A
factional Chairman of the Rivers State council of the Nigeria Labour
Congress narrowly escaped being assassinated in her home.
Gunman(file photo)
Beatrice Itubo, the factional Chairman of the Rivers State Council
of the Nigeria Labour Congress, escaped the attempted assassination,
after a gang of three gunmen broke into her residence in the early hours
of Saturday.
According to DailyPost reports that the hoodlums stormed Itubo’s
residence at Rumuaholu community in Obio-Akpor Local Government Area,
shot at the gate and damaged doors to force their way into her bedroom.
Confirming the development in an interview, Itubo said one of the
gunmen was overpowered by members of her household, while two of the
gang members escaped.
Beatrice Itubo, who leads a faction of the NLC in Rivers State,
said it was possible that she was attacked because of the power tussle
in the union. She urged the Rivers State Police Command to investigate
the attempted assassination and bring the perpetrators to justice.
Narrating her experience, she said: “At about 3 am, I started
hearing some noise with dogs around my area barking. I told my husband,
then I became restless. In the next few minutes I saw them in my room.
They used my younger brother to make me open the door to my room.
“As they were walking into my room, my younger brother shouted
that I should run that they are not armed robbers, they want to kill
you. So we shut the door immediately and locked the rest of them outside
to battle with the armed one already inside.
“They were all masked but by the grace of God my husband and my
younger brother were able to over-power him and unarm him. We have
handed him over to the police. The rest ran away.”
Policemen from Rumuokoro Division in Port Harcourt visited the
scene of the attack and took the motionless body of one of the suspected
assassins.
