{"id":21086,"date":"2018-09-12T18:26:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T18:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=21086"},"modified":"2018-09-12T18:26:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T18:26:09","slug":"how-suspected-assassins-killed-orlu-diocesan-catholic-priest-in-nkwerre-lga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=21086","title":{"rendered":"How Suspected Assassins Killed Orlu Diocesan Catholic Priest in Nkwerre LGA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?attachment_id=21099\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21099\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21099\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Slain-Father.jpg\" alt=\"Slain Father\" width=\"423\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Slain-Father.jpg 423w, http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Slain-Father-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Onyekachi Eze\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The insecurity level in Imo State is said to have heightened, following the gruesome murder of a Roman Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Jude Egbom on the eve of Monday, August 10, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>His assassination\u00a0however, has thrown the entire Christians, especially the Catholic faithful of Orlu Catholic Diocese into mourning.<\/p>\n<p>Until his death, he was the Parish Priest of St. Patrick&#8217;s Parish Amucha.<\/p>\n<p>Ordained in 2015, the late Priest hails from Umunwala, in Nkwerre Local Government Area of the State.\u00a0 He only served for 3 years in the Lord&#8217;s vineyard.<\/p>\n<p>According to the information obtained from the Diocese, the killed priest who visited his hometown on that fateful day was unceasingly shot dead at a hair salon close to his father&#8217;s residence, where he went to have his hair cut.<\/p>\n<p>Unknown to him, he was greeted with several bullets on the chest by men of the underworld, which led to his untimely death.<\/p>\n<p>It was also learnt that he went in company of the Junior Seminarian on his apostolic work, who was also reportedly wounded by the bullets.<\/p>\n<p><em>Trumpeta<\/em> was reliably told that the dead priest never struggled for his car keys with anyone, as peddled in some quarters.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the news on a telephone conversation with <em>Trumpeta<\/em> correspondent, the Police Public Relations Officer of the Nigerian Police Force, NPF, Imo command, SP Andrew Enwerem said it was an armed robbery and murder case.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that the Reverend Father&#8217;s car was similarly snatched from him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Another victim, identified as a Seminarian also sustained injuries at the spot of event&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Enwerem informed that\u00a0the CP on getting the news immediately responded, assuring that the dispatched\/mobilized men of the Police Force will not relent until the culprits are apprehended.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it would be recalled that another priest from the Diocese was sent to his early grave and his body found somewhere at Oru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyekachi Eze\u00a0 The insecurity level in Imo State is said to have heightened, following<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21105,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21086\/revisions\/21105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}