...Demand N2.5m ransom as Bishops
dismiss payment


Nnewi —The Catholic Diocese of Nnewi,
yesterday alleged that suspected Fulani
herdsmen armed with dangerous weapons
including guns, attacked and kidnapped the
Rector of Tansi Major Seminary, Rev. Fr. Dr.
Emmanuel Dim, while two other priests Rev. Frs.
Jude Chukwuneke and Jude Ezeokana who were
in the same vehicle with him escaped with
various degrees of gun shot wounds.

Addressing reporters at the Nnewi Catholic
Diocese Media House, located in Assumption
Cathedral Nnewi, Director of Communication of
the Diocese, Rev. Fr. Hyginus Aghaulor, alleged
that the herdsmen called, and demanded for a
ransom of N2.5 million.

He said: “Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria,
CBCN, has decided and directed that ransom
should not be paid for the kidnap of any of its
priests and anybody that is demanding for
ransom for the release of any priest kidnapped is
wasting time. “If anybody or group goes ahead to
pay ransom for the release of any priest, the
person or the group is on his own.”

In a statement issued after addressing reporters,
titled “Fulani herdsmen kidnap Rector of Tansi
Major Seminary, Onitsha, demands for ransom,”
the Catholic Diocese of Nnewi said the incident
happened on the September 26, 2016, around
7pm along Nkpologwu/Nimbo Road Enugu State.
According to the statement, “the three Catholic
priests were returning from Nsukka to Onitsha
and Nnewi, after a condolence visit to Rev. Fr.
Uchenna Ezeh of Nsukka Diocese who lost his
mother, before they were attacked and while Rev.
Fr. Dim is still being held by the herdsmen-
kidnappers who are demanding a ransom of N2.5
million, Rev. Fr. Ezeokana, who lectures in both
Fr. Tansi Major Seminary Onitsha and Nnamdi
Azikiwe University Awka, received treatment
briefly at a hospital in Nsukka, but is now
recuperating at Awka his home Diocese.

“Rev. Fr. Chukwuemeka, who is the Chaplin of St
Camillus de Lellis Chaplaincy, College of Health
Science, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nnewi ,who
was shot on the head has been transferred from
Memphis Specialist Hospital Enugu to Nnamdi
Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi,
where he is currently receiving treatment.”

“On a separate place the same Monday 26th
September, 2016, a Vincentian priest whose
name is yet to be confirmed was also kidnapped
with his brother along Abuja Lokoja express way,
another Catholic priest Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Ugwu
was kidnapped on August 9,2014 along
Ugwuogo-Nike-Opi and few weeks back a senior
seminarian was killed in cold blooded in Attakwu,
Enugu State, and one begins to wonder if
Catholic priest have become endangered
species”.

The visibly angry Rev. Fr. Aghaulor lashed out on
South East Governors for doing nothing to protect
people they are governing, “while their
counterparts in the North are influencing the
Federal Government in spending billions of naira
to contain the Boko Haram insurgents, when
something more worrisome and sinister than the
activities of Boko Haram is being done in the
South East by the Fulani Herdsmen”
.
“The South East Governors and their Chairman
have done nothing to protect the people of South
East, the Enugu State Governor whose state is
where the menacing activities of the of the
herdsmen is worst and the state legislators have
not done anything to protect the people there,
they should borrow a leaf from Governor Ayo
Fayose of Ekiti State.

“We are in Federalism, and each state have right
to make certain law governing them, what
prevents Enugu State Government from making
laws that can protect the people there, Governors
of South East and their State Assembly’s should
make laws that will protect their people”.

Rev. Fr. Aghaulor lamented that since the
existence of Nigeria, nobody has seen the level of
killing spree that is being perpetrated by the
Fulani herdsmen, adding that “while innocent
people are left unprotected, we have seen
barrage of military wares and personnel
protecting the pipelines in Niger Delta, as if oil is
more important than people’s life. Why should
people be killed without provocation in their own
traditional lands?

“We are asking the government for how long
would this continue, is this the type of country we
all signed up for, is this part of the change, is
there no rules and laws in this country , all over
Nigeria women are being raped, people are
intimidated, innocent Nigerians are being
slaughtered and property worth billions of Naira
destroyed by the suspected Fulani Herdsmen”.
www.vanguardngr.com/2016/09/suspected-fulani-herdsmen-kidnap-catholic-priest-shoot-2-others-in-anambra/

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Fowarding:
...Demand N2.5m ransom as Bishops
dismiss payment


Nnewi —The Catholic Diocese of Nnewi,
yesterday alleged that suspected Fulani
herdsmen armed with dangerous weapons
including guns, attacked and kidnapped the
Rector of Tansi Major Seminary, Rev. Fr. Dr.
Emmanuel Dim, while two other priests Rev. Frs.
Jude Chukwuneke and Jude Ezeokana who were
in the same vehicle with him escaped with
various degrees of gun shot wounds.

Addressing reporters at the Nnewi Catholic
Diocese Media House, located in Assumption
Cathedral Nnewi, Director of Communication of
the Diocese, Rev. Fr. Hyginus Aghaulor, alleged
that the herdsmen called, and demanded for a
ransom of N2.5 million.

He said: “Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria,
CBCN, has decided and directed that ransom
should not be paid for the kidnap of any of its
priests and anybody that is demanding for
ransom for the release of any priest kidnapped is
wasting time. “If anybody or group goes ahead to
pay ransom for the release of any priest, the
person or the group is on his own.”

In a statement issued after addressing reporters,
titled “Fulani herdsmen kidnap Rector of Tansi
Major Seminary, Onitsha, demands for ransom,”
the Catholic Diocese of Nnewi said the incident
happened on the September 26, 2016, around
7pm along Nkpologwu/Nimbo Road Enugu State.
According to the statement, “the three Catholic
priests were returning from Nsukka to Onitsha
and Nnewi, after a condolence visit to Rev. Fr.
Uchenna Ezeh of Nsukka Diocese who lost his
mother, before they were attacked and while Rev.
Fr. Dim is still being held by the herdsmen-
kidnappers who are demanding a ransom of N2.5
million, Rev. Fr. Ezeokana, who lectures in both
Fr. Tansi Major Seminary Onitsha and Nnamdi
Azikiwe University Awka, received treatment
briefly at a hospital in Nsukka, but is now
recuperating at Awka his home Diocese.

“Rev. Fr. Chukwuemeka, who is the Chaplin of St
Camillus de Lellis Chaplaincy, College of Health
Science, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nnewi ,who
was shot on the head has been transferred from
Memphis Specialist Hospital Enugu to Nnamdi
Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi,
where he is currently receiving treatment.”

“On a separate place the same Monday 26th
September, 2016, a Vincentian priest whose
name is yet to be confirmed was also kidnapped
with his brother along Abuja Lokoja express way,
another Catholic priest Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Ugwu
was kidnapped on August 9,2014 along
Ugwuogo-Nike-Opi and few weeks back a senior
seminarian was killed in cold blooded in Attakwu,
Enugu State, and one begins to wonder if
Catholic priest have become endangered
species”.

The visibly angry Rev. Fr. Aghaulor lashed out on
South East Governors for doing nothing to protect
people they are governing, “while their
counterparts in the North are influencing the
Federal Government in spending billions of naira
to contain the Boko Haram insurgents, when
something more worrisome and sinister than the
activities of Boko Haram is being done in the
South East by the Fulani Herdsmen”
.
“The South East Governors and their Chairman
have done nothing to protect the people of South
East, the Enugu State Governor whose state is
where the menacing activities of the of the
herdsmen is worst and the state legislators have
not done anything to protect the people there,
they should borrow a leaf from Governor Ayo
Fayose of Ekiti State.

“We are in Federalism, and each state have right
to make certain law governing them, what
prevents Enugu State Government from making
laws that can protect the people there, Governors
of South East and their State Assembly’s should
make laws that will protect their people”.

Rev. Fr. Aghaulor lamented that since the
existence of Nigeria, nobody has seen the level of
killing spree that is being perpetrated by the
Fulani herdsmen, adding that “while innocent
people are left unprotected, we have seen
barrage of military wares and personnel
protecting the pipelines in Niger Delta, as if oil is
more important than people’s life. Why should
people be killed without provocation in their own
traditional lands?

“We are asking the government for how long
would this continue, is this the type of country we
all signed up for, is this part of the change, is
there no rules and laws in this country , all over
Nigeria women are being raped, people are
intimidated, innocent Nigerians are being
slaughtered and property worth billions of Naira
destroyed by the suspected Fulani Herdsmen”.
www.vanguardngr.com/2016/09/suspected-fulani-herdsmen-kidnap-catholic-priest-shoot-2-others-in-anambra/

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