Thugs attack Aba South representative in ABSHA, journalists, break car windshields

Aba. Aug. 25, 2021 

By Ijendu Iheaka 

Armed thugs on Wednesday attacked the Member representing Aba South in Abia House of Assembly (ABSHA) Mr Obinna Ichita and broke his SUV’s windshields at his Constituency office.

The hoodlums numbering about 30 who attacked Ichita, journalists and some of his constituents came in three hiace buses as he was concluding his Town Hall meeting with his constituents which started at noon.

However, security men whisked Ichita away from rain where he addressed his constituents from when the young men swooped in on the venue destroying hired plastic chairs participants used and chasing them away.

Their sudden swoop towards the participants who were busy seeking refuge from the rain, made the participants and journalists to scamper for safety resulting in the injury of many.

Ichita was at at No 20 Port Harcourt Road, Aba, his Constituency Office, for a Town Hall Meeting to brief his constituents on his efforts to ensure Abia government mobilized contractors to roads in the local government which have massively failed.

He said he also had moved a motion in ABSHA on July 14 to make the government in addition to ding their roads but to also remove the accumulated refuse heaps in the local government blocking their roads.

He said that even efforts of ABSHA which acknowledged his action could not move the government to act on his request which he said was justified for his constituents who are also Abia residents too.

Our Correspondent who ran into a house to escape the thugs saw them still destroying chairs picked from the venue some hours later using Machetes to break some of the chairs they took away from the venue as he was escaping.

However, efforts to reach Ichita for comments on the attack failed because his phone was shut off and calls put through to it did not go.

Earlier before the thugs scattered the crowd, Ichita had in agreement with the demands of his people given Abia government seven days ultimatum to act on their demands made through their representative.

They said that if the government failed, they would use protests to mount pressure on the government to give their local government infrastructure befitting the N200 million it receive in federal allocation monthly.

The Aba South Constituents had also sworn to ensure that about $ 56 m:Illinois the government had received from the World Bank for road construction in the state was not squandered but used to build their roads.