Toyin Obadina, an Assistant Editor with Saturday Newswatch newspaper; who was on Friday shot by gunmen in Lagos has died at the age of 50. He died on Sunday after a surgery to remove the bullets lodged in his stomach.
The wife of the late Obadina, Biola in an interview with The Punch, said “around 11.30pm on Friday, my husband was on his way back home. As a newspaper editor, he had informed me that he was finishing production late. He told me that on getting to Parafa end of Imota Road, opposite Aico company, two jeeps driving towards him on the other end of the road crossed his vehicle.
“He said when he realised that they were bandits, he immediately alighted from the vehicle and told them they could have anything they wanted. They collected all his money from him. He then begged them not to kill him, but one of them slapped him. They then shot him in the stomach.
“He attempted to run but he was shot in the stomach a second time before the robbers fled.”
Reacting to the development, the national and Lagos State council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists have issued separate statements condemning the murder of their colleague.
National Secretary of the NUJ, Shuaib Leman, said the murder of Toyin Obadina serves as a reminder of the vulnerability of media professionals and evidence that the Nigerian system had over the years failed to protect its citizens.
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