Reports reaching the desk of Africa Today News, New York has it that a priest under the Benin Catholic Archdiocese whose name was given as Charles Igechi has been killed by his abductors.
According to reports, the priest was shot to death by gunmen yesterday along Agbor Road in the Ikhueniro axis of Benin, the Edo capital.
A statement on Thursday by the Catholic Archbishop of Benin, Augustine Akubeze confirmed the incident.
The religious leader pointed out that the police have been informed and urged the security agency to apprehend the perpetrators.
Akubeze said the deceased, ordained last year, was ambushed and shot on his way back to his place of duty.
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The remains of Igechi were found at Boundary Street in Ikpoba Hill, under Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area.
“Rev. Fr. Charles Onomhoale Igechi, who was ordained on August 13, 2022, was the Vice Principal of St. Michael College, Ikhueniro.
“We received the news this morning that he was shot on his way back to his place of assignment…We wish to solicit your prayers for the happy repose of his soul.”
Father Akubeze announced a Mass for Igechi on June 9, 2023, at the Bishop Kelly Pastoral Centre’s Chapel at 10:00 a.m.
In another development, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Plateau state, Samuel Kwamkur has sent a serious warning to a former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, urging him not to set Nigeria on fire with his utterances.
Kwankur, who is a former National Director of the Christian Association of Nigeria, stated this at a press conference in Jos on Sunday.
He was reacting to statements allegedly credited to the former Kaduna governor in which he allegedly told his audience before handing over to his successor that the Islamic dominance in Kaduna had been successfully replicated in Nigeria and that it shall continue.
El-Rufai, he alleged, equally told his audience that in the course of the electioneering campaigns, when ‘they'(Christians ) tried to ask questions on why the Muslim/Muslim Ticket, he deceived ‘them’ that it was not for religious dominance when in reality, the tickets both nationally and at the state level were for Islamic dominance.
He alleged that in the video containing the speech which has gone viral on social media, El-Rufai further said that the victory of Bola Tinubu had silenced the Christian Association of Nigeria, adding that he will sustain an Islamic-dominated government for 20 years and unending not only in Kaduna State but in Nigeria at large