The Yoruba people of Nigeria have a prayer, it says, May we not go out on the day the road is hungry for blood.
Had this handsome young banker with the UBA, Otukpo branch, Benue state know that death was lurking on Friday, 20 October, 2023, he would have stayed away from work and gotten himself a query, instead like the dutiful worker that he is, he got up early, cleaned off and left for work with high hopes that he was going to have a wonderful day but armed robbers attacked him at his place of work, UBA, Otukpo branch in Benue state and snuffed life out of him. This story is heart breaking.
Our source gave his name as Emmanuel Uche Best and he hails from Umuaku, Isuochi Umunneochi Local Government Area, LGA of Abia State.
He graduated from the Benue State Polytechnic Ugbokolo.
According to our source, after his mandatory NYSC in June 2023, he got a job with the United Bank for Africa, UBA and he had high hopes and dreams of but sadly, his life was cut short k in the robbery attack at the branch of his bank in Otukpo on Friday, on the 20th of October.
According to our source,
“On that Friday afternoon, Emmanuel was alive and doing his job but the notorious armed robbers did not spare his life in the attack that affected other banks like First Bank, Access, Stanbic IBTC and Zenith Banks, living his family in unending tears and pain”.
You will recall that on Friday, the 20th of October, 2023, daredevil armed robbers stormed three bank branches in the Otukpo area of Benue State and made away with several millions, killing about seven (7) people including a former Councillor who was transacting business and Emmanuel Uche-Best who worked with UBA branch in the state.
An eyewitness revealed that the robbers first attacked the police station before proceeding to the banks and it must have been the sporadic gunshots that may have hit Emmanuel and killed him on the spot.
We were told that on the same Friday that this incident happened, the Deputy Managing Director, DMD of the bank, Mr. Muyiwa Akinyemi called a meeting clamouring for staff to pursue deposits and account opening with the bank.
According to some disgruntled staff of the bank, “There was robbery in the bank in Benue on Friday, we feel for the sake of sympathy and the respect for the dead, the DMD shouldn’t have proceeded with the meeting he had on Saturday morning, charging members if staff put in for deposits”.
It’s indeed a sad story. We feel not only for the young graduate banker, Emmanuel, but all others who lives were lost in the bank robbery at UBA, Otukpo and other banks.
Al Humphrey Onyanabo( The Story Teller)
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Email; nigeria360online@gmail.com
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