Gunmen rob, kill 4-year old daughter of UNIBEN Lecturer

Gunmen rob, kill 4-year old daughter of UNIBEN Lecturer

Friday, November 25, 2016 11:45 pm


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Jethro Ibileke/Benin
Unknown gunmen have allegedly shot and killed a four-year-old daughter of a lecturer in the Faculty Engineering, University of Benin (UNIBEN), Dr. Kingsley Ogbeide, at his residence, house 19, Enadeghe Street, Off Ugbowo-Lagos Road, Evbuomore Quarters, in Benin.

It was also gathered that two others of his children between the ages of two and six years, also sustained varying degrees of bullet wounds during the siege which took place last Saturday, at about 4 am.

The gunmen were said to have gained entrance into the compound by scaling the wall of his perimeter fence, before braking into the lecturer’s apartment and unleashed terror on his family on the fateful day.

Narrating his ordeal, the bereaved, Dr. Ogbeide, told journalists that on the fateful day, he opened one of the windows of his sitting room, due to the heat in his apartment. He said suddenly a flash from a torchlight was beamed on him, followed by a voice that ordered him to open his door.

“We started scampering for safety, raised the alarm to nearby neighbours. Then the children woke up, we all ran to the lobby, before two minutes they broken the protector and they were already inside.
“When they entered, they started asking; ‘where is the money, where is the gold.’ I said we don’t have money or gold. Truthfully, I was having only N500.00 in my wallet. My wife had no money. We are just civil servants. We told them that there are laptops, though they still took the laptops and phones.

“Being that the lobby door was a bit closed, one of them suddenly shot through the door and the bullet hit one of my daughters, a four and a half years old daughter who died on the spot while the other two children sustained some level of injuries.

“I don’t know why one of them fired the shot, because the door was not locked, even the other robber was now quarrelling with him, saying why did you shot? Look! Now you have killed a girl,” Dr Ogbeide narrated.

He further stated that the hoodlums escaped before the police could arrive the scene.

The Public Relations Officer for Edo State Police Command DSP Moses Nkombe, could not be reached to comment on the attack, as calls put across to his mobile phone did not go through.
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.


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