The life of a lecturer at the Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Prof. Emmanuel Amadi, has been cut short by gunmen.
He was murdered in his residence at Rumuorlumeni in the Rivers State capital.
Observers would see this as an extreme case of the stress various lecturers have been suffering in recent times, especially as it concerns kidnapping a few of them have suffered.
According to ‘The Nation’, Amadi of the Department of Microbiology, until he was gruesomely murdered in the early hours of Tuesday, was living with his family members in a personal house close to Rivers state government-owned Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rumuorlumeni, Port Harcourt.
The area is notorious for criminal activities, especially incessant kidnapping, cultism, armed robbery and assassination.
A source, who was close to the family of the slain lecturer, described the murder as very barbaric and so pathetic, considering Amadi’s enormous contributions to human capital development, research, teaching and community service.
Spokesman of RSU, Mr. Sydney Enyindah, while reacting through the telephone on Tuesday night, said: “Prof. Amadi was attacked in his house at Rumuorlumeni, Port Harcourt in the early hours of today by armed robbers.
“The sad information came while we were having management meeting. The situation will become clearer tomorrow.”
Rivers Police spokesman, Nnamdi Omoni, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), also confirmed the incident.
Omoni said: “I spoke with the Vice-Chancellor of RSU, Port Harcourt, Prof. Blessing Didia, five minutes before you called me.
“The VC of RSU told me through the telephone that he heard of the attack on Prof. Amadi from the grapevine, without official communication from the family to the university’s authorities.”
