The Nigerian Army’s 23rd Amoured Brigade of the Nigerian Army based in Yola, Adamawa state is probing an attack on a church service by some men in military uniform.
Some men dressed like Nigerian soldiers attacked a church in Yola on the orders of a cleric
Premium Times reports that is investigating the disruption on Sunday, March 12 of a church service in Yola, the state capital.
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The uniformed men were reportedly invited to the state headquarters of the Assemblies of God’s Church in Luggere Ward by one Reverend Thomas Taro in an attempt to take over the church and remove the presiding pastor, Patrick Waziri during the Sunday service.
Brigade spokesman, Major Adamu Ngulde, said the Army did not send any of its personnel to the church and has commenced moves to track those involved if at all they were genuine military men.
“The church told us that the men were not wearing their name tags. We contacted our officer in charge of counter insurgency as well as security in the town and he said he did not deploy soldiers to participate in any operation in the church.
“Besides, no civilian has the right to invite soldiers into a civil matter like this,” Ngulde said.
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Ngulde said the military had already met with the authorities of the church and was looking for Taro, who was said to have invited the said military men.
Meanwhile, troops of the Nigerian Army have stopped Boko Haram onslaught in some communities in Kala Balge Local Government Area of Borno State.
A soldier oversees the destruction of a Boko Haram pick-up truck during clearance operations by the Nigerian Army in Borno state.
Army spokesman Brigadier-General Sani Usman Kukasheka said in a statement on its official website on Tuesday, March 14 that the troops of the Operation Lafiya Dole carried out a major offensive against such places in Artano, Saduguma, Duve, Bordo, Kala, Bok, Magan, Misherde, Ahisari, Gilgil, Mika, Hiwa, Kutila and Shirawa settlements, all Kala Balge.
