23-year-old corps member identified as Ekene Uwaoma Martins, was shot dead by unknown gunmen on Monday, October 16th after he was accosted and asked to surrender his phone at Ama-wire Junction in Owerri, the Imo state capital. According to reports, Ekene who is a 2016 graduate of History and International Studies from the Imo State University, was serving in Ogun state and had gone to Imo state to see his mother, Mrs. Mary Uwaoma.