No fewer than six persons, including four Anglican priests, were on Friday allegedly beaten to stupor by some members a task-force working with the Enugu State Housing Corporation. The victims were Reverends Collins Odoabuchi, Mbaka Peter, Eugene, and Maxwell Onyia.

Others members of the church affected were Ekpecha Okechukwu and Naomi Ibekwe.

The development, which is building up tension in Enugu, the state capital is coming one week to the end of Governor Sullivan Chime’s administration.

Saturday Vanguard gathered that trouble started when members of the task force, accompanied by armed policemen, invaded a parcel of land belonging to the Christ Church, Uwani, Anglican
Communion, sparking off anger from both clergymen and members of the church.

The Clerics were said to have tried to stop the Task force from carrying out the demolition exercise but were over powered by the government agents, who allegedly unleashed terror on the church leaders.

One of the victims, who gave her name as Naomi Ibekwe told journalists that she was hit with iron and hard objects, including stones, causing bruises and severe injuries on her.

But for the quick intervention of the State Commissioner of Police, Muhammed Abubakar Adamu, who came physically to the scene, there would have been more casualties as the members of the task force insisted on going ahead with the exercise as allegedly directed by the state government.

Reacting to the incident, the State Commissioner of Police, Adamu Mohammed, told the angry church leaders and their faithful that they should allow peace to reign as negotiation had begun.

“We have discussed with the church. If anybody is injured, we will not take it lightly. We have already asked that a formal report be made and we will follow it up. We have agreed on a peace move and we are following it up”, he stated.

Also speaking, the Priest in-charge of the Christ Church, Venerable N. Aghadi said,

“We have talked at length and discussed very progressively. The Commissioner of Police is pleading that we should go home and rest. He has promised that the matter is in good hands and that immediately the Archbishop returns, he will have meeting with him”.

However, a source told Saturday Vanguard that the state government revoked the land with an intention to build an estate christened “Transparency Estate”. While the clash lasted on Friday, five bulldozers were being used to demolish the structures at the disputed land inside the church premises.

Findings by Saturday Vanguard showed that the Church was dedicated by His Grace, the Most Reverend C . J. Patterson, the then ArchBishop of West Africa and Bishop of the Niger in 1965.

Meanwhile, it was learnt that the Managing Director of the Enugu State Housing Corporation, Emeka Vitalis Onah, who led his team to the place, escaped being lynched by church members who had planned a reprisal attack.


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The fear of God

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Catholic priest

Taylor86:
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Catholic priest

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Task force men insisting on carrying out the demolition at all costs as if on a personal vendetta..
Clergymen resorting to violence and physical tussles after advising followers to be calm..
Christians planning reprisal attacks after many years of believing in the faith..

Nigeria!! Were are we headed?

Let me just say no one fights the church.and wins

The legislature need to review this land use decree because so many controversy surround it...

These pple shld fear God.

Which of the mbakas was beaten?

So a governor can now wake up any day and revoke any land he likes. Just for his selfish pleasures. Meanwhile, there are so many satellite communities in Enugu begging for such projects and development. Places like Emene, Amechi, Ugwuaji, Ituku,Ozalla,to mention a few, need massive government presence, but no, every Enugu state government to to revoke and sale every inch of land within the tiny Enugu metropolis.
Ndi Wa-wa bilie nu na ura!

This is funny but not a laughing matter

If this building was earmarked for demolition why were dey standing against it.

Obstructing officers in the line of duty is an offense punishable as stated in sections 148, 171 and 397 of the Penal Code.

Thank you

Wetin anglicans do una for east sef
Same way anambra govt demolished one ebenezer church in the dead of the night without reason or xplanation. God go judge una o

shachris:


read the post.

person wey dey use BlackBerry no dey read full post cos of battery

since uv failed to summarize

lemme ask u d question again

na native doctor priest or Catholic priest?

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Enugu state government fighting priests since 880 BC

"Meanwhile, it was learnt that the Managing Director of the Enugu State Housing Corporation, Emeka Vitalis Onah, who led his team to the place, escaped being lynched by church members who had planned a reprisal attack."

Sounds like the church members have boko haram's DNA

So El Rufai has descendants in Enugu now...

Don't they know their way to the court?

ozoigbondu:
Let me just say no one fights the church.and wins

Donald duke did

Enugu governors always at war with clerics since time immemorial.

Welcome to Naija, the land of promise.

Sulivan and his men are fighting their last fight?

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It's quite pitiful.

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Heheheh..we are now in the era of jungle justice.

That's how people dig their own grave while alive...
When they start dying mysteriously people will be saying God where are you....
I pity the hungry task forces who will go for such errand.
Because the churches are peaceful like their masters..
While not march to mosque to try such rubbish whether they will leave there alive

Baba419:
Which of the mbakas was beaten?

Reading is good for you, u know.

I will be very happy if reverene MBAKA of adoration ministry is beaten to death.

End time Is that the only good portion of land remaining to build estate, why do these people keel acting this way. However, when you look at the issue critically, the government should have made it a dialogue before the demolition because it is an ancestral land despite the fact that it must have been reallocated on the master plan of the state.

Only in the zooligical republic.