Unknown gunmen have attacked and abducted an Enugu Catholic Parish Priest, Rev. Fr. Victor Ishiwu, from St. Jude’s Catholic Church, Eburummiri community, Ibagwa-Aka in Igbo-Eze South Local Government Area of Enugu.
The assailants, on Saturday, reportedly invaded the priest’s weekend all-night adoration with worshippers, shot in the air and went away with the priest to an unknown destination.
According to The Nation, “While the priest ran into the parish house and locked himself up, parishioners ran out of the church with some of us running into the bush that night.”
The Nation also reported that an eyewitness said the kidnappers, who allegedly spoke Pidgin English and Fulfulde, trailed the cleric to the Parish House and threatened to burn church facilities if he refused to come out.
“So, when Fr. Ishiwu refused to heed to their warning, the kidnappers forced themselves into the Parish House through the church chapel, which they cut open.
“They gained access and whisked the cleric to an unknown destination. Since that time, we have not heard anything about the priest. Nobody has told us anything about whether the abductors have established contacts with anybody”, the eyewitness added.
