NIGERIAN POLICE, CHURCH SECURITY EVACUATE HOMELESS PEOPLE FROM RCCG CAMP GROUND
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Joseph Omoniyi
Reports say about 100 homeless people, comprising of couples, young children, middle-aged men and women as well as the elderly, have been evacuated from the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
According to reports, members of the Nigerian police had stormed the camp ground to team up with some security personnel of the church to evacuate the destitute from the area.
The destitutes and families were said to have been dumped at different locations in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital.
Some of the destitute, who claimed to have spent between six months and one year at the Redemption Camp, accused the church authorities of victimisation.
The victims explained that the RCCG security operatives with policemen indiscriminately rounded them up during vigil service midnight on Tuesday, May 21 and threw them into waiting vehicles which eventually took them to Abeokuta.
When the head of media, RCCG, Pastor Olaitan Olubiyi, was contacted, he was said to have absolved the church of any blame. Olubiyi denied the allegation that the church forcibly ejected the destitute from its premises, explaining that what the church did was simply to purge the camp of miscreants and others with criminal tendencies.
“We have a system through which we screen those who genuinely come for prayers. We also have an approved way of taking care of the destitute in the church of God. “Whenever anyone comes for prayer, we do ensure that we properly document their data in our register to prevent criminal situations. But those ones you see illegally found their ways into the church. “Some of them were screened for the purpose of knowing their challenges and those with genuine accommodation problems were assisted. But you will discover that they change their addresses and still return to the church,” he said.
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