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Suspected herdsmen kill university lecturer in Enugu

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A senior lecturer at the Nnamdi Azikwe University, Awka, Anambra State was killed on Thursday in Enugu State by some gunmen suspected to be herdsmen.

It was gathered that Ogueche was allegedly shot dead while returning from a peace meeting between his kinsmen and Fulani herdsmen in the state capital on Thursday along the Iwolo Road in Ezeagu Local Government Area of the state.

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Sources said the killing might have been aimed at provoking another round of crisis between the herdsmen and the people of Uzo-Uwani.

Briefing journalists on the activities of the command in stemming insecurity, the Enugu State Commissioner of Police, Sulieman Balarabe, who also confirmed the incident, promised to bring the perpetrators of the killings to justice, just as he paraded five herdsmen alleged to specialise in kidnapping in the state.

By Todimu Ogunade…

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