On this day in 2007, barely eleven days after the kidnapped of the mother of a member of Bayelsa State House of Assembly, armed gunmen again struck in the riverine town of Toru-Orua in the Sagbama local government area of the state abducting the 70 year old mother of the House of Representatives member representing Sagbama/Ekeremor federal constituency, Hon Dickson Seriake.
Dickson at the time was one of the arrowhead of anti Olubunmi Ette, the then speaker House of Representatives in the National Assembly, who was enmeshed in a N628 contract scandal.
Although the motive of the kidnappers could not be ascertained but it was reliably gathered that their action might not be unconnected with the latest tactics of using relations of political office holders as pawn to fleece money from them. During a visit to the riverine settlement of Toru-Orua, it was learnt from the natives that the gunmen stormed the community at about 2 a.m. and headed straight to the home of the Seriakes where they seized his mother, Madam Goldcoast who was then sound asleep.
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