AGF drags Gov Ayade, aides to Police, DSS
https://www.fearlessreports.com/2017/10/agf-drags-gov-ayade-aides-to-police-dss.html
Gov Ben Ayade of Cross River State |
· Alleges threat to assassinate opponents
· Petitions of severe corruption flood EFCC
The Minister of Justice and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami (SAN), has dragged the Cross River State Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade and some of his principal aides to the Department of State Services (DSS), and the Force Headquarters over allegations of threats of bodily harm to and assassination of his political opponents in the state.
There are also sundry charges of corruption and abuse of office levelled against the governor.
A letter, referenced HAGF/DSS/2017/Vol.1/15 from the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation, dated Septem
ber 26, 2017 and titled: “Request for Investigation” was directed to the Director-General of the DSS, requesting the DSS to investigate petitions which the AGF’s office had received, alleging that “some top government officials, particularly Mr. Martin Orim, the Chief of Staff to the Executive Governor; Mr. Jude Ngaji, SSA to the Governor on Security Matters and Mr. Frank Ayade, brother to the governor respectively, are strategically planning the assassination of one Mr. Paul Ifere, having failed on the assassination attempt against one Dr. Joseph Odok”.
A similar request letter, HAGF/IGP/207?VOL.1/17 was also on the same date, addressed to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) in his Abuja office.
Sent along with the Office of the Attorney-General’s petition, which was signed on behalf of the AGF by Okoi Obon-Obla, the Senior Special Adviser (SSA) to the President on Prosecution, was a recorded compact disc, which as the AGF office said, “captures the conversation between the petitioner and a source within the Government House”, in Calabar, who, based on the letter from the AGF’s office, “reported the assassination plan of some indigenes of Cross River State that have openly opposed the bad government policies in Cross River State.”
The letter from the Office of the AGF also brought to the attention of the law enforcement agencies that the alleged assassination attempt against the said Dr. Joseph Odok was “allegedly carried out by one Mr. Raphael Odu, the Director-General of Homeland Security, a security outfit controlled by the Cross River State Government.”
In light of these, the AGF requested the DSS and the Nigeria Police to carry out a thorough investigation in order to ascertain the veracity or otherwise of the allegations contained in the petitions which were included. Also included was the bare-bodied photograph of Dr. Joseph Odok, show stab wounds on the right upper arm and on the chest.
Our investigation team in Cross River State received reports of several allegations of high-handedness and intimidation against people who are believed the political opponents of Governor Ayade and his administration to the extent that even businesses owned by those opponents and which are said to be providing elusive jobs to the Cross Riverians have been allegedly targeted and shut down on very flimsy pretexts.
The AUTHORITY was told by sources in Calabar that many prominent persons who have criticised any policy of government or joins another party apart from the governor’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), automatically stands on Ayade’s firing line and even runs a risk to his life. “Ditto for anybody who the governor and his henchmen perceive to be engaged in any enterprise that poses any real or imagined competition to the many business involvements of the governor”, one source told our reporter.
Incidentally, as was alleged to our reporter, some of Governor Ayade’s major opponents are well placed individuals from his home town, Obudu, among whom, is Chief Goddy Jeddi-Agba, reputed to be the highest employer of labour in the state through his different investments, especially in the agro-related field. It was alleged that because Agba, an All progressives Congress (APC) member who might also be eyeing the Government House has invariably incurred the wrath of the governor.
It was reported that the Calabar City FM, recently set up by Mr. Jeddi-Agba was shut down for no discernible reason, while wagging tongues in the state widely claim that the station was closed because it is situated directly opposite the Mega Hilton Hotel, allegedly owned by the governor, in Calabar.
In a similar development, the owner of Hit FM in Calabar, Tony Ugbe, was reportedly kidnapped a few months ago, raising allegations that he might have suffered his fate on account of the regular attack of the policies of the Ayade administration by the vibrant FM station.
In addition to allegations against the Ayade administration being currently investigated by the Police and the DSS at the highest levels, The AUTHORITY has it on absolute authority that the files of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have been inundated with petitions against sundry allegations of different magnitudes of corrupt practices and abuse of office levelled against Ayade, his officials and cronies, among who is his younger brother who has been accused by some of those petitioners as acting like a “co-governor” in the committal of the alleged corrupt practices with his brother and his aides.
Our sources at the EFCC confirmed that in August last year, following petitions over how the money from the bailout funds from the Federal Government to the state was misused, Mr. Frank Ayade, was picked up by the EFCC and detained for one week before his brother (the governor) allegedly intervened.
In fact, by last count, our investigations showed that the EFCC is currently investigating at least eight key cases of corrupt practices against the Ayade administration.
Competent sources at the Economic Governance Team at the EFCC confirmed the development, saying: “Yes, there are several petitions against the governor. We have investigated and concluded about five but we cannot do anything now because the governor is protected under Section 306 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) that granted him immunity from criminal and civil prosecution. But we have secured the file which will be reopened at the appropriate time.”
Culled from Authority Newspaper
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