Shepherd Aso speaks: I am an apostle of God, I will remain one till eternity

The beginning

“Dogo is a guy everybody knows in that area, he works for people in the community, he does errand work for people. He comes to me for help and as a matter of fact, we relate together.

On the issue of the soakaway

We had paid Dogo three days before that day, and he came to drop off his equipment, he had even done some part of the job because he was the one that broke the cover of the soakaway. He first packs the toilet and still suggested we need to clear the water chamber, everything he did there was based on his recommendation. He brought his pumping machine and tools and he said he was coming back; all these were three days before he came at midnight.

On Thursday, the 2nd of June

“The first Thursday of every month is the Celestial Church New Moon Service. I was the service conductor staying in the alter, after hearing the noise, everybody was running out of the church, so I was forced to stop the service and attend to what is happening, I was hearing Dogo, Dogo, Dogo, I had to call the assistant Shepherd to rescue the man, he put off his cloth and jumped inside too, it was the assistant shepherd that confirmed Dogo is dead and he couldn’t talk again inside the soakaway, the assistant shepherd also got stocked in the soakaway and he was also struggling to talk.  I had to rescue both of them, we pressed his stomach to flush the water out, over 20 people were there that very moment seeing everything that happened, I had to call out to some people to help us.

On the allegation that it was the shepherd that told the Hausa man to come in the midnight,

Aso said: “Even Dogo himself knows that I will never be allowed to come and do such in the night not to talk of midnight. People are just taking advantage of what happened, I never asked him to come and do any work at midnight, for what? We didn’t believe the guy had died until we got to the hospital.

On the report to the police station

Aso said: “We went to a particular station in which they directed us to Langbasa Police Station, and it was there that they asked us to call his people, and the police told us to wait till morning so that they can follow us to the place and they saw everything, they saw Dogo on the floor after returning him from mortuary, police took photographs of everything.

On his attack in the presence of police

The police were not armed, they were not expecting such drama, the boys were too much and they had already concluded what they wanted to do, even when I was talking to them. But I thank God, the truth shall prevail, I have never engaged in such rubbish people are saying, I am an apostle of God and I will remain one for life.