Gunmen kill Imo Commissioner

News Express |15th Feb 2015 | 5,207

Unknown gunmen have killed Hon. Tobby Onyekele in Owerri, the Imo State capital. A Commissioner in the Imo State House of Assembly Service Commission, Hon. Onyekele served as a local government chairman during the immediate past administration of Chief Ikedi Ohakim.

“He was killed at the MRS filling station, Ugwu-Orji along Okigwe road, Owerri.

Hon. Tobby Onyekele, who served as, has been assassinated by unknown gunmen,” according to a report in the portal News Punch.

•Photo courtesy of News Punch shows late Hon. Tobby Onyekele in a pool of his blood after he was shot by suspected assassins . . . this afternoon in Owerri.

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