A senior lecturer with the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Dr. Osita Chinedu has been killed by a gang of gunmen.
Dr. Chinedu who hails from Nteje in Oyi local government area of Anambra State, according to an eyewitness, was shot dead around the High Tension area in Awka by hoodlums who trailed him to the area at about 8pm on Monday.
According to the eyewitness, the lecturer was driving in his Toyota Corolla when the hoodlums, who were also driving in another Toyota Corolla blocked his car, jumped out of their car and went straight for him.
The source said that immediately the lecturer came out from his own car to query the reason for the blockage, one of the assailants pulled out a gun, and fired twice, shattering his head.
“After they fired two bullets on the man’s head, he fell down and blood started gushing from his head.
“Those thieves went into his car, ran the car over him before driving away with his Toyota Corolla and their own too.
“Some people who knew the man contacted his people on phone”, the eyewitness narrated further.
The source told LEADERSHIP that while those people were putting the remains of the lecturer in the boot of their vehicle, a team of policemen from the Central Police Station (CPS), Awka, arrived.
He narrated that the police insisted that the remains of the late lecturer be handed over to them, but his people appealed to the police to leave the body of the slain lecturer for them.
Meanwhile, LEADERSHIP learnt that the killing has already thrown the UNIZIK community into a sad mood.
When contacted, the Public Relations Officer of the University, Mr. Louise Njelita told LEADERSHIP that he received the news of Chinedu’s murder but currently had no details.
He, however, said that he sighted the university’s Chief Security Officer (CSO) rushing to the office of the acting Vice-Chancellor.
All efforts to get the spokesperson of the Anambra State Police Command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga’s reaction before filing this report were unsuccessful as all calls made to his phone failed to go through.
