Abuja, 06 July, 2022 / 8:45 pm (ACI Africa).
Christian leaders in Nigeria are calling on security agents “to thoroughly investigate” Josiah Peter Asumosa for allegedly locking up dozens of adults and children at the basement of a church reportedly “waiting for the second coming of Jesus Christ”.
Various reports have indicated that the assistant pastor at the Whole Bible Believers Church locked some 77 believers in the basement of the church awaiting the rapture in September this year, a July 4 VOA report indicating that the “police freed 54 adults and 23 children”.
In a Tuesday, July 5 statement, officials of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) say while the church popularly known as “Ondo Church” is not part of their ecumenical organization, they are obliged to state their position on the matter because “the church claims to be a Christian church”.
“We are therefore calling on the Police to thoroughly investigate him (Josiah Peter Asumosa) and his activities with a view to prosecuting him and his cohorts if there had been any infringement on the law of Nigeria and the rights of the members in his custody,” say officials of the Christian entity that includes representatives of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN).
They add, “No true Pastor would claim to know the date of the rapture because the Bible has stated it clearly that it is only God who knows the date.”
