ASSASSIN RESPONDS TO ALLEGED ACCUSATIONS OF BEING SENT BY AKWA IBOM STATE GOVERNOR TO KILL SENATOR

A suspected assassin, alleged by Senator Aloysius Etok to have been sent by Akwa Ibom state Governor, Godswill Akpabio to kill him, has told the State Security Service (SSS) that the Senator was a liar. He explained he never at any time, told the Senator that he was sent by the Governor to kill him.

The SSS, while parading the suspect before the media yesterday in Abuja, said that Etok had filed a letter titled “Report of planned assassination by a man who calls himself General Africa (an ex-militant)”, with the Service, which made it swung into action that led to the arrest of the suspect, Adelola Tamunotonye Olaore.

Deputy Director Press of the SSS, Marilyn Ogar, who while briefing journalists, said that the Senator claimed in his letter that on April 28, Olaore telephoned and introduced himself as General Africa claiming that he had been contracted by Governor Akpabio’s loyalists to assassinate him. Ogar, who said that Etok was asked to play along, told journalists that subsequently, the suspect was invited to Abuja by the Senator on April 29, and was lodged in a hotel from where he was apprehended.

However, the 29 years old graduate of Mechanical Engineering from Rivers State University of Sciece and Technology, Port Harcourt, who made statements to the SSS, raised serious objection over allegation of assassination, saying that the Senator was lying to the service. Olaore, who was very emotional about his standpoints, told journalists that he was merely catching in on the rift between the Senator and Governor to extort some money from him.

He said in his confession that he laid hands on the Senator’s complimentary card at the Niger Delta Development Corporation (NDDC) office, where he found his telephone number and immediately commenced contacting him to take advantage of the crisis and defraud him.

source:sun