By Priscillia Eke
Ebonyi State Governor, Engr DavidUmahi has expressed his displeasure over the trending report quoting him as having threatened to order the killing of anyone who blocks his convoy, warned journalists against instigating war in the State with their freedom of expression.
He also disclosed that the missing gun belonging to a soldier attached to his convoy has to be found. The gun was reportedly missing following last week’s roadblock of his convoy.
He said this on Thursday while addressing a delegation of traders in the State during a meeting at the Banquet hall, Government House, Abakaliki.
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According to him, the said gun fell off as the soldiers went out to ensure that the blockade was removed by the drunk wake – keepers who placed them. He added that the barricade was not specifically targeted against his convoy but expressed worry that the wake-keepers remained adamant when the security personnel approached them, expressing fears what would have happened if it were ordinary citizens.
In his words: “SA media, you have to warn our Press.
“Anybody that wants to write rubbish should go out of this state and do that.
“How can somebody quote me that I said block my convoy and get shot.
“It is this nonsense that set up war.
“You think that you can just upset a state or people?
“Then the people have the freedom to slap you too.
“Our system should be a system with law and order, and you don’t have the right to come and destroy people or a person because you have freedom of speech.
“It’s very good that they have found the gun.
“And i said that they didn’ block my convoy in Onicha.
“The soldiers even came out pleading with them to unblock the road and they refused.
“They were doing wake keep and drank themselves to Stupor that they didn’t recognize the Army.
“So it was in the process that the soldiers moved and their gun felt down from the vehicle and they didn’t know.
“Nobody fought with the Army.
“Why i came hard on them was that if you were drunk and you didn’t recognize the soldiers, what if it were an ordinary person what will happen to them?
“And when we where moving down to Oshiri we saw people’s vehicles that were moving down that side.
“Nobody will condone such lawlessness.
“We are still takeing them to court.
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