The Managing
Director/Editor-in-Chief of the Nigerian Compass newspaper, Mr Adesina Kawonise
was last night attacked by gunmen along Akure-Ilesha highway. He sustained
gunshot wounds along with a police security detail with him in his car.
Mr Kawonise
was returning from Awka where he had gone to present a Keynote Address at the
17th Annual Conference of the Nigerian Anthropological and Sociological
Association and where he was presented with a Distinguished Sociologist Award
by the association.
He was in a convoy of two vehicles when the
vehicle in which he was travelling was suddenly ambushed at the Ikeji-Arakeji
junction shortly after Akure at about 8.30pm. Sporadic gunfire from men hidden
by the roadside was unleashed on the two vehicles and Mr Kawonise and the
policeman seated with the driver in front of the vehicle were hit by bullets.
They were immediately rushed to a private hospital from where the policeman was
transferred to the Wesley Guild Hospital Ilesha for surgery.
Mr Kawonise was transferred to the University
College Hospital Ibadan this morning where he has been admitted. He is in
stable condition and has undergone surgery for his injuries.
We do not
know the motive of the attackers of Mr Kawonise but he recently received
threats to his person from some unknown Internet messengers.
The Board of
Directors of Western Publishing Company is grateful to God that no lives were
lost in the attack and would want to assure all Nigerians that the Nigerian
Compass under the management leadership of Mr Kawonise will not fight shy of
it's social responsibility and it's crusading pact with the Nigerian people.
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