The Chaplain of the Seat of Wisdom Catholic Chaplaincy of the Petroleum Training Institute, Effurun, Delta State, Very Rev. Fr. Dr Louis Odudu, who recently escaped from a kidnappers’ den, is dead.
Odudu died on Wednesday, four days after he escaped from his abductors’ den.
Sources in the Catholic Diocese of Warri told PUNCH Metro that the priest was abducted last week Friday and he escaped on Saturday.
Although the immediate cause of death could not be ascertained by our correspondent, it was gathered that the incident was not unconnected with his abduction.
Family, friends and parishioners were still celebrating his freedom when the news of his death filtered into town on Wednesday.
He was said to have been pronounced dead at a private hospital in Warri, hours after he reportedly complained of pains and demanded to be taken to a hospital.
Odudu, who was ordained priest of the Catholic Diocese of Warri in 1987, had reportedly been in the United Kingdom for years.
He was said to have returned to the country about five months ago when he was abducted.
Catholic priest dies four days after escaping kidnappers’ den .
Comment: Touch not my anointed and do my prophet no harm. May his soul rest in our Lord.
Cruel world so sad may his soul rest in peace
Comment:they will never go unpunished
Comment:Rip
Comment:a minute of silence
Comment:what’s their gain now
Comment:signs of end time
Comment:pray for your leaders every one
Comment:okay
Lord have mercy on does kidnappers
Comment:give your life to christ
Comment:no one knows the next hour
Comment:no one knows
hope u ar with the Lord at his bosom
kidnapping nw became business
Na the country cause am…
but why a priest child of God
when the time come there ll be no hiding place 4da evil
OMG, so this priest just returned from UK
Kidnappers no dey fear God o
Can kidnappers get mind kidnap a herberlist?
Human beings no longer fear their creator, it’s okay
Rip to you my priest
in Catholic Church, no payment of ransom
The demon that is after him must be a stubborn one.
Rip to the dead…
These kidnappers don’t have conscience o….neither do they fear God
This is very sad the people don’t save coscience
What is the kidnappers gain in kidnapping a priest in the first place
Very sad and pathetic, it is a pity. I wonder what people must have seen where priest are this days. Every day we continue hearing kidnapping and killing stories. What is this.
People don’t even have respect for sacred entities. Why priest, what have they done to be deserving this cruel act. This is very bad seriously.
The kidinapping must be the reason for his death. Who knows how he was traumatized there, whether he was totured to bring money and even the environment and other psycological trauma he went tgrough there. What a great loss. May his soul rest in peace. Amen
Comment:some people are heartless
Comment:lord have Mercy
Comment:okey
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