Three pastors of new generation churches on Sunday in the Federal Capital Territory denied their ministries and members in order to evade arrest by the Ministerial Enforcement Team.
The pastors are Ibitoye Kayode of the Liberty Faith Gospel Church, Joshua Olaniru of Liberty Gate Ministry and Vitalis Udeazi of Dominion Chapel, all in Lugbe a satellite town along the airport road.
Earlier, while acting on a tip-off, the enforcement team had stormed the mountain top in Sabon-Lugbe where they arrested the three pastors for violating the ban on congregational worship in the nation’s capital.After a brief interrogation, the three pastors were identified from the crowd although Udeazi struggled to conceal his identity.
Speaking to the pastors, the Chairman of the taskforce, Ikharo Attah, queried the pastors for denying their members. Another pastor, Effiong Bassey of the Holiness Revival Ministry Church in Karamajiji, was also arrested for holding a church service to mark the 60th birthday of a retired military colonel, P.E. Ebong, who left the military in 2015.
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