**claim to be SARS Operatives sent from Lagos
**Police Boss intervenes, faults modus operandi
BY OUR REPORTER Some unknown gunmen claiming to be operatives of the Special AntiRobbery Squad from Lagos, last night stormed Uyo and to the business premises of Mr Ime Uwah, younger brother to Akwa Ibom Commissioner for Housing and Urban Renewal, Prince Enobong Uwah, with a search warrant that ordered them to search any discovered environment or premises owned or connected to the said Ime Uwah. Mr Uwah is also the Special Assistant to Akwa Ibom Governor on Marketing and Brand Management.
According to the unknown gunmen, their mission was necessitated by a petition sent in by an unknown petitioner from the state, with claims that Uwah owns a caravan where he stores ammunitions and uniforms of various armed and unarmed forces which he intends to use during the rerun election in Akwa Ibom.
Being cleared by their warrant and the proof of identity they possibly provided, the men were allowed to begin the search which began from Uwah’s most popular business centre, Eni Gardens, to his residence and finally to his farm along Akwa Ibom Airport Road, but nothing was found.
THE PLATFORM gathered that trouble started when the men, despite not finding anything incriminating throughout the search, insisted on going with Uwah to their office in Lagos by road in a tinted glass Toyota Hiace Bus privately registered with number plate: EY 527 KJA.
Smelling something fishy in the mission, some close allies of Uwah who were with him began raising alarm and mobilising youths to the scene and the attention of the State Deputy Police Commissioner was drawn in the process who stormed the scene shortly after.
Upon arrival, THE PLATFORM gathered, the police boss began scolding the men and asking why they want to embarrass the state police command by coming for such operation involving a high profile citizen without at least, reporting to him or the SARS Unit at the state headquarters.
Finally, the police boss immediately ordered them to follow him to his office at the Akwa Ibom Police Headquarters in Ikot Akpan Abia, while riding with Ime Uwah in his car.
As at the time of filing this report, Our Reporter gathered, Ime Uwah was released after the police boss met with both parties in his office, while our reporter, along with the rest of the crowd waited downstairs for the outcome which was finally given as “mistaken identity”. But however, there were series of comments and unanswered questions from the crowd as regards why they insisted on parting with Uwah when nothing as contained in the claimed petition was found in his possession.
Also, while some of them tried to link the development to last year’s incident when the Akwa Ibom government house was raided on this same approach, but nothing was found and nothing till date has been reported to have been found, another part of the vigilant crowd was on the wondering side as regards which rerun election Uwah would be preparing for, when as an Uyo indigene, the candidates of his party, the PDP at the Governorship, Senatorial and Federal House of Representatives level were confirmed by the highest courts of law and even the state assembly candidate that has a rerun case, has only a few polling units to battle for, which will certainly not affect his position as the holder of that office irrespective of whatever comes of the election rerun.
CULLED FROM SITIPE KE AKWA IBOM
CULLED FROM SITIPE KE AKWA IBOM
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