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| Dr Ehidiamen Oaikhena |
Gunmen, suspected to be highway robbers, have
killed a medical doctor with the University of Benin Teaching Hospital in the
Ovia North-East Local Government Area of Edo State.
The deceased, identified as Dr Ehidiamen
Oaikhena, was said to have been shot by the gunmen in the Okada area, while
returning to Benin on January 16.
It was gathered that Oaikhena, aged 34, was
returning from a hospital where he had conducted a successful surgery when he
ran into an ambush by the suspected robbers.
It was also gathered that amidst the pandemonium,
the deceased, a senior registrar in the Anaesthesiology Department of UBTH,
reversed his vehicle in a bid to avoid the gunmen.
But he was said to have been sighted by the armed
men, who opened fire on him around the Ovia River.
A source said Ehidiamen later died at the
Intensive Care Unit of the hospital.
The source said, “As he (Oaikhena) saw the
gunmen, he reversed with speed. But they thought he was a security official.
So, they fired shots at his vehicle.
“The bullets penetrated the door of the car and
hit him in the stomach. He still drove with the bullet wounds, but later became
weak.
“He called his wife, who is also a doctor, and
she mobilised an ambulance from the UBTH to pick him up. He spent five days at
the ICU before he died.”
Friends and well-wishers of the deceased
expressed sadness in different Facebook posts.
One of them, Greh Ikheloa, said, “God will grant
him eternal rest in your bosom. Just imagine…someone full of life, young,
vibrant and with a bright future was cut short by wicked armed robbers. God
will surely repay them.”
Another Facebook user, Moniq Aletor,
stated, “I am totally heart-broken. Such a gentle guy…just cut off from earth
prematurely…oh God! May his soul rest in peace. Amen.”
While confirming the death of the doctor, the
Public Relations Officer of UBTH, Mr. Joshua Uwaila, said, “We lost a doctor in
the anaesthetics department. But I do not have information on the cause of
death. It is bad enough for us that we lost a very young and bright doctor.”
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Johnson
Kokumo, dismissed some reports attributing the death of the doctor to the
activities of suspected herdsmen.
“All I need to tell you is that it is falsehood;
there is nothing like that. The death of the medical doctor has absolutely
nothing to do with Fulani herdsmen,” he added. LR News
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