Gunmen, in the early hours of yesterday, stormed an apartment in a block of flats in Unity Estate, Akowonjo area of Egbeda, killing a man, his wife, his child and their maid.
Details of the tragic incident that sent cold shivers down the spines of residents of the area were sketchy at press time.
It was however, gathered that the gunmen suspected to be hired assassins, stormed the building at about 2am and fired shots, apparently to wade off intruders.
A resident of another flat in the block, who pleaded anonymity, said there was an argument between the gunmen and owner of the flat whose identity could not be immediately ascertained.
According to the neighbour, “the gunmen scaled through the fence of the building and held the gateman hostage.
“They beat the gate man, tied his hands and asked him to leave the vicinity, threatening to kill him if he alerted the Police.
“They, thereafter, made straight for the flat from where we heard argument. We heard the owner of the apartment shouting ‘no, no’. We did not know what the argument was about. The next thing we heard were gun shots, with the victim still shouting ‘no, don’t,’ but the assassins continued to fired intermittently.
Sound of the gun shots died down when it was 4 am. But nobody dared to go to the affected flat until daylight.”
It was gathered that policemen later arrived and took the corpses away.
When the Lagos State Police Command Deputy spokesman, Lelma Kolle, was contacted, he said he was on an official assignment but promised to get back after he would have received details from the Divisional Police Officer under whose juridiction the incident occurred. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Most Assassination exercise in Lagos are premised on failed deals which usually involves money. lots of Lagosians are involved in dubious deals and most times, one tries to outsmart the others who eventually resort to death threat and in the extreme, outright killing of the cheater. I urge Nigerians to be weary of illicit financial business deals. Death is not always far from it. This man's case may be different but its not always far from such cases. May their soul rest in peace.
ReplyDeleteA failed state is when your next door neighbors are hearing you plead for your life and getting shot over many hours but no police to arrive and help....welcome to Nigeria a failed state.
ReplyDeleteGod Almighty! when would men stop wickedness on this earth, how can someone without conscience eliminate the whole family? what a world we lived? the heart of a man is desperately wicked who can know it? God judgement is very close to our door, either we like it or not we cannot escape his judgement.
ReplyDeleteit pains my heart to read of such wickedness by men all because of misunderstanding possibly caused by money and somebody will feel ok to send people to take the life of another person it's so sad, and they forget the natural law of sowing and reaping .
ReplyDeletemay their souls RIP amen
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