{"id":2475,"date":"2025-06-20T18:44:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T17:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2025-06-20T18:44:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T17:44:59","slug":"firearm-allegation-police-interrogate-grant-bail-to-nigerian-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/?p=2475","title":{"rendered":"Firearm Allegation: Police interrogate, grant bail to Nigerian pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pastor Paul Adefarasin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The police have interrogated and granted bail to House on the Rock lead pastor Paul Adefarasin for allegedly pointing a gun at a content creator YI_thecarguy.<\/p>\n

The police in Lagos, Nigeria\u2019s commercial capital, said in a statement on Tuesday June 17 that Adefarasin voluntarily reported for questioning following vexatious reactions by the public over the alleged incident. He was granted bail after hours of interrogation.<\/p>\n

The Christian<\/em>\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that the 62 years old clergyman was seen in a viral video holding an object, which some people claimed was a gun. He, however, denied the claim just as the content creator apologised to him.<\/p>\n

In a statement on its X account after the interrogation and bail, the police\u00a0<\/strong>said the item recovered from Adefarasin was not a firearm.<\/p>\n

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Pastor Adefarasin bearing the alleged gun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201c<\/strong>Pastor Paul Adefarasin, who turned himself in today at the Lagos State Police Command over a viral video where he was seen holding a gun-like object against another road user, was interrogated and he volunteered a cautionary statement to the police investigators. 1\/2\u00a0https:\/\/t.co\/21UzgKCKZO<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Lagos State Police Command (@LagosPoliceNG)\u00a0June 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat was recovered from him, the gun-like object seen in the viral video, is not a lethal weapon or firearm but a stun gun, which is a prohibited anti-riot equipment. The pastor has been granted bail while investigations continue into the case.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Pointing stun gun at someone is an offence\u2019 \u2013 Police head<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in an interview on\u00a0<\/strong>Channels Television\u2019s Sunrise Daily programme on Thursday June 19,\u00a0the\u00a0<\/strong>Lagos State Commissioner of\u00a0Police<\/a><\/strong>, Owohunwa Jimoh, said Adefarasin’s action constitutes an offence under the law.<\/p>\n

According to the officer, pointing a stun gun or any object that resembles a firearm at another person constitutes a criminal offence.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing is an offence under the law except what the law states to be an offence. Even under the Firearms Act, if you fashion anything that does not look metal, like wood, and make it look like a gun, and you use that guise to take possession of property for another person, you have committed armed robbery. So, by pointing out a stun gun to another individual and sending that threat and fear to such a person at that particular time constitutes an offence.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the law stating the offence, like I said earlier, will say the procedure by which an offender should be treated and passed through. So the police are not doing their job. We are doing everything in line with the law. In line with the constitution\u2019s provision creating the police force, the police act, and other regulations, we abide by in carrying out our day-to-day activities,\u201d Jimoh said.<\/p>\n

Investigation ongoing<\/strong><\/p>\n

The CP said the House of the Rock lead pastor is still under investigation although he had been granted bail.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll make the outcome of the investigation public for all Nigerians to know. He (Pastor Adefarasin) was invited, and a letter of invitation was sent to him. We have prepared a warrant of arrest if he refuses to comply with the invitation. But he turned himself in and was questioned by teams of investigators already on the matter before he turned himself in.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the matter is still undergoing further investigation, and like the PRO, we have informed the public that what was recovered from the pastor is his toy gun. It\u2019s not a lethal weapon, and it\u2019s not a firearm. Riot equipment was prohibited, which we are investigating. And we further questioned him over why he pointed such to another individual,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Jimoh said the police have also contacted\u00a0YI_thecarguy\u00a0to provide further insight into the matter.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it is reported on social media that the person pointed the gun to is a content creator and that we are taking the statement for him as soon as he equally gets to us because we have gotten his address and everything, and we are going to get him to come and make a statement in that regard\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n

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  The police have interrogated and granted bail to House on the Rock lead pastor Paul Adefarasin for allegedly pointing a gun at a content creator YI_thecarguy. The police in Lagos, Nigeria\u2019s commercial capital, said in a statement on Tuesday June 17 that Adefarasin voluntarily reported for questioning following vexatious reactions by the public over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}