Armed bandits attack corpers’ lodge in Rivers State [PHOTOS]

A group of unknown hoodlums have caused mayhem at the Corps members’ lodge in Bori, Khana Local Government Area, LGA, of Rivers state, leaving scores badly wounded.

The incident happened at about 4am on July 10. About 15 armed robbers invaded the lodge and attacked those who were present including – the President, Buako Community Development Service, CDS group, Duru Humphrey, one Aroh ifeanyi, Ebenezer Benson and Onyekachi Christian.

The robbers used machete to inflict injuries on the corps members and dispossessed them of their valuables including money and gadgets before fleeing the area.

The victims are currently receiving treatment in an undisclosed hospital.

Meanwhile, a source privy to the incident told reporters that there is more to the attack than mere robbery.

According to him, there was a robbery incident in the same lodge in January where a villager was apprehended and arrested. The villager was, however, released some days after. Indications are that the unnamed thief who threatened to get back to the corps members for ‘catching him in the act,’ staged this new attack.

He is believed to have mobilized people, alleged to be his gang, who did not only steal but inflicted severe injuries on the victims.

The source made it clear that the matter was reported at the Bori Police Division but as at press time, nothing has been said or done about it.

Corper buried in Akwa Ibom weeks to passing out

The remains of Ngozi Onyekwere, 26, a National Youth Service Corps member at the Akwa Ibom State Government House, Uyo, have been buried at her home town in Nnarambia, Ahiara, in the Ahiazu Local Government Area of Imo State.

Onyekwere, an Accounting graduate from the University of Port Harcourt, who was to pass out from the national scheme in August 2016, died in a road accident at Uyo on June 23, 2016.

The victim was returning from her workplace at the government house when the crash occurred.

During a requiem mass at Saint Brigid’s Catholic Church, Nnarambia, Rev. Father Boniface Nwaigwe urged the congregation to always help humanity, especially those in need.

Nwaigwe, a professor and lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, University of Port Harcourt, regretted that people who witnessed the accident did not assist the victim by taking her to a hospital.

The cleric said rather than take the victim to the hospital, those who witnessed the accident were busy snapping the pictures of the accident and posting them on social media.