{"id":9530,"date":"2023-07-03T23:47:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T23:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/?p=9530"},"modified":"2023-10-31T11:25:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T11:25:55","slug":"abominable-in-the-house-of-god-fierce-looking-gunmen-kill-redeemed-christian-church-of-god-pastor-in-ogun-state-kidnap-seven-worshippers-officers-have-rescued-the-seven-church-members-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/abominable-in-the-house-of-god-fierce-looking-gunmen-kill-redeemed-christian-church-of-god-pastor-in-ogun-state-kidnap-seven-worshippers-officers-have-rescued-the-seven-church-members-an\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOMINABLE in the HOUSE OF GOD: Fierce-looking Gunmen Kill Redeemed Christian Church of God Pastor In Ogun State,"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABOMINABLE in the HOUSE OF GOD:<\/b><\/p>\n

Fierce-looking Gunmen Kill Redeemed Christian Church of God Pastor In Ogun State, Kidnap Seven Worshippers<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n

\u00a0<\/b>*\u2018Officers have rescued the seven church members and killed one of the kidnappers during an encounter after the abduction\u2019<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

*BY TOLULOPE ABIODUN<\/b>\/RELIGIOUS Reporter in Ogun State<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

IT IS SEEN AS A SACRILEGE. It is shocking that fierce-looking, gun wielding men stormed a House of God-the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, in Abule-Ori, Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, killed the pastor and abducted seven members of the Church.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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The gunmen also abducted seven worshippers after invading the church on Saturday. <\/b>This was confirmed on Sunday by the commander of the Ogun State So-Safe corps, Soji Ganzallo in Abeokuta.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

He however said that his officers have rescued the seven church members and killed one of the kidnappers during an encounter after the abduction<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe special operation team of the Corps, Owode-Egba Zonal Command, under ACC Jimoh Rasaki Omoniyi, received a distress call that some of the members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Desires of Nations Parish, under Ogun Province 22, Abule-Ori in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area were attacked during a vigil, while seven members of the church were kidnapped and the pastor killed,\u201d Ganzallo was quoted in a statement as saying.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

According to him, officers of the corps were charged to go after the suspects to rescue the victims unhurt, stating that \u201cthe officers swung into action immediately.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Ganzallo further disclosed that the efforts of the corps yielded a positive result as \u201cthe seven victims were rescued unhurt while one of the kidnappers was killed and many of the suspects sustained serious injury during a fire exchange.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

He added that the joint team of the police and the So-Safe Corps have launched a manhunt for the fleeing suspected kidnappers.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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ABOMINABLE in the HOUSE OF GOD: Fierce-looking Gunmen Kill Redeemed Christian Church of God Pastor In Ogun State, Kidnap Seven Worshippers \u00a0*\u2018Officers have rescued the seven church members and killed one of the kidnappers during an encounter after the abduction\u2019 *BY TOLULOPE ABIODUN\/RELIGIOUS Reporter in Ogun State IT IS SEEN AS A SACRILEGE. It is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11835,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530\/revisions\/11835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}