Mbume Clans Want Assassination Attempt On Ayade’s Former Aide Probed

Mbume Blocks of Clans successful Etung section authorities country of Cross River State has called connected Governor Bassey Otu to analyse the alleged assassination effort connected the beingness of Dr Oscar Ofuka, an ex-special advisor to erstwhile Governor Ben Ayade connected Cocoa Development and Control.

The chairman, situation absorption committee of Mbume Blocks of Clans, His Highness Ntufam Odu Ndep Moses, made the entreaty during an interactive league with LEADERSHIP yesterday successful Calabar, the authorities capital.

The committee condemned the act, describing it arsenic “treacherous” and masterminded by a apical governmental bureau holder successful the authorities government, arsenic confessed by 1 of the suspects.

It urged Governor Otu to analyse the substance thoroughly and bring those down the assassination effort to justice.

The clan emphasised that nary 1 has the close to instrumentality different person’s life, careless of their presumption oregon authority.

The committee president stressed the value of not allowing those successful powerfulness to trample connected people’s rights oregon defy the instrumentality without consequences.

Recalled that Ntufam Dr. Oscar Ofuka had raised an alarm astir an assassination effort connected his life, claiming that a radical of persons had been caught astatine his residence by instrumentality enforcement agents.

One of the assailants allegedly confessed to being sent by a apical authorities functionary successful Governor Otu’s administration.

Reacting to the issue, the authorities commissioner for Information and Orientation, Dr. Erasmus Ekpang, said the authorities cannot accidental thing astir it due to the fact that it’s a constabulary issue, and arsenic such, the constabulary person the powerfulness to grip specified an issue.

In his remarks, the Cross River constabulary lawman nationalist relations officer, Igiri Ewa, denied immoderate cognition of the matter.

“When you said information operatives apprehended an alleged assassin fishy and helium had mentioned a peculiar apical authorities authoritative successful the medication of Governor Otu, you cognize we are many, we person antithetic information organisations operating successful the state. However, we are going to find retired and get backmost to you,” Ewa said.