Rev. Isaac Achi: Angry Residents Set Ablaze Niger Police Divisional Office

• Some youths in Niger who are angry over the murder of Reverend Father Isaac Achi have burnt down a police state in the state
• Reliable sources have it that the youths were with some aggrieved women who were praying against those behind Achi's assassination
• While the police were dispersing an angry crowd on Tuesday, January 17, the youths responded by burning down the station

Niger - Some aggrieved women and youths in Kafin-koro in Paikoro local government area of Niger on Tuesday, January 17, set ablaze the Kafin-koro Police Divisional office.

This is coming on the heels of the murder of Reverend Father Isaac Achi of St Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Kafin-koro.

The Nation reports that Tuesday's mayhem started when some Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) and Catholic women groups converged on the premises of late Rev. Achi's burnt parish in the early hours of the day to pray against those behind the heinous crime.

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Upon seeing some police officers who were deployed to protect the area, the women, angry that the security agents were yet to track and arrest the criminals, resisted them, accused them of not doing anything to have rescued the late cleric, and asked them to leave, while throwing stones at them.

It was gathered that after the prayers, some youths joined the women to march peacefully through the major roads of the town to the police division, chanting anti-police slogans to register their grievances, Sahara Reporters added.

They asked the police to leave the town, alleging their presence was of no security value to the community.

The police, to disperse the crowd, began shooting into the air with one of the bullets said to have hit a middle-aged man who died immediately on the spot, a development that fuelled the people's rage and turned the situation into a violent one.

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In the course of the protest, some unidentified people set the police division on fire.

Rev. Fr Isaac Achi: Abomination as bandits burn Catholic priest alive in Niger

Reverend Father Isaac Achi, a Catholic Priest, was killed by bandits who tried to make their way into his residence in Niger on Sunday, January 15.

The assailants burnt down the building in which Achi was when they could not gain access to it.

DSP Wasiu Abiodun, the spokesman of the police command in the state, confirmed the incident, adding that another priest, Father Collins, was shot during the attack.

Source: Legit.ng