About 205 church chairs, musical instruments and other equipment were said to have been moved by hoodlums in Katsina State.
Our correspondent reports that the incident occured on the first day of the ongoing nationwide planned peaceful protest against hardship.
One of the churches include Living Faith Church in Daura Local Government Area of the state.
Items stolen are estimated to be worth millions of naira.
The Pastor-in-charge, David Jato, told our correspondent in Katsina on Sunday that the church service could not hold due to the action, “because the hoodlums went away with everything inside the church on the first day of the protest and they decided to worship at their various home cells.
“We have two security working in the church, one was on duty while the other was off. When the protest began around 10:00 am, the hoodlums just diverted to the church, many of them in Keke Napep (Tricycle), and broke the door and classes and penetrated the church auditorium.
“They packed everything inside the church auditorium, including the wall digital clock, musical instruments, pupil, pastor’s chairs, plastic chairs, and a desktop computer at the reception, as well as a scoreboard where the accountant usually kept Church documents. They scattered everything.
“Three churches were their target while they succeeded in invading the Living Faith Church and Deeper Life, but gained access into the third one which is the Anglican Church because of the strong protection at the gate.
“We have informed the police and the Army about it, and the police told us yesterday that they have made some arrests.
“I’m surprised by this attack, when we are thinking about ending bad governance protests, which now escalated to the invasion of Churches, it is something that everyone should seriously condemn. It is not food that we store in the House of God. It is a place of worship. Why is it only a Church? The government should come to the reality they are serving humanity, and God will judge us all, whether political or religious leaders.
“My prayer to the perpetrators is that they should repent from what they are doing because for you to enter Church a place of worship is wrong and you know you are not fighting man, they should seek for repentance. I know God is forgiven and He will forgive them.”
Also, Pastor-in-charge of Power of Resurrection, Very Reverend Nelson Onyekachuku whose church also invaded by the hoodlums during the protest in Katsina town, lamented the vandalisation of the church windows as the hoodlums could not gained access to the building due to the iron protectors of the church gate.
Onyekachuku, who is also the former state Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Katsina, however, condemned the action in total, adding that they should not add pain to the church.
He called on the government to change its policy and address the issue of the people and always ensure to protect the church whenever such an incident happens.
Meanwhile, Katsina State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Sadiq Abubakar, is yet to issue any official statement about the attacks.
However, there was heavy security presence in churches across the state on Sunday.
