A former director with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Chief Charles Nwosu, was yesterday shot dead by gunmen in Owerri. Chief Nwosu, who hailed from Emeabia in Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State, was reportedly killed at the Ekeukwu Owerri Central, market along Douglas Road, Owerri His body has been deposited at the Federal-Medical Centre FMC Owerri.
When Daily Sun visited the emergency/causality ward, scores of anti-riot armed policemen and relations of the deceased were seen discussing the incident while the hospital officials declined comments. The Police spokesman Mr. Vitalis Onugu, confirmed the incident. Meanwhile, the Principal of the Holy Ghost College, Owerri, Rev. (Fr). Cyprian Ogu, narrowly escaped assassination from suspected cultists at his college residence in Owerri .
According to the Catholic weekly tabloid The Leader, the suspected cultists shot several times through Fr. Ogu’s widow, shattering all the pillows and bed-sheets in the room. The attack came barely two days after a cult group, the “Black Axe Confraternity” “Eiye,” wrote him threatening to kill him if he failed to quit the college before the end of the year. In a letter dated August 16, 2012 with motto, “Forgiveness is a sin,” reads by this letter you have been warned again to leave Holy Ghost College Owerri before the end of this year.
You have continued to expel our members from the school hence, we have been mandated to capture Holy Ghost College, Owerri, so you either leave dead or alive because we will stop at nothing to make sure you leave. This is not a mere threat as more attacks will come your way if you ignore this notice and it seemed you have not learnt from our previous attacks.
You have been warned again,” The letter, it was gathered, was dropped at the principal’s door-step. Narrating his ordeal, the priest disclosed that dogs at the college Rectory barked continuously for about two hours before the cultists struck, adding that it was the dogs barking that woke them up sensing that danger was lurking around.
According to him, it was like a dream initially but, when he had the repeated gun shots very closed to him, it became clear to him that the hoodlums are after him.