Lagos: Assassins Murder RCCG Pastor Praying for Congregation Inside Church

By Akinwale Kasali

It was a Black Tuesday for members of the Redeemed Christian Church Of God, RCCG.  Pastor Bolanle Ibrahim of the King of King Parish,  Maidan village,   Mile 12 area of Lagos state, was murdered in cold blood inside the Church.

Reports say that the Clergyman was praying for mothers and their children when the suspected assailants stormed the Church and dragged him out.

Narrating the horrific event his inconsolable wife,  Kudirat, said on the fateful day her husband was killed, he was fasting.

She stressed that the assailants stormed the Church premises, dragged him and killed him.

Contrary to the news making the rounds that his late husband was a cultist, she said for the period they courted, she never suspected her husband to be a cultist, wondering where people heard that he was a cult member.

“What they are saying about him are blatant lies. My late husband was a man of God and he served Him to his death.

“I wasn’t at home on the fateful day of the incident. I went to take care of my sick mother at the hospital. I had no premonition about his death. After the deed was done, nobody called to inform me.

“I never knew my husband had been killed, I was still busy calling him to bring something for me from home, not knowing that he had already been killed. Whenever I called him the person who is picking his call kept telling me my husband is preaching, it was later around 7pm that my elder brother came to break the news to me about the gruesome murder of my beloved husband.”the bereaved wife said

Eyewitnesses of the horrific death of Pastor Ibrahim said it was a clear case of assassination.

Speaking with this news medium, an eyewitness (Name withheld) said, that the Pastor was first identified by the assassins, as they brought out his picture to ascertain that he was truly the one they are looking for before unleashing their evil intention on him.

Confirming the incident, the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), CSP Muyiwa Adejobi said a man was attacked during church service. The assailants went for him in the church.

“We are investigating the case because we have a clue into the killing. We will unravel the case,” Adejobi was quoted as saying.