Thursday, January 30, 2025 - Fiery Catholic priest, Rev Fr Emmanuel Obimma, popularly known as Fada Ebube Muonso, has revealed that six of the kidnappers who abducted his colleague in December have been apprehended.
The priest, while speaking to his congregation, said he was happy that
the kidnappers who had mocked him had finally been arrested.
Rev Fr Nonso, a Catholic priest studying in the US, who was on vacation
in Anambra, was kidnapped in December after he had procured fuel for his
vehicle at a filling station.
Obimma, who made several efforts to get him rescued, had cried out that
it took the intervention of a governor from outside Anambra for the kidnappers
to be tracked and the location of the kidnapped priest revealed.
He had lamented the porous nature of security in Anambra, stating that
even after using equipment from outside the state to track the location,
security operatives in Anambra refused to act until he tipped them with N1
million. He expressed his frustration with the Prof Chukwuma Soludo-led
government which he condemned for its lacklustre performance in security.
Rev Fr Nonso was, eventually, released on Christmas Eve and was later
presented to the congregation.
But speaking to his congregation on Sunday, Obimma said that six of the
kidnappers who held the priest had been apprehended.
He said: “I had told you people I spoke with them (kidnappers) and
ordered them to release the priest, but they told me that I was joking. They
told me they see me every day and have just been resisting the temptation to
kidnap me.
“When we sent the ransom to them, I told them it wouldn’t be long before
they are apprehended, and the kidnappers said to me ‘iseee’, which is the Igbo
word for Amen.
“What they did was mock me, but they did not know that I was serious.
Just days ago, they were apprehended, and you need to see how they were
begging.”
Meanwhile, there have been videos of the arrest of the kidnappers on
social media, but as of the time of filing this report, police authorities in
Anambra have yet to release an official statement about the arrest.
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