Suspension of night worship signposts victory of bandits over churches – Cleric tells Ondo CP

A fashionable cleric successful Ondo State, Pastor Adewale Giwa has expressed interest implicit the stance of the Commissioner of Police successful the state, Adebowale Lawal, that spiritual centres successful the authorities should suspend all-night activities amid the existent information challenges facing the state.

Giwa, who is the Senior Pastor of Awaiting the Second Coming of Christ Ministry, described the presumption of the constabulary brag arsenic disappointing, emphasising that the superior intent of the constabulary arsenic the fig 1 interior information bureau is to guarantee prevention of crimes arsenic good arsenic extortion of lives and property.

The Commissioner of Police successful the authorities had connected Friday advised spiritual centres to suspend nighttime worship owed to the incessant information challenges, peculiarly the caller abduction of six worshippers astatine a Celestial religion successful Uso community, Owo Local Government Area of the state.

According to the cleric, the directive by the constabulary brag volition further make fearfulness successful the minds of the radical alternatively than springiness them hope, adding that the bandits and terrorists volition presumption it arsenic a triumph.

However, Giwa, who hailed the constabulary commissioner for his efforts successful the combat against transgression since his deployment to the...