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Police refused to rescue kidnapped Catholic priest in Anambra until I paid N1million – Father Ebube Muonso

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The Spiritual Director of Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry, Uke, Anambra State, Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Obimma, has revealed how he paid N1million to the police to rescue a colleague priest kidnapped after returning to Nigeria from overseas.

Fr Obimma, popularly known as “Father Ebube Muonso” who introduced the kidnapped Catholic priest as Fr. Nonso stated that after he spent one week in the forest with the kidnappers, he decided to lead the rescue operation with his adoration security.

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He said the police authorities told him that they could rescue him, but lacked logistics.

According to him, the victim was abducted on December 17 shortly after his return from overseas for the Christmas holiday and was released by the kidnappers, a week after.

Presenting Fr Nonso to the congregation during the ministration in a video which has gone viral, Fr Obimma said, “For a week, Fr Nonso was in the hands of kidnappers. Government could not do anything, it got to a point where I had to use my arsenal to rescue him.”

Lamenting the deplorable state of insecurity in the country especially in Anambra State, the Catholic priest wondered what the governor did with the billions of naira collected every month in security vote.

He said that the hopelessness of the situation forced him to “approach a state outside Anambra and begged them to use their tracker to find my brother priest”.

He added, “They tracked him and sent the full location to me. I sent it to security people and they asked me what I wanted them to do with the information. I told them to go after the kidnappers and rescue our priest, but they told me they didn’t usually go into the forest.

“I volunteered to lead the operation. I called the Chief Security (Officer) of Adoration Ministry and told him to assemble his men, let those who had cutlasses bring their cutlasses and those who had guns should bring them, I would lead the operation. When they saw that I was serious, that was when the police told me I should not worry that they could rescue him, just that they lacked logistics.

“I had to send N1million to them. This is a state where we have a governor who receives security votes, but it is individuals who are now funding security.”

He noted that all the while he was in kidnappers’ den, his mobile phone line remained open and the kidnappers never bothered to put it off or even dispose of it, knowing that they could be tracked through it.

“They knew that there is no security in this state. That was why I said there is no security in Anambra State. Imagine using a tracker from another location to trace kidnappers, yet, the security agencies refused to act until I opted to use my security to rescue the victim, and later they accepted and I still paid them N1m for mobilisation. Only God will lead us,” the priest added.

However, the Anambra State Police Command confirmed the rescue of the priest and promised to investigate Fr Obimma’s revelation.

The Command’s spokesman, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, said the Commissioner of Police, CP Nnaghe Itam, had ordered a full-scale investigation into the allegations.

“We are aware of the allegations and the CP has directed the investigation, please. I will get back to you as soon as an investigation is concluded,” he said in a text message.

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