It has been reported that the police officers at Idimu Division in
Lagos had a hard time preventing the shedding of blood between the
members of two churches after they allegedly dropped their Bibles and
engaged in public brawl over plots of land in the area.
According to P.M. Express, it was learnt that some of members from
both parties sustained minor and serious injuries during the fight and
were being treated at various hospitals around the area.
The incident happened at Calvary Estate in Idimu, Lagos were the
two churches – a white garment church also known as Aladura and Calvary
Church were located.
It was reportedly gathered that the two pastors who were the owners
of the churches had involved their members in the fight, were
exchanging blows and physically assaulted themselves. However, the
situation was brought under control when the police got information,
went to the scene of fight and quenched the squabble.
It was reported that the fight started after the Aladura Church
wanted to develop a parcel of land they reportedly bought from one
Alhaji Adebimpe. The attempt to develop the said plot of land was
resisted by the Calvary Church members who claimed that the land
belonged to them. That led to the members of the two churches openly
confronting themselves to the extent that they forgot the spiritual,
threw caution to the winds and physically engaged themselves in a public
fight.
P.M. Express reports that the two churches had earlier acquired
plots of land where they built their churches. And since they were the
first set of people that acquired plots of land over there and developed
them, they reportedly grabbed other plots of land close to their
churches to the extent that they now owned most plots of land there.
Some of the residents who knew what happened told P.M. Express that
Calvary Church and the Aladura church came early in the area and bought
four plots of land. It was gathered that Calvary Church compound had
since increased to 16 plots while that of the Aladura had increased to
10 plots, and it was not certain if they bought them from the original
owners of the land.
The residents confirmed the incident and said that the police got
there in good time, intervened and invited the parties to the police
station for the settlement of the dispute, thereby preventing what would
have degenerated to huge bloodshed.
The police confirmed the incident and said that the parties had
been invited to the police station and had warned them to maintain peace
until the matter was finally settled.
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