A pastor with the House on the Rock Cathedral has been arrested by the Police in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory for unlawful possession of a firearm.
The pastor, identified as Pastor Uche Aigbr went viral on social media after a video of him sporting an AK-47 during service surfaced.
Also arrested were a police officer attached to the church, and the Chief Security Officer of the facility.
In a statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer in the FCT, DSP Josephine Adeh said that the police have commenced an investigation into the case.
“The Federal Capital Territory Police Command on the heels of intelligence arrests one pastor of House on the Rock.
“The Pastor whose message and demonstrations were tagged inciting by various media and social media users was arrested in the early hours of Monday 13th February 2023, alongside the Church Chief Security Officer and one Inspector Musa Audu, who was on duty on the said day and had unprofessionally released his rifle to the said pastor without permission or recourse to police authority.
“While discrete investigation has commenced, members of the public are urged to shun actions or utterances that is in breach of extant laws as the law is trite and all violators will be adequately sanctioned,” the statement said.
