MFM regional overseer spends 10 months in kidnappers’ den as family laments

Pastor Dan Osato Osamwonyi, the Regional Overseer of the Mountain of Fire And Miracles Ministries (MFM) Midwest Region 66 Benin City, who was abducted on May 25 2021, is still missing ten months after, as the family expresses concern. 

Osamwonyi was abducted on May 25, 2021, on his way to attend to a private issue. He was intercepted by some gunmen, who whisked him away from his Pathfinder Nissan SUV, into a getaway car and he has since remained incommunicado.

The Edo State Police Command that claimed to have been on the trail of the abducted cleric, has not made any headway either, though, a suspect, believed to have been connected to the crime was arrested.

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It was further gathered that Osamwonyi’s abductors trailed him to the spot where he was whisked away at Sapele Road and abandoned his SUV on the spot.

Men of the Etete, GRA, Benin Police Division, later recovered the victim’s vehicle, and the matter was then officially booked at the police station, where investigation commenced. 

The case was transferred from New Ettete to the Office of the Anti-kidnapping and Cybercrime Unit of the Edo State command for further investigation.

The police arrested the alleged contractor, Mr Robert Ukpong and charged him for kidnapping.

The situation has compelled members of his family and the church to throng the Edo Police Command Headquarters on a daily basis, appealing to the Command to help to rescue their benefactor unhurt.