Brutality: Fr Onunkwo Suffocated To Death

Late Fr Onunkwo

Fresh evidence has emerged as to how Rev. Fr. CY Onunkwo, the abducted Catholic priest of the Orlu Diocese died.

While parading the suspected kidnappers of the priest before newsmen yesterday in Owerri, one of the culprits had confessed to how they committed the crime that led to the painful death of the Catholic priest.

According to him, when the priest was stopped, he had told his crime partners that their target was a priest, a suggestion which the others, to which included a police ex-corporal did not heed.

He informed that after Fr Onunkwo was seized, he was bundled behind the booth of his car and driven to their destination.

At arrival, it was discovered that their cargo had gone bad. The man behind the booth, having obviously battled with breathlessness, suffocated to death.

Having discovered how their  'market' had gone bad and business ended, the syndicate dropped the lifeless body of their victim just by the bush and fled with his car.

Luck however ran out of the running criminals when the lifeless body of Fr CY Onunkwo, who had returned from Italy to bury his father, was discovered and search started by the police. With information that led to the tracing of the priest's handset, the holder of the phone was tracked down around the Control post area.

The tracked criminal, it was, who disclosed the whereabouts of the others.