Vembe: Yes you were telling us all your experience of the attack, did you lose anything? All your Parishioners, villagers, did you lose anything? PW2: We lost Lives and Churches, homes were burnt down, some of our out stations were burnt down. Some yam barns, food stuffs were lost. Lives and properties and even Churches were also lost. Vembe: father, you said you were displaced three times, did you lose anything in the course of these displacement? Whether life, whether property, anything, did you lose anything? PW2: I lost many of my parishioners and my properties and even some of my out stations were burnt down. 44. The summary of the testimony of PW2 (1st Applicant) from the excerpts is as follows:  He is a Clergyman in Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Udeye Parish in Guma Local Government where he was at the time of the crisis.  He had been posted to four other Churches within Benue State Prior to the crisis.  Several of the Parishioners in Udeye were killed during the alleged crisis at the Parish where he was Superintendent that time.  Some of the “out stations” of the Catholic Churches were burnt.  Some Yam barns, food stuff were destroyed.  He lost his properties. 45. The Court takes judicial notice of the fact that the Catholic Church is a Christian religious organization with established Parishes Worldwide. 1st Applicant is a Clergy in one of the Parishes who according to his testimony has been transferred from 3 others prior to his present posting. 1st Applicant did not testified to establish ownership of any of the Churches he has been posted. At best 1st Applicant is an employee of the Catholic Church subject to a higher authority who has powers to move him from one Church to the other. In this wise, can 1st Applicant lay claim to the burnt Churches as his personal property to qualify him as a victim? The answer is in the negative. 1st Applicant equally testified to the death and injury of his parishioners, there is no evidence that any one of them is a close member of his 19

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