Tears as Boko Haram butchers Redeemed Church’s pastor…Razes house, wife, 3 children still missing

G.O, RCCG, Adeboye

A resident of Dille village in Askira-Uba Local Government Area of Borno State, Jacob Mamza, has given a descriptive account of how members of Boko Haram that attacked the village on Monday killed pastor attached to Adeboye’s Redeemed Christian Church if God (RCCG), Taiwo Dokun. The deceased, until his murder, was pastor in-charge of one of the branches of the RCCG in the area.

Mamza told newsmen, while sobbing, that the pastor was gruesomely killed in the attack which also claimed 45 other lives.
“The pastor was in his house at about 6am when the insurgents attacked the village, his house was surrounded by the hoodlums and while attempting to run he was shot.

“Pastor Taiwo was running to a neighbour’s house and it was in the course of his fleeing that he was shot in the head and the chest and the insurgents equally came to butcher him to make sure that he was dead.”
Mamza said the insurgents subsequently went to his house to raze it down and it was at this time that his family might have been abducted.
Some of the members of the RCCG, who spoke to journalists in Maiduguri, said the late pastor might be buried in Mubi, Adamawa state as the initial plan to convey his corpse to Akure, capital of Ondo state for burial may not work as his body have started decomposing.
“He might be buried at Mubi for he was initially taken to a Mubi hospital where he was embalmed but because it was not properly done, the corpse started swelling up and a decision was taken to bury him in the town.”
Investigations revealed that his death has caused dissatisfaction and annoyance among the RCCG churches in Maiduguri as pastors who are compelled to remain in their parishes in troubled area of the state are set for war with the Regional Pastor of the church, Emmanuel Adegboyega Kalejaiye, who oversees the activities of all parishes of the church in the state.
“The death of Pastor Taiwo was too much for us to bear, we believe this could happen to any of us especially with the insensitivity of our regional pastor to our plight.
“We are still looking for one of us who was abducted on January 6 by the insurgents and we have frequently appeal that the parishes in some of these affected local government areas of Borno be closed for now without result.
“The Deeper Life Bible Church and Living Faith Ministry have closed their parishes in the local government but all our appeal fell on deaf hear and see what is happening to our pastors. Our pastors have had to travel on these deadly road infested with Boko Haram to Maiduguri every month and it is for the grace of God that many of us are still alive today ” one of the pastors lamented.
Meanwhile, the incident has consequently thrown the congregation into deep confusion, mourning and apprehension over their safety.
Some members of the church told newsmen in Maiduguri that the whereabouts of the late pastor’s wife and his three children is known.
“The family could have been abducted by the insurgents who took away many of the residents of the town as the family members were not found since the attack and have not called any one.
“Though their residence was completely razed by the insurgents, their corpses were not found in the debris,” one of the church members who preferred anonymity, said.