Blessing Okorite, Port Harcourt
The Rivers State Police Command said it has started investigation into the arrest of the killers of Prof. Emmanuel Amadi, of the Rivers State University, Port Harcourt.
Prof. Amadi, who until his death, was a lecturer in the Department of Microbiology of the institution, was killed by bandits in his Port Harcourt house early hours of Wednesday.
The state’s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, who confirmed the development to journalists, in Port Harcourt, on Thursday, disclosed that the deceased died, on Wednesday.
Omoni narrated that the killers were armed robbers, adding that it was after the deceased had recognised one of the bandits that they shot him dead.
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Omoni disclosed, “We can confirm the sad incident of the murder of Professor Emmanuel Amadi of the Rivers State University. Professor Amadi was murdered on Wednesday, June 19, 2019, at about 4am, when armed robbers attacked his house.
“He was able to identify one of them (robbers) and because he was able to identify one of them, they came back and hit him with a rod they were holding and the man fainted.
“His younger brother, one Loveday Amadi, rushed him to UPTH, where he gave up the ghost. It was after them, that they came to us to officially lodge a complaint at the Rumuolumeni Police Station about the incident.
“Our men immediately went to the hospital to identify the corpse. As we speak, the corpse has been deposited in the mortuary”, Omoni confirmed.
He added that investigation had been ordered by the state’s police boss to unravel the circumstances and brain behind the lecturer’s murder.
