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Delta House Condemns Assassination Attempt On Speaker

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Members of the Delta State House of Assembly have condemned last Friday’s alleged assassination attempt on the Speaker of the House, Mr. Victor Ochei, in Obomkpa, and called on security agents to fish out the culprits.

Moving the motion under matters of urgent public importance, which  was seconded by the deputy speaker, Mr. Basil Ganagana and unanimously voted in favour, member representing Ughelli North 1 constituency in the House, Mr. Samuel Mariere said police must expedite action and ensure the hoodlums are arrested and made to face the law.
Also contributing to the debate, member representing Warri South-West constituency, said: “The attempt on the life of our Speaker is an attempt on all of us.”
The state Police Command has also confirmed that there was an assassination attempt on Ochei’s life in Obomkpa, Aniocha North Local Government Area of the state.

The Command’s spokesperson, Mr. Lucky Uyabeme, told journalists in Asaba that “on Friday, November 1, the Speaker, Mr Ochei, was in Obomkpa in Aniocha council of the state for a function, and there was an explosion under the chair he was supposed to sit on.”
Uyabeme said investigation was on to unravel how locally-made canons were placed under the seat Ochei was to sit on.
The state governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has, meanwhile, called on politicians not to heat up the polity.
Speaking when he visited a victim of the explosion at the state University Teaching Hospital, Oghara, the governor,  said: “I urge politicians and all Deltans to be calm and patient with the police presently investigating the matter to come up with their findings. We should also conduct ourselves in a manner that will not heat up the polity, especially now that political activities are on the increase.