Black Sunday : Gunmen Kill Polaris Bank Manager In Children’s Presence
By: Gele Agbai
Sunday, September 6, 2026 was a holy day especially for Christians who attend services on the fateful day in their different church denominations to commune with God and other brethren.
But that holy day was chosen by men of the dark world to perpetrate a heinous crime: they pumped hot lead into a Polaris Bank Manager, identified simply as Mr Ossy Onuoha . And the bullets sent him to his early grave.
Think of the place where these sons of hell chose to carry out their dastardly act: it was at the expansive premises of the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO).
Reports indicate that Mr. Ossy Onuoha had traveled to the university to convey his two sons back to the institution to resume their studies when the daredevils struck.
Fortunately though for the two children, the bullets missed them. But their father wasn’t lucky. The bandits gunned him down on the spot.
The daredevils weren’t done yet. They abducted two female students of the university and bolted away. They are reported to have demanded the sum of N100million from the families of the victims as ransom.
This incident instantly has spread fresh panic across the university community. Students who are currently taking their examinations and their parents are agitated and alarmed.
Polaris Bank, in a statement signed by its Head of Brand Management and Corporate Communication, Rasheed Bolarinwa has confirmed the murder of its manager.
The bank said the manager was attacked by hoodlums while bringing his children to the campus, adding that although the children escaped, their father was not as fortunate.
The bank appealed for calm and urged the public to allow security agencies to conduct their investigation.
FUTO management also confirmed the deadly incident, stating that a visitor to the university was shot dead on September 6, while two female students were abducted.
In a statement signed by the university Registrar, Chinonso Uba, management said it was working closely with security agencies to secure the safe release of the abducted students. It also promised to strengthen security across the campus and neighbouring communities.
A delegation led by the university’s Vice Chancellor Prof Ikechukwu Dozie on Monday September 7 paid a courtesy visit to the state Commissioner of Police CP Audu Garba Bosso.
During the visit, Prof Dozie appealed to the police authorities to strengthen security within and around the FUTO precincts.
Host communities of FUTO namely Nekede, Ihiagwa, Eziobodo and Obinze have been hotbeds of crimes in recent times. Surprisingly, that axis harbours strategic federal institutions including security agencies such as police college and 34 FAB(Field Artillery Bridge) headquarters.
The terrain is made even more difficult by the surrounding thick forests and FUTO’s large unsecured and undeveloped expanse of land. The Nekede-Ihiagwa-Obinze road has also remained un-motorable making the university the only thoroughfare in that axis.
In his response, CP Bosso ordered the rescue of the abducted two female students as well as the apprehension of their captors.
Residents pray that this incident rouses the authorities from slumber to frontally tackle the menace of banditry and kidnapping in the area once and for all.
