A reporter with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Benin, Mr
Lawrence Okojie, was allegedly shot dead by gunmen on Saturday night in
Benin.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Okojie was said
reported to have been killed around Ogunola Junction, off Siluko Road.
The spokesman of the State Police Command, DSP Moses Nkombe, who
confirmed the report, said one person had been arrested in connection
with the incident.
NAN gathered that the late Okojie, who was dropped off by NTA staff
bus at Ogunola Junction around 8: 00 p.m. on Saturday, had called his
wife on phone and informed her that he was on his way home.
It was, however, several hours later that the wife, after repeated
calls to his phone without any response raised an alarm that her
husband, who was supposed to have arrived home could not be reached. It
was gathered that some of his colleagues at NTA joined by some family
members on a search mission, discovered his corpse in a morgue in Benin
on Sunday night.
As at the time of filing in this report, the circumstances
surrounding the death of the reporter are still sketchy. The police
have, however, promised to thoroughly investigate the matter. NAN
reports that Okojie’s death brings to five the number of journalists
killed in the state in the last six years.
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