Soon after release: Archbishop Kattey at the GAFCON conference
in Nairobi, in October last year
Soon after release: Archbishop Kattey at the GAFCON conference
in Nairobi, in October last year
A RANSOM of ten million Nigerian Naira - about £37,000 - was
paid before the the Archbishop of Niger Delta, in Nigeria, the Most
Revd Ignatius Kattey, was released, after he had been kidnapped
last year, newspapers in Nigeria reported last week.
Archbishop Kattey was released more than a week after he was
kidnapped by armed men, near his home in Port Harcourt (News, 20
September).
It was reported last Friday that the Rivers State Director of
the State Security Service, Apok Nyam, had told a court that the
sum had been paid to three men accused of the kidnapping.
The case has been referred to the Director of Public
Prosecutions, and adjourned until September.
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