Family members and friends of Chief Innocent Chukwuma ( Innoson )Lawyer , Prof. McCarthy Mbadugha, who was attacked by suspected assasins recently, have called on the Police to fish out the perpertrators of the dastardly act.
They have urged the police high command to expedite action in the investigation of the matter, arrest the perpetrators and bring them to justice as they claimed that justice delayed is justice denied’.
His family friend , Mark Uba said :” In the afternoon of Sunday October 14, Prof. Mbadugha went to his office at Lekki Phase 1, to arrange documents for some cases he had outside Lagos, he entered his premises at about 3.15pm and was attended to by a staff of Strongcity security services limited who provides security to his office. He had barely settled down to work when a strange man armed with a gun bashed into his office and threatened to shoot him.
” Prof Mbadugha offered the gunman money and promised to cooperate with the man, pleading with the man not to harm him. The man made attempts to shoot him three times, but the gun did not discharge. The assailant then called out to an accomplice who was standing outside the room.
He identified himself as an armed robber and informed Mbadugha that he had come to kill him. The gunman and his accomplice brought out matchetes and daggers and started attacking Mbadugha. Mbadugh started shouting for help and tried to fight back his assailants.
He sustained injuries in the abdomen, multiple lacerations in his right hand, head, and back. He was bleeding profusely from the wounds. The assailants took to their heels with his laptop bag, leaving him to bleed to death, but Mbadugha managed to get out of the office building and begged sympathizers to help him to a hospital for treatment.
“A resident drove up to him and when he learnt what happened, saiid that Mbadugha’s assailants must have been two young men he saw running away on the street. He went in hot pursuit of them and with the help of neighbours, apprehended one of them.
(The first assailant who attempted to shoot Mbadugha). The assailant was taken to Maroko Police Station and he was subsequently transferred to Federal Special Anti Robbery Squad ( FSARS ) Ikeja.
” Mbadugha was attended to at a nearby hospital and he is in a stable condition. He entered into a contract with Strong City Security Services Nigeria Ltd to be providing his Law firm with Security services at an agreed monthly fees which he pays to the company and the company, in turn, pays to the Security guards it posted to his firm.
He had never paid any of the guards directly. He is not owing to the company any salary and has no issue with the company over its salary or fee. He issues a cheque and hands it over to Mr Oboh Sunny- the company’s operations manager.
” The Estate Security which apprehended the first assailant arrested him with Mbadugha’s Apple laptop, IPhone 6s, a bag containing his cheque books and other documents.
” We appeal to the Police high command to bring the sponsor and the perpetrators of the attack on our friend and family member to book.
The police should expedite action in their investigation and invoke the wrath of the law on whoever that sponsored the attack on him. We do not want the matter to be swept under the carpet and the course of justice perverted. There must be a thorough investigation into the matter”.
