{{Nigeria’s second-highest ranking Anglican archbishop was kidnapped at the weekend outside the southern oil city of Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State, a police spokeswoman said on Monday.}}<\/p>\n
“Archbishop Ignatius Kattey was kidnapped along with his wife around Eleme (outside Port Harcourt) at about 10:45 pm (2145 GMT) on Friday,” spokeswoman Angela Agabe told AFP.<\/p>\n
“His wife was later abandoned in the bush by their abductors.”<\/p>\n
A national spokesman of the Anglican Communion in Nigeria, Foluso Taiwo, confirmed the abduction to, but said the circumstances surrounding the incident were sketchy.<\/p>\n
Kattey is the dean of archbishops of the Anglican communion in Nigeria, ranking him second to the primate of the Anglican Church in the country, said Taiwo.<\/p>\n
The cleric is archbishop of the Niger Delta province, he added.<\/p>\n
Kidnapping for ransom occurs regularly in the southern oil-producing Niger Delta region, though authorities rarely admit to making payments.<\/p>\n
The victims are often released unharmed after the payment of a ransom.<\/p>\n
Last year, the mother of Finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was kidnapped in the same Delta region. She was later released unharmed.<\/p>\n
In the north of the country however, Islamist extremists have killed a number of their hostages.<\/p>\n
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