Pastor’s two-year-old
daughter abducted from church
By Sun News Publishing
Monday, August 11, 2008
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Daring militants on Sunday desecrated a church in Rivers
State, abducting the two-year-old daughter of a pastor.
The latest victim in the unending kidnap saga is Purity Ogu,
daughter of resident Pastor of Abundant Life Evangelical Church,
Obigbo. She was abducted at about 12.30p.m.
Daily Sun gathered that the kidnapers’ initial target
was Pastor Ogu’s 10-year-old son, Prince, but when they
did not succeed in taking away the boy, they tricked little
Purity and made away with her.
Already, the kidnappers had called, demanding N16 million
ransom before the girl could be released.
Besides, the hoodlums wanted an initial payment of N50,000
for the upkeep of the girl until full payment is made.
The initial payment, they directed, should be made through
into an account to be accessed through the Automated Teller
Machine (ATM).
The incident has been reported to the Obigbo Divisional Police
headquarters and the divisional police officer was reported
to a have put his men on the alert, while hotels around Obigbo,
on the outskirts of Port Harcourt were already being combed.
The police, it was further gathered, had asked Pastor Ogu,
who is younger brother to the President of Pentecostal Fellowship
of Nigeria (PFN), Rivers State, Eugene Ogu, to pay N50,000.
A suspect said to be a family friend of the Ogus has been
arrested for questioning in connection with the abduction
on the suspicion that he made frequent calls to unknown persons.
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