A group of unknown gunmen have kidnapped a yet-to-identified Catholic priest along the Opi-Ugwuogo expressway in Enugu State.
TheNewsGuru.com(TNG) learnt that the incident occurred on Saturday evening, November 30th.
According to reports, the kidnappers disguised as police operatives and operated at a checkpoint before whisking the priest away.
A viral video of the incident showed that the gunmen escaped with the priest when the escorts of the Deputy Governor of Enugu State, Barr Ifeanyi Ossai, arrived at the scene.
According to an eye witness, the kidnappers also shot at a windscreen of a hilux, although the occupants were not kidnapped following the arrival of the deputy governor’s convoy.
The deputy governor was returning from the burial of a brother to former Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mbah, a Deputy Inspector General of Police.
“It was someone inside the hilux that shouted that the people we thought were policemen were actually kidnappers,” said a source.
“They were firing at the convoy as they were running into the bush. But already they had carried the priest inside.”
The passenger in the hilux was heard saying that the bullet nearly hit his head.