Revealed: Top Celestial Shepherd Shot Dead During Service Was A Star Witness In FIJ, IBD Dende’s Libel Suit
Shortly, after the news broke that suspected assassins have snuffed out life of CCC Hebrew Cathedral, Idiroko Border Town’s shepherd, Yomi Adetula, the Publisher of FIJ, Mr Fisayo Soyombo released a statement that the deceased was its witness.
In the libel suit filed by IBD Dende against FIJ’s Fisayo Soyombo, Shepherd Adetula, who is also a leader of civil society organisation in the Idiroko area, this medium learnt has agreed to testify in the case.
The case has dragged on for a while now until yesterday when Shepherd Adetula was murdered in a cold blood.
How Shepherd Adetula was murdered
SHEPHERD ASSASSINATED DURING SERVICE TODAY SUNDAY 19TH 2025
Suspected Assassins Kill the Shepherd of CCC Hebrew Cathedral Idiroko Border town, Ogun State during Service In Ogun State.
Tragedy struck on Sunday when gunmen suspected to be hired assassins shot and killed the Shepherd-in-charge of a Celestial Church of Christ (CCC) in Idiroko Border town of Ipokia local government area of Ogun State.
The deceased, identified as Yomi Adetula was shot dead right inside his church during the Sunday service around 11a.m. while preaching.
An eyewitness at the scene told LEADERSHIP that Adetula’s assailants, wielding AK-47 rifles and numbering about six, all clad in Celestial Church’s garments, stormed the Hebrew Celestial Church located at the Odo Eran area of the Old Garrage Road in Idiroko where they rained bullets on the deceased pastor, waiting to certify him dead and dismembering his body inside the church before leaving the scene.
LEADERSHIP further gathered that the deceased was the Idiroko Unit Commander of the Ogun State Community, Social Orientation and Safety Corps, popularly known as So-SAFE Corps; one of the community security outfits established and funded by the Ogun State government.
While the reasons behind the murder could not be immediately ascertained, our correspondent however, gathered that late Adetula had for the past few months been having running battles with certain smuggling cartel in Idiroko Border town, which necessitated his transfer to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in December 2024.
Sources within his church in Idiroko also confided in this newspaper that the development led to the forceful closure of his church in December by some suspected smugglers.
The State Commander of So-SAFE Corps, Soji Ganzalo, who confirmed the incident said that he received the news of Adetula’s assassination with a rude shock.
Ganzalo however, assured that the Corp would not relent until the matter is properly investigated, while also promising to assist appropriate security agencies with necessary information that could lead to the arrest of the suspects.
Written by Femi Oyeweso Copyright ©️ Leadership Newspaper
May God grant the family the fortitude to bear the irreplaceable loss in Jesus name. Amen
