BREAKING NEWS, Politics
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AFTER two nights in detention, Victor Umeh, former national chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, who was arrested Wednesday, March 2, by the Department of State Services, DSS, was Friday, March 4, released. Umeh was arrested at his Aguluzigbo country home in Anambra State and taken to Abuja reportedly for questioning over his alleged sponsorship of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, a pro-Biafra group.
Jerry Obasi, deputy secretary of the APGA, who confirmed his release, however, said the arrest was politically motivated by Umeh’s opponents in the forthcoming Anambra Central Senatorial re-run election. Obasi, while describing the arrest as “obnoxious and despicable”, expressed disappointment that the DSS had become a willing tool for intimidating political opponents.
“It is quite absurd and alarming that the DSS deliberately whisked Chief Umeh away in a rickety van thereby bringing his personality to odium.
“The most disappointing of them all is the obvious fact that these black movies are being acted under the watchful eye of President Muhammadu Buhari. It is sad that security agencies under the present administration are willing tools in the hands of the highest bidder rather than concentrating on their constitutional duty of maintaining law and order. “Democracy should be civilized and not militarized unless in the circumstances where we are heading towards a police state and anarchy,” Obasi said.
— Mar 4, 2016 @ 15:45 GMT
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