The decomposed body of a senior staff member of the Federal University of Lafia (FULafia) in Nasarawa State, Mrs. Angelina Tyem, was on Sunday discovered in her private apartment in Lafia, the state capital, four days after she went missing.
Tyem was a senior administrative officer of the institution and Woman Leader of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), FULafia chapter.
She contested for the Akwanga North State constituency in the 2019 general election.
It was further learnt that, few weeks ago, the deceased was involved in an auto crash along Akwanga-Jos road while within the same period, assailants allegedly invaded her apartment in Lafia and carted away all her belongings.
A resident in the area who spoke on condition of anonymity told told Vanguard that “the deceased body was battered indicating that late Tyem was killed by assassins.”
According to Ibrahim Shuabu, a colleague of the deceased, “I just confirmed that they just discovered her dead body in her apartment this morning, this is really sad.”
Monday Seriki, chairman of SSANU, Federal University of Lafia Chapter, who visited the scene, said while responding to some questions from newsmen that the deceased was murdered, and that her car and phones were not found in the apartment.
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“I was called this morning around 9a.m that our women leader was found dead in her room, and that the neighbours discovered her dead body. That because she was meant to travel last Wednesday and so the neighbours thought she had travelled.
“We went there in the company of the police, I even have the pictures. We went inside the house and noticed that she was stabbed, she was murdered four days ago by unknown persons. Nobody knows the whereabout of her car and her phones. Right now, her body was conveyed by the University Ambulance to Sandaji Mortuary in Lafia,” Seriki stated.
When contacted, ASP Ramhan Nansel, police public relations officer (PPRO) who confirmed the incident however said “I am yet to get the full brief, I will get back to you.”
