Unidentified gunmen this evening opened fire in a crowded Deeper Life
Church near the Federal College of Education in Okene, Kogi State,
leaving 15 worshippers dead, and Governor Idris Wada
vowing to smoke
terrorists out of his State.
The perpetrators of the heinous crime, said the governor who cut
short a Ramadan state dinner, are “wicked, devilish, ungodly and deserve
no place in a same society.”
Several other worshippers, according to the local government chairman in the area, were critically wounded in the attack.
Emergency workers said the casualty count would most probably
increase in a few hours. Soldiers and police from the Joint Task Force
in the State have cordoned off the area.
Mr. Jacob Edi, Special Assistant to the governor on Media and
Strategy, told SaharaReporters over the phone that the assailants
arrived at the church at about 8:45p.m. local time, during a late
evening church service. They cut off electricity supply and began
shooting indiscriminately into the crowd. He said some of the
worshippers who tried to escape from the premises were captured and
their throats slashed.
According to a statement by Mr. Edi, the state executive council
meeting was still on and the governor was working the phone with all
relevant security officers in the state.
Following the attack, the state governor issued this statement:
Following Monday's dastardly attack on a christian worshippers
in Okene, Kogi state, governor Idris Wada cut short a Ramadan state
function dinner and summoned an emergency meeting of the state executive
committee.
Furious about news of the unfortunate situation governor Wada
vowed he will spare no resources in smoking terrorists out of Kogi
state. According to him the perpetrators of the heinous crime are
wicked, devilish, ungodly and deserve no place in a same society.
Kogi state, he said has always been known for peace any act
capable of tarnishing the image of the state will not be tolerated at
all.
He called on all citizens of the state to remain calm.
-Sahara Reporters
...this evil is getting out of hand! Why would a sane human-being want to do such harm to a fellow human. This is absurd and devilish and should be highly condemn by any right thinking person.
Shame and death to the killers!
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