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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