The Abia State Commissioner for Agriculture , Dr. Ken Nwosu, who was shot last week Wednesday by some gunmen, is dead.
Announcing the death on Tuesday in Umuahia, the Commissioner for Information, Eze Chikamnayo, said the commissioner died on Monday night at the Abia State Specialist Hospital where he was hospitalised after the attack.
He said the government made spirited efforts to save his life, adding that arrangements had been perfected to fly him abroad, but doctors said he had to be put on stable condition first.
He said it was a sad moment for the state government and the entire people of Abia State “because we have lost a colossus; the best hand in agriculture.”
Chikamnayo said security agents had been directed to fish out the attackers, vowing that they must be made to face the music.
The late commissioner, who hailed from Amizi in Olokoro community, Umuahia South Local Government Area, was appointed Commissioner in September 2013.
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