Two police orderlies attached to a former House of Representatives member, Joan Onyemaechi and her driver were on Tuesday evening killed when bandits abducted her and her children in Asaba, the Delta State capital.
PUNCH Metro gathered that the gunmen stormed Onyemaechi’s church, King Jesus and I, located at Ogajifo Street off DSB Road and shot the two police orderlies and her driver before whisking the former lawmaker and her children away.
Sources from the street told PUNCH Metro that a stray bullet also hit a passerby who died on the spot.
“The gunmen stormed the church and immediately shot at the police orderly and the driver.
“They drove the lawmaker away in her SUV and were shooting indiscriminately in the street. Unfortunately, a stray bullet hit a young man who died on the spot.”
Onyemaechi was the immediate past Commissioner for Technical Education under Governor Sheriff Oborevwori before she resigned to pave the way for her younger brother to return for the chairmanship position in the just concluded council election.
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Bright Edafe, confirmed the kidnapping incident to our correspondent but said that only a police officer and one other were killed.
He said, “Only a policeman and one other were killed. I don’t know whether he was the driver. They picked only her.”
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