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Tension In South-East As Bandits Kidnap Catholic Priest Along Okigwe-Enugu Expressway, Demand N50m Ransom

A Catholic priest, identified as Reverend Father Dr Chinedu Nwadike,  Cssp has been kidnapped by bandits along the Okigwe – Enugu expressway in Umunneochi council area of Abia State.

Sources told our correspondent that Nwadike who is a researcher and also the Deputy Registrar of Spiritan University Nneochi, SUN, Abia State he was abducted alongside a seminarian on their way to Enugu for an official assignment.

The sources hinted that the kidnappers have made contact with the school demanding N50bm ransom for his release.

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“Reverend Father Nwadike, Cssp was kidnapped a few minutes after he left the school for an official assignment in Enugu. He was kidnapped along the Okigwe –Enugu expressway in Umunneochi LGA. Now his abductors are demanding a ransom of N50m.

Rev Fr Dr Chinedu Nwadike, Cssp

We are pleading with them to release him unhurt because we don’t know where we can get such a huge amount they are demanding. The state and federal government should do something drastic about the security situation in Umunneochi.

Everybody is afraid of travelling. People are being kidnapped daily, especially on the expressway with the security agencies watching,” the sources said.

Hotmedia.ng gathered that the cleric had escaped an earlier attempt to abduct him on the same road, few days before the incident.

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