A Toyota Saloon car which was last Wednesday robbed
along Paul Bassey by Brooks street in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital has been
linked to the office of the Deputy Governor Mr. Moses Ekpo.
Government House sources who identified the car with
registration number AK 705 CO1 said the vehicle belongs to the office of the
Deputy Governor.
It was gathered that the occupants of the car a
driver and female Mandu who is the cashier in the Deputy Governor’s office
escaped unhurt while the armed men who looked fierce and deadly carted away
over 50million Naira.
The car is said to have returned from a transaction
in one of the new generation banks in Uyo before being caught up by the dare
devil robbers.
THE INK Portal gathered that the robbers must have
acted on a tipoff, then decided to trail the vehicle to the point it was accosted
before unleashing torrents of pellets on the boot of the car to force it
open.
The robbers are said to have operated unchallenged
for over twenty minutes, and when they must have succeeded, they then escaped
through the popular and most secured barracks road.
Meanwhile, followers of the incident are worried
that a vehicle attached to the office of a number two citizen of Akwa Ibom
State could be robbed following a tipoff and twenty minutes later, the police
could not respond even as no arrest have been made close to a week after the
ugly event took place.
This, they say is even worse that a cashier attached
to that office was trailed fuelling speculations that the security nature of
that office is porous, and/or that the security has been breached.
Our reporter understands that ever since that
incidence took place, that there have been suspicions and tension in the deputy
governor’s office as everyone is now a suspect, and a visitor to that office is
being looked at with one eye.
The question on the lips of everyone has been who
did that, who leaked the information of the cashier’s trip to the bank to the
robbers, could it have been an insider in the deputy governor’s office or was
the breach from the bank? This is a puzzle THE INK portal gathered has been on
the minds of top ranking citizens in the deputy governor’s office.
Others have also queried where the Deputy Governor
must have had over fifty million naira when he is alleged to be telling the
people that he does not see such amount of money in this administration. What
he wanted to use such funds for could not also be established as close aides to
the man say the money must have been for some secret purposes. They refused to
open up on what secret purposes they were claiming.
On what has been the reactions from the deputy
governor, Moses Ekpo on this happening, sources from government house say Mr.
Ekpo has been sober and utterly speechless and confused. Our sources refused
further comments when asked if Mr. Ekpo has called a meeting to address the
matter, our reporter was ignored.
As at the time this report was filed, the driver of
the vehicle and cashier attached to the deputy governor’s office could not be
reached. A staff in the deputy governor’s office said, the cashier has been in
shock since then and have been advised to see a psychologist.
The driver is said to have sought some medicals as
it is likely that he may have sustained some internal injuries while escaping
from the dare devils bullets.
It could be recalled that when the robbers attacked
that fateful Wednesday, police only arrived the scene when the robbers had
finished their mission.
A chase on the robbers only resulted to a stray
bullet from the police hitting an innocent citizen who was struggling for the
cash thrown into the crowd at Ibom Plaza by the robbers.
As at the time of going to the press, the police in
Akwa Ibom State were bereaved of information on this matter. Initial reaction
from the police hierarchy was that of uncertainty. Till date, no official
information has been released from the police and/or the deputy governor’s
office. Efforts to get them speak on the matter did not yield any result till
this paper went to bed last night.
However, what the cash was meant to achieve, who
instructed the transaction to be carried out were yet to be disclosed.
Meanwhile, the case instituted against Nsibiet John
by the Deputy Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Moses Ekpo will continue today
in the Akwa Ibom State Magistrate Court 2 in Uyo.
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