Osun Assembly condemns killing of priests

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The Osun State House of Assembly, under the leadership of the Speaker, RT. Honourable Najeem Salam has said the killing of Catholic priests and other innocent Nigerians in Benue and other troubled parts of the country is inhuman.

In a statement signed by the Chairman House Committee on Information and Strategy, Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, the House made the position on Tuesday, while receiving protesters from the Catholic Diocese of Osogbo who stormed the Assembly in their numbers.

The Assembly sympathised with the Christians over the killing of two Catholic Priests, Rev. Fr. Joseph Gor and Fr. Felix Tyolaha as well as seventeen others at St. Ignatius Catholic Church, Ukpor-Mbalom, Benue state last month by suspected herdsmen promising that their requests would be adequately looked into.

In their two-page statement signed by Very Rev. Fr. Thaddeus Ajayi, Vicar General, Catholic Diocese of…



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