– A student of Niger Delta University was killed at a bank in Bayelsa for arguing with robbers
– Before his death, the victim was helping admission seekers process NDU screening forms for a fee
– Wilson before his death was the immediate past Vice-President of the National Union of Bayelsa State Students and a leader of the Ogbia students’ union
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| Photo from the incident |
A robbery attack at a new generation bank along the Sani Abacha Expressway, Yenagoa, the Bayelsa state capital, has left a student dead.
According to a report on The Punch, suspected armed robbers on Tuesday, June 26, shot dead Obele Wilson, a final year undergraduate student of Bayelsa state-owned Niger Delta University, Amasoma for allegedly arguing with them.
It was gathered that the robbers stormed the premises of a new generation bank and held customers hostage. They dispossessed customers of their cash, mobile phones and other valuables.
But on getting to Wilson, an argument ensued between him and the robbers which resulted into his death.
Sources disclosed that before the incident, the victim was helping admission seekers process NDU screening forms for a fee.
A source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the deceased was at the bank to sell forms to admission seekers.
The source said: “The killing of Wilson is very painful. He was a final year engineering student who was in the business of processing screening forms for admission seekers.
“He was on the premises of the bank on Tuesday to look for customers among those who had purchased the forms.
“Some armed robbers stormed the place and started collecting people’s valuables and cash at gunpoint.
“Wilson argued with them and in the process, they shot him.”
The source said after the shooting, some sympathisers tried to rush him to a hospital but he died on the way.
The source further blamed the incident on the on-going strike in the university.
He said: “If not for the strike, Wilson would have gone for his compulsory industrial training for final year engineering students. He was processing the training when the strike started.”
Wilson before his death was the immediate past Vice-President of the National Union of Bayelsa State Students and a leader of the Ogbia students’ union. He was from the Ogbia local government area.
