{"id":105329,"date":"2023-06-08T21:41:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T20:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=105329"},"modified":"2023-06-08T21:41:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T20:41:58","slug":"attempt-by-armed-men-to-whisk-away-member-elect-from-anambra-assembly-foiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/attempt-by-armed-men-to-whisk-away-member-elect-from-anambra-assembly-foiled\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempt by armed men to whisk away member-elect from Anambra Assembly foiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">There was panic at the Anambra State House of Assembly as four armed men, suspected to be operatives of the Directorate of Security Services (DSS), tried to whisk away member-elect for Nnewi North constituency, Mr. Onyekachukwu Ike.<\/p>\n<p>The armed men drove into the Assembly complex in three vehicles and grabbed the member-elect after he participated in a valedictory thanksgiving mass for the seventh Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>They forced the member-elect into their vehicle and were trying to drive out of the Assembly complex when security personnel quickly locked the exit gate.<\/p>\n<p>The Acting Clerk of the Assembly, Mrs. Esther Aneto, and other senior staff lamented that the suspected DSS operatives did not inform them or even the Police personnel at the Assembly before trying to whisk Ike away.<\/p>\n<p>One of the suspected DSS operatives, however, explained that they had a court order to arrest the member-elect.<\/p>\n<p>It took the intervention of the Speaker, Dr. Uche Okafor, and the Deputy Governor, Dr. Onyeka Ibezim, who came to represent the Governor at the Valedictory session of the seventh Assembly, before the member-elect was released.<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was panic at the Anambra State House of Assembly as four armed men, suspected to be operatives of the Directorate of Security Services (DSS), tried to whisk away member-elect&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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