A soldier deployed to the security team of the deputy governor of Bayelsa State, Rear Admiral John Jonah (rtd) was on Monday killed in a boat crash along the Ogbia-Nembe waterways.
While the soldier reportedly died on the spot, two others sustained serious injuries.
The boat driver was said to have lost control of the vessel, vied off the water and crashed into the mangroves at about 8am.
It was learnt that the deputy governor was on his way to Nembe for a private visit when the accident occurred.
When contacted, the senior special assistant to the deputy governor on media, Mr. Ebi Evinson, neither answered his telephone calls nor replied to a text message sent to him.
But the spokesman, JTF, Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, confirmed the accident, but said the soldiers were not attached to the deputy governor.
He insisted that nobody died from the accident.
He, however, said the injured casualties had been treated in a clinic and discharged.
“No soldier is attached to the convoy of the deputy governor. The soldiers were only behind the convoy when the boat vied off the water and ran into the mangroves. Only two soldiers sustained minor injuries. Nobody died,” he said.