{"id":68124,"date":"2022-07-09T10:05:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T09:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/odumeje-to-pay-for-cost-of-demolishing-his-church-soludo"},"modified":"2022-07-09T11:30:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T10:30:05","slug":"odumeje-to-pay-for-cost-of-demolishing-his-church-soludo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/odumeje-to-pay-for-cost-of-demolishing-his-church-soludo","title":{"rendered":"Odumeje to pay for cost of demolishing his church \u2013 Soludo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo has said that popular pastor, Chukwuemeka Ohanaemere, who is also known as Odumeje, will pay for the cost of demolishing his church.<\/p>\n<p>Soludo, who spoke on Friday night, said there were several notices sent to all house owners, whose houses were marked for demolition, and that they were all served notices, and asked to remove such structures within a timeframe.<\/p>\n<p>Soludo also said that two parishes of the Catholic church were still waiting for demolition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is costing us money. They had several notices to remove such structures, but they refused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe demolition started yesterday (Thursday), and so far so good. The demolition went well, except for Pastor Odumeje, who according to the report drove in, in a brazen manner and attempted to take over the equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, state work must go on, and security had to stop him. This was a man who was in several meetings we had, and also spoke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, this is costing us money, and the structures should have been removed before now, but they chose to test the resolve of the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce we are done with this exercise, we will compile the bills and send to the persons involved, and they must pay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soludo said two Catholic parishes involved in the illegal structures demolition are St. Dominic Catholic church and Our Lady Queen Catholic church.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the parish priest of Our Lady Queen Catholic Parish was around when the demolition team visited, and even cooperated, and also granted an interview.<\/p>\n<p>He regretted that Pastor Odumeje took laws into his hands and attempted to stop the exercise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo has said that popular pastor, Chukwuemeka Ohanaemere, who is also known as Odumeje, will pay for the cost of demolishing his church. Soludo, who spoke on Friday night, said there were several notices sent to all house owners, whose houses were marked for demolition, and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":68123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,254,5922,3679],"class_list":["post-68124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria","tag-odumeje","tag-soludo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Odumeje to pay for cost of demolishing his church \u2013 Soludo - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo has said that popular pastor, Chukwuemeka Ohanaemere, who is also known as ...\" \/>\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.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/odumeje-to-pay-for-cost-of-demolishing-his-church-soludo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Odumeje to pay for cost of demolishing his church \u2013 Soludo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo has said that popular pastor, Chukwuemeka Ohanaemere, who is also known as ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/odumeje-to-pay-for-cost-of-demolishing-his-church-soludo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-09T09:05:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-07-09T10:30:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_4-62c958918a647.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1556\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"932\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/odumeje-to-pay-for-cost-of-demolishing-his-church-soludo#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/odumeje-to-pay-for-cost-of-demolishing-his-church-soludo\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Odumeje to pay for cost of demolishing his church \u2013 Soludo\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-09T09:05:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-09T10:30:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/odumeje-to-pay-for-cost-of-demolishing-his-church-soludo\"},\"wordCount\":295,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/odumeje-to-pay-for-cost-of-demolishing-his-church-soludo#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_4-62c958918a647.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Nigeria\",\"Odumeje\",\"soludo\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/odumeje-to-pay-for-cost-of-demolishing-his-church-soludo#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/odumeje-to-pay-for-cost-of-demolishing-his-church-soludo\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/odumeje-to-pay-for-cost-of-demolishing-his-church-soludo\",\"name\":\"Odumeje to pay for cost of demolishing his church \u2013 Soludo - 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