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former Media Adviser to former governor of Abia State, Chief Theodore
Orji, has been assasinated in Owerri, the Imo State capital.
Theodore Orji
Unknown gunmen on Sunday night shot dead Mr. Ben Onyechere, the
former Media Adviser to former governor of Abia State, Chief Theodore
Orji.
A source told the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Owerri that
Onyechere was kidnapped at about 8 p.m. at Maris junction in Ikenegbu
area of Owerri, the Imo State capital, where he had gone with his driver
for shopping.
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said “the
gunmen numbering five trailed Onyechere to a popular supermarket in
Ikenegbu and forced his driver out of his Lexus car before they sped off
with Onyechere.
“The following day the lifeless body of Oncheyere was found a
few streets away from Maris Junction, Ikenegbu Owerri, after he was shot
several times. It is sad.’’
The source added that the deceased’s driver, who put up initial
resistance was shot twice in the legs before Onyechere was kidnapped.
Another eyewitness told our correspondent that the suspected
assailants armed with sophisticated weapons doubled-crossed Onyechere’s
Lexus car at Maris junction, adjacent to Orchard Pharmacy and shot his
driver to demobilise him before shooting the deceased.
He claimed that the robbers might have been led by a popular
criminal, Henry Chibueze alias Vampire, who was recently freed when
gunmen attacked a court in Owerri, where he was being tried for
kidnap-related offences.
But when contacted, the State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP
Andrew Enwerem, debunked the news making the rounds that it was the
wanted Vampire that was behind the incident.
The Police spokesperson said that it was not possible for a wanted
person to come out immediately to commit such a crime in a state capital
where he had been declared wanted.
He said though he had heard the shooting that took place, but his office had yet to be briefed on the development.
-NAN
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