The Special Adviser to Governor Samuel Ortom on Bureau of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Jerome Tor Shimbe, is dead.

Tor Shimbe was said to have died on Monday night after a brief illness just three days past his 64th birthday.

Similarly, the Personal Assistant to the Governor on Special Duties, Famous Adejo, died last Thursday.

Ortom, who grieved over the deaths of his two aides, said he knew the late Torshimbe three decades ago and described the deceased Special Adviser as an experienced and competent administrator who had added positively to the government.

The governor noted that the late Torshimbe was very supportive to many including widows and orphans, saying that he was a generous politician who loved to share with the needy.

Speaking on the late Adejo, governor Ortom said the young man was a hardworking individual who withstood the storm to acquire higher education up to masters level and was studying for his doctorate degree when death snatched him away.

The governor who however promised to train Adejo’s only son who just completed secondary education up to the university level described the deaths as very painful and prayed God to grant the bereaved families the fortitude to bear the losses.