Unknown gunmen on July 27,
shot dead one Mr John Agbonlahor in Benin City, raped his only daughter and
left his wife partially blind and traumatized.
According to the traumatized
widow, Elizabeth Agbonlahor, the masked gunmen stormed their residence on No 5
Adesuwa Street in Benin in an Ash coloured Toyota Camry car at about 9pm on
the fateful day, while the family was watching Television.
The assailants rapped, banged on
the door shouting: “Where is Agbonlahor?”
Scared, they could not open the
door, forcing the irate assailants break it down.
“Immediately they found their way
into our sitting room, I tried to beg them and to inquire why they were looking
for my husband. They shouted at me saying, ‘do you think that we are here to
play?’ And they started beating me. In the process, one of them used his gun to
hit me on my left eye,” recalled Mrs. Agbonlahor.
Her daughter, Prayer, tried to
escape but the men caught her. Upon hearing his daughter's desperate scream for
help, Mr Agbonlahor rushed to the scene but he was shot on the chest and died
on the spot.
Mrs Agbonlahor said after
shooting her husband, the gunmen fled, leaving her in severe pair.
"I could not imagine seeing
my husband killed in my presence, after raping my daughter. I was also in great
pains because of the injury on my eye. However, I managed to report the matter to
the police who arrived at the scene and deposited his body at the mortuary,
while my daughter was taken to the hospital for treatment.”
The bereaved woman is yet to come
to terms with the tragedy.
“In fact, I am dumbfounded at the
whole thing. Now, I have been made to become a widow overnight, my daughter was
assaulted, while I am partially blind. What is my offence?”
Mrs Agbonlahor has relocated to
their village with her daughter for fear of her husband’s killers would return
to eliminate them.
An extract from the Crime Diary
of State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Edo State Police
Command, dated July 27, 2017 and signed by Mrs Carol Onyeka Afegbai, CSP,
confirmed the incident.
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