Boko Haram Kills Deeper Life Pastor

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Pastor Ayo Oristejiafor, President, CAN

Pastor Ayo Oristejiafor, President, CAN

A Deeper Life Bible Church pastor and three other Christians have been killed by Muslim extremists called Boko Haram in Maiduguri, Borno State, Northern Nigeria in a renewed sectarian violence.

As a result of the wanton killings of Christians in the north, the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN has told Christians to use whatever means to defend themselves when attacked by the fanatics.

It was mourning in the Deeper Life Bible Church in Maiduguri when the news of the death of Pastor Michael Medugu, a District Pastor, was made known to church members.

The pastor had just attended the Tuesday leadership meeting of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry when he was hacked down by a gang of extremists along with three others.

P.M.NEWS gathered that the pastor had left the meeting to go to his pharmaceutical shop where he was dispensing drugs to a customer at about 7.05 p.m. on Tuesday when the enemies struck.

He left behind his wife and seven children to mourn him. His senior pastor, Ama Awokoya wept when he was told that Medugu had been killed, shortly after he asked Deeper Life faithful to pray against attack on Christians in the Muslim dominated region.

Others killed with him were identified as Obinna, Mr. James and Baba Joy.

They were Medugu’s neighbours. The attackers were said to have escaped after carrying out the dastardly act.

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CAN President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, who was sadened by the news called on Christians to brace up to defend themselves and family when attacked by the Muslim extremists, saying that the killings were no longer tolerable.

“It really does not make any sense for a peace-loving Christian to watch his family members being slaughtered without doing anything to defend them. “People are calling me from that part of the country daily.  These people are disenchanted by the daily killings which had instilled fear in the minds of Christians in that region to the extent that some are now migrating from the region, because they believe that the government has not demonstrated enough commitment to defend the citizens,” he said.

“It is sad that some people have persistently laid siege to the region in a deliberate attempt to exterminate every Christian in the area. For how long shall we continue like this? It is no longer acceptable in this civilized age, for human beings to kill fellow citizens in the name of fighting for God,” he added.

Oritsejafor further said that the incessant killings might be a ploy by the enemies of President Goodluck Jonathan to discredit his administration and give the impression that the president was not effective.

Another Christian leader who reacted to the killing is Evangelist Uma Ukpai, President, Uma Ukpai Evangelistic Organisation, saying that “there will be no end to the religious crisis in the North unless the Christians in the area take it upon themselves to defend their lives and property.

“Do you know that whenever the perpetrators of the crisis are arrested they are released before hand without any form of trial? This thing has continued over the years and not one person has been prosecuted successfully.”

—  Kazeem Ugbodaga

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