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.
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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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