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Yesterday, at at the Living Faith Church (Winners Chapel), Sabon Tasha in the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, what would have been recorded as another tragedy to the Nigerian Christian was averted as a suspected suicide bomber was apprehended by officials of the church.
Explaining how the church security officials apprehend the the lone bomber who already gained access into the church, the Chief Security Officer of the church, Ekpeyong Edet, said the suspect had already entered the church and sat down when the Close Circuit Camera of the church picked him, before he was accosted by security men.
Edet added that on searching the bag the suspect was carrying, an explosive device was found.
The suspect, it was learnt, was handed over to the police at the Sabon Police Station, while security was beefed up around the church.
When Newsmen visited the church there were truckload of law enforcement agents at the front of the church.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Yakubu Sabo, who gave the name of the suspect as Nathaniel Samuel in a statement, said he was arrested when church service was ongoing.
He said, “He was arrested in possession of some suspected Improvised Explosive Devices in his bag. He is currently being interrogated at the Command’s Criminal Investigation Department while efforts are on to apprehend his accomplices.”
