Police in Abia State has announced that the Prelate, Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence Samuel Uche, who was kidnapped on Sunday alongside three others, has been released.
SP Godfrey Ogbonna, the police spokesman, confirmed the release of the clergymen in Umuahia on Monday. The assailants kidnapped Uche alongside the Methodist Bishop of Owerri, Rt. Rev. Dennis Mark, the prelate’s chaplain, and the driver at the Okigwe/Isuochi axis on the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway.
The clergymen were heading to Owerri Airport en-route Lagos after a Sunday service, when they were attacked, and taken away. The assailants had contacted relations of the victims, demanding a N100 million ransom.
It was not clear whether the ransom was paid or not before they were set free as the police spokesperson declined further comments on that.
