Gunmen kill Sapele council majority leader

By Ovasa Ogaga,

Suspected armed robbers yesterday allegedly killed the Majority leader of Sapele Local Government Legislative arm, Chief Venture Kagbude along the busy Warri – Sapele Road in Delta State.

Kagbude  who also the Chairman of Okirighre Community in Sapele  was allegedly returning to Sapele where he had gone to inspect a house he was building for his mother at Okuoke along Warri road, when he ran into the gunmen at Okwadede, close to the Sapele – Warri main road, at about 5pm.

The Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, Onome Onovwakpoyeya could not be reach as at the time of filling in this report, but a source at the Sapele Police Area Command confirmed the report saying “yes, they reported the issue.”

Mourning the passage of the Community Chairman, Mr. Austin Ayemidejor, the Director of Asaba and Osubi International Airport described him as a man of peace and wondered why peaceful men always end violently.

“It is sad news, a young man’s dream to build a better society is cut short by gunmen; he will surely be missed.”

However a young woman said to be related to the late Community Chairman told our correspondent that Kagbude was killed by suspected assassins, “he led the battle with the Local Government Chairman against cultism few months ago, I am sure his death must have come from there” the lady who craved anonymity said.