A violence which has been thought to have stopped in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State has reared its ugly head again as gunmen on Wednesday, renewed the violence, storming the residence of a proprietor of a private school in Swali, a suburb of the city, and shot three corps members.

The attack left two dead and one was critically injured but receiving treatment in the Federal Medical Center.

The two members of the National Youth Service Corps shot dead include Poopola Olamide, a graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University who was an indigene of Oyo state and one Georgia Onokpoma while the one injured, Anthony Dada is reported to be responding fine to treatment.

This ugly incident is a product of a cult related killings which have taken over the place since the general elections came to an end. Over 15 people, including two police officers are said to have lost their lives following the incident in the last two weeks in the state’s capital.

According to neighbors, the assailants stormed the place at around 10:30 AM and started the killing.

“We heard gunshots from the corps members’ room. One of them was heard shouting “Jesus” and asking what their crime was.”

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They also revealed the victims where corps members attached to a private school, Victory Group of Schools which is near their residence.

Speaking, the police spokesman of the state, Asimim Butswats, said the police are on the radar of the killers.

The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Olusola David, who later visited the state secretariat of the NYSC and met with the state Director, Mrs Lotto Bolade, expressed shock over the incident and assured the NYSC of a security strategy to ensure the safety of serving corps members in the state.

In her response, the state director noted that attacks on corps members in the state had become worrisome.
“These hoodlums have been attacking corps members serially,” she said.

Bolade said she had written to state governor, adding that there was no day that the corps did not record cases of attack against its members.

She also confirmed that the third corps member survived as the bullet did not do much damage to his body.

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