A Christ Apostolic Church pastor,
Oluwarotimi Akinroyeje, has been shot dead at the church’s mission house in the
Ago Gbooro area of Ore, in the Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State.An eyewitness, who asked
not to be named, said a masked gunman entered the mission house at about 1am on
Thursday and went straight to where the pastor was, and shot him at close range
with a locally-made gun.The eyewitness said the motive behind the
killing was unknown, adding that the assailant did not take anything from the
cleric after killing him.“The man, who wore a
mask, entered into the mission house in the middle of the night and brought out
a locally-made gun. He shot the pastor dead and did not take anything when he
was going; he just killed him and left,” he said. Confirming the incident,
the Public Relations Officer of the Ondo State Police Command, Femi Joseph,
said that the command had commenced investigation into the case.He, however, alleged
that the deceased’s family members were not cooperating with the command on
investigation, saying they had refused to honour police invitation. He said: “The family of
the deceased should do well to cooperate with the police. They have not been
assisting us in our investigation; their only concern is for us to release the
corpse to them for burial.“It will be good if the
family can be feeding us with useful information. We are not magicians; it is
from the information we get that we can have our lead and arrest the
perpetrator.“What the family is
doing on the matter is not good enough.”
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