haram, respectively , you saw the unexpected. Can you imagine that?
The Church couldn't even allow you guys to do what you came for successfully and walk away freely?
Maybe the Church is learning self-defence.
Let justice prevail in this case.

Kobojunkie:
Na police talk say the man was stoned to death and that is what I am reacting to. The attack on the church was definitely unlawful so also the supposed stoning of a man to death.

So the unlawful attackers, have they been arrested?

Anyway, u r not the one to answer....
The society is crooked.

Blitzerz:

So the unlawful attackers, have they been arrested?

Anyway, u r not the one to answer....
The society is crooked.

I am also for the attackers being arrested offcourse.