Suspected armed robbers have shot dead a final year undergraduate student of Bayelsa State-owned Niger Delta University, Amasoma.
The victim, Obele Wilson, who was an engineering student was reportedly attacked on Tuesday along the Sani Abacha Expressway, Yenagoa, the state capital, where some branches of new generation banks are located.
The armed robbers were said to have stormed the premises of one of the banks and held customers hostage while disposing of them of their cash, mobile phones and other valuables.
Reports said, prior to the incident, the victim was assisting admission seekers process their NDU screening forms for a fee. A source who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the deceased was at the bank to sell forms to admission seekers.
The source claimed that when the bandits stormed the place and started dispossessing people of their cash and other valuables, the deceased allegedly argued with them, adding that they became furious and gunned him down.
“The killing of Wilson is very painful. He was a final year engineering student who was in the business of processing screening forms for admission seekers.
“He was on the premises of the bank on Tuesday to look for customers among those who had purchased the forms.
“Some armed robbers stormed the place and started collecting people’s valuables and cash at gunpoint.
“Wilson argued with them and in the process, they shot him.”
The source said after the shooting, some sympathisers tried to rush him to a hospital but he died on the way.
The deceased, who was described as a friendly youth from the Ogbia Local Government Area, was the immediate past Vice-President of the National Union of Bayelsa State Students and a leader of the Ogbia students’ union.
...May his soul rest in peace
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