Abducted seminarian was killed because he shared Christian faith with his captors

A member of a Nigerian highway gang
that’s responsible for killing a kidnapped
Catholic seminarian earlier this year
admitted in a recent media interview that
the aspiring priest was killed because he
wouldn’t stop proclaiming the Gospel of
Jesus Christ to his captors.
Mustapha Mohammed, who is alleged to be
the leader and mastermind behind the
abduction of Good Shepherd Seminary
student Michael Nnadi in Kaduna state,
gave a recent interview to The Daily Sun .
According to the Nigerian newspaper,
Mohammed is a 26-year-old Fulani man
who admitted to being part of a 45-man
kidnapping gang that has attacked and
abducted commuters traveling along the
Abuja-Kaduna expressway, the Kaduna-Jos
road, and other roadways in the area.
Mustapha, who’s now in police custody in
Abuja, was quoted as saying that he’s
responsible for killing the 18-year-old.
Nnadi’s body was discovered on Fab. 1
along with the remains of a local doctor’s
wife.
Nnadi was kidnapped on Jan. 8 alongside
three other seminarians who were not
killed. Mustapha said that from the first
day they were kidnapped, Nnadi continued
preaching about Jesus and would not allow
his captors to have peace even though
they did not share the same faith.
Mustapha told the newspaper that he didn’t
appreciate Nnadi’s confidence and bravery
and “decided to send him to an early
grave.”
“He said the deceased kept preaching and
told him to his face to change his evil ways
or perish from the day he was abducted
alongside his colleagues,” the report reads.
According to the suspect, his gang targeted
the seminary because they thought they
could make money by kidnapping people
there. He said the gang got information on
the seminary from one of its members who
resides near Good Shepherd Seminary.
The report states that the gang member
conducted five days of surveillance on the
seminary before the gang followed through
with the kidnapping operation.
Mustapha explained that after kidnapping
the seminarian, they used his cell phone to
contact the seminary to demand a ransom
equivalent of $256,000. He said the ransom
was later reduced to the equivalent of
about $25,000.
According to the National Catholic Register,
the kidnappers were dressed in military
camouflage when they broke past a fence
surrounding the seminary’s living quarters
and began to open fire.
The attackers reportedly stole laptops and
phones before kidnapping the four
seminarians. The other three seminarians
who were abducted but later released are
Pius Kanwai, Peter Umenukor and Stephen
Amos.
About 10 days after the abduction, one of
the four seminarians was found wounded
on a roadside, the National Catholic
Register reported.
On Jan. 31, two more seminarians were
released. The next day, Nnadi’s slain body
was discovered.
Nnadi’s death was first announced by the
Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria.
A member of the seminary staff told Aid to
the Church in Need that Nnadi was a
“young gifted seminarian” who was an
“orphan brought up by his grandmother.”
Nnadi’s death comes attacks carried about
terror groups, Fulani radicals and highway
bandit gangs have become all too common
in Nigeria. The country has been ranked as
the 12th-worst country in the world for
Christians to live, according to Open Doors
USA’s 2020 World Watch List.
“Available statistics have shown that
between 11,500 and 12,000 Christian
deaths were recorded in the past 57
months or since June 2015 when the
present central government of Nigeria
came on board,” the Anambra-based
nongovernmental organization International
Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law
estimated in a March report. “Out of this
figure, Jihadist Fulani herdsmen accounted
for 7,400 Christian deaths, Boko
Haram 4,000 and the ‘ Highway Bandits ‘
150-200.”
The U.S. State Department listed Nigeria on
its “special watch list” of countries that
have engaged in or tolerated “severe
violations of religious freedom” last
December.
Courtesy of nobelie

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