Fada Ebube Muonso confirms arrest of kidnappers who abducted US returnees Catholic priest
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Fiery Catholic priest, Rev Fr Emmanuel Obimma, popularly know as Fada Ebube Muonso has revealed that six of the kidnappers who abducted his colleague in December have been apprehended.
The priest while speaking to his congregation said he is happy that the kidnappers who had mocked him have at last been arrested.
Rev Fr Nonso, a Catholic priest studying in US, who was on vacation in Anambra was kidnapped in December after he had procured fuel for his vehicle in 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 lamented 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 N1million. He expressed his frustration with the Prof Chukwuma Soludo-led government, condemning her for their 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, Obinna 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 everyday and have just been resisting the temptation to kidnap me.
“When we sent ransom to them, I told them it won’t be long before they are 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 were to make official release of the arrest.
