Nollywood actress Oluwabukola Awoyemi, popularly generally known as Bukola Arugba, has raised the alarm that three of her shut family had been amongst these kidnapped through the latest assault on Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), Oke Isegun, in Eruku, Ekiti native authorities space of Kwara State.
Arugba made the declare in an Instagram video whereas reacting to what she described as conflicting and deceptive stories concerning the incident, significantly a press release attributed to the Kwara State First Woman, Prof. Olufolake AbdulRazaq, which recommended the assault was merely “tried” on the worshippers.
A video of armed males invading the church throughout a programme on Tuesday evening had gone viral, with stories indicating that a number of worshippers had been kidnapped and three killed.
Arugba, who hails from Eruku, insisted that the assault was not solely profitable but in addition deadly.
“I learn a press launch on the Kwara State First Woman’s web page relating to the bandit assault in my dwelling, Eruku, which completely contradicts the unhappy fact,” she stated.
“This video is to handle and proper the report launched in your web page, Ma’am. The data you bought from the Kwara State police is fake.”
She defined that residents of the neighborhood, together with her members of the family, witnessed the assault in actual time.
“It was a profitable assault, not an tried assault,” she careworn. “I used to be in a lot ache after I noticed the discharge claiming no one died and that individuals had been within the hospital. Lots of people had been kidnapped; three persons are lifeless.”
The actress recognized two of her kidnapped family as Evangelist Titi Balogun, her mom’s youthful sister, and Ebenezer Aina, her cousin’s son.
“I’ve spoken to lots of people from my city, my cousins, my uncles. Presently, three to 4 of my cousins are within the bandits’ den. Everyone seems to be crying in my city now as a result of we don’t know if they are going to be discovered lifeless or alive,” she added.
Arugba additionally accused authorities of downplaying the incident, saying the official narrative “completely contradicts what truly occurred”.
“One thing like that occurred, and the direct reverse of what was being reported was the precise end result,” Arugba stated.
Additional addressing the First Woman, she added; “It’s so painful that we’re seeing what was posted in your web page. The stories in your web page are false. They completely contradict what truly occurred.”
