Nigeria's police in central north Kogi State said on
Wednesday that four suspects have been arrested in connection with the
Monday evening gun attack on the Deeper Life Bible Church in Okene.
State commissioner of police Mohammed Katsina told a news conference
in Lokoja, the state capital, that the suspects were being interrogated
to determine their level of culpability in the attack which left 19 of
the worshipers dead.
The church members, including the pastor in charge, Lambe Emmanuel,
were killed at about 7:30 p.m. local time during a Bible study class in
the church located at Ehika-Adagu in Okehi Local government.
Emmanuel also doubled as a lecturer at the Federal College of
Education, Okene. He died alongside another academic staff of the
college."Four arrests have been made in connection with the Deeper Life Bible
Church killings but I cannot give their names.
They are in our custody
and we have already commenced investigations to ascertain their
involvement so as to deal with the situation once and for all. More
arrest would be made in due course," the police chief told reporters.
Katsina promised to be thorough with the investigations, assuring
that police would enforce the curfew imposed on Okene by the state
government on Tuesday.
"Whoever violates the law would be dealt with decisively," he added.
He called on the residents of Lokoja, the state capital, to disregard
the rumor making the rounds that members of a dreaded religious sect
was planning to launch attack on the city, assuring that police was on
top of the situation.
Meanwhile, more military personnel and policemen were being deployed
to the trouble spots in Okene town in the Kogi central senatorial
district.
Security sources told Xinhua that security were being drafted from other parts of the country.
Also, banks and commercials outfits that hurriedly closed shops in
Lokoja on Tuesday as a result of the crisis in Okene and rumored
discovery of a bomb in church premises in Lokoja have re- opened for
business.
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