Catholic Church to reopen Easter Sunday, after ten months of closure: Owo Attack.

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Governor Akeredolu weeps at the funeral of Owo massacre victims.

Barely ten months after an unidentified gunman gruesomely murdered 41 worshippers at the St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo state, the church reopened for worshippers on Easter Sunday.

No fewer than 69 others were injured in the June 5, 2022, attack.

Security agencies are yet to arrest or officially charge anyone for the Owo church killings. Although the federal government has blamed ISWAP for the attack, the assailants have not been found or brought to justice.

Below are the names of the victims killed in the attack, as released by Ondo State Commissioner Bamidele Ademola Olateju.

Known victims of the Owo Church Attack include:

  1. Caroline Aina Agboola,

  2. Lady Adesina Ajanaku,

  3. Sir Adesina Ajanaku,

  4. Oluwatoyin Akinyemi,

  5. Esther Asebioyo,

  6. Eze Chikamso,

  7. Njoku Emmanuel Chukwuemeka,

  8. Ugwumadu Ekene,

  9. Roseline Funmilayo Ekun,

  10. Oluchukwu Evaristus,

  11. Obuche Augustine Kurumale,

  12. Edwin Loveth,

  13. Funmilola Madinat,

  14. Sunday Mary,

  15. Omolola Monogbe,

  16. Omolayo John Monogbe,

  17. Gift Ndegbe,

  18. Regina Nnabife,

  19. Chidiogo Nwani,

  20. Virginus Nwani,

  21. Fabian Emeka Nweke,

  22. Theresa Ogbu,

  23. Matilda Ogunbade,

  24. Anthony Onuyi Ojapah,

  25. Umunna Okafor,

  26. Cordelia Okefi,

  27. Christina Oladepe Olajide,

  28. Hen Olowa,

  29. Chijioke Onah,

  30. Esther Ilerioluwa Onileke,

  31. Chukwudi Onuoha,

  32. Deborah Onuoha,

  33. Onyebuchi Onyeka,

  34. Bridget Ozulumba,

  35. John Bosede Testimony,

  36. Timothy Ugwu,

  37. Justina Ugwumadu,

  38. and Chisom Umunna.


This is a sorrowful incident, and we pray something like this never happens again.

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