Abducted Methodist clergy pays N100m ransom for freedom

Prelate of the Methodist Church, His Eminence Samuel Uche, kidnapped on Sunday, said today that he paid N100 million as ransom before he was released.

At a press conference in Lagos, the cleric said the notes were arranged in five sacks of N20 million.The funds, he noted, were raised by the Methodist church in Nigeria.

He also claimed that neither the Federal nor State Government, nor the military or police intervened.

The cleric was kidnapped on Sunday in Abia State but was released on Monday.

The Prelate had been kidnapped alongside two others, the Bishop of Methodist Church, Owerri Diocese, and the Prelate’s chaplain.

They were reportedly whisked away at about 2 p.m on their way from a church programme in Okigwe Imo State to Isuochi in Umu Nneochi Local Government Area of Abia State.