The life of a 25-year-old corps member,
Charity Thilza, has been brought to an abrupt end three days to the completion
of her National Youth Service Corps programme in Abuja.
The Borno State indigene was killed by some
robbers along Wuse 2 Road while she was returning home from a nightclub in
Carribean, Wuse 2, around 3am on Monday.
The ‘passing-out parade,’ which marked the
completion of her one-year programme, would hold on Thursday (today). She
studied Linguistics and English at the University of Maiduguri.
It
was learnt
that Thilza and four friends, identified simply as Lola, Bisi, Pooja (an
Indian) and a man had attended a show at the club, where a hip hop artiste,
Chibuzor Azubuike, popularly called Phyno, performed on
Sunday.
They were said to be returning home from
the party in a car the following day when the robbers gave them a chase.
The assailants reportedly shot at the car
repeatedly and some of the bullets pierced through the windscreen and hit
Thilza, who was sitting at the back. One of the friends, Lola, was said to have
also sustained gunshot injuries.
It was learnt that the robbers retreated
when they noticed that the driver of the car was heading towards a police
station.
Thilza’s close friend, Thlama Bukar, said
she was rushed to a hospital, but was rejected. She said she died on the way to
another hospital that she was referred to.
Bukar, who spoke on the telephone, said she
was together with Thilza until Friday, when she (Bukar) returned to Maiduguri,
Borno State, where she lives.
She said, “Phyno
performed at the Carribean (the club) on Sunday. They were coming back home
around 3am on Monday when they noticed that a car was trailing them. They took
a detour, but the car continued following them. The driver of their car
started speeding and the robbers opened fire on the car. Unfortunately, some of
the bullets hit Thilza from the back of the car.
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