{"id":735704,"date":"2019-11-01T10:54:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T10:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/01\/police-rescue-15-inmates-from-illegal-prayer-house-in-lagos\/"},"modified":"2019-11-01T10:54:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T10:54:05","slug":"police-rescue-15-inmates-from-illegal-prayer-house-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/01\/police-rescue-15-inmates-from-illegal-prayer-house-in-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Rescue 15 Inmates From &#8216;Illegal Prayer House&#8217; In Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure style=\"width: 764px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/images\" alt=\"person in shackles&quot;\" width=\"764\" height=\"401\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">mn in chains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Lagos state police command has announced the rescue of 15 inmates from an \u201cillegal\u201d prayer house at Ijegun Isheri area of the state.<\/p>\n<p>This was confirmed by Bala Elkana, the state police public relations officer, adding that they met some of the inmates in chains at the prayer house, known as Blessings of Goodness Healing Church.<\/p>\n<p>The police spokesperson said some of the inmates were brought by their families to seek spiritual help from mental illness and other diseases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Wednesday, at about 6:10pm, acting on information from a reliable source, a team of detectives from Isheri Osun Police Station led by the divisional police officer, CSP Chike Ibe stormed a prayer house used as detention camp at No 26 Alafia Street, Oriofe Ijegun Isheri, where the Prophet Sunday Joseph Ojo, 58, and 10 others were arrested,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFifteen persons who were chained on the legs were rescued. Some of the victims were said to have spent five years in the detention camp. The victims are between ages 19 and 50, male and female.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0Northern Governors Don\u2019t Take Drug Abuse Among Youth Seriously: Torture Centre Owner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of them were brought by their families to seek spiritual help from mental illness and other diseases. The prophet said he has been in the healing ministry since 1986. That he chained them in order to prevent escape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigation is ongoing. Police are working closely with other agencies of government to provide adequate medical attention and shelter to the victims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Information Nigeria<\/strong> recalls that 108 inmates were rescued at a rehabilitation centre known as Sumuratu Mumeen Arabic Centre, Gaa-Odota in Ilorin, Kwara state and that\u00a0147 inmates were earlier rescued by the police after a raid on another religious rehabilitation centre in Kaduna State.<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mn in chains The Lagos state police command has announced the rescue of 15 inmates from an \u201cillegal\u201d prayer house at Ijegun Isheri area of the state. This was confirmed by Bala Elkana, the state police public relations officer, adding that they met some of the inmates in chains at the prayer house, known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":706062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police Rescue 15 Inmates From &#039;Illegal Prayer House&#039; In Lagos - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/01\/police-rescue-15-inmates-from-illegal-prayer-house-in-lagos\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Police Rescue 15 Inmates From &#039;Illegal Prayer House&#039; In Lagos - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"mn in chains The Lagos state police command has announced the rescue of 15 inmates from an \u201cillegal\u201d prayer house at Ijegun Isheri area of the state. 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