Robbers killed advertising guru, Sesan Ogunro

08:15:00

There are suggestions that famous trading communications guru, Mr. Sesan Ogunro, assembly organising controller, Eminent Communications and Spot-On newspapers, might have been slain by a gang of small-time robbers who were out to rob vehicles. This could contradict speculations that his killers were hired assassins. policeman causes revealed that findings from their enquiries so far disclosed that Ogunro was a casualty of a robbery gone awful.

A source who spoke to Vanguard on anonymity, said a visit to the misdeed scene, meetings from eyewitnesses and understanding accumulated so far, sharp to the detail that the robbers were immature, and could not command their disquiet.

According to the source, “we’ve been to the view and we’ve spoken to eyewitnesses. It is conspicuous that the gunmen were small-time robbers and no one would have hired such as an assassin.

Target was his Mercedes Benz SUV

“Their target was his Mercedes Benz SUV, but they sensed threatened when he chucked the key at the floor and they shot him. I see no cause why they would have done such.

“When we travelled to the scene, we retrieved the consumed cartridge that was used and we accepted that it was fired from a locally-made gun.”

Spokesperson for the Lagos State policeman Command, Ngozi Braide, a Deputy Superintendent, said the order was on the trail of the bandits.

In a statement, she said: ”About 22:42 hours on December 22, a distress call was received by the Alausa partition of the Police order. It was accumulated that four equipped men functioning in a Honda Odyssey tried to snatch a Mercedes Benz ML SUV belonging to Mr Ogunro.

“The man resisted and chucked away the key of the SUV, therefore the armed men shot him. They abandoned the Honda Odyssey and got away with a red Toyota Yaris vehicle belonging to the wife, who was standing with him at the view.

“The view was travelled to directly by the Divisional Police agent (DPO) and a team and the occurrence was verified. The DPO also travelled to the casualty at the Lagoon clinic where he was obtaining remedy, though in critical critical.”

She said no one of the relations had made statement on the occurrence.

The policeman spokesperson clarified that the Honda Odyssey was confirmed to have been snatched from somebody recognised as Ali Balogun at Ebute-Metta at 8pm.

The owner was allegedly fallen off at Jobi-Fele Way in Alausa, Ikeja, from where she was taken to the station.

Braide said the policeman had started investigation into the occurrence and the seek for the escaping hoodlums.

Vanguard further gathered that Ogunro sighted the bandits harassing his wife and young kids in the Toyota Yaris vehicle they came in at the entrance of their place of worship, the worldwide place of worship of Christ, along Jobi-Fele Way in Alausa, where he came to a Christmas Carol service.

After the strike, the murderers were said to have hurled out Ogunro’s son and grandchildren from the back of the vehicle before racing off with it.

They were also said to have abandoned the vehicle they initially came in, which is now in the custody of the police at the Alausa policeman position.

Our source furthermore asserted that the slain Ogunro was first rushed to the Lagoon Hospital on Obafemi Awolowo Way, Ikeja, before he was conveyed in an ambulance to the hospital’s head office in Apapa for exceptional vigilance.

Ogunro shot with dane cannon

”You know because he was shot with a dane cannon, the pellets disperse all around his stomach and perforated his internal body parts.

Fashiola consoles family

meantime, administrator Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, paid a condolence visit to the Ogunro family, recounting the late advocating guru as a man with a really edgy essence and expert of his art.

Fashola, who was at Ogunro’s Ogudu GRA house, was received by the widow, Mrs. Dupe Ogunro and the children of the deceased.

Some of the children present throughout the visit were Mrs. Damilola Gbadebo-Ogunro, Mr. Timayo Ogunro and overlook Fade Ogunro.

Fashola at the occasion added that his management and really the Nigerian nation have lost a most resourceful character who will surely be missed by all.

Said he: “On behalf of my wife, Dame Emmanuella, the Government and persons of Lagos State, delight accept my condolences and be guaranteed that we are in prayers with you and constituents of your family for the peaceful repose of the soul of your husband and for the Almighty God to grant you the fortitude to accept this loss.”

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