CAC members protest Aregbesola’s take over of land

Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola | credits: File copy

Leaders and members of the Christ Apostolic Church, Araromi District Headquarters, Osogbo, on Wednesday staged a protest against the alleged forceful occupation of the church revival grounds for the construction of public schools.

The placard-carrying members of the church gathered at the church premises to protest what they called anti-Christ policy of Governor Rauf Aregbesolas administration.

Apart from the church auditorium and other church buildings located on the large expanse of land, the ground also contained a public school, CAC Primary School; and a private secondary school, Christ Ambassadors Comprehensive College.

The church secretary, Mr. Akin Olusegun, who addressed journalists after the protest, said that the church had no problem with the school merger of the government but would no longer allow governments encroachment on their land.

He said the state government had built its Middle School on the revival ground of the church without the consent of the church and that the church members had to drive away some contractors sent to the church to come and commence the building of an elementary school on the remaining part of the ground.

Olusegun said that the state government had access to the land on which the public primary school was built to build its new elementary school but had decided to further encroach on the church property because the church did not resist the first encroachment.

He said that the President of CAC Worldwide, Pastor A.O. Akinosun, had met with Aregbesola on the encroachment and the governor promised not to encroach further into the territory of the churchs private school.

He said, While a response from the government was still awaited, the leaders of the O School, in flagrant display of power, laid siege to a portion of our churchs land. On the instruction of the leader of O School, the new middle school building has been located on the churchs land instead of positioning the building on the land of the existing CAC Primary School.

In the process, a multipurpose conference hall for the Good Women Association, which is under construction and on which over N10m had been spent, was demolished.

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CAC members protest Aregbesola’s take over of land