Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has offered full scholarship to the only child of ex-council chairman of Etsako East local government area, the late Prince Suleiman Afegbua, who was shot dead along Benin-Auchi Road on Thursday by gunmen.
Obaseki said: โEven if Suleiman is gone, I will make sure we take care of Zaiki, offer scholarship to his child to the university level and provide the necessary needs for the family.โ
He spoke during a condolence visit to the family home of the deceased at Awoyemi Quarters of Okpella in Etsako East Local Government of Edo State yesterday.
The governor was received by late Afegbuaโs father, his wife and other members of the quarters.
Obaseki also promised to complete the road leading to the deceasedโs quarters.
According to him: โThis road leading to this quarters (Awoyemi) which Suleiman could not complete will be completed and the youth will not be forgotten, as Suleiman was always fighting for the youthโ.
He described Afegbua as an administrator and man of peace who did his best to foster unity and development in his community.
According to Obaseki, โYou all know him to be a man of peace. He was going to Benin on that day for a reconciliation meeting to settle the problem in Okpella.
โHe was a man of peace and you will recall that for the last few weeks there has been series of robbery by Fulani on that road as well as kidnapping.โ
The governor noted that a leader of APC from Akoko-Edo local government area escaped being kidnapped by the Fulani herdsmen, stressing that information available to him revealed that Afegbua was killed why trying to escape from the robbers.
โWhat I heard was that when his vehicle was intercepted by the robbers, he wanted to escape but the robbers felt he was going to attack them and they shot at him. That was why the other two persons with him in the vehicle were not killed,โ he stated.
