A Yenagoa-based senior banker, Adewale Adesanya, has been killed by armed men in Ahoada area of Rivers State in southern Nigeria.
The 39-year-old man was driving to Port Harcourt on August 13 in company of two others when he was shot several times at about 3:00pm before he rammed into the bush just by an NNPC filling station after Okobe.
The assassins followed the vehicle into the bush with further gun shots to ensure he never survived.
The names of two other occupants were given as Haruna and Samson, all of whom are well known by family and friends of the deceased.
‘Finish Him Up’
The two young men escaped into the bush when they noticed that the gun men were coming towards the car as the late banker tried to crawl out.
According to a statement obtained from Samson, who later resurfaced in Yenagoa, one of the gun men repeatedly told a member of the gang to ‘finish him up’ and ‘offload him’.
A team of policemen from the Ahoada-East Area Command later arrived the scene of the incident to remove the corpse and the car.
Investigation is on to ascertain if it was a case of assassination.
No item was removed from the car apart from the mobile phone of the deceased.
Family source indicated that the late Adewale Adesanya, a banker of almost 10 years was the account officer to many of the ex-militants on the payroll of the Niger Delta Amnesty Programme.
It was alleged that he had been having running battle over certain deductions from the amnesty allowance in line with the payment standing order.