12 January 2013
Journalist killed in Onitsha, Nigeria
Shooting
Gunmen suspected to be hired assassins have killed the Editor of an Onitsha-based newspaper, Anambra News, Mr. Ik Udendu.
According to family sources, the journalist was shot on Saturday night and his killers dumped his body at Afor Nkpor. The sources said Udendu must have been killed on his way back home to Ogidi, near Onitsha after he had gone to Onitsha to monitor the printing of the newspaper.
Speaking to reporters on Monday, Udendu’s elder brother, Chukwulozie, who is publisher of the newspaper, said the body of his brother had been taken to Iyi-Enu Hospital Mortuary, Ogidi for autopsy. Chukwulozie, who said he received an anonymous phone call on Saturday night telling him to pick his brother’s corpse at Afor Nkpor, said that the journalist had no misunderstanding with anybody that could warrant his murder.
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ballah Nasarawa, who expressed concern over the incident, promised to bring the culprits to book.
>> Read the original article here Source: Punch
