The Kogi State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of Rev. Fr Christopher Onotu, a Catholic Priest by gunmen.
Onotu was kidnapped on Saturday evening in his church in Obangede, Okehi Local Government Area of Kogi State.
Reacting to the kidnap on Sunday evening, the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Williams Aya, said the Commissioner of Police, Edward Egbuka had deployed a high power intelligence team in the area to rescue the Priest unhurt.
A report by DAILY POST said that the gunmen reportedly made their way into the Church’s vicarage about 9pm, burgled the window through which they entered the priest’s room and whisked him away to an unknown destination.
Most of the members of the Church got to find out on Sunday morning when they went for the first mass.
A member of the Church said: “The hoodlums went away with our priest’s car.
“They dropped his two phones but went with the Sim cards.”
The kidnap of the cleric in the Central Senatorial district of Kogi State is coming barely one week after a popular politician and Board member of the Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission, HYPPADEC, was kidnapped on his way to the mosque in Ogaminana.
His whereabouts remained unknown as of the time of filing this report.
Spokesperson of the Nigeria Police, SP William Ovye Aya, had earlier said the command was collaborating with sister security agencies to track him.
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