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The Edo State Catholic priest , Rev. Fr. Peter Ekweli has been released by his abductors Nine days after he was kidnapped.
In a viral video on Thursday showed a kidnap victim, surrounded by uniformed men believed to be vigilantes, claiming that he was kidnapped and put in the same location with the priest and seminarian.
Speaking further, he said they were all forced to close their eyes and in the process, they heard a gunshot.
” We were told to open their eyes, and they saw the seminarian battling for his life before he died”. he declared.
He said they trekked to a place in Edo Central from where he escaped.
Responding, the Police Public Relations Officer, Moses Yamu, claimed that the priest had been rescued by the police and that the police would soon come up with an official statement.
According to a source, the Catholic Church will also issue a statement on Friday about the priest’s release.
It will be recalled that the Catholic Priest of St. Peter’s Catholic Church, Ivukwa, in the Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State, Rev. Fr. Peter Ekweli, was kidnapped along with other seminarians within the church premises.
