Police detain Abuja pastor who mounted the pulpit with AK-47, as Police officer who handed him the rifle faces Sack

The Intelligence Response Team, Force Intelligence Bureau, Garki, Abuja has detained the presiding pastor of House on the Rock, Abuja Branch, Pastor Uche Aigbe, for carrying an AK-47 rifle while preaching in the church on Sunday.

Aigbe threw many into confusion in the church on Sunday when he came in bearing the weapon on his shoulder.

But when the FCT police command commenced an investigation into the incident this morning, it was discovered that the weapon was handed him by one Inspector Audu who was on an assignment in the church.

When interrogated, Audu told the police that he only offered the weapon to Pastor Aigbe because he wanted to use it for illustration.

However, the Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory Command, Sadiq Abubakar, is having none of this, and has made a recommendation to the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, to dismiss Inspector Audu.