It was serious drama at the Lord’s Garden Abuja branch of Pastor Paul Eneche’s Dunamis Church recently when trader stormed the place of worship for a free for fall with the pastor and his congregation.
Trouble started when the traders who conduct business around the church’s surroundings arrived early in the morning to find their wares had been burnt.
Prior to the incident, the traders had been asked to relocate to another place to no avail.
According to the traders, they were warned a day before that their goods would be burnt if they did not move. Incidentally, they arrived for business just after the warning and found their wares burnt.
“They told us yesterday say them go burn am,” one trader said.
“This is wickedness in the highest order,” another said.
As they revolted, security forces stood around and tried to prevent them from getting into the church to register their displeasure.
The church has since reacted denying any knowledge of the incident. In a statement issued, it said its Senior Pastor, Dr. Enenche never ordered anybody to pull down traders’ property. It also said that traders selling outside the Church premises were even empowered by the Church as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), to setup their own businesses and wouldn’t have in turn chase them away as being claimed.
See the statement below:
My name is Pastor Victor Stephen, Head, Central Admin of Dunamis Int’l Gospel Centre.
Our attention has been drawn to a video clip circulating the cyber space concerning Traders’ properties being burnt down by Dunamis Church at the New Headquarters.
We wish to state, though with dismay, that the Church, Dunamis was not responsible for that kind of act and can never be. Dunamis is geared towards the restoration of human lives and destinies and can never be associated with such heinous acts to indigent persons.
It is also worthy of note that some Traders selling outside the Church Premises were empowered by the Church as part of our Corporate Social Responsibility to setup their own businesses. It would therefore be mischievous for anyone to assume that Dunamis would authorize such an act.
Please disregard this malicious propaganda, Dunamis is not responsible.
Thank you and God bless you
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