Former MP (2018-2023) of the All People’s  Congress (APC) party, who was representing constituency 129 (Tengbeh Town, Congo Town, etc)  Hon Emanuel Saidu Conteh, on Friday 29th November, 2024 survived a brutal assailant attack on his life.

He sustained grievous bodily injuries to his head and mouth.

Speaking from his hospital bed at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Connaught Hospital, Hon. Conteh said that he was at his Congo Cross office on Friday at about  3pm when a medium height man, an assailant dressed  in grey hoody entered and shut the door at him.

He said in few seconds, the assailant pulled an old, rusty Knife and attempted to stab him in the neck.

With the intervention of God, he was able to dodge the stabbings in a brutal fight which he was able to escape as he twisted the attacker hand and caused the knife to fell.

The former lawmaker and businessman, Hon. Saidu, said while they were wrestling, the knife dropped from the assailant’s hand but he quickly grabbed a glass mug which he used to hit him severally on the head.

The attacker choked him the throat and bit him  his arm.

He said the fight continued for some twenty to twenty five minutes and he was covered in blood, lying almost helplessly. “Thinking that I won’t live, the assailant took my phone, wallet and other personal belongs and left away. I had to crawl for the door where a lady who was passing by heard my call for help and came to my rescue,” he said.

Hon. Saidu is still being hospitalized and is responding to treatment on injuries on his head, face, mouth and to recover from a trauma after the heinous attack.

The police are investigating the incident.

“I am appealing to the government to provide security for people like me. I am feeling seriously unsecured, that is my paramount concern for now, security. I don’t feel safe with my family,” he said.