Abuja pastor with AK-47 now with FCT Police Command

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command says it has arrested the Presiding Pastor, House on the Rock, Abuja Chapter, Uche Aigbe.

It added that it picked up a police officer, Inspector Musa Audu, who had given his AK-47 riffle to the pastor for a demonstration on Sunday, and Chief Security Officer who is yet to be named.

In a Monday evening statement, the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Josephine Adeh said, “The FCT Police Command, on the heels of intelligence, arrested one pastor Uche Aigbe of House on the Rock cathedral, Abuja and two others.

“The Pastor whose message and demonstrations were tagged inciting by various media and social media users were arrested in the early hours of Monday, February 13, 2023, alongside the church’s Chief Security Officer and one Inspector Musa Audu, who was on duty on the said day and had unprofessionally released his rifle to the said pastor without permission or recourse to police authority.

While the discrete investigation has commenced, members of the public are urged to shun actions or utterances that are in breach of extant laws as the law is trite and all violators will be adequately sanctioned.”

Audu and Aigbe had earlier been detained by the Intelligence Response Team, Force Intelligence Bureau on Monday.