Female Corp member macheted by cultists in Bayelsa state

A 26-year-old National Youth Service
Corps, NYSC, member serving in
Bayelsa State, Miss Folakemi Akinbode,
is now struggling for her life at the Niger
Delta University Teaching Hospital,
Okolobiri, following a brutal attack from
suspected cultists.
The incident occurred, Monday, at
about 8.30pm at Obunagha community
in the Yenagoa Local Government Area
of the state.
Miss Akinbode, an indigene of Ondo
State, a graduate Nurse of the Madonna
University serving at NDU Teaching
Hospital was returning from work when
she was ambushed by two suspected
cultists along a lonely bush path leading
to the corpers’ lodge where she resides.
Her right hand was almost chopped off
by her assailants who are now at large.
It was learnt that but for the hand she
raised to defend herself the attackers
could have killed her as the machete was
aimed at her head.
The victim was said to have ran to the
lodge with her injuries shouting “help,
help, help…” after which she collapsed
and lost consciousness due to excessive
bleeding from the almost severed hand.
A source told our correspondent that
“though she had been given three pints
of blood, she is yet to regain
consciousness.”
Troubled by the development, the
traditional ruler of the community,
Chief Apoh Godgive, the Ibolou XI, was
said to have ordered the immediate
setting up of vigilante group in the
community with a view to fishing out the
perpetrators of the crime.
Contacted, the state Police Public
Relations Officer, DSP Alex Akhigbe,
confirmed the incident, saying the
command has launched manhunt for
the fleeing attackers