Four days after escaping from kidnapper’s den, the Chaplain of the Seat of Wisdom Catholic Chaplaincy of the Petroleum Training Institute, Effurun, Delta State, Very Rev. Fr. Dr Louis Odudu, has died.

Father Odudu was abducted by gunmen on Friday September 14th and miraculously escaped from his abductors on Sunday September 16th.

He died on Wednesday September 19th.  He was said to have complained of pains and demanded to be taken to a hospital where he died.

Odudu, who was ordained priest of the Catholic Diocese of Warri in 1987, returned to Nigeria from the UK five months ago.