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. 

Produce Nnamdi Kanu now - Mbaise Catholic priests demand. Agitation for Biafra not improper

Produce Nnamdi Kanu now - Mbaise Catholic priests demand.  Agitation for Biafra not improper.

Against the backdrop that Nnamdi Kanu, the director of Radio Biafra has been brutalized by the men of the DSS, Rev Fr Ben Ogu, speaking on behalf  of the Ahiara catholic diocese priests who have joined the league of individuals and groups that have called on the DSS to bring Kanu to the court on Monday as ordered by the court.