- Authorities of the Embrace International Assembly, Impact centre, have filed a petition to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris
- The church in its statement to the police boss requested that he should order his men to vacate the premises at Obafemi Awolowo Road, Erunwen Junction, Ikorodu, Lagos state from which its members were chased on Monday, February 19
- Newsmen reported that so far efforts to communicate with the police have proven futile
The Impact centre of the Embrace International Assembly, recently petitioned the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, demanding him to order security officials to leave its premises at Obafemi Awolowo Road, Erunwen Junction, Ikorodu, Lagos state.
Vanguard reported that in the petition dated Friday, February 23, members of the board of trustees including Lateef Olasupo Olaoye, Adebayo Ado, Segun Oluwadoromi and Tunji Amokade, alleged that on Monday, February 19, a team of policemen stormed the property and that while service was on turned out all the church members, with the claim that they had court orders to seal the property.
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The board said: “The order was never shown to anyone despite repeated demands for same by all.” The church authorities maintained that the case involved one of the pastors of Four Square Gospel Church and not Embrace International Assembly.
They complained to the force that they have been worshipping under the rain and sun ever since the act by policemen.
The petition read: “We challenge the Commissioner of Police, Lagos state, to show to us the said order directing that the property be sealed up.
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“An order of injunction restraining an individual should not be interpreted to mean an order to seal up, especially when the person sought to be sealed up is a party to an earlier suit over the same property.”
So far efforts to communicate with authorities of the Four Square Gospel Church and the police have proven futile.
Earlier, NAIJ.com reported that police officers on Sunday, February 11, stopped members of Embrace International Assembly, Ikorodu, Lagos, from entering into their church premises.
NAIJ.com gathered that the policemen, barricading the main entrance into the church with their van, also stood at strategic positions within and outside the premises to prevent worshipers from going in.
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Source: Naija.ng