By Daily Post Staff Hooded gunmen, on Wednesday, killed the Director of Finance to the Ogun State governor’s office, Taiwo Oyekanmi....
By Daily Post Staff
Hooded gunmen, on Wednesday, killed the Director of Finance
to the Ogun State governor’s office, Taiwo Oyekanmi.
DAILY POST gathered that the accountant was waylaid and shot
dead on the popular Kuto Bridge in Abeokuta, less than three kilometres from a
bank where he had withdrawn a large sum of money for government use.
The unknown amount was also taken away by the gunmen.
Sources from the government office hinted our correspondent
that Oyekanmi was gruesomely killed a few days after he celebrated his
birthday.
The sources further told DAILY POST that Oyekanmi was rushed
to the state hospital, in Ijaye area of Abeokuta, where he breathed his last.
It was further gathered that the news of his demise has been
broken to his family and the Secretary to the State government (SSG), Tokunbo
Talabi, as at the time of filing this report, was with the family of the
deceased paying his condolence.
When contacted, spokesperson of the Ogun State Police
Command, Omolola Odutola, confirmed the incident but insisted that nobody died
at the scene.
But when the commissioner of police, Abiodun Alamutu, was
called, he confirmed the incident and also admitted that Oyekanmi was killed.
The police boss said, “This afternoon, the accountant, the
Director of Finance, with the driver and one other person left for a bank to
make some withdrawal.
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