{"id":2004,"date":"2021-12-03T23:11:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T23:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2021-12-03T23:11:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T23:11:45","slug":"gunmen-abduct-kill-church-elder-in-kogi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/gunmen-abduct-kill-church-elder-in-kogi\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen Abduct, Kill Church Elder in Kogi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">By Richard Elesho<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Gunmen have struck in Mopa town, headquarter of Mopa-muro Local Government Area, Kogi State, kidnapping and killing the victim.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The victim simply identified as Elder Ologun, a member of the Evangelical Church Winning All, ECWA, and native of Egbe town in Yagba West LGA was allegedly abducted at about 10pm on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">It was gathered that Pa Ologun had come out of his house with intention to put off his generator, only to walk into the waiting arms of the gunmen, who unknown to him were laying siege on his compound.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">He was promptly kidnapped and killed the same night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">According to a source Ologun retired as a Theater Nurse in the General Hospital in Mopa some years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">On sighting the gun men he made to retreat, but it was too late. He then started shouting for help, in vain. His traumatised wife added her voice in panic, all to no avail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The social media has been washed with accounts of his unfortunate demise.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Elesho Gunmen have struck in Mopa town, headquarter of Mopa-muro Local Government Area, Kogi State, kidnapping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34],"class_list":{"0":"post-2004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-kogi"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gunmen Abduct, Kill Church Elder in Kogi - Ebira Reporters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/gunmen-abduct-kill-church-elder-in-kogi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gunmen Abduct, Kill Church Elder in Kogi - 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