Unknown gunmen on Wednesday night invaded the residence of the new Vice-Chancellor of University of Jos , Prof Sebastian Maimako, which led to the death of a private security guard, as a policeman attached to him was injured.
DAILY POST gathered that the gunmen attacked the residence, which is located at Eto-Baba area of Jos North LGA, at about 8:30 pm.
Confirming the incident, the Plateau State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Tyopev Mathias Terna, told our correspondent that, “We received a report late last night, that the private residence of the Vice Chancellor of the University of Jos, was attacked by hoodlums and they were about six in number”.
Terna continued, “While they were operating, a private security guard was shot and killed, a policeman was shot on his right leg and his service rifle was taken away from him.
“We are on the trail of this hoodlums that carried out the dastardly act”.
According to the PPRO, it was his private residence that was attacked and not his official residence.
“As I speak to you, the Vice Chancellor is not even in the country; so that’s to tell you that the people that carried out the act are just armed robbers who are looking for arms to operate in the State. The attack wasn’t specifically on the person of the Vice Chancellor.
Commenting on the injured policeman, the spokesman said, he is receiving treatment and responding accordingly.
“I just visited him in the hospital and he is responding very well”.
He gave the name of the deceased private security guard as Jibrin Owes, while the injured policeman is Corporal Adamu Salihu
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