BY JOSEPH OKON
There was a serious tension in Ibeno last week Saturday when the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly Committee on NDDC, led by Hon Victor Udofia who was on oversight function to inspect the ongoing and abandoned NDDC projects in the state clashed with the Director of Finance of Exxon Mobil in Ibeno.
It started as a mere exchange of words until one of the policemen attached to the Mobil finance Director threatened to shoot Hon. Victor Udofia if he refuse to allow them pass to their destination and this comment evoked the anger of the State lawmaker, Hon Udofia who promised the mobile policemen that it will be fire for fire.
The incident which lasted for over 30 minutes caused a lot of traffic on the road without any vehicle moving to or fro the region including that of Mobil as hot words were exchanged between the lawmaker and the police attached to the Mobil officer who refused to come down from the vehicle.
This event happened very close to the Mobil terminal where the Ibeno council officials led the committee to inspect one of the abandoned projects in Ibeno, and the committee Chairman, Hon Udofia ordered that all vehicular movements should stop, but the impatient Mobil worker refused to wait for the little time the committee was on the road and attempted to crush the committee’s vehicle and move ahead. This attracted the attention of the lawmaker who inquired to know who was in the vehicle that could not wait. When he was told that it was a staff of Mobil, Hon. Udofia asked them to wait but they refused; insisting on passing at that moment. The issue came to its apex when one of the policemen attached to the Mobil Worker threatened to kill the lawmaker.
The lawmaker who was physically angry by the threat to his life insisted that they will not move the vehicle’ insisting to order for the arrest of the vehicle and its occupants if they try to move from where they were.
It took the intervention of the Army and others before normalcy was restored.
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