Probe attack on APC members, Sylva’s team urges police

The Sylva-Igiri Campaign Organisation of the All Progressives Congress in Bayelsa State has called on the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Nasiru Oki, to probe attacks on its members.

The Director, Media and Publicity, SICO, Chief Nathan Egba, accused the supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party of being responsible for the attacks on Tuesday.

According to Egba, during the attacks, four APC women and the driver of one of the trucks used to evacuate refuse at Amarata and Tombia areas of Yenagoa were attacked.

He said the attackers set one of the trucks ablaze and smashed the windscreen of another truck.

Egba condemned what he described as unprovoked attacks unleashed by suspected supporters of the PDP on members of SICO during the evacuation of refuse in different parts of Yenagoa.

He said, “The campaign team, therefore, calls on the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Nasiru Oki, to bring to book those PDP supporters who attacked and injured no fewer than four APC women and a driver of one of the evacuating trucks.

“During the attacks, which occurred at Amarata and Tombia areas of Yenagoa, one of the trucks was set ablaze and another’s windscreen was smashed.

“The women and youth wings of SICO were on a rescue mission to help the state government to perform one if its statutory functions of clearing refuse at various dump sites when they were attacked.

“It is, therefore, unacceptable that apart from attacking the women, the attackers burnt down one of our trucks at the Tombia dump site and smashed the windscreen of another truck at Amarata area of Yenagoa.”

Egba sympathised with all those that were injured and assured them of the party’s commitment to ensuring that they all get the best medical treatment.

He said the APC did not envisage any form of attack while volunteering to help clear garbage and waste that had overwhelmed   Yenagoa metropolis.

He assured members of SICO of better security arrangements for their protection in the future.

He added, “This attack on innocent APC members is viewed as an attempt to provoke our members to violence but we have and will continue to resist the temptation to retaliate.

(Punch)