Imo State government said yesterday that its position that most of the protests in the State were sponsored by the opposition has been vindicated, following the arrest by the police yesterday of hoodlums ,armed with guns and matchets, claiming to be staff of the state oil commission and claiming to be protesting for none payment of salaries
The state police command yesterday arrested and paraded a band of hoodlums ,armed with guns, matches and other dangerous weapons, masquerading as staff of the Imo State oii producing areas development commission (ISOPADEC), claiming to be on a peaceful protest
A statement yesterday by the State commissioner of information and strategy said luck ran out of the hoodlums when they ran into the governor’s convoy enroute to the military barracks in obinze where the governor was headed to commission an officers mess complex built by the State government.
The statement said the fact that people claiming to be staff of ISOPADEC could arm themselves with guns and matchets says it all, adding they were hired thugs by the opposition who were rattled by the public ovation that greeted the governor’s successful commmissiong of new roads in Owerri on Friday.
“The opposition is smarting from the irredeemable shame the governments successes is rubbing on their face and they quickly thought of another protest to take the shine out of the increasingly unbeatable trajectory of Governor Uzodimma’s successes story. But luck ran out of luck this time” Emelumba said.
Briefing Newsmen in Owerri yesterday the State police commissioner Issack Akinmoyede, said 15 of the hoodlums have been arrested and under investigation by the State CID to determine the motive behind their action. He also said dangerous weapons were recovered from them
Akinmoyede said the hoodlums ambushed the governor’s convoy and succeeded in attacking the cars at the rear and damaged the windscreens of some of them.
Emelumba however urged the police to unravel the real motive behind the action of the hoodlums and also uncover their sponsors.
NIGERIA HORN
