ICC Note: Gunmen stormed a church in Kaduna State, Nigeria early Monday morning. They killed the pastor of the church, Hosea Akuchi, and kidnapped his wife. They are now asking for more than fifteen thousand dollars in ransom.
08/23/2018 Nigeria (Christian Post) – A Baptist pastor in Nigeria was killed by gunmen who stormed his church and kidnapped his wife just days after a Catholic priest was killed while shopping in a grocery store.
Citing an unnamed source, the Lagos-based independent daily newspaper The Guardian reports that attackers invaded the Nasara Baptist Church in the Igabi local government area of the Kaduna state during the early hours of Monday morning and killed Pastor Hosea Akuchi.
The attackers are said to have stormed the church around 1 a.m. They allegedly proceeded to go into the pastor’s living quarters, where they shot him dead and abducted his wife, Talatu Hosea.
The source claimed that the assailants placed a ranson on the pastor’s wife that is the equivalent of nearly $14,000. However, authorities have denied that a ransom has been requested.
“The abductors said we need to pay them N5 million before they can release her to us,” the source was quoted as saying. “You can imagine that they now have the gut to walk into people’s home, kill and abduct and also have an effrontery to demand for ransom. Where and how can we get that money?”
The source wondered how he and the other Christians have “become prisoners in our own country as law abiding citizens?”
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