YENAGOA — A 26-year-old National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, member
serving in Bayelsa State, Miss Folakemi Akinbode, is now struggling for
her life at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, Okolobiri,
following a brutal attack from suspected cultists.
The incident occurred, Monday, at about 8.30pm at Obunagha community in the Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state.
Miss
Akinbode, an indigene of Ondo State, a graduate Nurse of the Madonna
University serving at NDU Teaching Hospital was returning from work when
she was ambushed by two suspected cultists along a lonely bush path
leading to the corpers’ lodge where she resides.
Her right hand was almost chopped off by her assailants who are now at large.
It
was learnt that but for the hand she raised to defend herself the
attackers could have killed her as the machete was aimed at her head.
The
victim was said to have ran to the lodge with her injuries shouting
“help, help, help…” after which she collapsed and lost consciousness due
to excessive bleeding from the almost severed hand.
A source told our correspondent that “though she had been given three pints of blood, she is yet to regain consciousness.”
Troubled
by the development, the traditional ruler of the community, Chief Apoh
Godgive, the Ibolou XI, was said to have ordered the immediate setting
up of vigilante group in the community with a view to fishing out the
perpetrators of the crime.Contacted, the state Police Public
Relations Officer, DSP Alex Akhigbe, confirmed the incident, saying the
command has launched manhunt for the fleeing attackers.
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