The Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has said that the hit-and-run driver, who knocked down and killed the Vice-Chairman of The Sun Publishing Ltd, Pastor Dimgba Igwe, must be arrested and prosecuted by the police, to serve as a deterrent to others.

Amaechi, spoke yesterday in a condolence letter to the management of The Sun, addressed to Mr. Femi Adesina, the Managing Director of Sun Publishing Ltd.

Igwe was jogging near his Okota, Lagos home on Saturday morning, when he was hit by a car. The driver sped-off. He was later rushed to the hospital but was pronounced dead following an unsuccessful emergency surgical procedure.

The NGF chairman said: “I received with shock, the news of the sudden passage of one of the leading lights of journalism, Pastor Dimgba Igwe. He was passionate and painstaking. He was a thoroughbred professional and one of Nigeria’s brightest and best.

“His demise at this time, when our nation is in dire need of men of honour and courage and when his younger colleagues need his steadying hands to guide their practice is most painful. We in Rivers State feel a deep sense of personal loss, because of our close relationship with him.

“We enjoin the police to ensure that the driver is brought to book. It is unfortunate that this great man was cut down in his prime, as life only begins at 40.

“While we wait for justice to be done, we assure the deceased’s family and his friends and colleagues that we share in this grief”.

Amaechi also expressed the sympathies of the government and people of Rivers State over the great loss and assured the Igwe family, his relatives and friends of the prayers and support of the Rivers people.