Popular Ibadan radio presenter murdered.
The Police Command in Oyo State, on Sunday, confirmed the murder of a popular Ibadan Radio Presenter, Mr Titus Badejo, by unknown gunmen.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, DSP Adewale Osifeso, confirmed the incident in a text message sent to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan.
NAN gathered that Badejo, a former presenter with Naija FM Ibadan, was murdered by unknown gunmen on Saturday, outside Club 407 in the Oluyole area of Ibadan at about 11:30 pm.
The PPRO said that investigations were ongoing to unravel the circumstances surrounding the incident and apprehend the assailants.
“At about 0730hrs, Sunday 20th June 2021, One Damilola Afolabi ‘m’, Manager, at Club 407,Oluyole Ibadan, reported at the Oluyole Divisional Police Headquarters that on Saturday, 19th June, 2021, one Titus Badejo, Journalist and freelance disc jockey with the club, was shot outside the club’s premises by unknown assailants.
“However, comprehensive investigations are in top gear to unravel circumstances surrounding the incident and to apprehend the assailants. Verifiable updates would be provided soonest,” Osifeso said, in the text.
A source, who pleaded anonymity, told NAN that the deceased, popularly called ‘Ejanla”, meaning ”Big fish” in English, had been at the club with friends since 9.00pm.
“When he was leaving with his friends in his car around 11:30pm, two masked men on a motorcycle suddenly stopped his car, wielding a gun and asked all of them to lie down.
“He was the only one shot by the gunmen, who left immediately without taking anything or touching the other occupants of the car”, the source said.
NAN gathered that his corpse had since been deposited at the morgue of Adeoyo Hospital, Ring road, Ibadan.
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Oyo State Council, has called on the state government and Police Command to fish out the killers .
The call is contained in a condolence message issued on Sunday in Ibadan by the council Chairman, Mr Ademola Babalola.
The deceased was an On-Air Personality (OAP), Disc Jockey (DJ) and sports presenter.
In the statement, the NUJ chairman charged Gov. Seyi Makinde and Commissioner of Police, Ngozi Onadeko, to ensure the killers were arrested and made to face the full wrath of the law.
Babalola described the killing of Badejo as one murder too many for the union to comprehend.
He condemned the recent spate of “senseless and avoidable killings” in Ibadan.
He, therefore, urged major stakeholders to ensure that security of lives and property in the state received priority attention.
Part of the statement read: “Gone too soon! Titus Badejo…
“We mourn the untimely passing on and gruesome murder of a journalist.”
Babalola observed that people, who had scores to settle with one another, were using the rising insecurity in the state to perpetrate killings of monumental dimension.
“Under the cover of darkness, the assailants snuffed life out of a bubbling young man and cut short his precious life.
“What a cruel life! May your assailants never know peace, may the wrath of God descend on them wherever they are hibernating,” he stated.
