{"id":140588,"date":"2019-08-03T10:39:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T09:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=140588"},"modified":"2019-08-03T10:40:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T09:40:03","slug":"igp-orders-manhunt-for-suspected-killers-of-enugu-clergy-directs-rescue-of-kidnapped-rccg-pastors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=140588","title":{"rendered":"IGP orders manhunt for suspected killers of Enugu clergy, directs rescue of kidnapped RCCG pastors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu, Friday, ordered massive manhunt for the killers of Rev. Father Paul Offu, a Catholic Priest in charge of St. James the Greater Parish Catholic Church Ugbawka in Enugu state.<\/p>\n

Also a crack detectives from the IGP-Intelligence Response Unit (IRT), the Forensic and Homicide sections of the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) have been deployed to Enugu State.<\/p>\n

The deployed teams were directed to complement the Command in their investigations into the unfortunate incident.<\/p>\n

FPRO, Frank Mba said this in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja.<\/p>\n

Further, Mba added that the AIG in charge of Zone 9 Headquarters has been directed to mobilize more units of Police Mobile Force (PMF) personnel to black spots in Enugu State.<\/p>\n

Similarly, intensified operations have commenced for the rescue of RCCG Pastors who were abducted along J3 Area of Ogbere on their way to Lagos from the Eastern part of the Country.<\/p>\n

Mba also affirmed that the Tactical and Operational assets of the Force have been deployed with the Commissioner of Police, Ogun State Command taking the lead-role in the search and rescue operations.<\/p>\n

However, the IGP who condemned the killing of the Catholic priest and the abduction of the clergymen, also called for calm and assured that the perpetrators would not go unpunished.<\/p>\n

He, therefore, enjoined the public to avail the Police with credible information that will assist in apprehending the criminals.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu, Friday, ordered massive manhunt for the killers of Rev. Father Paul Offu, a Catholic Priest in charge of St. James the Greater Parish Catholic Church Ugbawka in Enugu state. Also a crack detectives from the IGP-Intelligence Response Unit (IRT), the Forensic and Homicide sections of the Force […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3,2677],"tags":[703],"class_list":["post-140588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","category-religious","tag-enugu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/139555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}