Gunmen on Monday night
assassinated an Assistant Director of Administration in the State House, Ms.
Laetitia Naankang Dagan.
The Aso Rock staff was
said to have closed from work around 8pm on Monday and never had an inkling of
what was waiting for her at home. It was gathered that the assassins went to
her residence at Lokogoma, an outskirt of the Abuja city center at about 11pm
to snuff the life out of her.
Reacting to the
incident, the Permanent Secretary, State House, Jalal Arabi, described the
killing of Ms. Laetitia Dagan, as “a painful loss, not only to her immediate
family but also the entire State House.”
“She was a dedicated, hard-working officer,
and we all feel pained by her dastardly and untimely death,” Arabi told her
family members during a condolence visit.
The Permanent
Secretary in a statement signed by, Attah Esa, Deputy Director Information,
State House further said, “We all share in your grief and pains, but be
consoled by the fact that she lived a good life and contributed her best to the
services of her nation.”
Arabi expressed confidence that “the Police
will fish out the killers of Laetitia and the law will take its course.”
Dagan who is 47 years
old and hails from Plateau State, worked in her office on Monday till 8pm, but
by 11pm, she was gruesomely murdered in her apartment by unknown persons.
The Permanent Secretary
prayed God Almighty to comfort Ms. Dagan’s family, the entire Staff of State
House, and grant the soul of the departed officer eternal rest.
