THE Catholic bishops of Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province have decried the increasing level of insecurity in the South-East, a development said to have heightened fears and restiveness among the people,
especially the youths.
The pastoral message read on Sunday in all the Catholic parishes under the Onitsha Province, which our correspondent monitored, was signed by Most Rev. Valerian Okeke, Archbishop of Onitsha and Most Rev. Hilary Okeke, Bishop of Nnewi, Chairman and Secretary, respectively. “It appears that some persons with criminal intention used the period of the lockdown to stealthily move into the more remote parts of our province. Gun-carrying herders and other bandits are occupying many farmlands and forests, destroying crops, raping women, killing and kidnapping many persons.
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