seen packed in front of the house.

As at press time, the bus was still parked there while Akpanika was still being detained at the State Police Headquarters at Diamond Hill , just metres away from Ekpo-Bassey's residence.

Bassey who spoke to journalists from an undisclosed location said the attackers had stormed his house with a view to kill him, adding that he only managed to escape unhurt.

The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Emmanuel Ezeozue, could not be reached as he did not pick calls put across to his phone.

But the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Thomas Adama Okpene said the police were aware of the incident.
Okpene confirmed the arrest of the persons but said while the police officer who affected the arrest had briefed him, he was yetThey fought the Confederates (with the support of the English Parliament) from their arrival in Ulster in 1642 until 1648. After the English Parliament and the Scottish Covenanters' alliance broke down, the Scottish forces in Ulster joined the Confederates and Royalists in an alliance against their former allies in 1649.

The Parliamentarian Army gained a major foothold in Ireland for the first time in 1644, when Inchiquin's Cork-based Protestant force fell out with the Royalists over their ceasefire with the Confederates. The Protestant settler forces in the north west of Ireland, known as the Lagan Army (or Lagan Force), also came over to the Parliamentarians after 1644, deeming them to be the most reliably anti-Catholic of the English forces. The city of Dublin fell into Parliamentarian hands in 1646,