Gunmen Kill Governor Ortom’s Security Aide, Denen Igbana
Channels Television's correspondent gathered that the unknown gunmen stormed his house around 2AM on Friday and shot him.
The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has directed security operatives to immediately fish out the perpetrators.
Governor Ortom described the deceased as one of his most trusted and dependable appointees. He disclosed that the deceased had intimated him that some people were threatening to kidnap him and that Igbana requested for funds to carry out perimeter fencing of his house.
The Governor said that Igbana was instrumental to the sustenance of the amnesty programme in the state that led to the surrender of arms by criminal gangs.
He assured that the government would carry out discrete investigation on the killing to unravel the motif and people behind the act.
Governor Ortom added that anyone who has been mentioned in relation to the crime should be brought in for questioning if he is implicated in the investigation.
The official vehicle attached to the late security assistant, had several bullet holes as the assassins started shooting at him when he got home. The gunmen had trailed him to the field next to his house.
He was brutally shot and left to bleed. Neighbours and community members who narrated the last words of the deceased, said that he pointed accusing fingers at a former warlord.
Colleagues of the late security assistant who were with him on Thursday before his gruesome murder, also said that he had complained about threats to his life.
The State Commissioner of Police, Paul Yakadi, vowed to track down the perpetrators, following the Governor’s directive to arrest those behind the killing.
Governor Samuel Ortom also visited the hospital to see Igbana’s son who fainted due to the trauma of the violence and shooting at their home.
Speaking during a sympathy visit to the family of the deceased, Ortom vowed that Igbana’s killers would never go unpunished. He ordered investigation into the killing, assuring that anybody implicated in the killing would not be spared.
Also speaking, the Commissioner of Police in the state, said the police were already “nosing around to fish out possible suspects.”
The leader of Tionsha Community, Thomas Ayakpam, said the community was awakened at about 2:30 AM by gunshots.
He said that after the gunshots died down, he heard the deceased pleading with his assailants to spare his life.
“I heard him say, ‘So, Ghana, after all that we have done together, you can look me in the face and kill me in this manner’,” Ayakpam said.
Some sympathisers confirmed that they also heard gunshots and the altercation between Igbana and his killers.
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