I DONT WANT TO BELIEVE THIS IS TRUE. PLEASE TELL ME GOV TAS HANDS ARE NOT IN THIS AS ALLEDGED. WHERE ARE THE UKWA NGWAS, LETS SEE HOW UNITED YOU ARE ON THIS PRELIMINARY TEST. LETS SEE WHICH OF YOUR LEADERS HAVE BALLS TO ANSWER THEIR NAMES, CALLING EVIL EVIL. SPEAK UP OR FOREVER LOOSE OUR SUPPORT FOR ABIA ULTIMATE SEAT. I LOVE MY GOV, BUT HATE HIS MISTAKES. IF THIS IS NOT A MISTAKE, THEN IT MUST BE AN ERROR, OR BETTER STILL AN ILL ADVISED MOVE. YOU SEE, THE PERSPECTIVE YOU VIEW IT FROM IS IRRELEVANT COMPARED TO THE WRONG SIGNAL IT IS SENDING ABOUT OUR GOVERNOR AS HE WINDS DOWN ON HIS LEADERSHIP, GOVERNORSHIP OR RULERSHIP OF OUR STATE. AGAIN NO MATTER HOW YOU VIEW HIM, HE IS THE MAN IN CHARGE. NOW THATS WHAT BOTHERS ME, IS HE REALLY IN CHARGE OR ARE THERE OTHER EXTERNAL FORCES IN CONTROL, IT WAS ALLEGED OUK WAS ONE OF THEM AT A POINT( whether or not this is true is more obvious now than we were told... I guess). ARE THESE HIS DIRECT ACTIONS OR WERE CARRIED OUT BY THOSE INCHARGE? AM SERIOUSLY WORRIED, INFACT VERY WORRIED. I KNOW HIM CLOSELY AT LEAST TO AN EXTENT AND WOULD ALMOST VOW HE IS NOT LINKED TO SOME OF THESE MISTAKES, ERRORS OR IF YOU LIKE ILL ADVISED OUTTINGS. A PATIENT MAN LIKE DR. TA ORJI, WILL NOT RUSH TO JOIN ISSUES WITH CRITIQUES OF HIS ADMINISTRATION, NO MATTER THE TRUTH OR THE LIES, OCHENDO IS NOT A DESPERATE MAN, AT LEAST AFTER 15YEARS OF BEING IN CHARGE OF ABIA, HE IS NOT RUNNING FOR GOVERNORSHIP AGAIN AND HAS NEITHER SHOWN MAJOR INTEREST FOR THE SENATORIAL POSITION EXCEPT POSTER PASTING BY HIS CRONIES. THEREFORE, I DO NOT SEE HIM AS A LEADER THAT WOULD SEND POLICE TO LAGOS TO ARREST A MAN PAID BY HIS NEWSPAPER TO DO HIS WORK, LEAVING HIS EMPLOYER AS A TARGET. IF HE IS NOT DESPARATE, WHO THEN IS? YES AM IN AGREEMENT WITH YOU, LETS SAY HE IS ABOVE THIS KIND OF UNDEMOCRATIC BEHAVIOUR, OCHENDO IS INNOCENT. THEN WHO AMONG US, ABIANS IS THIS DESPARATE, PETTY, EVIL TO REDUCE THE EXALTED OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR TO THAT OF A CLASS MONITOR RUNING AROUND AND CHASING THOSE WHO CALLED HIS DOG HOUSE A THATCH HOUSE INSTEAD OF A DUPLEX. WHO IS INCHARGE? THIS DOES NOT LOOK LIKE THE ACTIONS OF THE OCHENDO THAT I KNEW. WHO IS INCHARGE? THE QUESTION ON ALL OUR LIPS. CERTAINLY NOT HIS OUK, FOR THOUGH NOT A SAINT LIKE I HAVE ALWAYS SAID ( for no one is, including me),WOULD NOT ACCEPT THIS DEGRADING MOVE OF JOINING ISSUES WITH JOURNALISTS EXERCISING THEIR RIGHTS WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE CONSTITUTION . LET WHO IS IN CHARGE STOP OVER CHARGING THE SYSTEM. LEARN TO IGNORE CRITICISMS YOU ASSUME LESS CONSTRUCTIVE WHILE MAKING USE OF GOOD IDEAS, IRRESPECTIVE OF THE SOURCE BenKalu WE ALL CANNOT BE YOUR ENEMIES OR FRIENDS, THE VARIETY IS MEANT TO SPICE UP THE TASTE OF YOUR GOVERNANCE, CONVERTING MORE ENEMIES TO FRIENDS. THE VARIOUS CRITICISMS REMAIN ON ISSUES AND NOT ON YOUR PERSON. STOP MAKING ALL ABIANS LOVE YOU, IT IS NOT AND WILL NEVER BE POSSIBLE. EVEN JESUS WAS NOT LOVED BY ALL, STOP TRYING. JUST DO YOUR BID AND STEP DOWN FOR OTHERS TO CONTINUE. THERE IS ALOT OF BITTERNESS IN THE STATE, AM SURE AS THE AUCTIONEERS (voters) HAMMER goes; GOING! GOING! GONE! IN THE PENDING ENDING DAYS OF YOUR REIGN, ENSURE THAT YOU LEAVE THE PEOPLE MORE HAPPY THAN YOU MET THEM, THATS TRUE EXAMPLE OF LEADERSHIP, ENSURE YOU REBUILD BRIDGES, THERE IS LIFE AFTER MAY 29TH, 2014. YOU MIGHT NEED THE BRIDGE. THAT AFTERNOON AFTER THE HANDOVER, ONE OR OTHER KIND OF WIND WILL BLOW THROUGH YOU; either that of EMPTINESS OR FULFILMENT AS YOU STEP DOWN TO JOIN BOTH YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR ENEMIES. WHILE I DESIRE TO WISH YOU THE LATER, I AM DISGUSTED THAT WHO IS IN CHARGE MAY NOT ALLOW YOU THAT JOY. UNLESS YOU BECOME IN CHARGE OF YOUR RULERSHIP, GOVERNORSHIP OR BETTER STILL LEADERSHIP OF ABIA. I SINCERELY WISH who is in charge is EXTERNAL SO YOU COULD SHOT HIM OUT AS USUAL, BUT WORRIED IF HE IS INTERNAL AND CANNOT BE SHOT OUT. PLEASE DONT TELL ME IT IS YOU THAT IS INCHARGE, BECAUSE THIS IS NOT THE CHIEF THEODORE AHAMEFULA ORJI, THAT WE KNEW. EBERE WABARA DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE LOCKED UP. I HAVE HEARD WORST THINGS FROM YOUR MEDIA UNIT THAN WHAT I HAVE HEARD HIM SAY. REMEMBER HE IS NOT JUST A JOURNALIST, HE IS ONE OF OUR PRIDES IN ABIA AND UKWA NGWAS ARE WATCHING. I WISH YOU PEACE BEYOND THE PAIN OF CRITICISMS AND A HEART TO LISTEN TO THE VIEWS OF THE OTHERS. From; BAR.BENJAMIN OKEZIE KALU Abia policemen abduct The Sun editor from Lagos Policemen from the Abia State Command yesterday stormed the Surulere, Lagos residence of Mr. Ebere Wabara, The Sun Associate Editor and Special Assistant, Media to Dr. Uzor Orji Kalu, and whisked him away. The incident happened between 6.30 and 7a.m in the presence of Wabara’s wife and underaged children. The invading police from the State CID, Umuahia, had identified themselves to Wabara, and told him that some unnamed person had written a petition against him in Abia State. He was, therefore, asked to follow them to the state, where he would be charged with sedition. First, Wabara was taken to Sholoki Police Station in Aguda, Surulere, and later to Oyingbo police station, also in Lagos. Speaking on how the abduction drama unfolded, Adanna Wabara, a mother of two kids aged eight and six years, respectively, said between 6.30 and 7.00a.m, her husband had gone downstairs to take something from his car. “Shortly after, I heard him shouting, and I ran downstairs. I saw between seven and eight men, who said they were policemen. They said he needed to follow them to Umuahia, that there was a petition against him for sedition. “They took us back into the house, one of them brought out an I.D Card, showing that he was a policeman. They requested to search our bedroom. They did, and collected my husband’s laptop and telephone. “I followed as they took him to Sholoki Police Station, but later, I had to take the children to school. By the time I returned, they had moved him away. His phones could not be reached, and he had not eaten. Now, we are deeply traumatized, the entire family.” The Sun Publishing Limited sees the abduction of Mr Wabara obviously on the orders of the Abia State Commissioner of Police, Mr Adamu Ibrahim, and perhaps under the further instruction of the state governor, Chief T. A. Orji, as a throwback to the dark days of military dictatorship, when might was right, and the strong trampled on the weak. It is unconscionable, repressive and flies in the face of all that is decent and civil. It has all the trappings of autocracy, rather then democracy. If Mr Wabara infringed any law, we would have expected the police to invite him to answer questions, and then charge him to court. The approach that has been adopted is Gestapo-like, and unbecoming of those who instigated it. Those entrusted with the upholding of the law are not expected to trample on others. This is what the policemen from Abia State have done, and it runs contrary to the code of conduct for policemen as espoused by the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Dikko Abubakar. When The Sun contacted the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Frank Mba, he made quality efforts to resolve the matter, urging that Mr Wabara’s statement be taken in Lagos, and that he be given the opportunity to thereafter report in Umuahia. But apparently, the invaders from Abia had another design, obviously to keep him in detention over the weekend. It is simply despicable. Femi Adesina Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:53:47 +0000
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