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Bayelsa female corps member’s assailants arrested, corps member to be flown abroad


Folakemi Akinbode
Bayelsa State Special Security Task Force, codenamed Operation Doo Akpor, has arrested two persons for the attack on a 26-year-old corps member, Miss Folakemi Akinbode.
Akinbode’s limb was reportedly chopped off after being attacked by the suspected hoodlums on Tuesday while returning from her place of primary assignment.

 
The suspects have been identified as Weri Malua and Ebi West Jato.
The suspects were said to have visited Niger Delta Teaching Hospital, Okolobiri, where Akinbode is observing her primary assignment, earlier in the day to donate blood.
 After being attended to by the victim, they were paid an undisclosed amount by the Hospital Management through Akinbode.
After effecting the payment, the suspects reportedly waylaid the corps member and attacked her with machete and cudgels.
The Special Adviser to Governor Seriake Dickson on Security matters, Col Bernard Kenebai, (retd.), told journalist on Thursday that the security operatives acted on a tip-off and this led to the arrest of Malua and Jato.
According to him, the Special Task Force, around 1.30pm, received a call at the State Government’s Security Coordination Centre, which eventually led to the arrest of the two in Gbarain, Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state.

Attacked corps member to be flown abroad

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Miss Folakemi Akinbode, who was attacked by hoodlums in Bayelsa State, may be flown abroad for treatment.

The 26-year old, who hails from Ondo State, had her right hand chopped off by bandits.
The hoodlums accosted the Madonna University Nursing graduate on her way home from the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, Okolobiri, where she was serving.
She was said to have regained consciousness at the teaching hospital a day after the incident, and was transferred to the Federal Medical Centre.
But there is an arrangement to fly her abroad for advanced treatment.
It was learnt that the foreign medical trip is being facilitated by an activist and presidential aspirant in the forthcoming Ijaw Youth Council’s election, Udens Eradiri.
Eradiri, it was gathered, visited the recovering corps member, donated N100,000 for her treatment and promised to procure her visa.
The aspirant was said to have visited the host community of the corps member and held a meeting with the monarch and youths.
In a telephone interview, the IYC aspirant said he was discussing with the government to finalise the trip.
He described the incident as barbaric and one of the challenges of development.
“I am not doing this because I am an aspirant. I am an Ijaw youth and this incident that happened in Ijaw land is embarrassing.
“Youth corps members are national assets that must be respected and protected and I call on well-meaning Bayelsans to identify with the pains the corps member is going through. We are working on her passport and talking with the government to fly her abroad.”
It was learnt that two persons had been arrested by the police in connection with the incident.
Ebi Jatto and Weriye Aluwa were said to have been arrested while attempting to sell a mobile phone they allegedly snatched from the corps member.
They were said to have confessed to the crime, claiming they attacked the corps member because she refused to give them money.
The Special Adviser on Security Matters to the Governor, Benard Kennebai, confirmed that the hoodlums were arrested by the operatives of the state security outfit, Operation Doo-Akpo.
Kennebai, in a statement, explained the circumstances that led to the incident.


He said: “The hoodlums, earlier in the day under pretence went to the Niger Delta Teaching Hospital, Okolobiri to donate blood.
“However, after being attended to by the victim, they were paid an undisclosed amount by the hospital management through Akinbode.
“After effecting the payment, the hoodlums, (not cultists as reported) waylaid the corps member and attacked her with machete and cudgels.
“Disturbed by the incident, the State Special Security Task Force swung into action and its efforts paid off with the arrest of the perpetrators, Weri Malua and Ebi West Jato, while the operatives are trailing the others.”
He said the suspects were arrested, following a tip-off.
Kennebai added: “The Special Task Force, around 1:30pm, received a call at the State Government’s Security Coordination Centre, which eventually led to the arrest of the two in Gbarain, Yenagoa Local Government Area.
“Members of our team raided the area and arrested Weri and Ebi with a machete and two phones- a Blackberry and Nokia belonging to the corps member.
“Weri and Ebi have been handed over to the Police for further interrogation while the police are on the trail of other suspects.”

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