The police in Bayelsa State have confirmed that the home
of the Bayelsa House of Assembly Speaker was bombed on Thursday.
The Police Public Relations Officer in Bayelsa State, Asinim
Butswat, said that some unknown assailants detonated an object suspected to be
dynamite in the compound of the Bayelsa Speaker, Kombowei Benson, at the
Korokorosei Community around 4am on Thursday.
Mr. Butswat said no life was lost, but that the impact of
the explosion damaged the doors, windows and glasses in the speaker’s
residence.
He said a team of bomb experts from the police visited the
scene of the blast to conduct investigation, and that the police was
intensifying efforts to arrest those behind it.
No arrest had been made yet over the incident, he said.
The speaker, Mr. Benson, told PREMIUM TIMES, Friday, that he
had “overcome” the attack, and that he was working hard for his party, the
Peoples Democratic Party, to win the rescheduled governorship election in the
Southern Ijaw Local Government Area.
Source: PREMIUM TIMES
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