A sad occurrence happened in Ibadan and I decided to share it on here with you. It is from the Vanguard Online newspaper and the story really made me sad because the guy is 2012 Jamb candidate. He was preparing for the examination and death came in and took him away...just like that? May His Soul Rest In Perfect Peace... Here is the full story.
A man identified as Rilwan Asimiyu, said to be preparing to write the
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB examinations, in
anticipation of admission into the University was reportedly shot dead
by an unknown gunman at Oke Are area of Ibadan. He was said to have been
shot and killed by a lone assailant in his sleep.
According to an eye witness, the assailant who was said to have
forced his way into the house at 3 a.m., padlocked the door to the room
of one Pa Muraina Lawal, a 98-year-old grandfather close by, to prevent
any intrusion, broke the door to the room where the deceased and three
others were sleeping, flashed a torchlight at the occupants before
firing a shot at close range into the chest of his target.
Other occupants of the room included Ajibola Olalekan (19), Olalekan Sadiq (17), and Lateef Waliu (19).
According to Ajibola, who was in the same room with Rilwan, four of them
were sleeping when they were rudely woken up by a strange bang on the
door of their room and the door immediately gave way, hitting Sadiq on
the leg.
“Roused from my sleep, I saw someone holding a torchlight and before I
could know what was happening, I heard a loud sound of gunshot. I was
unable to identify the man who shot being that the room was dark.
“Immediately after the man shot at Rilwan, he demanded for our money
and hand sets. The four of us usually keep our mobile handsets on the
small table in the room. I told him we did not have any money, but Sadiq
managed to take one of the phones and gave to the assailant.
Unfortunately, the phone belonged to Rilwan.
“We later discovered that the man came in through the back door and
escaped through the same route. I was the one who removed the padlock on
the door to Pa’s room before he could come out. We took Rilwan out in
the pool of his blood and before we could take him to hospital, he had
died. He was shot on the chest close to his heart”, Ajibola recalled.
Asked whether they suspected anybody to have carried out the
dastardly act, everybody said they could not, saying, “Rilwan was such a
very easy-going person. He was gentle and would not fight with anybody.
He was just preparing to write JAMB with the ambition of going to
University”.
The distraught nonagenarian and wood seller said when he heard the
bang of the gunshot he initially thought something fell from the roof of
the house and upon trying to go out to ascertain what had happened, “I
found that I had been locked in from outside.
“Instead of killing, they could have come for my only handset and
take it away. I can’t understand why anybody would kill Rilwan, who is
very gentle and easy going. Since the death of my wife, he and the other
grand children have been living with me, giving me comfort. Now,
someone has killed him”, Pa Lawal lamented.
Meanwhile, the police yesterday took away the remains of Rilwan for autopsy and proper investigation.
Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer Femi
Okanlawon (Assistant Superintendent of Police) said investigation into
the incident had already begun.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/02/how-school-leaver-was-killed-in-ibadan-by-colleague/
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