Gunmen suspected to be hired assassins, on Saturday morning,
shot to death an Onitsha-based hotelier and in the process of the attack
injured three other people.
Sunday Tribune gathered that the assassins trailed the victim, simply identified as Emeka, who was said to be the owner of Emeka Super Markets located at Anazaonwu Street Onitsha, and shot him repeatedly.
The deceased who is also the owner of Orbit Hotels located along Nsugbe Road near 33 Housing Estate, was said to be returning from Chuba Ikpeazu Stadium after his morning exercise with two other people who sustained gunshot wounds from the attack of the assassins.
According to an eyewitness, the gunmen numbering about four (three men and a lady), said to be operating in a Toyota Seiana car, trailed the deceased who was driving with two other men from the stadium in his Toyota Corolla car with registration number KPP 11 AA, Anambra, and shot him dead at the spot.
The car had four bullet holes at the windscreen in front, three by the driver’s side and one by the passenger’s side, while the windscreen at the back was shattered by the bullet and a commercial bus heading to Onitsha Main Market which hit the car when the deceased lost control of the car as a result of the attack.
Another eyewitness who was in the commercial bus who pleaded anonymity said that the killers of the victim shot him from their car and when he lost control of the car, they alighted, went to the car and shot him repeatedly to ensure that he was dead before driving off in their car.
When Sunday Tribune contacted the Onitsha area commander of the Nigeria Police Force, Mr Benjamin Wordu confirmed the incident, saying that immediately he heard the gunshots from the hoodlums, he quickly rushed to the area with his men, but before they got to the scene they had already fled.
“The operation was a sharp one that did not take up to five minutes. From our investigation and based on the information we got from the people who gathered at the scene, they carried out the heinous act and quickly left before we arrived there. From all indications, it was not an armed robbery incident, nothing was removed from the victim and two other people he was riding with in the car,” he said.
Wordu said on arrival at the scene, his men took the body of the deceased to Multi-Care Hospital, Onitsha where he was confirmed dead.
Sunday Tribune gathered that the assassins trailed the victim, simply identified as Emeka, who was said to be the owner of Emeka Super Markets located at Anazaonwu Street Onitsha, and shot him repeatedly.
The deceased who is also the owner of Orbit Hotels located along Nsugbe Road near 33 Housing Estate, was said to be returning from Chuba Ikpeazu Stadium after his morning exercise with two other people who sustained gunshot wounds from the attack of the assassins.
According to an eyewitness, the gunmen numbering about four (three men and a lady), said to be operating in a Toyota Seiana car, trailed the deceased who was driving with two other men from the stadium in his Toyota Corolla car with registration number KPP 11 AA, Anambra, and shot him dead at the spot.
The car had four bullet holes at the windscreen in front, three by the driver’s side and one by the passenger’s side, while the windscreen at the back was shattered by the bullet and a commercial bus heading to Onitsha Main Market which hit the car when the deceased lost control of the car as a result of the attack.
Another eyewitness who was in the commercial bus who pleaded anonymity said that the killers of the victim shot him from their car and when he lost control of the car, they alighted, went to the car and shot him repeatedly to ensure that he was dead before driving off in their car.
When Sunday Tribune contacted the Onitsha area commander of the Nigeria Police Force, Mr Benjamin Wordu confirmed the incident, saying that immediately he heard the gunshots from the hoodlums, he quickly rushed to the area with his men, but before they got to the scene they had already fled.
“The operation was a sharp one that did not take up to five minutes. From our investigation and based on the information we got from the people who gathered at the scene, they carried out the heinous act and quickly left before we arrived there. From all indications, it was not an armed robbery incident, nothing was removed from the victim and two other people he was riding with in the car,” he said.
Wordu said on arrival at the scene, his men took the body of the deceased to Multi-Care Hospital, Onitsha where he was confirmed dead.
