In the Leadership newspaper of Thursday March, 25, 2010 was a full-page advertorial entitled “Why is EFCC robbing Sylva to pay Jonathan?” by one Jimi Jonathan, acting on behalf of a group called Bayelsa Action Committee for Justice. On the same date in The Nation newspaper was another full-page advertorial placed by one Comrade (Hon.) Effiong Ononokpono and entitled “Questions for Governor (Barr) Godswill Akpabio”.
Both respectively contained serious matters of national and state interests that impugned on the integrity of acting President Goodluck Jonathan and Governor Godswill Akpabio. Jonathan probably believing that the matter should be ignored as he faces other pressing nation issues, Akpabio thought otherwise in the one that concerned him. The instinct in Governor Akpabio of how he 'dealt' with the Abuja-based Fresh Facts (and its Uyo vendor-agent) and an Uyo-based Events newspapers; occurred to him immediately and on the same 25th March he instructed that the Police under his command should apprehend the 75-year old man (Ononokpono) from his Odobo town, Okobo.
On his wheel-chair he was manhandled, dragged to and detained at the Uyo Police Command headquartersy and next day charged to a Uyo Magistrate Court; with strict instructions that the old man should not be granted bail, in a way to teach him a 'lesson'. The Magistrate obeyed.
As it were, Ononokpono was refused bail in a case that is bail-able; he was remanded (on wheel-chair) in Uyo prison custody till May 14th 2010 when the case was adjourned. What a heartless action of a servant-leader? But luck smiled at Ononokpono as he was granted bail by a High Court effective the fifth day of his incarceration. Contrarily, the acting President Jonathan did nothing similar; to Jimi Jonathan.
It should be recalled that when Attah was the governor, Barrister Assam Assam (SAN), Senator Aniete Okon and others rained worse abuses on him but he took it calmly. This has shown the Stalinism in Governor Akpabio. It is wrong in this democratic dispensation; someone should tell him that. He was really unfair to the ailing statesman of Ononokpono’s calibre.
Katherine Eno Akpan, Plot 1348 Gwarinpa Estate, Abuja FCT
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