Unknown gunmen have killed a Benin-based lawyer, Barrister Agbontean Eghosa Odiase at Avbiama community in Ikpoba-Okha local government area.
According to our source, Odiase was killed at his residence in the presence of his wife and children at about 10pm last week.
Odiase’s wife said, “We heard a bang inside the compound. My husband jumped up from the bed, we peeped through the window, we saw a boy half naked with a scar on his head. My husband started making calls.
“Before we knew it, they shot and broke through the window and were inside with us. They told my husband to shout or call anybody he wanted to call as they were ready for him that night. I quickly took my three children to the other room while the eldest child ran back to meet his father with the three gunmen.
“Then, I heard two gun shots and everywhere was silent. Thereafter, they said to themselves, let us go the man is dead”.
