There are indications that prominent marketing communications guru, Mr. Sesan Ogunro, Group Managing Director, Eminent Communications and Spot-On Media, might have been killed by a gang of small-time robbers who were out to steal cars. This could contradict speculations that his killers were hired assassins. Police sources disclosed that findings from their investigations so far revealed that Ogunro was a victim of a robbery gone bad.
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A source who spoke to Vanguard on anonymity, said a visit to the crime scene, interviews from eyewitnesses and intelligence gathered so far, pointed to the fact that the robbers were. Immature, and could not control their anxiety.
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According to the source, "we've been to the scene and we've spoken to eyewitnesses. It is obvious that the gunmen were small-time robbers and nobody would have hired such as an assassin. Target was his Mercedes Benz SUV
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"Their target was his Mercedes Benz SUV, but they felt threatened when he threw the key at the floor and they shot him. I see no reason why they would have done such.
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"When we visited the scene, we recovered the expended cartridge that was used and we believed that it was fired from a locally-made gun."
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Spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, Ngozi Braide, a Deputy Superintendent, said the command was on the trail of the bandits.
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In a statement, she said: "About 22:42 hours on December 22, a distress call was received by the Alausa Division of the Police Command. It was gathered that four armed men operating in a Honda Odyssey attempted to snatch a Mercedes Benz ML SUV belonging to Mr Ogunro.
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"The man resisted and threw away the key of the SUV, hence the armed men shot him. They abandoned the Honda Odyssey and escaped with ared Toyota Yaris car belonging to the wife, who was standing with him at the scene.
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"The scene was visited immediately by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) and a team and the incident was confirmed. The DPO also visited the victim at the Lagoon Hospital where he was receiving treatment, though in critical critical."
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She said none of the relatives had made statement on the incident.
May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace.
This is just one that will make lots of people unhappy because it's very close to the end of the year already. Sad!
This is so far one of the sadest moments for Nigeria in 2013. This is not cool at all.
And this small armed robbers decided to prevent him from seeing the New Year. How callous and wicked!