Protests rock Enugu following report of Father Mbaka allegedly missing

Supporters of the fiery Enugu priest, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, who are also members of the Adoration Ministry, Enugu, on Wednesday, protested the whereabouts of the priest.

 Daily Post had reported that the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, OYC, raised the alarm that the priest was missing. Mbaka who had asked President Muhammadu Buhari to resign or be impeached was last week attacked by the presidency while responding to the call. 

 The Presidency had claimed that the Cleric was attacking Buhari because he was refused a contract. 

 However, a protest has hit the coal city over the disappearance of the Priest whose whereabouts cannot be ascertained. Daily Post had learnt of a notice calling on all youths of the ministry to the adoration ground. The message inviting the youths to the adoration ground, read, “Important! “Good morning friends and well-wishers. 

Please if you know you stand for justice and you do not want the lone voice that speaks for the poor in this country to be silenced, gather at Adoration ground let’s go for a protest at the Bishops court. “Fr. Mbaka is nowhere to be found.

 He went yesterday to answer the Bishop’s call and up till now, he’s not taking his calls. Let’s gather! SSG.” 

 The Parishioners have now stormed the Bishop’s Court demanding that Bishop Calistus Onaga of the Catholic Diocese of Enugu should produce him.

The President-General of OYC, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike in a statement said Mbaka was last seen on Tuesday May 4, and that efforts to locate him had failed. Nnabuike said; 

  “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 happens 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."