A suspected church member has allegedly hacked his pastor to death with a matchete in Sapele, Delta State
According to sources, the pastor, Greg Sagie, who was in his 60s, was resting in his bedroom at the pipeline area of MTN Road, around noon , yesterday, when the assailant barged into his flat and threatened his two children, ages eight and 11, who were in the sitting room.
The terrified children, it was said, ran out of the house and raised an alarm for help.
A source, who claimed to be part of those who took Pastor Sagie remains to the mortuary and his neighbour said they heard the children screaming that someone was inside, attacking their father with a machete.
He said; “We ran out and saw the attacker. He was a young man in his 20s. He threatened us that if we dared to climb the storey building to meet him, he would kill us. He then jumped from the storey building and fled”.
The source added that the children identified the attacker as a member of their church.
“The children told us he was a member of their church and that they recognize him. They even described where he lived,” the source said.
Pastor Sagie was said to have sustained severe cuts on his head and died on the way to the hospital.
“He breathed his last on the way to the hospital where his car broke down,” another neighbour simply identified as Isaac said.
The police spokesperson, Bright Edafe, could not be reached for confirmation of the incident.
