•Plans Catholic adoration to counter forced initiation
A banker and Group Head, Retail Banking Division, (South-east), of a new generation bank, Charles Oguibe, has narrated his ordeal following his abduction weeks ago by some unknown gunmen while on his way to Anambra State on an official trip.
Oguibe, who spoke during a special thanksgiving mass, marking his survival, at the Christ the King Catholic Church, Eziama, Ngor Okpala Local Council of Imo State, said it was only God that saved him.
He narrated that he was halted by heavily armed hoodlums, while his vehicle was in motion, and taken into a bush, where he was dispossessed of his valuable items, including laptop, while they forced him to face a shrine in the bush, and made to enter a coffin.
Oguibe promised to build a Perpetual Adoration within the premises of the Catholic Church in Eziama, Ngor Okpala, to counter ‘whatever’ they did to him by force in the shrine.
The banker lamented the surge in insecurity in the South-east and regretted the magnitude of treatment and ordeal in the hands of his abductors.
He said they unleashed all kinds of threats and manhandling on him for several hours before he was released.
He said: “ It was a horrible and pathetic experience. These people took me to a shrine, put me in a casket. I was made to face all kinds of inhuman treatment in that shrine. I am going to build a chapel to exalt His name and counter whatever they did to me in that shrine. I am going to do the ground breaking of the chapel and adoration after the mass now.”
In his homily, Prof. (Fr.) Innocent Uwa, recalled how the church received the experience, saying that the church entered into prayers for the life of Oguibe.
The event was attended by the founding Head of Department, Mass Communication, Imo State University, Owerri, Prof. Dede Konkwo; a lecturer in the Institution, Prof. B. J. C. Anyanwu; some top financial experts, government officials and other personalities.
