After battling for his life for six days, Abia State Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr Kenneth Nwosu, has died of gunshot wounds he sustained following an attack by suspected assassins. He was attacked by hoodlums on the night of Wednesday, July 9, 2014 along Umuajata/Amakama road while driving from Umuahia the capital city to his home at Olokoro in Umuahia South local government.
The state’s Commissioner for information and strategy, Eze Chikamnayo announced Nwosu’s transition at a press conference Tuesday, saying that the agric commissioner breathed his last on Monday night at the Abia State Specialist Hospital Umuahia, where he had been receiving medical attention. He said that the death of Dr Nwosu was a sad moment for the government and the entire people of Abia state because the late commissioner was “a colossus (and) the best hand in agriculture.”
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