One person was feared dead when violence broke out in Tungbo community, Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, when strange faces attempted to participate in the on-going voters’ registration exercise in the area.
Youths in Odi community had recently foiled an attempt by some strange faces to steal the Direct Data Capture (DDC) machine and register in their community.
Also the Timi Alaibe Campaign Organisation had raised alarm over the plot to thwart the voters’ registration exercise in selected local governments areas by hoodlums who had been hired to disrupt the exercise in places where they were not allowed to register.
According to investigations, three coaster buses, allegedly owned by the Bayelsa State Government, had conveyed about 100 youths to the community from Delta and Rivers States to participate in the exercise.
But the community’s youths, who had been on alert since the Odi incident confronted the strange faces and a verbal altercation ensued, which resulted in a major fracas between armed youths and security forces.
It was during the violence that one person, identified as an Itsekiri youth from Delta State, was shot dead and the three buses vandalised before the Police fired tear gas to disperse the youths.
In an interview the state Commissioner of Police, Aliyu Musa, confirmed the incident but insisted that nobody died and that the Police was not in any way involved in the violence.
Musa said there were conflicting stories about the incident and people were trying to drag the name of the Police into it to tarnish its image.
“Nobody died in the incident. That report is false and the Police were not involved in what happened. There were conflicting stories that the people came from Port Harcourt and Delta. And when I heard, I said if they are indigenes of the community, residing outside and have decided to come home to register then they should be allowed to register. But if nobody in the community can identified them, then they should be told to leave the community. If there was any Electoral offence committed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officer there would have informed the police to take action. We tried to avoid a situation whereby people would raise alarm and the Police would pursue people only for politicians to now accuse us of sending their supporters away” he said.
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