Rivers lecturer was killed by robbers after he recognized one of his students, police say

The Rivers State police command has confirmed the murder of
Prof. Emmanuel Amadi, of the Rivers State University, Port
Harcourt.

Spokesman of the command, Nnamdi Omoni, said armed robbers shot
Amadi after the lecturer recognised one of them suspected to be a
student.

The deceased, The Guardian gathered was a lecturer in the
Department of Microbiology of the institution. Omoni said: “The
killers of Amadi were armed robbers, it was after the deceased
recognised one of the bandits, that they perfected their
mission.

“We can confirm the sad incident of the murder of Amadi, who was
murdered on June 19, at about 4:00p.m. when armed robbers attacked
his house.

He was able to identify one of them (robbers) and because of
that, they came back and hit him with a rod they were holding and
the man fainted.

“His younger brother, one Loveday Amadi, rushed him to the
University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH), where he gave
up the ghost”.

The police spokesman said it was after the incident that the
family came and reported it to the Rumuolumeni Police Station in
the area. “Our men immediately went to the hospital to identify the
body, which has been deposited in the mortuary”.

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