agents of Enugu Capital Territory Development administration on Thursday demolished the regional head office of the hill of blaze and Miracles Ministries in Enugu State.
And this they state they did in order to pave way for early culmination of a major road.
regardless of prayers from worshippers, who accumulated at the place of worship premises in the Enugu metropolis, the ECTDA agents went on to pull down the place of worship construction.
hit reports that the worshippers had initially denied to leave the place of worship auditorium and
preferred that they be interred with the disintegrating partitions. But when the bulldozer made the first feel, constituents of the church, who were already praying, took cover.
Three bulldozers pulled down the organisations close to the waterway amidst tight security, with officers and men of the police force and constituents of the Nigeria Security and Civil protection Corps on hand at the location.
Regional Pastor of the place of worship, Ude Ogaranya, recounted the exercise as an abomination and a rape on fairness.
But while endeavouring to defend their proceed, the State government said they provided the authority of the place of worship more than one year to relocate the place of worship from the waterway where it was built. That they even assigned some hectares of land to the place of worship elsewhere not minding that it flouted its order not to build on the waterway.
But Pastor Kennedy Udeogaranya insists that the government should have expanded the deadline for the demolition to endow the leadership of the place of worship to settle in the new position. He said:
“This is the head office of the place of worship in Enugu and we considered that the government should have permitted us some time to move to the new site.
Some of our property are still inside the church and we did not have the opening to remove them before the demolition."
Udeogaranya verified that the government provided the church a new site to construct another church but solicited for compensation to endow it to put up new organisations.
“We spent a alallotmentment of cash building the place of worship and offices in the building. We are appealing to the government to compensate us,’’ he said