Factional Chairman of the Rivers State council of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Beatrice Itubo has escaped an attempted assassination, after a gang of three gunmen broke into her residence in the early hours of Saturday.
It was reported that the hoodlums stormed Itubo’s residence at Rumuaholu community in Obio-Akpor Local Government Area, shot at the gate and damaged doors to force their way into her bedroom.
Confirming the development in an interview, Itubo said one of the gunmen was overpowered by members of her household, while two of the gang members escaped.
Beatrice Itubo, who leads a faction of the NLC in Rivers State, said it was possible that she was attacked because of the power tussle in the union.
The chairman urged the Rivers State Police Command to investigate the attempted assassination and bring the perpetrators to justice.
Beatrice narrated that, “At about 3 am, I started hearing some noise with dogs around my area barking. I told my husband, then I became restless. In the next few minutes I saw them in my room. They used my younger brother to make me open the door to my room.
“As they were walking into my room, my younger brother shouted that I should run that they are not armed robbers, they want to kill you. So we shut the door immediately and locked the rest of them outside to battle with the armed one already inside.
“They were all masked but by the grace of God my husband and my younger brother were able to over-power him and unarm him. We have handed him over to the police. The rest ran away.”
Policemen from Rumuokoro Division in Port Harcourt visited the scene of the attack and took the motionless body of one of the suspected assassins.
