Friday 5th September was a day of horror in Enugu,
in the Eastern part of Nigeria as five persons including a bridegroom billed
to wed on Saturday, yesterday and a police orderly were shot dead by rampaging
robbers.
The incident occurred at Genuine Petrol Station in the Trans
Ekulu part of the capital city when robbers who came to rob shot dead the
manager of the fuel station. The robbers also killed a man identified as
Uzochukwu Eze who was billed to wed yesterday at the St. Mary’s Catholic
Church, Trans Ekulu, Enugu.
According to the Sun, the groom in company with his bride
stopped to buy fuel on the way to drop a woman who brought a gift to the couple
and took excuse that she would not be able to attend the wedding ceremony. The
woman who was seated at the front of the car with the bridegroom was also shot
dead by the trigger-happy robbers.
As the robbers were escaping through NOWAS/ Nike Lake Road,
they also shot and killed a police orderly attached to the wife of the
Chairman of Nkanu West Local Government Area.
The police orderly was said to have alighted from the vehicle
to help ease traffic, which was building up at the Timber Market end of the
road when the robbers disarmed and rained bullets on him.
The Nkanu West Council Chairman, Mr. Afam Okereke, who spoke
to Sunday Sun
on phone, described the orderly identified simply as Amba Ununowo as a very
close friend who discharged his duties creditably.
Okereke said they were coming from an event when the victim
decided to assist in easing the traffic.
Reacting to the incident, the Enugu Police Public Relations
Officer (PPRO), Ebere Amaraizu said: “Robbers were not really on the rampage,
but there was an incident, which allegedly brought about the death of some
people by suspected hoodlums who shot sporadically before the arrival of
security operatives.”
He said measures were on ground to unmask the hoodlums.
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