{"id":68318,"date":"2025-06-17T17:03:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68318"},"modified":"2025-06-17T17:03:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:03:57","slug":"police-probe-adefarasin-over-video-showing-gun-like-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/17\/police-probe-adefarasin-over-video-showing-gun-like-object\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Probe Adefarasin Over Video Showing \u2018Gun-Like\u2019 Object"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed that Pastor Paul Adefarasin, founder of the House on the Rock Church, has reported to the command for questioning over a viral video that appeared to show him holding a gun-like object during a roadside encounter.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted on its official X (formerly Twitter), handle on Tuesday, the command said: \u201cNo one is above the law! Pastor Paul Adefarasin has turned himself in at the Lagos State Police Command Headquarters, Ikeja, and is currently being interrogated by detectives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Investigations commenced after a video surfaced online showing the pastor holding a gun-like object during an interaction with another road user, while driving an unregistered vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement added that the outcome of the investigation will be made public.<\/p>\n<p>The video, which quickly went viral, showed Adefarasin holding a metallic object while speaking to a bystander who appeared to be filming the encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Social media users have since speculated that the object was a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Pastor Adefarasin denied brandishing a weapon. In a message shared on his verified social media platforms and addressed to his congregation, he described the incident as a misunderstanding.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the object in question was not a firearm, and at no point was it pointed at anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo &nbsp; The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed that Pastor Paul Adefarasin, founder of the House on the Rock Church, has reported to the command for questioning over a viral video that appeared to show him holding a gun-like object during a roadside encounter. In a statement posted on its official X [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":68319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,1681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68320,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68318\/revisions\/68320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}