Gunmen kill pipeline surveillance worker in Bayelsa

 

An official of an indigenous pipeline surveillance firm identified as Indukakpo Ogede, has been killed by three-member gang suspected to be assassins in Bayelsa State.

Ogede’s assailants were said to have shot him twice in a hotel around Tamic Road in the Okutukutu area of Yenagoa on Sunday.

The gunmen were said to have entered the hotel and paid for three rooms where they lurked around to strike their target.

According to PUNCH, sources said after they lodged, they went to the bar of the hotel and drank beer while waiting for their victim, who had gone out for an assignment, to return.

Soon after he returned at about 7.45pm, the gunmen rushed towards him, shot him twice in his chest and lower abdomen, leaving him for dead.

Ogede, who hailed from Igbomotoru in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state, was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was confirmed dead.

His corpse had been deposited at the Federal Medical Centre in the state capital.

The state police spokesman, Asinim Butswat, who confirmed the incident said the command had commenced an investigation into the murder of the deceased.