Four suspected cultists with guns arrested in Enugu
By Emmanuel Anele
Four suspected cultists with guns were apprehended by Ngwuru Neighbourhood Watch in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State.
He equally said that the group were 15 in number, adding that his men are still ransacking the area to arrest the rest of the gang.
Onah said “We have been monitoring them over time because of their activities in our area. They are always in twos in their motorcycles and they always carry their bags where they hide guns and other items for operations.
“When we got intelligence reports about their activity in the neighbourhood, I positioned my men in strategic locations. That was when we saw two boys with bags speeding with motorcycle towards our direction.
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“We ordered them to stop but they refused. We then chased them with our own motorcycles until they jumped from it and started running. We also pursued and nabbed them.
“We discovered guns and other items in their bag. While we were with them, we got another report that two of them were also caught by our men at Ogbaegu. We brought them together and handed them over to the police who transferred them to Enugu for further investigation.
“They were about 15 in number but others ran away. We are still searching for them. They have been robbing the residents and snatching motorcycles,” he said.
The Chairman also bemoaned lack of adequate supports from authorities and stakeholders, adding that his patrol vehicle was taken away from him; a situation which he said has been hampering smooth run of his programmes.
‘Christian atheist’: Priest who proclaimed no God, afterlife dies aged 72
A Danish Lutheran priest who attracted international attention by proclaiming that there is no God or afterlife, but retracted after being suspended, has died. He was 72.
The Rev. Thorkild Grosboell died Sunday and had been suffering from cancer, his daughter Mette Kathrine Grosboell told The Associated Press.
“He was a great man. He should be remembered for that,” she said Monday.
The Priest, Grosboell, was suspended by his bishop after a May 2003 newspaper interview about a book he had written on faith, in which he told the interviewer: “There is no heavenly God, there is no eternal life, there is no resurrection.”
Helsingoer bishop Lise-Lotte Rebel, whose diocese included Taarbaek, a small town north of Copenhagen where Grosboell was the pastor, handed his case to the government requesting that it take the necessary steps to dismiss him.
In Denmark, Lutheran ministers are employed by the state and only the government can fire them after a recommendation from their supervising bishop.
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The pipe-smoking Grosboell, known for his provocative comments, eventually retracted his statement, apologized and his suspension was lifted.
Grosboell was later suspended once more, for ignoring church orders not to repeat the beliefs about which he had made the retraction, from the pulpit. The second time, Rebel said he had made “provocative remarks” and had spoken in “a strongly provocative, hurting, and confusing way.”
In 2005, he was finally allowed to return to his parish, and stayed there until he retired in 2008, the newspaper Kristeligt Dagblad said.
In December 2018, he called himself “a Christian atheist.”
More than 80% of Denmark’s population belongs to the State Evangelical Lutheran Church, though only about 5% attend church services regularly.
[Associated Press]
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