Nigeria: Christian Pastor Dead, Family Members Missing, Dozens Of Others Killed After Jihadist Attack

Revelation 2:10, “Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer … Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.”

By Maina Maina, Daily Post – “The killing of a Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) pastor by the Boko Haram sect in troubled Borno State has thrown the church into mourning and apprehension.

The pastor, Taiwo Dokun was killed by the insurgents when they launched attack on Dille village in Askira-Uba Local Government Area of the state on Monday.

According to some members of RCCG who spoke to journalists in Maiduguri, the whereabouts of the late pastor’s wife and his three children is not yet known.

‘It appears that the insurgents abducted members of the pastor’s family as well as many other residents of the town. The family members have not been found since the attack and they 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 told DailyPost.

Speaking from Dille on Friday, Jacob Mamza narrated how the pastor was killed in the attack which claimed 45 lives.

He said ‘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 trying to escape that he was shot in the head and on the chest; the insurgents equally butchered him to make sure that he was dead’.

Mamza said the insurgents subsequently went to his house to raze it down and that it was at this time that his family might have been abducted.” Read more.

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