{"id":12012,"date":"2022-06-06T09:50:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T09:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=12012"},"modified":"2022-06-06T09:50:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T09:50:12","slug":"gunmen-abduct-catholic-priest-in-kogi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=12012","title":{"rendered":"GUNMEN ABDUCT CATHOLIC PRIEST IN KOGI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">GUNMEN ABDUCT CATHOLIC PRIEST IN KOGI<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Christopher Onotu has been abducted by some gunmen on Saturday night from the Church in Obangede, Okehi Local Government Area of Kogi State.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The gunmen reportedly made their way into the Church\u2019s vicarage at about 9pm, burgled the window through which they entered the priest\u2019s room and whisked him away.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">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 tribuneonline that the hoodlums went away with the priest\u2019s car. \u201cThey dropped his two phones but went with the Sim cards.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The activities of gunmen in the central senatorial district of the state have had residents panicking for the last few weeks.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Barely a week ago, 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.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">There has been no development on his whereabout, as his abductors were yet to make contacts.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">However all effort to speak with the Kogi state police Command public relations officer SP William Aya proved abortive.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Source: Kogi Flame<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUNMEN ABDUCT CATHOLIC PRIEST IN KOGI A Catholic priest, Rev. 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