Nigeria: Dickson's Sister-in-Law, Female Lawyer in Fisticuffs On the Streets of Yenagoa

26 February 2014

It was a spectacle in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital Tuesday, when the sister-in-law of the Bayelsa State Governor, Ms. Tare Konyefa, and a female lawyer engaged in fisticuffs that left the barrister bloodied and now lying critically bruised in an unknown hospital in the city.

The lawyer, Mrs. Bina Oregbeme, who works with the state Legal Aid Council, was brutalised along with her husband Mr. Ambrose Oregbeme for daring Konyefa over who owned the right of way at a roundabout near the Government House, Yenagoa. It was learnt that the couple incurred the wrath of Konyefa because they questioned her reckless driving.

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