It’s been a huge blow to the Redeemed Christian church of God, RCCG as a pastor was murdered in cold blood in the Amuwo Odofin LGA.
The Victim, Pastor Babatunde Dada who is the admin of the RCCG, Chapel of Resurrection which is at 6th avenue, Festac Town axis of Amuwo Odofin LGA and also The admin of the church, Tunde Dada who is also a pastor in a branch of Redeem at Agboju was in his office at the 6th Avenue Branch of Redeemed Church when the sad incident occurred was stabbed to death.
The incident which happened on Thursday, 2nd of December 2021 in the church premises.
According to source, Pastor Tunde was sent to withdraw a huge amount of money to a sum of 2.4 Million naira.
Prior to that day, Some first timers and supposed new converts who joined the church recently on sunday November 28th 2021 was given temporary accommodation in the church premises pending when they sort themselves out as they claim to be stranded, Which is a norm practice in that parish.
On that fateful day after returning from the bank, he was in his office in the church when two young men who were amongst those who just joined the church knocked on his door. No one knows exactly what ensued between them but according to a source he was stabbed with broken bottle and other sharp objects and they escaped with the money.
Pastor Tunde was found in his own pool of blood by one of his workers who work with him in his laundry business who then raised an alarm. They called out for help and neighbours came to his aid but sadly before they could get him to Navy town hospital at satellite town, he had given up the ghost.
According to another source, Festaconline gathered that the criminals came out during alter call to give their lives to Christ.
However, the wife of the pastor, Bose, who just recently got married to the pastor and is heavily pregnant told Punch correspondent on the phone that she called her husband on the day of the incident and he promised to come home to rest.
In her words,
“My husband was killed on December 2 at the church. He was the admin/accounts officer, as well as the parish pastor. I was not with him when he was killed, but I was told that they collected money from him. I heard that those who killed him were new converts.”
According to a family member, Mr Abolarinwa Olatunbosun, one of the suspects who ran to ilorin after commiting the crime has been apprehended and arrested after the matter was reported to the police.
Olatunbosun said the killing might be for ritual purposes, adding that the assailants were suspected Internet fraudsters, aka Yahoo boys.
A friend of the slain pastor, Fred Enemigin, who is the founder, Highflyers International, Lagos, said in a Facebook post that the pastor was stabbed multiple times.
He wrote, “Two boys had come to church last Sunday and they responded to the altar call by giving their lives to Christ. After church service, they waited to see the head pastor and told him that they were stranded without any place to stay.
“On compassionate grounds, the pastor allowed them to stay somewhere within the church premises pending when they would be resettled. Pastor Tunde Dada, who had for almost a decade been the accountant of RCCG Chapel of Resurrection Parish, was assigned to provide needed welfare for the boys until their matter would be sorted.
“On the fateful Thursday, Tunde was seated in his office and the boys targeting that they were alone on the church premises with him, entered his office and attacked him with knives and other sharp weapons. He was stabbed multiple times and places until they had him killed right there on the spot.
“Our minds are still searching for what the rift between the boys and Tunde was considering the fact that the Tunde we knew was a very gentle soul. Could they have asked for more welfare than what was approved for them and Tunde declined? What on earth would warrant this brutal killing by those who were recipients of a server of the church’s benevolence? There are many more questions that we have not found answers to.”
Tunde , Populary called Pastor Tunde was the breadwinner of his family, a source of hope to many that new him, we are calling for justice for this crime.