Five months after the brutal murder of a 42-year-old female preacher in Kubwa, a suburb of Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, the police are yet to name the perpetrators.
Eunice Elisha, an indigene of Nigeria’s southern State of Ekiti and a pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God, was murdered by suspected Muslim fanatics on 9 July. Her megaphone and mobile phone were found close to her body.
Shortly after the killing, the police said they had arrested some suspects and had commenced investigation, without disclosing the number arrested, or their names.
Five months after, the spokesperson for the Abuja police command, Manzah Anjuguri, maintains that it is still too early to disclose their identities.
“All I can say to you is that investigations are still ongoing,” he told media.
Original report (14 July):
A female preacher was hacked to death in the early hours of 9 July near Nigeria’s capital.
Nigeria’s largest Church organization issued a statement 10 July decrying not only the recent violence against Christians, but the government's "lukewarm" response to it.
‘‘The unprovoked attacks on Christians and the authority’s inaction is becoming unbearable and may not be tolerated anymore," the Christian Association of Nigeria said in its statement.
‘‘We will continue to call on Christians to remain tolerant and law abiding," said the ecumenical group, which comprises the governing associations of Evangelical and other Protestant churches, and Catholic, Pentecostal, and indigenous churches. However, "it is becoming inevitable to also call on them to buckle
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