Tragedy struck yesterday in Kaduna, when two gunmen suspected to be armed robbers murdered the younger brother of? Super Eagles assistant coach, Daniel Amokachi at his residence.
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Confirming the incidence on phone, the Police Command said investigation had since commenced.
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LEADERSHIP gathered that Amokachi’s brother, Tehimbi Emmanuel Ayuwa was murdered right in-front of his GSM call center kiosk near his father’s residence at shooting range around Police College in Kaduna.
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An eyewitness told LEADERSHIP that Tehimbi, 23, was murdered by two armed men who before killing him demanded for the money of all the sales from his GSM recharge cards business. Tehimbi was shot while he was trying to flee from the hoodlums with his money.
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Speaking to our correspondent in Kaduna, Amokachi’s father, Mr. Ikwulechin Amokachi said: “I heard sounds suspected to be gunshots and then later heard the voice of his wife shouting and crying for help outside the gate of the main house. My grand daughter helped me out of the house where I met him in the pool of his own blood wailing in pains. I immediately called the police who arrived and assisted him into one of my neighbour’s car to Barau Dikko specialist hospital where he eventually died.”
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“I do not know what this country is turning into, if an innocent struggling young man who sells ordinary recharge card would be waylaid and killed for meager amount of money.” he said.
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Also speaking on the incident, a retired Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) Lawal Bawa, whose house is a stone throw from Amokachi’s house where the incident occurred said, “it’s all as a result of injustice in the country. These killings are no longer new, it has been happening almost on a daily basis in Nigeria now. However, this is a bite unusual for someone to be shot dead over proceeds from recharge card sale.”