Unknown gunmen attack Sylva’s aide, kill guard

By Samuel Oyadongha
SENIOR Special Assistant to Bayelsa State Governor on Conflict Resolution, Michael Wenibowei, Tuesday evening, escaped death by the whiskers when unknown gunmen attacked his residence.

His bodyguard was not that lucky as he was shot dead, while another aide was seriously injured by the assailants.

Wenibowei was a chairman of the central zone of the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC.

Vanguard learnt that the incident which occurred at about 6.00p.m., caused serious pandemonium around the junction linking the old PDP Secretariat Road and Barat Hotel in the Yenizue-Gene suburb of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital where the former IYC chieftain’s residence is located.

Eyewitnesses who relived the tragic incident said the gunmen might have kept surveillance on their target given the swiftness of the operation.

They said the governor’s aide who sat in front of his house had stepped in to pick up an item with his bodyguard tagging behind when a gunman allegedly on foot walked close to the low fence of his premises and shot at the unsuspecting victims.

When Vanguard visited the scene of the incident, the premises was deserted with the façade of the building riddled with bullets. The remains of the deceased had since been deposited at the morgue of the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa.