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Jerome Elusiyan, a paediatrics professor at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has been killed by gunmen.

Elusiyan, who was the chairman of the medical advisory council of the OAU Teaching Hospital Complex, was shot dead along Benin-Ekpoma expressway in Edo, on Friday.

The late professor was said to be heading back home from Ambrose Ali University in Ekpoma where he went to supervise medical students paediatric examinations at Irua Specialist Teaching Hospital as an external examiner.

He was reportedly attacked alongside his driver who survived with bullet wounds.

His vehicle was reportedly shot at several times, but while the driver succeeded in driving away from the scene to a police checkpoint Elusiyan was discovered dead.

Reacting to the incident in a statement, Taofeek Akinniyi, secretary of the Nigerian Medical Association in Osun state, said  Elusiyan’s demise “would create a huge vacuum in the medical profession in Nigeria”.

He asked the government to apprehend the perpetrators of the act and make them face the consequences of their deed.

“The Nigerian Medical Association, Osun State branch, expresses our dejection over the untimely death of one of our members whose exit had created monumental vacuum in the medical practice,” the statement read.

“We want the government to not only fish out the reckless orchestrators and perpetrators of this dastardly act, but to also subject them to face the consequences of their deed, as well as formulate appropriate policies that will secure our highways, guarantee protection of lives and property and redeem the diminishing hope for good governance in order to prevent lawlessness and anarchy in this respect.”