Nigeria: IGP Orders Arrest of Catholic Priest Killers

5 September 2017

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, has ordered the Imo State Commissioner of Police, Chris Ezike, to arrest the killers of Rev Fr Cyriacus Onunkwo of the Orlu Catholic diocese.

Onunkwo, who returned to organise the funeral rites of his father, Celestine Onunkwo, who died last weekend, was kidnapped on Friday at Amaifeke in Orlu town. His body was found the next day (Saturday) at Omumma, in the Oru East Local Council of the state.

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