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Again, gunmen invade UNIABUJA, attacked lecturer escape
Barely 24 hours after gunmen invaded the staff quarters of the University of Abuja (UNIABUJA) abducting a professor of economics, his children, and others; there was another attack on Wednesday.
The new development was revealed by a lecturer of the university in a letter addressed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
According to the lecturer, Dr David Okoroafor, the gunmen attacked him around 10 am in his office.
The message read: “Dear ASUU members and UNIABUJA Community, I wish to formally bring to your notice that today, Wednesday (3/11/2021) I was attacked in my office located at Room 6, 1st floor, Faculty of Social building, at permanent site.
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“At exactly 10 am, when I arrived the building, opened my office and began to pray in my usual way, suddenly two men brandishing weapon bunched into the office and ordered me to lay down flat on my face or they blew me up.
“I pounced on them and the gun. But the duo started to hit me hard. I began to shout on the top of my voice for help. When my voice went higher, they ran out and students pursued after them. But when they brandished their gun, the students became afraid and ran back, giving them room to escape into the bush.
“But during the scuffle in my office, their car key fell off which I picked and handed over to the University security unit.”
