The Minister of State for Education, Mr Nyesom Wike, has disclosed that Michael Chinda, the member of the Rivers State House of Assembly who was seriously wounded on Monday during a brawl, would be flown overseas for medical attention.
Wike stated this in Port Harcourt on Friday during a chat with newsmen, shortly after visiting the injured member at the hospital where he is currently receiving treatment.
According to him, the attack on Chinda, representing Obio/Akpor Constituency II, was “an act of brutality and man’s inhumanity to man.”
His words, “The lawmaker that was brutalised is now being flown overseas because of his critical condition.
“The person, who committed that crime was the same person who had gone to Government House clinic and laid on a bed to say that he was beaten up.
“What is important is for Nigerians to know that we will not be scared or be intimidated; we will do what we think is right within the law.
“We will make sure that Rivers people have the change which they had requested for”, the Minister said.
He insisted that the state government had lost control of affairs in the state, saying “You do not need to go to any prophet or native doctor to know this.”
Chinda was later taken out of the hospital in an ambulance in preparedness for the journey abroad.
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