Horror In Ogun State: Gunmen Storm Church, Shoot And Behead Prophet

By Adesina Soyooye

To describe what happened in a Church in Ogun State as horror, is an under-statement.

It was worse.

In broad day light, in the morning of Sunday, January 19, gunmen, numbering three, stormed a Celestial Church of Christ, CCC, while Church Service was ongoing, shot the Prophet who was conducting the Service, and went ahead to decapitate his head and body right inside the Church as benumbed and horrified worshippers looked on, and finally took to their heels in shock. The trauma will live with them forever.

The gruesomely murdered Prophet was identified as Yomi Adetula, 54, and the horror unfolded at the CCC Eagle Parish, Baggage Road Idiroko, Odo Eran Ipokia Local Government Area, Ogun State.

Reports said the murderers stormed the Church while  Service was ongoing at about 10.30am. They were three in number. On arrival, they made for the Prophet in a ferocious attack described as a vicious, brutal attack. They opened fire on him. And when he fell down, they used an axe and cut his head into pieces. His body was also gruesomely mutilated. The action left him in a pool of his blood and his white Church garment, soaked in blood.

The Ogun State Police Command confirmed the harrowing incident in a statement.

Omolola Odutola,  the Command Spokesperson in the statement she issued said” On January 19, 2025, around 10.30am, the Divisional Police Officer of Idiroko received a report that someone had been killed at a Celestial Church located along Old Baggage Road, Odo Eran, Idiroko.

“Police Officers raced to the scene and saw one Yomi  Adetula, ‘M’, aged 54 years, lifeless  in the pool of blood which stained his white Celestial garment lying face up.

“On careful examination, his body was riddled with bullets, and his head was not spared. To ensure the victim was really dead, it was mangled with axe.

“On Police inquiry, information further gathered that three men came  into the Church, brought out a long double-barrel gun, aimed at their target, and fired a shot that brought the deceased down.

“Normalcy has been restored while possible clues will be revealed in the coming days as investigation has been launched into the very sad occurrence.”

The suspects, she added, escaped towards the border area after carrying out their grissly act.

Meanwhile, Prophet Odutola’s mutilated body has been deposited at the mortuary of General Hospital, Ilaro.