Spouse of the previous Particular Adviser to the immediate-past Cross River State governor on Cocoa Growth and Management, Mrs. Pleasure Ofuka, has known as on the Inspector-Normal of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, and the Cross River State governor, Bassey Otu, to wade into what she described as illegal detention of her husband, Dr. Oscar Ofuka, by the Cross River State Safety Adviser, Maj. Gen. Okoi Obono (rtd).
Ofuka’s spouse made the decision whereas reacting to the arrest and detention of her husband, who was an aide to the immediate-past Governor Ben Ayade on Cocoa Growth and Management, in a phone dialog with LEADERSHIP on Wednesday in Calabar.
She expressed dismay over what she described as extreme use of political energy to intimidate the previous aide of Ayade, stressing that these behind her husband’s travail ought to know that energy is transient, ephemeral and
not everlasting.
“I nonetheless can’t perceive the gang up in opposition to my husband regardless of the trouble that he put in to make sure that cash owed cocoa landlord communities for greater than a decade was paid.
“I see the gang-up and torment as a device to distract the cocoa allottees to come back in opposition to my husband. Let me state right here categorically clear that no dime was paid into my husband’s private account however accounts of the state authorities through the good gov platform licensed by the courtroom’s consent judgement.
“Could I take advantage of this privilege to name on the Inspector-Normal of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun PhD, to wade into the matter in order that this harassment and intimidation by the State’s Safety Adviser could be stopped.
“I’m not a lawyer, as Nigerians, we all know that when a matter is taken to courtroom, nobody is allowed to arrest anybody. On this matter, the reverse is the case.
“The harassment and intimidation by the state Safety Adviser, who’s utilizing his place to intimidate my household isn’t an excellent factor. What crime did he commit that you just took him to Afi Military Barracks, whisked him to Akim Barracks and at last to Federal Housing police station and to Zone 6 Police Command Calabar lower than two days?
“Is he a bandit or terrorist to be handled the best way and method he was being maltreated. These are questions that State Safety Adviser have to reply.
“His children and I are actually traumatised. We’ve not been in a position to sleep within the final three days. We’re certainly so emotionally drained. My husband isn’t holding any authorities cash, all of the money that accrued from the lease of presidency cocoa farms was paid into Cross River State authorities’s account and to not his non-public pocket,” Mrs Ofuka acknowledged.
