How Arise TV anchor Maduagwu met her untimely death, trying to escape robbery attack

…Robbers killed 1 vigilante member, tied 4 others and locked them up
…10 flats were robbed
…Somtochukwu lived successful one-bedroom level costing N2.5million

By: Kingsley Omonobi

Following the sojourn of Vanguard Newspapers to the Katampe Residence of precocious Arise TV Anchor, Somtochukwu Maduagwu, it has been discovered that 1 of the Vigilante Security guards attached to the sprawling compound successful Highbrow Katampe was changeable dormant by the equipped robbers who were said to person numbered up to 15 pack members.

Aside from the Vigilante defender that was killed, different Vigilantes, astir 4 of them, were locked up and had their hands tied and it was learnt the 1 killed was due to the fact that helium proved stubborn and refused to surrender.

On getting to the house, UNIQUE APARTMENTS, Plot 1706, Katampe, Abuja, this newsman and different sympathisers were prevented from accessing the compound by the Police who had cordoned disconnected the place. No pictures were allowed to beryllium taken

It was gathered that each the Vigilantes who were connected work astatine the 22 flats, 2-storey gathering compound costing betwixt N2.5 cardinal to N4 cardinal per annum per flat, had been removed and changed.

However, neighbours to the compound who spoke nether information of anonymity said what they gathered was that the equipped robbers came to the compound astatine astir 2.30am and operated for astir 1 hr and 30 minutes.

One tenant told a neighbour that they were each successful hiding erstwhile they heard a gunshot from downstairs, which evidently killed the Vigilante Security guard. Nobody could travel retired to ascertain precisely what was going on.

One of the Vigilantes who was locked up was said to person disclosed that Sommie jumped from her one-bedroom level located astatine the 2nd level of the gathering which indispensable person caused her death.

Told that the quality is that erstwhile Police arrived astatine the scene, Sommie was inactive live and Police said that determination was nary substance to determination her to the hospital, the Vigilante said that was not true.

What happened was that erstwhile the equipped robbers left, 1 of the residents who summoned courageousness to travel out, discovered that Sommie was successful a authorities of coma arsenic a effect of the wounded from the precocious jump. She could not adjacent talk.

It was erstwhile the nonmigratory was taking her to the infirmary that helium met the Police coming to the compound and stopped them and told them the idiosyncratic helium was carrying was a unfortunate of the equipped robbery onslaught and that helium was rushing her to the infirmary to prevention her beingness and immoderate policemen followed them.

The Vigilante further said that implicit 10 flats consisting of 1 chamber and 2 bedrooms were robbed by the equipped robbers earlier they left.

A neighbour disclosed that if not that the floors of the compound were cemented and had hardened, the injuries sustained by Somtochukwu would not person been arsenic atrocious and would not person claimed her life, adding that cipher tin accidental for definite which portion of her assemblage oregon caput deed the hard floor.

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