The renewed wave of religious intolerance was on Monday, February 13, 2017 re-enacted in Abuja when arsonists, suspected to be Islamic fundamentalists, set ablaze a church building belonging to the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG.
The arsonists, whose number could not be ascertained, also reportedly carted away the church’s properties worth millions of naira.
The incident, according to eyewitnesses, took place in the early hours of Monday at the Root of David Area Headquarters of the RCCG, in Apiawe, DeiDei, a suburb of Abuja.