By Eben Enasco Kingsley, Benin City
A four-year-old daughter of a lecturer in Engineering at the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Dr. Kingsley Ogbeide has been shot dead by gunmen who attacked his residence in Benin City.
The other two children between the ages of six and two also sustained varying degrees of bullet wounds during the siege at 19, Enadeghe Street, Off Utbowo-Lagos Road, Evbuomore Quarters, Benin City.
The gunmen who scaled the wall fence of the building broke into the lecturer’s apartment to unleashed terror on his family about 4am, last Saturday.
Narrating his ordeal, Dr Kingsley Ogbeide stated that about 4pm on Saturday, November 19, 2016 he opened the slide on one of the windows in the sitting room for fresh air to douse the heat that was inside his apartment.
He said further that suddenly a flash from a torch beamed on him followed by a voice that ordered him to open his door.
“We started scampering for safety, raised alarm to nearby neighbours, then the children woke up, we all ran to the lobby, before two minutes they broken the protector and they were already inside.
“When they entered they started asking where is the money where is the gold. I said we don’t have money or gold. Truthfully I was only having five hundred Naira N500.00 in my wallet. My wife had no money. We are just civil servants. We told them that there are laptops, though they still took the laptops and phones.
“Being that the lobby door was a bit closed, one of them suddenly shot through the door and the bullet hit one of my daughters, a four and a half years old daughter who died on the spot while the other two children sustained some level of injuries.
“I don’t know why he shot because the door was not locked; even the other robber was now quarrelling with him saying why did you shot? Look! Now you have killed a girl”. Dr Ogbeide stated.
He further stated that the hoodlums escaped before the police could arrive the scene.
The Public Relations Officer for Edo State Police Command DSP Moses Nkombe could not be reached to comment on the attack.
