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I was destined to kill Father Adeyi, kidnapper tells journalists
 
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Thu, 22 Sep 2016   ||   Nigeria,
 

Abuja—Nigerian Police Special Anti-Kidnapping Squad attached to the Inspector General of Police Monitoring Unit at Force Headquarters, has arrested the kidnappers and killers of Reverend Father John Adeyi, Parish Priest of St. Bernard’s, Okpoga Parish, Diocese of Oturkpo, Benue State, who was abducted on April 24. The arrest of the four-man kidnapping gang came just as the deputy leader of the gang, Saidu Abdullahi, who confessed to personally shooting the priest, told journalists that he killed the Reverend Father because it was “destined he will kill him that way.” Other members of the gang paraded at Force Headquarters yesterday were Suleiman Gina, gang leader; Aliyu Garba and Hartuna Idi. They confessed to collecting N1.7 million ransom from the family of the cleric after the Church refused to pay. Asked why they collected the ransom after killing the victim, Abdullahi said: “It was due to temptation. “We killed him because the vigilantes of the town discovered where we were keeping the priest and they were coming in large numbers to free him. That was why we shot him and ran away.”

 

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