Pastor
Ayo Raphael, a pastor named with the Redeemed Christian Church of God
has been kidnapped by yet-to-be identified persons.
Ayo was kidnapped during the Sunday
service at the Resurrection parish of the RCCG in Kabba junction in
Lokoja, the Kogi State capital when kidnappers, numbering about 10,
stormed the church auditorium at about 9am and ordered the congregation
to lie face down.
Eyewitnesses said, “The pastor was
dragged out of the church into the bush while the abductors shot
sporadically into the air to facilitate their escape.”
Although no lives were lost, many
members of the congregation were said to have sustained injuries as a
result of their scampering for safety as the kidnappers were shooting
into the air.
Kidnappers had contacted the church, demanding N50m before the pastor could be released.
