The late Reverend will be buried alongside his 92-year-old father, late Chief Celentine Onunkwo.
Late Reverend father Cyriacus, who was traveling home to arrange for his father's funeral, was kidnapped from his vehicle in Orlu town in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo state on the 1st of September by yet to be identified gunmen.
The police launched a manhunt after which his corpse was discovered in a bush in Omuma Village.
He was believed to have suffocated to death in the car booth of his kidnappers.
"The late cleric’s car was discovered intact, with nothing removed from it. Neither did the body bear any gunshot or stab wounds - leading to speculations that he may have been strangled," the Police said.
Meanwhile, the state Police command have arrested six suspects including a former police officer in connection with the kidnap and murder of the Catholic Priest.
Read: Imo Catholic Priest Killer Arrested At His Lagos Hideout
Izuchukwu Okafor, one of the members of the squad that abducted and murdered Reverend Father Cyriacus Onunkwo, has claimed that it was never their intention to kill the cleric.
“I don’t know he will die. We covered the nose of the catholic priest that was why died. We saw him on the road and we did not know he was a Reverend Father and we kidnapped him. I was not the owner of the vehicle used in kidnapping the Catholic priest.
“I was not the person who led the gang, it was a policeman. When we got to the junction, he asked us to stop in the front of the Catholic priest Toyota Corrola, and he asked the priest to come down and that he was under arrest.
“I want to tell you that it was Jude Madu that requested that I should get a car and that we were going to somewhere. He did not tell me where we were going,” Okafor siad when he was paraded alongside his gang members at the Imo state police headquarters two weeks ago.
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