The Act of Desperation: Attempted Attack on the life of the Speaker as Chief Mrs Nkem Okwuofu is fingered.

The last have not been heard about the attempted attack on the life of the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly and Gubernatorial Aspirant Rt. Hon. Engr. Victor Ochei.

The bomb blast took place on Friday morning at a reception ceremony put together by a political group in honor of the Speaker of DTHA Rt Hon Victor Ochei at the Obomkpa community hall.

Hon. Ochei, on a routine familiarisation and thank-you tour of his Aniocha North Constituency, had barely finished exchanging pleasantries with his supporters at the Eke Market square venue, when a loud explosion and its attendant smoke threw the crowd into pandemonium.
All though the Speaker escaped by whiskers as he was still exchanging pleasantries when the bomb went off. An eye witness account reports that a young lady by name Ms Perpetual Damasus ,an Asaba born PA to Bishop Ken Ebolum of Dominion Christian Center,Asaba was severely affected.

The Speaker had not taken his seat immediately on arrival, as he was busy exchanging greetings when the canon, ignited and propelled from the rear on trajectory to his seat on the front row, was inhibited by chairs which, even though were shattered, provided some cushioning effect. It was also gathered that the explosives were wrapped in white satin materials, which made detection impossible, as the chairs and tables were also decorated in white materials. The lady victim sat directly behind the Chair meant for the Hon. Speaker.The victim was taken to the Delta State University Teaching Hospital, Oghara where Doctors are battling to save her life as her leg was seriously shattered in the explosion.

According to police sources, one suspect John Oyibo Achuzia Ijeh a cousin to Chief Mrs Nkem Okwuofu has been arrested in connection with the incident and under police interrogation as at time of this report has confessed that he was instructed to carry out the act by Chief Mrs Nkem Okwuofu an indigene of Obomkpa who was alleged to have threatened the Speaker not to come to her community.

Chief Mrs Nkem Okwuofu popularly called Agu Nwanyi is currently Chairman of the Delta State Local Government Service Commission is believed to have a very soured and unhealthy relationship with Rt Hon Victor Ochei. It has been reported severally how Chief Okwuofu tampers with Local Government funds.

This act of intolerance and threat to life must be condemned by all and sundry and I urge all men of goodwill to call for her arrest and prosecution.

Na waoooo. Wonders shall never end. Let the security agencies carry out further investigation. And let the law take its course. Justice must be served.

This is a very sad development. We were supposed to be our brothers keepers and show God's love by loving even our enemies...Solomon with all he had, said all is vanity! Why trying to take the life you can create ? Very bad.

The act is condemnable.
What manner of politics would have left to
such a dastard act. All the same, let the police
do their jobs and if she is found culpable, let
her be arrested and prosecuted.

The security agents should make sure they do their investigation so as to get to the root cause this sad incident.