Popular broadcast journalist Olubunmi Afuye was gunned down earlier today by armed robbers who attacked a bank at Ilara-Mokin, Ondo state yesterday.
Heritagenewsng gathered that Afuye, who was recently employed as spokesman of Elizade University was going to work when he ran into the robbery operation and was shot dead.
Eye witnesses say the Ekiti-born journalist whom until his gruesome murder was the Public Relations Officer of Elizade University, was hit by a stray bullet during an attack that also claimed the life of a policeman.
His body has been deposited in a morgue as of this time of filing this report.
Afuye had worked with the Ondo State Radiovision Corporation (OSRC) and Orange FM before he resigned recently to join the university. He was 42.
Meanwhile, Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu, has described demise is not just painful. It is very pathetic and unbearable”, the Governor was quoted to have said in a statement released by Richard Olatunde, his Chief Press Secretary.
The Governor expressed his heartfelt condolences to the wife and children, family, the University community as well as the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) over this loss that he considers a personal one.
“He was particularly close to us; we all admired his candour and carriage, especially his brilliant delivery at functions he compered that we had reasons to grace. His demise is not just painful. It is very pathetic and unbearable”.