Gunmen kill businessman, rob judge, ex-guber candidate
From James Sowole in Akure, 03.05.2010
Friday, March 5, 2010

Gunmen numbering six yesterday killed a businessman, the Managing Director of a Lagos -based Citicom Nigeria Limited, Mr Cyril Adegbenro.

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The man was killed at a point between the Ala Police Station and Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) station by six men who rode on three motor cycles popularly called okada.

THISDAY gathered from an eye witness close to the scene that the gunmen in an attempt to force the deceased vehicle, a 2008 Toyota Avensis car with the registration Number LAGOS CY 888 FST to stop, shot severally into its tyres all of which missed their target.

However, the gunmen later levelled up with the vehicle being driven by the deceased as he was moving towards Ala Road which was some metres to the SARS station. As the man stopped, the gunmen fired several shots on him killing him instantly after which they opened the boot of his car and removed something which those close by said they did not know.

The yesterday’s killing of Adegbenro came less than 24 hours after another businessman, Mr Dayo Ogunmolayi, 49 , was shot by armed robbers who operated in similar manner (using okada) at the Ijapo Estate Gate.

Ogunmolayi, a cocoa merchant, it was learnt was shot for his refusal to surrender his bag that contained N1.4million and surrender the car of his Toyota Camry with the registration number, ONDO AJ 992 WWW , to the robbers.

The businessman was confirmed dead at the State Specialist Hospital, Akure, where he was rushed.

The robbers however, could not go away with the money. On the same day (Wednesday), a four man gang which operated in a Golf car painted in Ondo State commercial taxi colour, robbed an unidentified judge and the former gubernatorial candidate of Action Congress (AC), Hon Ademola Adegoroye, in the 2007 Election in front of a new generation bank at Alagbaka area of the state capital.

A source said the judge who had just withdrawn some money from a bank was trailed by the robbers on his way home shooting sporadically into the air to scare the judge at a point close to the official of the Commissioner of Police for the state command. The quick response of the escorts of the police commissioner made the robbers to flee the scene but not until they had removed the bag that contained the money and the pistol of the judge’s police orderly. Confirming the incidents, Police Public Relations Officer for the Ondo State Command, Alhaji Aremu Adeniran, said the command had summoned the leadership of the Amalgamated Commercial Motorcycle Owners and Riders Association of Nigeria (ACOMORAN), and that of the Taxi unit of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) to a meeting, considering the mode of operation of the gangs. The PPRO said the police is on top of the situation to ensure that the robbers are arrested.

Wild,wild west aka nigeria.

redsun:

Wild,wild west aka nigeria.

Not even close.

The wild west had honest cops (Sherifs) and a rapidly industrializing state.


Nigeria is just sh1t all round.