by Kolapo Olapoju

A Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) pastor, Taiwo Dokun was shot and butchered by Boko Haram insurgents in Dille village, Askira-Uba local government area of Borno state on Monday, July 14.

According to some members of RCCG in Maiduguri, Dokun was brutally killed in the attack which claimed 45 lives. The pastor was reportedly in his house at about 6am when the insurgents attacked the village, his house was surrounded by the hoodlums and while attempting to run he was shot.

“Pastor Taiwo was running to a neighbour’s house and it was in the course of his fleeing that he was shot in the head and the chest and the insurgent equally came to butcher him to make sure that he was dead.”

Meanwhile, the whereabouts of the late pastor’s wife and three children cannot be ascertained, and members of the church are alarmed over the development.

“The family could have been abducted by the insurgents who took away many of the residents of the town as the family members were not found since the attack and have not called any one. Though their residence was completely razed by the insurgents, their corpses were not found in the debris.”

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