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– The killing of Ejike Agodo, a prominent Igbo businessman in
Bayelsa state has sparked off a protest march by Igbo traders
in the state

– Agodo was shot dead by suspected armed robbers a few
hours before his planned trip overseas to restock his boutique

– The Igbo traders staged a peaceful protest march to the
state police headquarters to register their complaint over the
wave of killings


Igbo traders in Bayelsa state took to the street to protest the
killing of a boutique owner, Ejike Agodo in Amarata community
of Yenagoa local government area of the state.

Agodo was shot by suspected armed robbers at about 3.30pm
on Monday, April 11, few hours before his planned trip
overseas to restock his boutique, Leadership reports.

The suspected robbers were said to have broken into the
victim’s house of on Overcomer road, and demanded money
from him.

Agodo, who owned a popular boutique, Omars Fashion Plaza,
at the OMPADEC area of the Yenagoa-Mbiama road reportedly
told his assailants that there was no cash at home because
shops in the capital city were shut down for about four days in
honour of the late former governor of the state, Diepreye
Alamieyeseigha, who was buried last Saturday.


After they ransacked his house, they shot him in the presence
of his newly wedded wife.

Some angry traders who suspect the gunmen were hired
assassins staged a peaceful protest and marched many
kilometres to the state police headquarters to express their
apprehension on the wave of serial killings of prominent Igbo
businessmen in the state.

The traders led by Chief Chinedu Arthur-Ugwa, the president of
Ohaneze Youth Council, lamented that Agodo was killed a few
days after gunmen suspected to be assassins murdered
another successful Igbo businessman, Ugochukwu, alias Ugo
Best.


An anonymous disclosed that Ugochukwu was killed by
gunmen operating in commercial tricycles who blocked his car
on his way home after business that day
Confirming the incident, the state police public relations officer
said efforts were being made to apprehend the fleeing
suspects.