Nigeria: Slain American: Odili Pledges N5m to Informant

16 May 2006

Port Harcourt — Governor Peter Odili of Rivers State has pledged the sum of N5 million to anybody who give information on the identity of the gunmen who killed the United States of America citizen who was shot dead in the state capital, Port Harcourt last Wednesda

The American, Mr. Ricky Wiginton who works for Baker Hughes Fluids, a subsidiary of Baker Hughes Nigeria Limited, a Port Harcourt based oil service company was on his way to work when a yet-to-be ascertained gunmen on motorcycle levelled up with him at Abuloma, a suburb of the state capital and shot him dead at close range.

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