BY SIMON EBEGBULEM
BENIN CITY — CRISIS is brewing between the
Catholic Diocese of Auchi in Edo State and the
family of the deceased Parish priest of St
Thomas Moore Catholic Church, Sobe, Owan
West Local Government Council, Rev. Father
Peter Ayala, who was found dead in his room
last Sunday.
While the church believes that the Rev. Father
was killed while cleaning his gun that Sunday
morning, the family told Vanguard that the
church was too hasty in reaching such
conclusion, asserting that somebody may have
murdered their son.
A family source who does not want his name
in print, told Vanguard yesterday that “the
church has not helped matters. Wherein that
police investigation is still on-going they are
saying that it could be suicide and it was
pasted on the website of the Catholic Diocese
of Auchi. The story they told us, the family
members, does not look straight to us.
“What we have been told is that they found
him dead with the gun by his side, then there
was a spanner beside him, which looks like he
was servicing the gun. The question is that: if
you shoot a gun does it not vibrate? So if the
Rev Father was servicing the gun and it actually
went off then that gun should not be found by
his side. So the whole thing looks fishy. We are
still asking the question: what killed him? The
story they are giving us does not make sense
to us.
“Remember, nobody was there, nobody has
said he was there when it happened. So we are
only creating scenario that this is the
possibility. But beyond everything, should the
church pronounce before the police that he
was killed by the gun when the police is yet to
investigate the case?”
However, the family still wants to know what
or who killed our brother because the
explanation we have does not make sense to
us. He was one of the most gentlemen men I
have ever seen, that is why we believe that
something is wrong somewhere” the source
told Vanguard.
According to him, “although the body of Rev.
Fr. Peter Ayala was found lying lifelessly in his
pool of blood with a locally manufactured gun
and a big spanner on his body and floor,
respectively, they were only some of the clues
on which experts examinations must be
effected to ascertain more authentic proofs of
what had led to the death.”
He berated some section of the media that
concluded that the late priest committed
suicide. “Whatever must be stated by anybody
hitherto were probabilities in as much as
experts examinations could prove otherwise.
For all others who are prone to engage in
some innuendos as regard the death of Rev. Fr.
Peter Ayala, I wish to caution so that they keep
in mind that death is death, whenever,
wherever and in whatever way and manner it
occurs, it cannot and should constitute an
occasion for derision, uncharitable
assumptions and calumny against the living,
the dead or both.
Bishop Dunia said he knew the late “calm,
modest and well behaved Peter Ayala who
worked under me as a seminarian when I was
the parish priest of St Joseph Catholic Church,
Emeora seventeen years ago and as a priest
who collaborated with me nonetheless
similarly in the Diocese of Auchi until his
passage from this sinful world.”
Rev. Fr. Ayala was ordained in 1997



www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/family-doubts-dioceses-position-on-death-of-catholic-priest/

I know it , with time the truth will come out . R I P to the Rev Father

GODS_BEAUTY: I know it , with time the truth will come out . R I P to the Rev Father

Obviously, God help us in this country with the way treat things.