Armed Robbers Kill Nigerian Tech Guru, David Ntekim-Rex, See How friends React

Armed robbers have killed a young Computer Systems Engineer, David Ntekim-Rex, following attack at the Jibowu area of Lagos State.

The 22-year-old Ntekim-Rex was the winner of IBM competition that was held in 2018. His LinkedIn profile shows that he was working as a Product Designer at a Financial Technology firm, Crevatal, before he was shot dead at 8 pm on Friday.

A 2018 statement by IBM, shows that Ntekim-Rex, had defeated 17,000 contenders from around the world, including finalists from Brazil, Germany, India, Japan, Nepal, and the United States to become the co-regional winner of the annual Master the Mainframe competition, organised by AngelHack and IBM Z Academic Initiative.

Ntekim-Rex, who was described as a tech guru by friends, bagged several certificates and accomplishments before graduating from the Department of Systems Engineering at the University of Lagos in 2019.

He was the son of Dr. Yewande Ntekim-Rex, a senior lecturer at the English Department at the University of Lagos.

A relative of the deceased, who tweeted with the handle, @Magnanimous_, said the police failed to help Ntekim-Rex when he was shot. He alleged that the police continued to cause unnecessary delays as life slowly left Ntekim-Rex.

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He tweeted, “My ‘auntie’ has three sons. She’s always crazy about them. The middle child, David, is the most promising. He is a tech guy; very young, very brilliant. David was on his way home on Friday night when he was robbed, shot and killed around Jibowu. Please say a prayer for my aunt.

“David got shot around 8 pm. The police were called, David hadn’t died yet. The Nigerian police took pictures instead and were more concerned with why he, a tech guy, was carrying a laptop. Nigeria failed you, David.

“David was taken to the military hospital around the area. It took a senior nurse to come out and start checking for a pulse. He had lost a lot of blood at this point.

“The police then took David and his family to Sabo (police station), where they looked for the laptop that he had on him instead of giving them a police report. He was finally released to his family, and they got to LUTH around 12.30 am.

“He was there till the family was convinced he couldn’t be alive because he had no pulse.
The country failed David.
The doctors failed David.
The police failed David.
The system failed David.
Rest in peace David Ntekim-Rex.”

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A friend, Oluwatifunmi Omotimomake, said on Twitter that the death of Ntekim-Rex was a huge loss.

“It breaks my heart to see your life cut short by the actions of robbers and a failed government system. May your soul continue to rest in peace. Heaven has heard your cry. Justice will come.”

Friends revealed that days before he was killed, Ntekim-Rex had created an app for monitoring the success of New Year resolutions.

Confirming the incident, the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, said Nketim-Rex was dead before the police were called on.

The police Public Relations Officer added that the Divisional Police Officer and the Area Commander both intervened but there was nothing that could have been done to save the deceased.

He said, “On January 15, 2021, we were informed around 11.20 pm. On getting to the scene, policemen met his lifeless body but relations insisted that he was not dead. So, police took him to Military Hospital, Yaba but the hospital said they could not treat him and then referred him to LUTH.

“He was accepted at LUTH and he was confirmed dead. The family returned to the police to get extracts at the station for mortuary. So, the allegation of the police abandoning him is not true. The incident is unfortunate and we sympathise with the family but we did what we could.”

Below is how Nigerians react to Ntekim-Rex’s death…

Such beautiful talent gone ??

Multi talented individual, washed away like that! Really sad.

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RIP David Ntekim-Rex ? pic.twitter.com/pwGXRKWLyA

— Web3 Lady (oluchi.eth) (@koderHolic) January 17, 2021