The office of Our Daily Manna, a leading Christian daily devotional, has been attacked again by an armed robber.
The office, situated in Ogudu area of Lagos State, was invaded by the armed robber on June 13, 2014.
An eyewitness disclosed that the robber stormed the church at about 1pm when the place seemed to be empty except for the presence of a staff.
The robber was said to have pretended to be a repairer of bad chairs and that he had come to repair the office chairs in the computer/admin rooms.
The eyewitness said: “The robbers came in to pretend as a furniture repairer and came to ask if he could help repair some of the malfunctioning chairs and furniture in the church office and the computer room.
“We did not have any reason to have doubted him and his pretence.”
It was further learnt that as soon as the armed robber gained access to the office, he told the staff to evacuate the office since he was going to spray a very dangerous chemical.
The staffers agreed immediately.
A couple of minutes later, one of the administrative staff decided to check what was going on in the office where this “chair repairer” was working and he discovered that the man had already removed the office laptop and was planning to remove the second one.
He raised alarm and the robber was intercepted.
He was searched and a phone and a dangerous instrument was found on him.
After being arrested by policemen attached to the Ogudu Police Station and was asked who sent him and who was his boss, he claimed he came from far away Ogun State.
He lamented that he was given the wrong information.
In his words: “I never knew it was a church/christian office.
“I thought its an ordinary office.
“If I had know it was church, I wouldn’t have agreed to come.
“I came all the way from Otta (Agbado, Ijaiye).
“I don’t know this place is a church office.
“They did not tell me o.
“I wouldn’t have come here.”
He was immediately charged to Ogudu Magistrate Court.
The presiding judge, A. Awope, ordered that he should be remanded in Ikoyi Maximum Security Prison till July 14 when the matter would be revisited.
Prior to this ugly incident, the Publisher of Our Daily Manna, Bishop Chris Kwapovwe, had been faced with different challenges and battles from his supposed “enemies.”
Recall that there was also a robbery about a year ago and it was the same LAPTOP
OFFICE that was targeted.
The general view is that it is the handiwork of people who are planning to bring him down by all means following his unusual rise/success story and the wave-making publication: Our Daily Manna.
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