A Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Mathew Eya, was reportedly shot dead on Friday evening in Eha-Ndiagu community, Eha-Alumonah, Nsukka LGA of Enugu State.The cleric, who served as Parish Priest of St. Charles Catholic Church, was returning from Enugu, the state capital, when gunmen intercepted his vehicle near the site of an ongoing Type C hospital project.
Eyewitnesses said the assailants, who rode on a motorcycle, first shot at the tyres of his car to force it to a halt before firing multiple rounds at him at close range.Sources believed the attack was an assassination rather than kidnapping attempt.Fr.
Eya, a native of Ugbaike in Enugu Ezike, Igbo-Eze North LGA, was reportedly driving alone when he was attacked.However, both the police and the Catholic Diocese of Nsukka have yet to issue an official statement on the killing.
