Vice Chairman of Bonny Local Government Area, Anengi Barasua has reacted to the incident where youths of Orosikiri Community chased her and other government officials away when they went to pay condolence visit to one of the families affected by the Dema Abbey sea pirates attack.
In an emotion laden statement made available to Kristina Reports, Barasua regretted that such incident could happen but said that she was sincerely pained by the Dema Abbey incident where two young men, including a former President of the National Union of Bonny Students (NUBS) were killed in a gruesome manner.
“Today I went on a condolence visit to the families of our slain brothers and was rejected by the youths at Orosikiri.”
She stated that she shared in the pain the families was feeling at the moment and wished she could take the pain away from the grieving families.
“With all sincerity I understood and felt their pain. I share in their grief and really wished I could take away the pain.”
She condemned the dastardly attacks on the victims and the horrible manner death was inflicted on the two youths, warning that these trend would no longer be tolerated.
“The horrific manner these youths were brutalized and killed by these hoodlums cannot be tolerated anymore.
The impunity in which these criminals operate within the waters is highly questionable.”
Macdonald Ibifubara Banigo and Kingsley Tamunodienye Allison were literally butchered by the daredevil pirates, many eyewitnesses believe were natives of Andoni LGA, on their way back from Dema Abbey where they went to watch a masquerade display on the night of Tuesday, January 5, 2021.
According to eyewitnesses, other passengers were ordered to jump into the chilling waters that night or be killed, disclosing that trouble began for Kingsley Allison when he identified one of the assailants, asking him, “O boy, you too?”
The identified pirate and his accomplices descended on him with ferocity, deploying machetes, daggers, clubs and their guns on him. This was aside being flogged with paddles alongside Macdonald on the head.
A trending video across Whatsapp groups showing his body being taken for burial shows a barbaric dismemberment beyond imagination, sheer carnage meted out on him, as his limbs were dangling from each other.
The person making the video could not hold back the tears as she was heard muffling cries in the background of the video.
The clamour for security agencies to speed up action on arresting the spate of sea piracy on the Bonny waterways has continued to gather momentum and expectations are high that like the Bonny LGA Vice Chairman has declared these attacks should no longer be tolerated.
For over a decade now, Bonny has continued to witness a continuous increase in unprecedented series of agitations against Sea piracy, armed robbery and kidnapping, political based violence, unknown gunmen attacking our local communities, to mention a few. Although a lot of effort has been made in order to combat this evil menace that has plagued our society according to the Government. But, these efforts however seem futile as the incidence of insecurity seems to be on the rise on a daily basis.
My beloved people of Bonny, I know we are angry, I know the government has deserted us, I know our walls, our sea routes are broken by our enemies.
There should be no cause for alarm, since we seek for security from the government and traditional authority but to no avail, because they have deserted us, our enemies are mocking at us.
“Save yourself if you can” Look within yourselves and find safety for yourselves and your Children, let’s protect ourselves and lift the banner of Bonny as we seek for justice, fairness and insecurity free society from the government.