Insecurity: Police orders immediate halt to all night religious programmes in Ondo

The Commissioner of Police successful Ondo State, Adebowale Lawal, has stressed the request for spiritual activities held astatine nighttime to beryllium suspended owed to the continuous emergence successful insecurity successful the state.

According to the constabulary brag successful the state, spiritual and assemblage leaders, irrespective of faith, should desist from holding nighttime programmes pending erstwhile determination volition beryllium due information arrangements.

Speaking with newsmen portion parading immoderate suspected kidnappers astatine the authorities office of the bid successful Akure, the authorities capital, Lawal stated that spiritual leaders indispensable endeavour to interaction the constabulary for information proposal if specified work is essential.

The constabulary commissioner’s stance was connected the caller abduction of six worshippers astatine a Celestial religion successful Uso community, Owo Local Council Area of the state, a fewer days ago.

Lawal, who revealed that 5 of the abducted worshippers are large women and 1 physically challenged, expressed interest that a religion premises had been turned into a maternity centre.

He said, “I bash not cognize erstwhile a religion became a maternity location oregon hospital. If idiosyncratic is pregnant, the champion spot is simply a infirmary oregon a maternity home.

“However, we person sent a awesome to each country commanders advising spiritual leaders, Muslim, Christian, and accepted worshippers, to forthwith suspend nighttime worship for present due to the fact that of the information chal...