BAUCHI COURT JAILS PASTOR FOR ILLEGAL ARMS POSSESSION

A court in Bauchi State has jailed a pastor for illegal possession of firearms, a court clerk told the Agence France Presse on Thursday.
Pentecostal Pastor John Nadrew, 46, was given three years and eight months after security agents found an AK-47 rifle and five pistols in his house in Dot village during a raid last month.
He was convicted on a two-count charge of illegal possession of firearms and criminal conspiracy, Mohammad Ibrahim of a Bauchi Magistrate’s court told AFP.
The pastor later told a state radio that he had kept the weapons for self-defence following a series of sectarian attacks in the area.
Sectarian unrest between predominant Muslims and Christian minorities is common in Bauchi and Jos, its neighbour in central Plateau State.
Last April, a Muslim mob killed a pastor and his wife in the village of Boto in predominantly Christian Tafawa Balewa district of Bauchi State.