The Senator representing Edo Central in the Senate, Clifford Ordia, on Monday escaped death, by the whiskers when suspected bandits opened fire on his convoy, while returning to Abuja from his hometown in Edo State. Narrating his ordeal, the Senator said that he was attacked twice by the suspected bandits along Okenne-Lokoja and Lokoja-Abaji roads.
Ordia, who heads the Senate committee on Local and Foreign Debts, explained that during the exchange of fire between the criminals and security officers attached to him, three policemen sustained gun wounds. He said one of the wounded policemen is in a critical condition, but responding to treatment in one of the hospitals in Abuja.
The lawmaker further explained that his personal vehicle was riddled with bullets, though he was lucky to have escaped unhurt, he was traumatized by the encounter. He narrated that during the exchange, three of the policemen sustained gun wounds. One of them was critically injured.
He said: “We had to immediately rush them to a Federal Medical Centre in Lokoja, Kogi State. “They did their best and was able to stabilise them. I’d to immediately put a call across the Federal Medical Centre in Abuja to be on standby. One of the policemen had a bullet lodged close to his liver.
“We met another setback around Abaji. There was traffic because of the incidence and because we had to save the lives of the wounded policemen, we decided to make a move. They opened fire on us. Some vigilantees had to join the policemen and they were chased into the bush. “That was how I survived that attack. If you see all my vehicles, you’ll see how the bullets damaged them. But I’m glad that we all survived. I must salute the gallantry of our policemen. If given the right equipments, they can do a lot and protect Nigerians.” .
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