By Ikeugonna Eleke
Fiery Catholic Priest, Rev Fr Emmanuel Obimma, popularly known as Fada Ebube Muonso, has revealed that six of the kidnappers who abducted his brother priest in December, have been apprehended.
The priest, while speaking to his congregation, expressed happiness that the kidnappers who had mocked him had at last been arrested.
Rev Fr Nonso, a Catholic priest studying in the U.S., who was on vacation in Anambra, was kidnapped in December, after he had procured fuel for his vehicle at a filling station.
Obimma who made series of efforts to get him rescued, had cried out that it took the intervention of a Governor outside Anambra for the kidnappers to be tracked and the location of the kidnapped priest revealed.
He had decried what he termed the porous nature of security in Anambra, stating that even after using equipment from outside the state to track the location, security operatives in Anambra refused to act until he tipped them with N1 million. He expressed his frustration with Prof Chukwuma Soludo’s-led government, condemning it for lacklustre performance in security.
Rev Fr Nonso was however released on Christmas eve and was later presented to the congregation.
But speaking to his congregation on Sunday, Obimma said that six out of the kidnappers who held the priest had been apprehended.
He said: ‘I had told you people I spoke with them (kidnappers) and ordered them to release the priest, but they told me that I was joking. They told me they see me every day and had just been resisting the temptation to kidnap me.
‘When we sent ransom to them, I told them it won’t be long before they were apprehended and the kidnappers said to me, ”iseee”, which is Igbo word for Amen.
‘What they did was that they were mocking me, but they did not know that I was serious. Just days back, they were apprehended, and you need to see how they were begging,’ the priest told his congregation.
Meanwhile, there have been videos of arrest of the kidnappers on social media, but as at the time of filing this report, police authorities in Anambra were yet to make an official release of the arrest.
