A lecturer at Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Awka, Anambra state, was shot and killed on Tuesday morning by a group of armed men who were thought to be members of a cult.
Dr. Anthony Eze, a lecturer in the university’s college of education, was the victim, according to a source.The source said that the lecturer was about to leave his Ifite Awka home to drive his kids to school when unknown gunmen barged in and started shooting at him.
He tried to get away from them, but the men pursued him and shot him to death.”We were here this morning as Dr. Eze was driving out of his house when a Toyota Corolla saloon car suddenly drew up to the door of his house. When he tried to drive back, they followed him and shot him in the chest and took off.
The health practitioner at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Amaku, confirmed that he had passed away after we had taken him there later.When reached, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, a spokesman for the Anambra State Police Command, clamed to be unaware of the occurrence.
