Retired Army General Sylvester Iruh was coming home from an even in Ilorin with some other relatives when the car he drove had a flat tyre on the Long Bridge on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. They stopped to fix the tyre, but did not know that he should not have stopped to fix the tyre at the spot he did. Below are detailed accounts of how retired Brig. Gen. Sylvester Iruh was attacked and killed according to accounts by his wife as narrated by other occupants pf the Toyota Hilux truck he drove that day.
When I got to the Lagos State Emergency Hospital where he was rushed to, I was told he was dead.
“I asked the other occupants of the vehicle – two men and a woman – what happened to my husband and they said the tyre of the Hilux vehicle he was driving had problem. So, he had to stop on the bridge to change it.
“They said other motorists going on the road kept warning them that the place was dangerous. So, he decided to leave the place and change the tyre when they got to a safe spot.”
The faulty tire (punch newspaper photo)
According to Punch Newspaper reports, Sylvester asked the other occupants to get into the vehicle quickly so that they could leave the place.
But before Iruh could join them, two men came out from under the bridge and immediately shot him with an arrow.
The Toyota Hilux truck (punch newspaper photo)
Christiana said, “I was told they immediately pounced on him after that and stabbed him all over his body and face. One of the daggers stuck to his back.
“The dagger was removed at the mortuary. The men who attacked him were said to be carrying sticks like Fulani nomads with bows and arrows in their bags.”
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