Shoot anyone who blocks my convoy– Governor Umahi tells his security details
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Governor David Umahi has ordered his security details to shoot anyone
who blocks his convoy which according to him is backed by the law.
The Ebonyi state Governor who hosted some guests at the State
Executive Chambers in Abakaliki, recalled how some mourners blocked his
convoy along Onicha Road in Onicha Local Government Area of the State on
his way back to the state capital from his Uburu, Ohaozara hometown on
Friday October 4.
“Yesterday night, I was coming back by 12 midnight. Of course, I had
to stop over at the college to inspect projects, but when we got to
Onicha, they blocked the road.
“Even
with the litany of army and the police and everything, they did not
even want to open the road. Then I said they should arrest all of them,
but most of them ran away. I think they even took a gun of an army
officer,” he said.
Governor Umahi said the fleeing mourners will be arrested and
imprisoned as he placed a ban on wake-keep extending beyond 10 p.m in
the state. In order to forestall its reoccurence in the future, he
ordered his security details to shoot anyone who tries such.
“So the Chairman of the Local Government, the House of Assembly
members and coordinators, they are working very hard and the SSA on
Security, they are all there to sort it out.
“But I say, all of them will go to prison. So they have to identify
them, bring them here and we will prosecute them to show an example,” he
said.
“Next
time the ADC should order for a shoot. It is very illegal to block the
governor. And if anybody is killed in the course of that, it is allowed
in the law.
“And it is not me that is the problem, it is the common man, nobody should be oppressed.
“And I want it to be announced that henceforth, no wake-keep should
go past 10 p.m. If you must pass 10 p.m, take written permission from
the chairman of the local government, and both the chairman and the
person that requested will be held responsible if any problem occurs.
“This should be widely circulated and properly announced. My problem
is not that they blocked the governor, but my worry is supposing that it
was a smaller person that was passing, who had no army and police, they
would have robbed the person” he said.
The governors issued
the warning when they visited the leadership of the ninth National
Assembly in Abuja on Monday, October 7.
Premium Times reports that the governors reportedly said they were not
happy with the lack of cooperation between elected members of the
executive arm of government and the legislature.
Led by Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi state, the governors said they visited to
present the report of the forum’s sub-committee on legislative matters,
chaired by the Governor of Katsina, Aminu Masari.
Speeaking at the meeting, Masari said the absence of coordination among
them and other elected members of the party could end up destroying it.
Read more: https://www.legit.ng/1264301-apc-governors-party-extinction-crises.html
The governors issued
the warning when they visited the leadership of the ninth National
Assembly in Abuja on Monday, October 7.
Premium Times reports that the governors reportedly said they were not
happy with the lack of cooperation between elected members of the
executive arm of government and the legislature.
Led by Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi state, the governors said they visited to
present the report of the forum’s sub-committee on legislative matters,
chaired by the Governor of Katsina, Aminu Masari.
Speeaking at the meeting, Masari said the absence of coordination among
them and other elected members of the party could end up destroying it.
Read more: https://www.legit.ng/1264301-apc-governors-party-extinction-crises.html
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