Festus Iyayi Was Shot By Policemen In Kogi's Governor Convoy

By SaharaReporters, New York

An anonymous tipster has confided in
SaharaReporters that Festus Iyayi, a former president
of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU),
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.

The source claimed that the injuries found on the late
writer’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.

SaharaReporters spoke with Prof. Iyayi's son, Omole,
regarding the latest information, but he said the family
was unaware, and that they do not even have the
autopsy performed yet.

A press statement issued by 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.