Minister of Transportation

Breaking: Amaechi’s CSO, Iwelu Is Reported Dead

Tony Iwelu, the Chief Security Officer of the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi is dead.

It is unclear how Iwelu died but sources close to the Minister said the DSS Officer died of electrocution at his hotel room in Kaduna.

This comes hours after reports of the attack on Amaechi on the Abuja-Kaduna rail line surfaced online.

It also coincides with claims by the co-convener of #BringBackOurGirls Campaign, Aisha Yesufu that the Minister was indeed attacked.

According to Yesufu, “Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, you should be ashamed of yourself. My sister, my brother and my sister-in-law were on that train. When

File Photo: Amaechi disembarks from a train

Amaechi Denies Train Attack In Kaduna

Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has denied a news story that he was caught up in a gun attack in Kaduna on Sunday night.

Daily Nigerian reported that the minister and hundreds of train passengers escaped naarrowly Sunday night after suspected kidnappers opened fire on their vehicles as they left the Rigasa station in Kaduna.

But in a reaction on his Twitter handle, Amaechi thumbed down the report as ‘fake news”.

” This 👎🏿 is completely concocted”, he wrote.

According to reporters, the gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers, opened fire from their ambush position in Mando on the cavalcade of …