It appears that the late Festus Iyayi was actually shot by policemen in the convoy of the Kogi State Governor, Captain Idris Wada, prior to the road accident in which he supposedly died last week.
An anonymous tipster has confided in SaharaReporters, with claims that the injuries found on the former president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)’s chest
were consistent with gunshot injuries and that a bullet did pierce his
heart.
One Dr. Paul Amodu of the Specialist Hospital in Lokoja had
revealed that Professor Iyayi died after “something” pierced his chest, but he didn’t specify what it was.
SaharaReporters was first to reveal last week said the popular professor and writer died in a collision with a security vehicle in Governor
Wada’s convoy.
Sources at ASUU said they had dissuaded Iyayi’s family
from a “rushed” burial, as they suspected foul play.
One of the sources
recalled that another former president of ASUU, Dr. Mahmood Tukur, also
died in suspicious circumstances on the Kaduna-Zaria highway, with the
police claiming he died of an asthma attack because he ate pepper which, they claimed, triggered it.
latest information, but he said the family was unaware, and that they do
not even have the autopsy performed yet.
the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA)signed by its President Osahom
Enabulele has previously called for a special inquiry into Professor
Iyayi’s death but the statement didn’t say if the doctors found that Iyayi may been shot as alleged by the anonymous source.