BIAFRA HEROES DAY: CATHOLIC PRIEST DROPS CONTROVERSIAL STATEMENT AFTER EYE WITNESS REVEALS ARMY ARRESTED HIM

Catholic priest denies arrest Meanwhile, residents of Nkpor near Onitsha were yesterday allegedly thrown into panic, while some ran away from their homes to take refuge inside the bush following alleged sporadic shooting by soldiers, who invaded the place at about 7.30p.m.

The incident, according to an eye witness, took people who were returning from the day’s business activities by surprise. The soldiers were said to have on arrival started shooting into the air to scare people away. I am doing this to dispel the rumour that I was arrested yesterday night.

 I want to tell you that nothing like that happened. Nobody arrested me. which made some to pass the night inside the bush, from where they were making calls to their friends and well-wishers to narrate their ordeal. Calls to Vanguard by two of the victims alleged that the soldiers came to arrest the parish priest and catechist of St Edmund’s Catholic Parish, Maryland, Nkpor Agu in Idemili North Local Government Area, Rev. Fr. Dave Ojukwu and Ejima Ofoegbu respectively.

However, when newsmen visited the church yesterday morning, the parish priest, Rev. Ojukwu was seen walking around the church and when asked to confirm his alleged arrest by soldiers, he said nothing like that happened, adding that he had received a lot of calls from well-wishers about his alleged arrest. According to him: “You can see me walking around the church