Ekpeyong Ita, the Director-General of the State Security Services (SSS)
The
State Security Service on Monday paraded one Adelola Olaore in
connection with a phoney plan to assassinate Senator Aloysius Etok.
The agency’s spokesperson, Marilyn
Ogar, who briefed newsmen in Abuja, said Olaore was arrested on Monday
last week following a petition titled, ‘Report of planned
assassination by a man who calls himself General Africa (an
ex-militant)’ written to the SSS by Etok.
According to her, the arrest was made possible by the cooperation of Etok, who agreed to play along with the suspect.
Ogar said, “According to Senator Etok,
on April 28, 2013, Adelola Tamunotonye Olaore telephoned and introduced
himself as General Africa, claiming he had been contracted by Governor
Godswill Akpabio’s loyalists to assassinate him.
“Subsequently, he was asked by the
Senator to come to Abuja on April 29, 2013 and was lodged in a hotel
from where he was apprehended,” Ogar stated.
She described the suspect as a
29-year-old graduate of Mechanical Engineering from Rivers State
University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, and a native of
Okeho in Kajola Local Government Area of Oyo State , but was born and
bred in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Ogar explained that in the course of
interrogation, Olaore confessed that he went to the office of the Niger
Delta Development Company in Port Harcourt to submit a letter, where he
stumbled on a mail bearing the complementary card of Etok from where he
obtained the senator’s contact details.
She added, “Being aware of the
political interests between the Senator and the governor over the Ikot
Ekpene Senatorial seat by 2015, he seized the opportunity to contact
Senator Etok. He introduced himself as ‘General Africa’ an ex-militant
from Bayelsa State. He then told the Senator that he had been contracted
by three of Governor Akpabio’s loyalists to assassinate him.
“In order to convince the Senator, he
offered to furnish him with details of the Governor’s purported Bank
Account and an energy company in South Africa.”
The service said the suspect, however,
confessed that he had never met Akpabio, the Commissioner for
Environment, or Kenneth Okon (aka Wayas), the Chairman of Etinan Local
Government Council.
Ogar explained that Olaore hatched the
plot to defraud the Senator, using information he obtained from “open
media” about a rift between the Senator and the governor.
She added that the suspect offered to broker peace between the two men, an offer which Etok had willingly accepted.
“He then requested for transport fare to Akwa Ibom where he intended to initiate the peace meeting between both parties.
“From the foregoing, Olaore hatched the
phantom assassination plot to fraudulently extort money from Senator
Aloysius Etok by exploiting the perceived rift between him and Governor
Akpabio. Consequently, Olaore will be charged to court soon,” she added.
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