Brass Crisis: Violence was an attempt on my life, says LG Chair, imposes curfew in community

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Even as he imposed a nine hour curfew in crisis-ridden Brass Local Government area of Bayelsa state, the Care-taker Chairman, Victor Issaih, says he was saved by divine providence over an alleged attempt on his life on Monday, by thugs he says were sponsored by a APC chieftain in the community.

Victor Issiah, has imposed a nine hours (9pm-6am) curfew in the community following a violence confrontation between thugs suspected to be All Progressive Congress (APC) and members of the local volunteers groups.

Speaking with newsmen after inspecting some of the properties destroyed during the bloody clash that reportedly claimed three lives between, the caretaker chairman, disassociated his party, the People Democratic Party (PDP) from the violence.

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He said the youths who made attempt on his life by attacking his personal lodge and with guns and other dangerous weapon were known political thugs used by the APC leader and a member of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Sunny Goli.

He said attempts by the alleged APC thugs to gain entrance into his office lodge was met with resistance from the Local Government security volunteers group, saying no that the PDP has nothing do with the violence.

He said, “few days ago, some suspected armed APC youths attacked the local government council Aide and PDP youths. Now, they attempted to assassinate me but met meet absence and were resisted by our security volunteers.”

He said, “One of the dead thugs, Kelvin Ikurusi, the mastermind and leader of the Monday 20th, August 2018 failed assassination attempt on my life is a member of the APC in Brass and a known hardend criminal and cultist who escaped from police (SARS) custody in Yenagoa last year.

“Before his death, he was under police wanted list for breaking out of police (SARS) custody. After the successful cell break, he ran to Brass and was provided refuge by the APC chieftain.”

“The reports of his misdemeanors are notoriously known in Brass as he is daily fingered for armed robbery, snatching of phones, harassment of indigenes, etcetera.”

“He was empowered and given a matching order by Leaders of the APC in Brass to harrass and intimate members of the PDP.”

He called on the Federal Government, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and other relevant security agencies to investigate without bias, the alleged activities of the APC chieftain and ensure security in the community especially as election drew nearer.

He also called on the youths in the area not to allow themselves to be used as political thugs as the electioneering period gets nearer, urging them to instead engage them to know what benefits they had brought to the local government area and the state.

Meanwhile the APC in the state has sent a protest letter to the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris over the Monday violent attack and killing of two members of the party.

The party alleged the PDP of desperation to take over the area in 2019 by working in consonance with some individuals, hired mercenaries and security agencies to kill and unleash mayhem, threats, intimidation, unlawful arrests and detention of opposition members across the state.

The Twon Brass area of the Brass Constituency 1 is the only area with an APC State House of Assembly member, Hon. Istreal Sunny-Goli.

The member representing constituency 1 in the State House of Assembly, Hon.Isreal Sunny-Goli who in statement had alleged that the violence was allegedly initiated by the PDP through the acting Chairman, Hon. Victor Isiah to intimidate, kill and chase out opposition members from the Brass Local Government area of the State.

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