Chidi Samuel|
Suspected herdsmen on Thursday shot dead a Catholic priest, Rev Father Paul Ofu along the Agwu sector of the Enugu-Port Harcourt, expressway Enugu state.
Ogbuagu Anikwe, veteran journalist and official of the Enugu state government disclosed the killing of the Rev Father in an emotional post on Facebook.
The Catholic Diocese of Enugu has equally taken to Facebook to announce the brutal killing of Father Ofu, blaming suspected herdsmen for his demise.
Anikwe wrote on his Facebook wall, ”Sometimes, you get so confused about things you do not really know how to react. The Awgu sector of Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway, including the villages around the highway, is now a hotbed of terrorist activities”.
”Here in this picture is Rev. Father Paul Ofu, one-time parish priest of my home parish, mercilessly executed this evening. He joins a growing list of our people who are daily being assaulted in the farms, and motorists being robbed and kidnapped between Awgu and Nkanu stretch of this highway. The herdsmen are implicated. In some other instances, it is home grown bandits. In all cases, everyone is terrified but I guess a point has been reached when the people will rise up and defend themselves, defend their means of livelihood (their farms) and defend their dignity”.
”Rest in peace, man of God, Father Ofu. I have a picture of your bullet-riddled and dirtied body but I cannot further debase your memory and traumatise people by posting it here”.
”May your needless death not be in vain, but provide everyone the courage to act to restore peace to our beloved home. God will surely hear us as we cry unto Him”.
Rev Ofu was until his death the parish priest of St. James the Great parish, Ugbawka.
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