Two men, identified as Weki Malua and Ebi West –Jato, have been reportedly caught and taken into police custody
over the murderous attack unleashed on a female Corps member, Dr. Folakemi Akinbode in Bayelsa State.
The Special Adviser on Security Matters to the Govenor of Bayelsa state, Bernard Kenebai, a retired Colonel of the Nigerian Army, told journalist in Yenagoa, the state capital, on Thursday that the two suspects amongst others still on the run, had met Mrs. Akinbode earlier at work on the day of the incident.
They came as blood donors at the Niger-Delta university teaching hospital, Okolobiri, where Ms Akinbode, an indengen of Ondo State, was on primary assignment as a National Youth Service Corps member. She was the doctor designated to attend to the group of young men who later ambushed and almost killed her. She had paid them for the blood donation as instructed by the hospital management. They later, according to Col. Kenebai, waylaid and dealt her murderous machete cuts leaving one of her limbs hanging precariously on thin flesh
Kenebai told newsmen in Yenagoa on Thursday that the Special Task Force, acting on a hint, arrested the two people suspected to have attacked the corps member. He said that the task force received a call from the State Government’s Security Coordination Centre on a hint about the where about of the suspects.
Kenebai said the team raided Gbarain area, Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa, where they arrested the two suspects.
He said the suspects were arrested with machete and two handsets, Blackberry and Nokia brand phones said to belong to the corps member, stressing that the operatives were on the trail of others.
The adviser said Akinbode’s limb was chopped off in the attack by the suspects last Tuesday while returning from her place of primary assignment.