A prominent Igbo businessman in
Bauchi State, John Udeh also known as John
Bosco was Wednesday murdered in front of his
house at Feder78al Low-cost.
John was said to have been shot right in the
presence of his wife who was in the front seat of
their car while her husband was driving when the
gunmen accosted them.
“When I heard his horn, I opened the gate then I
heard gun shots and I ran back. He was about to
drive in when he was shot,” Chimezie Ugwu, one
of the deceased apprentices narrated what
happened.
Fiday Uwakwe, another apprentice who followed
Chimezie to open the gate for their ‘Oga’ at about
6 in the evening, said he too ran away when he
heard gunshots as soon as they had opened the
gate to let their boss drive in.
According to him, “Our madam was with him and
two other apprentices were also in the car with
them. We went to open the gate for them when
we suddenly heard gunshot. Then I ran away.
Later we heard Madam crying but before I came
out the Audi car had left. One of our neighbours
had rushed him to the hospital”
Elder brother of late John Bosco Solomon Udeh,
decried the killing saying that the family is not
ruling out an assassination.
“I feel very bad about it. I don’t have anything to
say about the security situation in the state. He
left behind four children and a wife. I don’t know
what will happen to his children now. All I know
is that my brother was assassinated,” Solomon
said.
Efforts to get the police to react to the killing of
John Bosco failed at the time of filing report.
Several calls and text message sent to the Public
Relations Office of the command were not
returned or replied. When our reporter went to the
PPRO’s office, he was said to have been in a
management meeting with the commissioner of
police.
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