By Don Peter Okoro.
The Apostle of New Covenant of God Mission and Presiding Archbishop of Masterseed College of Bishops and Ministers Network, USA and Nigeria, Archbishop (Prof.) Emmadavid Okafoagu JP2 has made a passionate appeal to the abductors of the emeritus Anglican Archbishop of Nnewi Diocese, to release him immediately.
For almost two weeks now, the retired Archbishop of Nnewi Anglican Diocese Archbishop (Prof.) G.I.N. Okpala and his driver have been declared missing, and the car they are traveling in is nowhere to be found. Appealing to his abductors to release the 75 years old Clergy, Archbishop Emmadavid Okafoagu who is equally the Obi of Umuezechukwu in Obiagu, Uruagu-Nnewi said: “When we heard the bad news,we entered into serious prayers, hoping that our prayers and those of others who knows the Archbishop would prevail. The Archbishop has been a good man to all of us. He established himself as a good statesman to the people following him. He worked tirelessly in peace with us, not minding that we are not in the same church and retired honourably.
I believe that God must intervene. We have made a decree telling the people that are holding him of the imminent danger they face. The danger their families and supporters are facing. In short, they are facing doom. We are giving them today and tomorrow for them to release the man for us or face a serious calamity they never imagined in their lives.”
On what could make people hold such an old man hostage, he replied: “I don’t know, and I don’t care to know what made them to hold him hostage. All I know is that this man has laboured in the vineyard of God. We know that there is only one God, and He is the only Begotten Son is Jesus Christ, and there is only one power, which is the Holy Spirit, which this man has believed and laboured in. What I’m saying is that wherever the Archbishop is, we want to see him today or tomorrow.”
On his words of comfort for the family and his followers, he replied: “They should be rest-assured that the Archbishop can not just go like this. He has put in so much labour in the land. The land of Nnewi is a land of favour. The land can not favour him and, at the end of the day, disfavor him without any justifiable reason. Nnewi is a land of favour, and this Nnewi, which is a land of favour, has favoured Archbishop Okpala and therefore can never put him to shame.”