Simon Utebor
The Chairman, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area chapter, the National Union of Local Government Employees, Bayelsa State, Mr. Okaye Igali, has been killed.
The 53-year-old Igali was reportedly murdered on Friday by suspected assassins along the Anyama-Ijaw Road in Southern Ijaw area of the state.
The reason for the killing had yet to be ascertained as of press time, but residents said that as soon as the assassins completed their mission, they hurriedly left the scene.
The Secretary, Anyama-Ijaw Community Development Committee, Warifagha Yagila, confirmed Igali’s killing to our correspondent, saying the victim was attacked while on a commercial tricycle.
Yagila noted that the deceased boarded the tricycle to Anyama-Ijaw waterfront from where he wanted to board a speedboat before his killers, who were allegedly trailing him, opened fire on him.
Yagila, in a message sent via Whatsapp, said, “The assailants left him seriously injured in the process with his intestines coming out of his stomach. Igali died a few minutes after the attack at the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, where he was rushed to.”
The Police Public Relations Officer, Bayelsa State Command, Mr. Asinim Butswat, also confirmed the killing.
Butswat said in a statement on Saturday that preliminary investigation revealed that the attack on Igali was a premeditated murder.
He said, “Okaye Igali was shot and killed by gunmen along Anyama-Ijaw Road in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State on Friday, February 9, 2018 at about 1.44pm.’’
Meanwhile, the Bayelsa state correspondent of The Guardian, Mr. Julius Osahon, has been brutalised by a police sergeant identified as Idus Emmanuel attached to the state security outfit, Operation Doo Akpo.
Narrating his ordeal, Osahon, currently undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Yenagoa, said the police assaulted him because he sought to know why the police delayed the bus he was on as the driver did nothing wrong.
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