The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, OYC, on Wednesday raised the alarm over the whereabouts of popular Enugu Catholic priest, Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka.
The Priest who is the spiritual director of the Adoration Ministry, Enugu, has been in the news recently after he asked President Muhammadu Buhari to resign or be impeached following the high rate of insecurity in the country.
Ohanaeze Youth Council in their statement today announced that the priest was missing and demanded that the federal government produce him within 48 hours.
In a statement issued by the President-General of OYC, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, he said Mbaka was last seen on Tuesday, adding that every effort to trace him had failed.
“We have it on good authority that his aides have neither seen nor heard from him since Tuesday.
“Calls put to his mobile line have also remained unanswered; this has now prompted us to issue this alarm as we would not take it lightly should anything untoward happen to him.
“We are giving the Federal Government 48 hours to produce the priest, else they should be ready to face Igbo youths. They were dining and wining with him all along and now that he told the truth, they are no longer comfortable with him. Let nothing happen to Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka. It will not be in anybody’s interest,” the group warned.
Meanwhile, DAILY POST reports that close aides of the Catholic Cleric declined comment, noting that the situation was not clear yet.
“Today is the Wednesday programme, ‘E no dey again’, if he don’t officiate, it will then be clear that something is wrong,” one of them said.
But a source who refused to be named disclosed that he was last seen yesterday, Tuesday, when he departed to honour an invitation by his Bishop.
Punch reports that when officials of the Diocese of Enugu, were contacted, some of them said he was not missing while others said they cannot confirm his whereabouts.
Now there is tension in Enugu and fear that Mbaka could have been arrested by security operatives.
