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There was much weeping and gnashing of teeth past Sunday, 14th March, at Kissy Mess Mess cemetery when the corpses of four pastors of the Church of God of Prophecy congregation were taken to be buried. Men, women, and children were seen wailing openly, some tearing their clothes, others pulling on their hair, some more others rotting on the bare floor of the cemetery. Four women who were said to be related to the deceased persons collapsed out of much grief.
The pastors, Rev. John P. Mendy, 54 who is the National Administrative Chairman of the Sierra Leone Mission, Alfred B. Kargbo, 58, the Assistant Administrative Chairman, Samuel Mendy, 24, son of Rev. John P. Mendy and Pastor of the Calaba Town branch and Constable Victor G. Stevens, 32,National Evangelist are said to have died in a road accident at Lakko Village just five miles from Makeni when the Renault 19 in which they were travelling hit a lump in the middle of the road and somersaulted three times before catching fire crushing all the passengers into a pulp with one, Samuel Mendy, even losing his head completely. "The losses are too much for us to bear," Bro Sorie McKoroma, the Assistant Financial Secretary and Supervisor for the Wardens of the Church, said, wiping tears; "it is like a country losing its president, a vice president and two cabinet ministers all in one go.
It is terrible, where is the church going to stand now that sons of its pillars have gone?" asked a grieving Evangelist.
Rev. Mendy is said to have led the others who perished with him to commission a school at a village called Maforay in the Bombali District. It was on their return that disaster struck.
With the exception of Samuel, all the others are married and left fourteen children between them. |
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