By Abimbola Ogunnaike
Gunmen numbering eight on the night of Friday, 19 April, 2024 at Ajadeh Event Centre on Sagamu Road in the Iperu area of Ogun State shot dead Yinka Olomojobi, a professor of law at Babcock University, Ilishan Remo in the state .
Two other persons were abducted by the gunmen
Police Public Relations Officer in Ogun State, Omolola Odutola, who confirmed the incident, said the assailants shot the scholar on the chest for resisting the abduction.
“A report from the Iperu Division indicates that a kidnapping and murder incident occurred on the 19th of April, 2024, at about 9:20 p.m.,” Odutola said.
“It was reported that gunshots were heard at the Ajadeh Event Centre on Sagamu Road in the Iperu area in Ogun State.
“Eye witnesses were able to count eight men dressed in black and armed with guns emerged from an unknown place into the relaxing lounge and opened fire indiscriminately, where one person later identified as a lecturer at Babcock University named Olowojobi Yinka, was shot in the chest, for resisting to go away with the hoodlums, at their prompt, while a manager of a car stand, simply known as Dare “m” the third person is yet to be identified.”
She added that one person had been arrested in connection with the incident.
