sahara _reporters: By SaharaReporters, New York
An anonymous tipster has confided in SaharaReporters that Festus Iyayi, a former president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), was actually shot by policemen in the convoy of the Kogi State Governor, Captain Idris Wada, prior to the road accident in which he supposedly died last week.

The source claimed that the injuries found on the late writer’s chest were consistent with gunshot injuries and that a bullet did pierce his heart.
One Dr. Paul Amodu of the Specialist Hospital in Lokoja had revealed that Professor Iyayi died after "something" pierced his chest, but he didn't specify what it was.

SaharaReporters was first to reveal last week said the popular professor and writer died in a collision with a security vehicle in Governor Wada’s convoy.

Sources at ASUU said they had dissuaded Iyayi's family from a “rushed” burial, as they suspected foul play. One of the sources recalled that another former president of ASUU, Dr. Mahmood Tukur, also died in suspicious circumstances on the Kaduna-Zaria highway, with the police claiming he died of an asthma attack because he ate pepper which, they claimed, triggered it.

SaharaReporters spoke with Prof. Iyayi's son, Omole, regarding the latest information, but he said the family was unaware, and that they do not even have the autopsy performed yet.

A press statement issued by the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA)signed by its President Osahom Enabulele has previously called for a special inquiry into Professor Iyayi's death but the statement didn't say if the doctors found that Iyayi may been shot as alleged by the anonymous source.

Articul8: If it was true,@ least his colleagues in dsame bus with him will knw if it was a gunshot. Abi na silent gun?
Abeg u ppl shldnt scatter smbdy's head.

Kelechi2020: There is more to this than just this mans death......
At a point when i first read through ASUU official twitter handle i saw something odd in what was there that says the man was killed by an object that pierced his heart,i then wondered what is it that can pierce a mans heart that even the doctors could not guesss and what of those who were on sight when the accident occured that removed the so called object dont they know what it is?
I am not afraid that this might lead to another empty tribal war here.but that it might lead to lecturers expanding there demand to include the conviction of those that killed iyayi.

divine2043: NIGERIAN PRESS.

Oh goodness!!! 'One Dr. Paul.' What is that supposed to mean? 'Dr Paul' or 'one Dr. Paul?'

"with the police claiming he died of an asthma attack because he ate pepper which, they claimed, triggered it".

Police have become doctors? So police told people the guy ate pepper and so it triggered the athsma. Oh goodness. This reporting is worse than dailymail.co.uk.