A Benin-based Realtor, Umweni Joel Isibor has been shot dead by gunmen suspected to be assassins at his shop at 2nd Ugbor Area, GRA in Benin City, Edo State.
Investigation revealed that Isibor was trailed from a church where he attended Easter service, marking the death of Jesus Christ at about 7p.m on Friday the 25th of April 2025.
The businessman was allegedly shot dead at a close range by some yet-to-be identified gunmen who stormed his shop in their operational vehicle.
and left him in the pool of his own blood.
The Edo State deputy Governor, Dennis Idahosa confirmed the tragedy via a post of his visit to the widow and children of the deceased on social media, Sunday.
It is with sadness that I paid a condolence visit to the family of late Mr. Umweni Joel Isibor, a businessman and an estate developer, who was gruesomely murdered by yet to be identified persons on Friday, 25th April, 2025.
“While condoling with the grieving family, I promised to take this personally that everyone involved is brought to book”, he wrote on Facebook.
“Isibor just finished attending a church service Easter church service on Friday. I am sure he wanted to tidy up things at his shop when those guys drove down and shot him”, a dependable source said the State government has ordered manhunt for the culprits behind the murder of the Realtor.
TheNewspad reports that speculation continued to swirl around the murky circumstances of his murder that the murder could be cult-related.
His body has been deposited at an undisclosed morgue.
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