Hoodlums invade legislative chamber in Delta, cart away mace

Hoodlums numbering 200 at the weekend invaded the Ughelli South Local Government Area legislative chamber during one of its sessions, leaving nine people with varying degrees of injuries. ...

The hoodlums, believed to have invaded the council with guns, cutlasses, battle axes and other dangerous weapons, under the instruction of a top executive member of the council, freely used them on their victims, including five councilors, three members of staff of the council and the Clerk of the House, who was stabbed on the head.


It took the timely intervention of a team of military personnel, who came to the rescue of the lawmakers, apprehended eight of the hoodlums before taking them to their barrack at Agbarha-Otor.

Ten members of the hoodlums were also apprehended at Edjekota by men of the State Anti- Robbery Squad (SARS) and they have given useful information about the top executive officer of the council, who sent them. Giving details of the incident, Leader of the House, Hon. December Saromare, said the hoodlums also made away with the mace of the House after smashing and destroying windows, furniture and other items within the chambers.

Confirming the arrest of the hoodlums, a senior police officer, told New Telegraph that the suspects had confessed that a top political office holder in the Ughelli South executive and three lawmakers in the council as the brains behind their attack on the lawmakers.