Enugu Priest Narrates Encounter With Kidnappers

A Catholic priest, Rev Fr Greg Omeje, has narrated how God saved him from the hands of kidnappers last Friday along Opi-Nsukka-Ugwuogo road.

In a post entitled ‘Thank God for Saving my Life from Kidnappers’, the priest described his surviving the kidnap attempt as “miraculous and unexplainable”.

He stated that not less than fourteen kidnappers attempted to kidnap him. He said they were positioned both in his front and back while he was returning to Nsukka on Friday 10 at about 5pm after visiting Bigard Seminary, Enugu.

Quoting him, “I was the first victim they stopped, and who they would have eventually kidnapped but God turned everything for good. It happened that as I was racing and reached the Api Opi Shrine, I heard deafening gunshots (they were about seven lined up in front of the iron cross bar), and that automatically forced me to stop my car.

“The immediate reaction was to use the back reverse which I did and in a short distance met other cars, both private and public (not less than ten in number) and other armed kidnappers at our back.

“It was at this point that God took over completely the rest of the narrative. Eventually, I came out of the bush after 7pm to drive my car home with the assistance of policemen who came at the scene after the incident.

“I did not sustain any injury or lose my belongings inside the car to the glory of God, though the experience is traumatic. In all, it is the Lord’s doing.”

THE WHISTLER gathered that some number of persons were kidnapped.

According to a commercial driver who also survived it, “Many people were kidnapped. A Sienna bus had its windscreen shattered, but managed to escape to a point where the passengers jumped down and entered the bush. The kidnappers disappeared when military men came. Police operatives zoomed off, and resurfaced when things normalised.”

Enugu State Police Command is yet to issue a statement on the incident.