Medical Doctors Protest Colleague’s Killing

Medical Doctors working at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH) yesterday protested the killing of their colleague Dr. Chinda Igondah by unknown gunmen.

The doctors, who abandoned their duty posts to march through major streets in Port Harcourt before arriving Government House gate, said Dr. Igondah of the Department of Surgery was murdered on Sunday night on his way home from work.

Spokesman for the protesting doctors, Dr. Chizundu Alikor called on the state government and the security agencies to unravel the killers of Dr. Igondah noting that the murder was one too many.

Dr. Alikor observed that recently medical doctors were targets of kidnap and now they are being murdered in cold blood, stressing that the protest was aimed at calling on relevant agencies to investigate and bring to book perpetrators of the heinous crime.

Responding on behalf of the Rivers State Governor, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Sampson Parker, sympathized with the doctors and the family of the late Dr. Igondah over the unfortunate incident, assuring that government would direct security operatives to get to the root of the matter.

He said Government worked hard to ensure the level of peace being enjoyed in the state, today and would not sit back to watch criminals create unnecessary panic  in the state.

Dr Parker explained that the state government made security its first priority hence its huge investments in the sector, noting that the state government was committed to providing necessary logistics to shore up the performance of the sector.