Edo community CSO killed in church premises

Edo community CSO killed in church premises

……………….as some church members sustained bullet wounds

By Elvis Omoregie

 

 

 

CSO– Tragedy struck on Sunday in Benin City, the Edo State capital, when some assailants numbering 10 attacked a middle aged man right in front of a popular church.

 

 

 

 

The young man who was identified as Ehinoma Solomon was killed in the presence of his wife and three children in front of the church on Sunday morning 9th of July 2023.

 

 

 

 

 

Information gathered revealed that the late Ehinoma popularly called Ehis was a business man and the chief security officer (CSO), of Oke-oroma community in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of Edo State.

 

 

 

 

 

Speaking with newsmen, wife of the deceased Osareniye Solomon, said the assailants laid ambush for her late husband to close from the church.

 

 

 

 

 

She said it was about 11am they rounded off their Sunday service that immediately the pastor announced that there would be a meeting for the men and the women in the church.

 

 

 

 

The wife said her husband however told her he was leaving and he then went outside from the church and I ordered my daughter to follow him to get something from him for me.

 

 

 

 

 

Continuing, she said: “It was immediately I head a gun shot from outside and my daughter ran back inside the church while my husband too try to run back but before i knew it i saw many boys gathering my husband’s car. They were more than 10 persons.

 

 

 

 

“Everybody from inside the church ran for their lives. They were shooting even some members of the church received bullets injuries she said.”

 

 

 

 

“It was right in front of the church they shot my husband and also used machete on him when they finished killing him, they took his phone and ATM card before they zoomed off. Three days before my husband’s death he showed me a text message on his phone he received from a particular number that himself and two others has been marked for death before the end of this year Osareniye said”.