Folakemi Akinbode, a member of the National Youth Service Corps serving in Obuah community in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, was on Monday night attacked by suspected cultists who chopped off her right hand and left it dangling by a thin flesh.
Folakemi Akinbode, a member of the National Youth Service Corps serving in Obuah community in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, was on Monday night attacked by suspected cultists who chopped off her right hand and left it dangling by a thin flesh.
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The attack is the latest in a string of incidents involving suspected cult members despite the recent amnesty granted to some 10,000 cultists by Gov. Seriake Dickson.
Akinbode, a 26-year old who hails from Ondo State, is a graduate of Nursing from Madonna University in Rivers State. She was attacked at about 8.30pm while returning to the Corpers Lodge near the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, Okolobori, the location of her primary assignment.
She is presently receiving treatment at the Teaching Hospital and is said to be responding to treatment but was unconscious when SaharaReporters visited the hospital.
Ibolou XI of Obunagha, H.R.H Godsgive Apoh, the paramount ruler of the community, confirmed the incident and strongly condemned it. He said he had summoned an emergency meeting of the Youth Vigilante Association to investigate and apprehend those responsible for the incident, which has thrown other corps members in the area into great anxiety
Alex Akhigbe, the police spokesman in Bayelsa, said no arrest had been made, but assured that the police was on the trail of the assailants.
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