By our reporter| Rev. Fr. John Mark Chietnum, one of the two Catholic Priests abducted in Kaduna State on Friday has been found dead.
Alabingo.com had reported how the murdered priest, and his colleague, Rev. Fr. Donatus Cleopas were abducted by heavily armed gunmen
from the rectory of Christ the King Catholic Church, Yadin Garu in Lere Local Government Area of Kaduna where they were on an assignment.
According to a statement by Rev. Fr Emmanuel Uchechukwu Okolo of the Catholic Diocese of Kafanchan, while Chietnum was killed, Cleopas escaped from the kidnappers’ den.
He said the decomposing body of the priest said to have been murdered on the same day of their abduction, was discovered on Tuesday.
Until his death, Rev Chietnum was the Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Jema’a Local Government Area and also the coordinating CAN chairman, Southern Kaduna.
“As we solicit for prayer for the repose of our dear brother and Priest and God’s consolation on his immediate family, we wish to call on all an sundry to refrain from taking the law into their hands. The Diocese declared a two day mourning for peaceful repose of his soul,” the church said in a statement.
The statement further stated that his burial is scheduled for 10am on Thursday at the Cathedral of St. Peter Kafanchan.
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