*CP Olohundare Moshood Jimoh, Lagos State Commissioner of Police, asserts the ‘stun gun’ recently recovered from Paul Adefarasin, Senior Pastor of House on the Rock Church, is a prohibited riot equipment under the extant Fire Arms law in Nigeria

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Following the recent recovery of the non-lethal device from Paul Adefarasin, Senior Pastor of House on the Rock Church, the Nigeria Police has declared that the use of a stun gun as a form of threat, or to create fear in the mind of another constitutes an offence under the law.

CP Olohundare Moshood Jimoh, Lagos State Commissioner of Police, stated this Thursday, June 19, 2025, while featuring on a Channels TV programme monitored in Lagos.

In an update on the case involving Paul Adefarasin, Senior Pastor of House on the Rock Church, Jimoh disclosed the cleric was granted bail after questioning over a gun-like object found in his possession in a viral video.

The Police authorities granted him bail Wednesday, June 18 after he had turned himself Tuesday, following the incident.

The viral video, which appeared earlier this month, showed the prominent pastor driving a Range Rover, winding down his window, and engaging with a road user while holding a black unidentified object.

The footage later sparked widespread speculation online, with many were alleging the object resembled a gun.

Police Commissioner Jimoh said: 鈥淣othing is an offence under the law, except what the law states to be an offence.

“Even under the Fire Arms Act, if you fashion out anything that is not metal, like wood, and you make it look like a gun, and you use that guise to take possession of property from another person, you have committed armed robbery.”

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Jimoh asserted: 鈥淪o, pointing a stun gun at another individual and sending that threat and fear to such a person at that particular time constitutes an offence.

“The Police are doing everything in line with the law.”

The Police chief further explained that the object recovered from Pastor Adefarasin was a “stun gun” and not a “lethal weapon”.

He, however, clarified that the stun gun remains a prohibited riot equipment under the law.

The Lagos Police Commissioner stated: 鈥淗e (Adefarasin) was invited; a letter of invitation was sent to him.

“In fact, we had prepared our warrant of arrest, in case he refused to comply with the invitation.

“But he turned himself in and was questioned by a team of investigators who were already on the matter before he turned himself in.”

The Commissioner said: 鈥淭he matter is still undergoing further investigation.

“As the PPRO has informed the public, what was recovered from him was a stun gun, not a lethal weapon.”

Jimoh noted: “But it is a prohibited riot equipment, which we are investigating.

“We further questioned him why he pointed such to another individual.”

In regard to the ongoing investigation, he said that the person, at whom the object was pointed, would also be invited to give a statement regarding the incident that trended on social media platforms.

鈥淚t is equally on social media that the person he pointed it to is a content creator, and we are taking a statement from him as soon as he equally gets to us because we have got his address, and we鈥檙e going to get him to make a statement in that regard.

鈥淪o, the pastor is still under investigation, though he has been granted bail, we will continue with the investigation and make the outcome of the investigation public for all Nigerians to know,鈥� CP Jimoh added.

Cleric: 鈥楥lickbaiters are just looking for more money’

Reacting to a suggestion in the online space, that he was wielding a firearm at an individual, Adefarasin rather described the hurtful and malicious.

The pastor, who took to his official X account dismissed the dismiss the claim, and wrote: 鈥淵ou might be aware of a video which has been circulating on social media showing me in what some have misunderstood as brandishing a firearm.

“I want to assure you of this 鈥� that was certainly not a firearm, and at no point did I point such at anyone.”

Adefarasin also reportedly told him members of his church: “I was falsely accused of bearing a firearm, pointing a firearm at an aggressive content creator, who came within personal distance.

鈥淭he only thing separating him and me was maybe three-quarters of a metre and a glass.

“I do not have a pistol licence. I do not carry a firearm, and I pointed no firearm at anybody.鈥�

He said: 鈥淲e have witnessed clickbaiters just looking for more money. I probably wasn鈥檛 even their target; their target was to make more money.鈥�

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