Reps rue death of Nigerian woman in U.S

By Victor Oluwasegun and Dele Anofi

 

Speaker of House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal

The House of Representatives has decried the shooting of a 40-year old Nigerian woman in the United States by a lone gunman.
The woman, Mrs. Doris Chibuko, a mother of three was just two months away from graduating from the Korean Nursing School, Oakland’s Oikos University, East Oakland, California.
Chibuko met her death, when the gunman opened fire indiscriminately on students and staff of the school on Monday, April 2, 2012.
In her condolence message, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman House Committee on Dispora, noted that the deceased worked as a lawyer in Nigeria before her departure for the U.S.
Before her untimely death, Mrs. Chibuko was on the verge of launching a second career in nursing, eight months into a one-year vocational programme.
“The House Committee on Dispora sends its heartfelt condolences to the husband, Mr. Efanye Chibuko, the children - Chemelie 3, Ify 5, Chioma 8 and her mother who also lives in Oakland.