By Amaechi Okwara
Asaba
Suspected armed robbers, said to be at least five in number, on Friday robbed and killed the daughter of a former Military Administrator of Kano and Plateau states, Brigadier-General Dominic Oneya, Franca Oneya, in Warri, Delta state.
A family member, who is the late Franca’s uncle, Godwin Oghenede, disclosed this yesterday.
Blueprint gathered that the incident happened on Ovie Palace Road, Effurun, when the victim was said to be returning from a bank located on PTI Road where she had gone to make some withdrawals.
Sources said the robbers took the unspecified cash amount and also killed her in the process.
The killing led to pandemonium at Effurun, the administrative headquarters of Uvwie local government area of the state, when the gunmen, said to be at least five in number, waylaid and shot the mother-of-four, who was said to be in her early 30s, to death.
A source told this reporter that the daughter of the one-time president of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) was waylaid a few kilometres from the retired General’s house and shot her dead. The assailants bolted with the cash.
The source said: “The incident happened at about 10:40am today (by KW junction). I saw residents and passersby scrambling for safety. Multiple gunshots rent the air. By the time the robbers were done, a pretty young lady lay in a pool of blood, on the driver’s seat. A neighbour, with whom we all rushed to the scene of the incident, identified the victim as the daughter of a notable politician in the state.”
