By Ola Kay
Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu has expressed sadness over the sudden demise of late Arise Television journalist, Somtochukwu Maduagwu who passed on as a result of trauma in an armed robbery attack on her residence.
In her message of condolences, which was shared on her Facebook page, Mrs. Tinubu shared in the griefs of the family and colleagues of the departed, describing Somtochukwu’s death as “quite unfortunate.”
The First Lady’s condolence message shared on her Facebook account read:
“I woke up this morning to the sad news of the unfortunate and untimely death of one of our young and brilliant minds in the journalism profession, Somtochukwu Maduagwu, Her death is painful and quite unfortunate.
“She has been cut down in her prime and I condole with the chairman arise news media, Chief Nduka Obaigbena, her family, friends colleagues, and loved ones – It is my hope and prayer that the perpetrators will be apprehended as soon as possible and brought to book.
“May her soul rest in peace, and may God give her family, and all her dear ones the fortitude to bear the irreplaceable loss.
SOT”
According to an account shared by Somtochukwu’s colleague, Ojy Okpe, (in an emotion laden voice), the dead colleague’s residential house was attacked by some armed gang where Somtochukwu’s managed an escape by jumping out.
Late Somtochukwu Maduagwu
She added that, in her pain and stressed condition, a yet to be named hospital in the FCT allegedly rejected her for treatment and thereafter died in a condition, raising a moral question as to why a hospital would refuse a patient and emergency care under the circumstance.
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