Abuja based legal practitioner assassinated in front of family

An Abuja-based Lawyer, Dr. Stephen Eke, was last week assassinated by gunmen at Abacha Road, a satellite area in FCT Abuja.
According to eyewitness accounts, the lawyer was shot at his wife’s shop in the presence of his wife and son and thereafter, drove off in his car but abandoned the car at Zuma Rock area in the outskirt of Suleja Niger State.

Until his death, the late Eke has been a senior lawyer of 21 years post call and was described by close friends as peaceful and amiable.
The news of his death has since elicited tributes from colleagues and loved ones.
A colleague, Anayo Adibe mourning the deceased with a Facebook post wrote,
“Last Saturday the 18th of November 2022 at about 9pm, we, the UJAY LAW CLASS of 2000 lost our brother, friend and colleague, STEVE ENYINNAYA EKE to the cold hands of death.
We were dumbstruck, distraught and devastated when the news filtered in, that STEVE had been brutally murdered in front of his compound by fiends from hell, in one of the suburbs of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
STEVE’s death was heartrending when we heard that for over 3hours, every hospital he was rushed to refused to attend to him because he was a victim of bullet wounds, and so he bled until he gave up the ghost in the arms of his loving but helpless wife.