GUNMEN in two Sport Utility Vehicles shot an assistant editor with Saturday Newswatch newspaper, Mr. Toyin Obadina, on Friday in Ikorodu, a suburb in Lagos State.
PUNCH Metro learnt that although
the 50-year-old indigene of Ogun State did not die on the spot, he died
on Sunday after a surgery to remove the bullets lodged in his stomach.
The wife of the deceased, Biola, told
our correspondent during an interview at her brother-in-law’s house in
Ajuwon, Ogun State on Sunday that her husband did nothing to warrant the
attack.
Biola, who spoke while fighting back
tears, said, “Around 11.30pm on Friday, my husband was on his way back
home.
As a newspaper editor, he had informed me that he was finishing
production late. He told me that on getting to Parafa end of Imota Road,
opposite Aico company, two jeeps driving towards him on the other end
of the road crossed his vehicle.
“He said when he realised that they were
bandits, he immediately alighted from the vehicle and told them they
could have anything they wanted.
They collected all his money from him.
He then begged them not to kill him, but one of them slapped him. They
then shot him in the stomach.
“He attempted to run but he was shot in the stomach a second time before the robbers fled.”
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