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Original Post Date: 2011-03-21 Time: 12:00:05 Posted By: News Poster
By Rotimi Akinwumi
Abuja – Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Sylva, may have walked into another scandal when he allegedly slapped, kicked and beat up an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) with his walking stick.
The incident which occurred on the day President Goodluck Jonathan visited Bayelsa State is currently being investigated by the Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Ringim.
Sources informed Sunday Independent that the ACP, Ben Akpenyi, walked into trouble when he ordered that women from Jonathan’s village detained by a security outfit, Famutangbei, set up by the governor, be released so that they would not constitute a security problem when the president arrived the state.
Sunday Independent learnt that a group of women from Ogbia Local Government Area, fully decked in their traditional attire, were on their way to Yenagoa on March 8 to welcome the president when they were accosted and detained at the roadside by Operation Famutangbei.
Akpenyi, who is ACP Operations (ACOPs) was said to have been on routine security checks when the women approached him for intervention; complaining that they had been left by the roadside for more than three hours.
Apparently unknown to Akpenyi, the women who were decked in their “Ankara” uniform were stopped on their way to Yenagoa stadium and kept under intense sun for hours by the policemen, specifically instructed to do so by the governor’s aides.
The ACP who was in charge of organising and coordinating local security for the President’s visit, noticed that the women were sweating profusely in the bus, under the watchful eyes of the policemen who, upon arresting them, refused them any kind of courtesy.
He was said to have been briefed by the most senior officer on duty that they had “orders from above” to prevent the women from being part of all the presidential campaign.
After hearing the story from the policemen and seeing the agony of the women who were said to have pleaded to be allowed to go back home after failing to fulfill their mission, he instructed that the women be allowed to go back home.
He was said to have ordered their release when it became clear that they could present a security risk if allowed to remain by the roadside while the president was in the state to hold a rally in continuation of his presidential bid.
“He did what was necessary and safe,” said a source at the Police Headquarters at Abuja, “but ten minutes after he took the decision which delighted the women, he got a call from the state governor who arrived the scene 30 minutes after with the commissioner of Police, Musa Aliyu.
Sylva was said to have verbally lashed out at Akpenyi on why he ordered the release of the women whom he accused of being sponsored by his political opponents “to come and throw satchet water (pure water) at him during the president’s visit.”
According to our sources, Sylva allegedly spat on Akpenyi publicly to the dismay of all the junior officers and the Commissioner of Police present; and after that ordered Akpenyi to proceed with him to Government House.
Akpenyi, stunned by what happened, was said to have tried to explain as he joined the governor’s convoy to the Governor’s office where the worst treatment awaited him.
At Government House, the governor was said to have accused Akpenyi of being a sellout to the opposition parties in the state and proceeded to hit him with his walking stick, kicked and slapped him in quick succession.
The assault at the governor’s office was said to have taken place in the presence of four senior officers of the State Security Service (SSS), the Commissioner of Police, as well as some senior police officers who looked helplessly.
The governor’s action, said our sources, confirmed the strongly-held belief that he actually ordered the detention of the women from Jonathan’s council area.
Sylva is said to have been engaged in a silent war with Jonathan over allegations that the President is giving his support to Timi Alaibe, the Labour Party governorship candidate in Bayelsa State in the forthcoming April governorship election with a view to unseating Sylva.
Unconfirmed sources said Sylva must have decided to take back his pound of flesh on the president by preventing some of his kinsmen from doing him honour when he came calling on the said date.
Our correspondent learnt that when information on the assault reached Ringim, “the IGP was visibly annoyed,” saying “he could not understand why a senior officer in uniform could be so assaulted by a state governor.”
He was said to have immediately called Aliyu and later Akpenyi to confirm the story.
When Sunday Independent Correspondent visited Louis Edet House, Headquarters of the Nigerian Police to speak with the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Olusola Amore, on the issue, he refused to make any comment. He asked our correspondent to see him after one week.
Original date published: 19 March 2011
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201103210604.html?viewall=1