There was tension in Awka, the Anambra State capital as an official of the Anambra Road Traffic Management Agency (ARTMA) was shot dead by suspected robbers.
According to a source, the official was killed close to a motor park where commuters ferry passengers from Awka to Nnewi early Thursday.
Narrating what happened, the source said, “The man who was killed is an ARTMA official. He stopped some people who were driving a Toyota Sienna vehicle with tinted glasses, and the people shot him and drove off.
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“It happened just close to me as I was boarding a vehicle this morning to go to Nnewi.”
Though there have been cult related killings in Awka since the Easter period, it was not clear if Thursday morning’s incident was related to cultism.
This is coming a few hours after another person was murdered by rampaging gunmen at Aroma junction on Wednesday evening.
The Anambra State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga was yet to react to the killing as of the time of filing this report.
