Rampaging gunmen have kidnapped priest Tony Udemezue under the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto in Sokoto State.<\/p>\n
According to Vanguard, the priest was kidnapped in the early hours of Monday from his residence in Tambuwal in Sokoto State and the hometown of Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal.<\/p>\n
The Director of Communications for Sokoto Diocese, Rev. Fr. Chris Omotosho confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n
Fr. Omotosho said, \u201cOne of my parishioners in Tambuwal, Sokoto State \u2013 *Tony Udemezue* has just been kidnapped in his own house (home town of the executive governor of the State \u2013 Aminu Tambuwal).<\/p>\n
\u201cNo police has responded in the last 1 hour (since 2am) despite they were called by him before he was taken away.<\/p>\n
\u201cPls let us keep him & family in prayers,\u201d Fr. Omotosho said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rampaging gunmen have kidnapped priest Tony Udemezue under the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto in Sokoto State. According to Vanguard, the priest was kidnapped in the early hours of Monday from his residence in Tambuwal in Sokoto State and the hometown of Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal. The Director of Communications for Sokoto Diocese, Rev. Fr. Chris […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":198088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8807,33,72,659],"class_list":["post-205789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-catholic-priest","tag-gunmen","tag-sokoto","tag-tambuwal"],"yoast_head":"\n