How Hoodlums Murdered FAD Radio Presenter In Calabar
BY OUR CORRESPONDENT – Details of how a popular Calabar-based FAD FM Radio Presenter, David Ekanem, aka ‘Itiat Zion’, was murdered in the Cross River state capital have emerged with accusing fingers pointed at a group of fleeing robbers
Eye witness account around the neighborhood where the murder took place said the late Ekanem was reportedly in the fleeing criminals’ bad books over a previous robbery incident where he allegedly recognized some of the suspects in question.
Reliable sources in the area hinted that the said robbery incident had taken place around the same vicinity with the same gang’s involvement and the late Radio Presenter, unaware of an ongoing robbery at that time, unfortunately, ran into the hoodlums.
Forefront gathered that some of the gang members were manhandling a defenceless woman when the deceased tried to intervene, thereby incurring their wrath which resulted in the attack and his being hacked to death.
According to the source; “Itiat Zion was stabbed severally while stopping a group of hoodlums from manhandling a helpless woman around the Ikot Ansa axis of Calabar. In their anger, the boys abandoned the poor woman and turned on David with their weapons, stabbing him to death in the process.
“It is sad the fleeing criminals caught the unarmed Ekanem by surprise and used their sharp machetes and knives to vent their anger on him with bloody cuts in various parts of his body.”
However, it also learnt that the alertness of some residents and security personnel helped to dislodge the criminal elements who fled the murder scene, leaving behind most of the stolen items and their spoils.
Though sources close to the State Police Command confirmed that security operatives of the ‘Operations Akpaku’ are currently trailing the late presenter’s assailants, Forefront reliably learnt the gang leader is reputed to be in the habit of always evading arrest and going underground after every operation only to resurface after a long while for another deadly attack.