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By Nse Peter
Human Rights activist, Mr. Inibehe Effiong has called on the
Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase to arrest and prosecute the
immediate past Attorney General of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Uwemedimo Nwoko for
allegedly disrupting the inspection of voting materials used in the senatorial
election in which the former governor of the state, Chief Godswill Akpabio was
returned as winner.
A respectable national newspaper in Nigeria, The Punch has reported that the former attorney general caused a stir last week in INEC office, Uyo, the capital of Akwa Ibom State when he allegedly pulled off his suit and rolled up his sleeve in readiness for a fight, in a bid to prevent the All Progressives Congress from carrying on with the inspection of the voting materials as ordered by election tribunal.
Effiong who is the Convener, Coalition of Human Rights Defenders, said in statement, Wednesday, “It is on record that Nwoko has been disrupting the inspection exercise for the governorship and senatorial election consistently thereby frustrating the order of the Election Tribunal which amounts to contempt of court.
“We cannot allow miscreants and criminal elements to continue to violate the laws of this country with impunity. Nwoko is an ordinary citizen without immunity.”
Effiong accused the commissioner of police in Akwa Ibom State of “condoning this criminal conduct” and called on the inspector general of police to live up to his responsibility of upholding law and order.
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