A 31-year-old cousin of a senatorial aspirant under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo South senatorial district, Barrister Ehioge West-Idahosa and his police orderly have been shot dead by suspected armed robbers.
The incident occurred
just few days to the PDP senatorial primaries scheduled for this weekend. The deceased has been identified as Henry, the only son of his
mother.
The young man had just
returned from the United Kingdom after concluding his Master’s Degree programme.
Besides the PDP
aspirant’s cousin, the dead police orderly until his sudden fate was attached
to the Special Protection Unit of the state command.
Investigations revealed
that two of them were trailed by the heavily armed robbery suspects from one of
the commercial banks in the capital town.
They were said to have
gone to the bank to withdraw unspecified huge sum of money at about 2pm and
were returning back to the politician’s residence on the government reservation
area (GRA) when they met their untimely death.
The suspected gunmen zoomed
off with the large sum of money.
Further findings showed
that the bandits numbering about five rained bullets on the vehicle and the two
occupants died at the spot before they could get any help.
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