A
police sergeant attached to the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi
Amaechi was yesterday battered and left with a bloody face.
Rotimi Amaechi's security aide was battered with a bloody face
Sgt. Eteng Ewe, a security aide attached to the Minister of
Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi was yesterday battered, with blood on his
face, while the AK-47 rifle of Sgt. Princewill Ubaji was snatched, as
he was being forcibly disarmed by police aides attached to the Rivers
state Governor following a violent clash in Port Harcourt.
According to The Nation, the incident happened around 3p.m.
Although Governor Nyesom Wike through his Special Assistant on
Electronic Media, Simeon Nwakaudu, in his reaction claimed that
personnel of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (F-SARS) and
soldiers attached to the minister of transportation were the once who
attacked the Governor's convoy, Amaechi's Media Office in a statement
yesterday countered the claim and said the Minister of Transportation
was the target of an assassination attempt instead.
“In a blatant show of naked raw power, Minister of
Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi this (yesterday) afternoon
narrowly escaped being shot by security men attached to the Governor of
Rivers State, Nyesom Wike. His car wasn’t that lucky though. The car
was vandalized with a broken side mirror.” Amaechi's media office said.
However, a top security source, who would not want to be named has shed light on how the unfortunate incident happened.
The security source speaking to The Nation said: “Today,
November 11, 2017 (yesterday) at 3 p.m., the Transportation Minister,
who was driving from the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa, in
company with police escorts, got his convoy intercepted by the Rivers
governor (Wike) at Trans-Amadi Industrial Layout by Nkpogu in Port
Harcourt. The security details managed to ferry Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi
to safety, after which the Rivers governor led his Chief Security
Officer (CSO), Promise Wosu, a Superintendent of Police (SP), and about
ten mobile policemen, to attack his predecessor/benefactor’s convoy.
“The Rivers governor and his troops physically assaulted by
slapping and bruising the policemen, especially Inspector Johnson
Imonikhe, Sgt. Eteng Ewelu and Sgt. Princewill Ubaji, attached to the
transportation minister and the governor made away with the AK-47 rifle
of Sgt. Princewill Ubaji, one of the policemen attached to the
transportation minister.
“The AK-47 rifle was forcibly taken away personally by Governor
Wike, who was accompanied by his CSO. The policeman with blood on his
face, Sgt. Eteng Ewelu, was hit with an iron by Wosu (Wike’s CSO), in
the presence of the Rivers State governor.
“The snatched AK-47 rifle is still in the custody of the Rivers
governor’s team and the incident has been referred to State CID (SCID)
for investigation.”
Nwakaudu in a statement said: “Rivers State Governor, Nyesom
Ezenwo Wike, on Saturday escaped assassination, as Special Anti-Robbery
Squad operatives and soldiers of the Nigerian Army in the motorcade of
the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, attacked his
convoy.
“The governor, who was on project inspection, was attacked at
Nwanja Junction on Trans-Amadi Road. The SARs personnel and soldiers in
the minister’s convoy hit down the governor’s escort rider and attacked
the policemen in the pilot car. Mr Debewari, Aide-de-Camp (ADC) to the
minister of transportation, supervised the attack, which included damage
of cameras held by journalists.
“Also part of the attack was the Commander of F-SARS in Rivers
State, Mr. Akin Fakorede (a Chief Superintendent of Police), who
received the minister of transportation at the Port Harcourt
International Airport and accompanied him on his trip.”
He added that after the attack the governor continued with his inspection of projects, adding that Wike was not harmed.
The minister’s media office said the incident which occurred along
Trans-Amadi Road, Nwaja axis involved cars of many of Amaechi’s
supporters while the Minister’s black jeep was intercepted and blocked
at the junction by the security motorcycle outrider attached to Wike
after two cars had passed through.
The statement added, “One of the two cars had security men
assigned to protect the minister in Port Harcourt. Suddenly, gun-toting
security men attached to Wike’s convoy surrounded the Minister’s car,
threatening to shoot him. They hit the car, tried to smash the
windscreens, back and side windows and broke a side mirror. All through
this attack, Amaechi remained calm, inside the fortified Jeep. While
the attack occurred, Wike remained inside his vehicle.”
It added that the minister eventually passed through after the
intervention of the security team on ground to protect him in Port
Harcourt. It continued,
“However, when Governor Wike got to the point where the
incident occurred after Amaechi’s vehicle had gone by, his security men
blocked the road again, dragged out from a vehicle and thoroughly beat
up a police man attached to protect Amaechi in Port Harcourt. The
Policeman’s riffle was also taken from him.”
The Amaechi media office added that Wike came out of his car, and
with his security team went from one vehicle to another of Amaechi’s
supporters charging at them, harassing and abusing them. It alleged that
Wike’s security men were heard loudly insulting Amaechi and calling him
derogative names.
In the meantime, Ikwerre youths have condemned what they called the attack on Amaechi and the policemen in his convoy.
The Ikwerre Youth Movement (IYM) International from the four Rivers
Local Government Areas of Port Harcourt City, Obio/Akpor, Ikwerre and
Emohua, described the attack as very unfortunate and least expected.
Amaechi and Wike are both Ikwerre. The transportation minister
hails from Ubima in Ikwerre LGA, while the Rivers governor is an
indigene of Rumueprikom in Obio/Akpor council.
IYM, through its President-General, Azubuike Nwanjoku, a member of
the Rivers State House of Assembly, representing Ikwerre constituency,
in an online statement by the group’s National Publicity Secretary, Dike
Bekwele, declared that Wike’s action was suicidal and detrimental to
the already-charged environment being witnessed in the state and
insecurity in Rivers in recent times.
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