A resident
pastor of the Living Faith Church in Romi New Extension, a suburb of Kaduna
metropolis, Jeremiah Omolara, has been killed by yet-to-be identified gunmen.
The
incident, which happened along the dreaded Kaduna-Abuja road when the pastor,
his spouse and son were traveling to Abuja, had Omolara’s wife abducted.
The gunmen
opened fire on their vehicle, killing the pastor on the spot and taking the
wife to the bush while the son was said to have escaped unhurt.
Confirming
the incident, the Kaduna State chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria
(CAN), Rev. Joseph Hayab, decried the increasing rate of kidnappings in Kaduna,
especially, the abduction of clergy men.
Hayab told
newsmen, “the killing of the pastor (Omolara) and the abduction of his wife is
sad and devastating.”
He further
recalled that the parish priest of Kasuwan Magani, Kajuru Local Government
Area, was attacked by gunmen at his resident and a security guard was killed
last week.
