Mohammed Shosanya
The Dunamis Church in Mission ward, North Bank, Makurdi, a suburb of the Benue state capital collapsed in the wee hours of Tuesday, killing the Resident Pastor, Pastor Sunny Ezekiel Ahmed.
The church building collapsed at about 1am on Tuesday, whilst the Pastor and four others were praying. However, the four other persons escapes unscathed.
The incident prompted the Senior Pastor, Dunamis International Gospel Center (DIGC), worldwide, Dr Pastor Paul Enenche to visit the scene of the incident.
Dr Pastor Paul Enenche who arrived the church at about 6pm on Tuesday said he and indeed the church regretted the loss, but added that it would have been worse had the incident happened on Sunday, during the “7 Hours in His Presence, Liberty Service”, a programme that eventually lasted for 8 hours.
Speaking to newsmen at the scene of the collapsed church, Dr Enenche said the Commission always applies due diligence in its construction works, adding that following the collapse of the church, the Commission would even be more detailed in its procedures.
Lamenting the death of Pastor Ahmed, he said “Absolutely, it’s a very saddening situation. Above everything that we are seeing is the loss of a very dedicated servant of God.
“We feel the deepness of the loss for ourselves, first; for his immediate family, the church that he pastors, the body of Christ and even the state as a whole.
“We feel very saddened and we trust that God will give all of us, including the family, the fortitude to bear the loss”, he prayed.
On construction works embarked upon by Dunamis, Dr Enenche observed that “As a Ministry and as a Commission, we employ all manner of due diligence in our procedures and this we have done in several things we do.
He added:”But going forward, we are looking in more details the procedures and technical details of construction and that this kind of thing will be forestalled in the future in the Name of Jesus.”
Narrating the incident, a neighbor around the church, Mrs Rebecca Aganyi who said that the incident took place at 1am, said the Pastor died after one of the beams of the church fell on him.
She explained that it had barely stopped raining in the early hours of Tuesday morning, when the building collapsed, saying that it took the intervention of neighbours to hack the lifeless body of the deceased out of the rubble’s.
Meanwhile, the State Commissioner of Police (CP), Batholomew Onyeka has also confirmed the incident.
