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Angered
by what they described as foul play with the death of a popular
Nollywood actor, Clems Onyeka, after he was attacked by armed robbers,
who also attacked a bullion van in Asaba, Delta State, relations of the
victim have taken their case to a juju priest.
They vowed not to rest until they get to the root of the matter.
Some
of the aggrieved relations, including Patrick Onyeka told our
correspondent in Asaba that the family members resolved to take the case
to a juju priest for perspicacious judgment; saying that they do not
believe in the stray bullet story as vehemently claimed by the police.
As
it were, the robbers, according to dependable sources, trailed the
bullion van from the Benin/Asaba Express way through the Summit road and
intercepted it along the DBS road before U&I Foundation, where they
engaged the police team on escort duty in a fierce gun battle,
allegedly killing the popular Nollywood actor by stray bullet.
Police
public relations officer in the state, DSP Celestina Kalu, who insisted
yesterday that the Nollywood actor was killed by a stray bullet, said
that a policeman in the police escort team was also killed during the
fierce gun battle.
She disclosed that the police in the early
hours of yesterday, have arrested six suspected persons in connection
with the attack; adding that four others suspected to be armed robbers
were also killed along Ogwashi-uku/Asaba express way during a robbery
operation.
While appealing to family members of the Nollywood
actor to take everything with equanimity; DSP Kalu assured members of
the public that the police would get to the root of the incident; adding
that the arrested suspects are already helping the police with further
investigation.
Expectedly, it was reliably gathered that the
robbers numbering over eight arrived in Asaba with a Siena Toyota car
commando-style, causing pandemonium on the ever busy DBS Asaba road
before the police escort moved into the incident.
Sources said
that the road users scampered for safety as many of them abandoned their
cars, but when the police noticed that the bullion van driver had
escaped with the van intact, the office of the U&I foundation was
riddled with bullets while the staffers scampered through the fence for
their dear lives.
Speaking further, DSP Kalu confirmed that one
of the robbers was killed by the police, adding that the armed gang
escaped with the corpse of one of their colleagues killed during the
shootout while the Siena car with Reg No. AA261XX was abandoned with the
robbers snatching another car from a motorist to escape.
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