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Medical Doctors and nurses yesterday escaped death in Osisioma Ngwa Local Government Area,Abia State, as youths numbering over 300 stormed the venue of a free medical outreach and chased away patients who had gathered for the event.
The free medical outreach is sponsored by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, (APGA), Prof.Greg Ibe.
The armed youths stopped the medical personnel from gaining entry into the Abayi Community hall, venue of the medical outreach.
Eyewitnesses told Pointblanknews.com that the youths claimed that they had earlier booked the venue for a celebration of New Yam festival.
However, when the youths displayed the banner for the new yam festival,it was discovered that the event was slated for September 1st, 2022.
Most of the irate youths were identified as supporters of the YPP governorship candidate,Mr. Nana Nwafor, who nails from Osisioma Ngwa LGA.
Coordinator of the Prof. Gregory Ibe medical outreach, Dr.Ojum Ekeoma Ogwo, said that all appeals to the youths to allow the medical personnel entry to the hall to attend to the patients who were already, did not yield fruit.
He wondered that even the poor health conditions of the patients could not make the thugs to change their stance.
He said; “The youths frustrated every effort to resolve the issue.They claimed that they were directed by a governorship candidate to attack the medical team if they insisted on continuing with the exercise.”
Pointblanknews.com further gathered that the medical team later withdrew to a safe place in Aba,but later cancelled the exercise.
Expressing his disappointment over the incident,Ogwo lamented that politicians out of desperation for power have continued to endanger lives of their subjects and described it as politics taken too far.
Ogwo disclosed that over 10,000 patients from 12 LGAs had benefited from the exercise.