Ahiara Diocese Crisis: How police invaded the cathedral, brutalised worshippers and arrested five priests [More Details emerge]

Ahiara Diocese Crisis: How police invaded the cathedral, brutalise worshippers and arrested five priests [More Details emerge]

More information are emerging on how men of the Nigerian police invaded and desecrated the Ahiara catholic cathedral on Saturday the 2nd July. 

Eye witness account told our reporters that the policemen numbering over 50 drafted from different formations including the zone 9 Umuahia broke the gates of the cathedral, chased worshipers who were praying within the cathedral premises and arrested over 17 individuals including five priests. Others we were told choked with tear gas canisters that were hauled at them by the police who allegedly went as far as hauling some more of the tear gas canisters into the late Bishop’s private quarters where some priests are resident and where some people ran into for shelter. 

Details of how Catholic priest Desmond Osuagwu was gruesomely murdered in Imo State

Details of how Catholic priest Desmond Osuagwu was gruesomely murdered in Imo State

Residents of Owerri, the Imo State capital, were recently thrown into panic and apprehension when the body of a clergy man, Reverend Father Dennis Osuagwu, was discovered after he was allegedly murdered by identified assassins.