{"id":3946,"date":"2025-03-25T03:57:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T03:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/?p=3946"},"modified":"2025-03-25T03:57:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T03:57:43","slug":"imo-police-command-confirms-abduction-of-catholic-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/imo-police-command-confirms-abduction-of-catholic-priest\/","title":{"rendered":"Imo Police Command Confirms Abduction of Catholic Priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.1429rem\">The Imo State Police Command says it has launched an intensive operation to rescue Rev. Fr. John Ubaechu, who was reportedly kidnapped on Ejemekwuru Road in Oguta Local Government Area on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The command\u2019s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Henry Okoye, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists in Owerri on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Okoye stated that \u201can intelligence-driven operation has been launched to apprehend the suspects.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He enjoined members of the public to assist in the investigation by providing any relevant information to the nearest police station or via the emergency numbers 08034773600 and 08158024755.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Recall that the Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri had confirmed Ubaechu\u2019s abduction in a statement signed by the Archdiocesan Chancellor and Secretary, Rev. Fr. Patrick Mbarah.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\nThe statement read in part: \u201cI am directed to inform you that one of our priests, Rev. Fr. John Ubaechu, was kidnapped on the evening of Sunday, 23rd March 2025. Rev. Fr. John Ubaechu is the Parish Priest of Holy Family Catholic Church, Izombe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mbarah urged Catholic faithful and all people of goodwill to pray earnestly for the priest\u2019s swift and safe release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Imo State Police Command says it has launched an intensive operation to rescue Rev. Fr. John Ubaechu, who was reportedly kidnapped on Ejemekwuru Road in Oguta Local Government Area on Sunday. The command\u2019s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Henry Okoye, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists in Owerri on Monday. Okoye stated that \u201can intelligence-driven operation has been launched to apprehend the suspects.\u201d He enjoined members of the public to assist in the investigation by providing any relevant information to the nearest police station or via the emergency numbers 08034773600 and 08158024755. Recall that the Catholic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[796,156,1020],"class_list":["post-3946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-catholic-priest","tag-imo-police-command","tag-rev-fr-john-ubaechu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3947,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions\/3947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}