Kukah: Kidnappers asking for N200m to release priest, Rev. Sister
The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Rev. Mathew Hassan Kukah has said kidnappers are demanding for N200 million for a Catholic priest and reverend sister abducted over three weeks ago.
Kukah stated this on Sunday at the flag-off of the 70th Anniversary Lecture of the Order of the Knight of Saint Mulumba, at the St. Leo’s Catholic Church, Ikeja, Lagos.
pres “As I speak, for the past three weeks my priest, a young man and a sister are still in captivity even though the Nigerian state wishes to pretend that we are not negotiating with the kidnappers.
"Of course, we have the apparatus of government, we have the scaffolding, but this scaffolding is important because people can see access to and appropriate resources of the state.
“As I speak, for the past three weeks my priest, a young man and a sister are still in captivity even though the Nigerian state wishes to pretend that we are not negotiating with the kidnappers.
“As I speak, for the past three weeks my priest, a young man and a sister are still in captivity even though the Nigerian state wishes to pretend that we are not negotiating with the kidnappers.
“We are negotiating with the kidnappers as I’m talking because I don’t know how else to get back my priest.
“It is a very painful experience. My blood relations have been kidnapped. Last year, I lost a priest to kidnappers. I have lost a seminarian to kidnappers and somehow we like to pretend we have a government
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