Gunmen, on Friday, October 21, attacked the convoy of Apostle Johnson Suleman along the Benin-Auchi road, Edo state, and killed seven persons includin
Gunmen, on Friday, October 21, attacked the convoy of Apostle Johnson Suleman along the Benin-Auchi road, Edo state, and killed seven persons including three policemen.
The general overseer of Omega Fire Ministries had returned from a foreign trip and was heading to a destination in Edo state when the gunmen attacked his convoy around the Auchi area of the state.
During the attack, the gunmen opened fire on his convoy, killing three of his police orderlies and four other yet-to-be-identified persons.
Suleman’s lawyer, Samuel Amune, who confirmed the attack on Friday, said that the cleric just returned from a programme in Tanzania, adding that he escaped death by a whisker.
Amune said that, “Apostle Suleman was returning from a journey and he had almost gotten on the shores of Auchi when some assassins attacked him.
“Three of his police orderlies, among others died. He travelled before and just finished a programme in Tanzania day before yesterday.
“He was returning to Auchi when the gunmen attacked him along Sabingida down to Warake area, and Auchi shares direct boundary with Warake.
“So, he had passed Warake and was entering the boundaries of Auchi when the attack happened.”
The Edo state police public relations officer, Chuidi Nwabuzor, while confirming the attack, said that, “I just heard about it few seconds ago. Let me hear from the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) covering that area, and we’ll make an official statement afterwards.”
