COVID-19 lockdown: Drama as Abuja senior Pastor, deacons ‘scale fence’, escape from task force

The Federal Capital Territory, FCT COVID-19 lockdown and social distancing enforcement team has revealed how the presiding Pastor of Shekinah Glory Church, Jabi, Abuja, alongside his deacons, scaled the fence of the Church to evade arrest.

Chairman of the team, Ikharo Attah, told reporters on Sunday that he had immediately mobilised his team to the area following an intelligence report that the church was in full session despite the social distancing rules.

He noted that this was a clear contravention of the ban on religious gatherings in Abuja..

He said “the pastor and deacons on sighting the team, jumped the fence and disappeared.”

However, Attah revealed that “luck ran out of some of the church members, especially the women, who could not scale the fence as they were arrested and arraigned before the court.”

He said that the fleeing Pastor and Ministers must be made to face the law for disobeying government’s orders and endangering the lives of his members.

The Abuja task force boss said the team has commenced manhunt for the cleric and others who escaped with him through the fence.