8th December, 2010
There seems to be no respite for Prophet T.B. Joshua of The Synagogue Church of All Nations, as another person was caught inside the church on Sunday. He had come with a loaded gun which he hid before he joined the congregation.
His true intention could not be ascertained as the man claimed after his arrest that he had come to seek repentance.
Before the latest incident, a knife-wielding man was arrested among the congregation two Sundays ago.
P.M.NEWS gathered that the arrest was made while T. B. Joshua was ministering in the church. In the course of his ministration, he stated that someone with a gun was inside the church. As the pastor moved towards the suspect, the suspect confessed that he was the one that came with the gun and he took Joshua and security personnel to where he kept the weapon.
The suspect, it was learnt, hid the gun somewhere in the church and was going to retrieve it when he was accosted by Prophet Joshua who suspected that he was up to something in the light of the botched knife incident.
P.M.NEWS gathered that since the knife incident, Joshua had beefed up security around the church to ward off intruders.
The new suspect, Sunday Akpan, said he actually came to the church because he was tired of robbing people.
Akpan said he joined a robbery gang when one of his friends, who is now dead,  initiated him into the business and since then, he has been involved in several operations.
On why he joined the robbery gang, he said it was because of bad friends and that he was from a poor family and his parents are old, so he needed to take care of them and his wife and child. He expressed regrets for being a robber and said that he wanted to change.
“I have been involved in several robbery operations, but for all the years, there is nothing to show for it. I cannot boast of a roof where I can sleep,†he lamented.
—Cyriacus Izuekwe
