Alex Enumah in Abuja
The Deputy Speaker of the Benue State Home of Meeting, Hon. Lami Danladi Ogenyi, has described as full falsehood the declare by a federal lawmaker, Hon Philip Agbese, that some individuals had tried to take his life within the state.
Ogenyi, who dismissed the assassination declare yesterday in Abuja, accused the federal lawmaker of try to put a dent on her identify.
Agbese, who represents Ado/Okpokwu/Ogbadibo federal constituency on the Home of Representatives, had raised the alarm of assassination try on his life final week, when he went to Igumale to share Easter packages for his constituents.
Based mostly on the declare, the police had arrested eight individuals, who have been final Monday arraigned earlier than a Chief Justice of the Peace Court docket in Makurdi.
These arraigned and subsequently remanded in jail custody embrace Peter Gilbert, Pius Aboh, Awuru Sunday, Gabriel Ojoko, Paul Ochigbo, Yusuf Ajibo, Cyril Egwu and Daniel Odoh. Agbese had accused the deputy speaker of complicity within the assassination try on the grounds that her official car was discovered with one of many culprits arrested by the police.
Reacting, nonetheless, Ogenyi in a press release signed by her Press Secretary, Mr. Agbaji Atsonwu, faulted the declare of the Home of Representatives member, including that Agbese had failed to offer the general public with substantial proof.
She mentioned: “We want to state emphatically, and for the general public to notice the next: That the scripted sport by Agbese and his camp is solely an try to put a dent on the identify of the Deputy Speaker of the Benue State Home of Meeting, Hon. Lami Danladi Ogenyi. If it weren’t so, why would Agbese hurriedly name the identify of the Deputy Speaker within the saga with out giving room for correct police investigation?
Ogenyi, who maintained that she is a law-abiding and peace-loving Nigerian whose integrity has by no means been questioned earlier than, acknowledged that she is going to by no means become involved in any act able to ruining her repute.
She argued that “the arraignment of the supposed suspects allegedly concerned within the assassination try on Agbese by the Police Prosecuting Officer with out due investigation and presenting the general public with proof of the claims goes to point out simply how a lot Agbese desperately desires to witch hunt these whom he should symbolize and defend in a constructive gentle.
“Amongst different costs, the younger males have been charged for possession of firearms. Nonetheless, till now, the police are but to make obtainable for public consumption, the firearms recovered from the mentioned suspects because it’s customary to the Nigerian Police who enjoyment of parading suspects with implicating gadgets discovered on them. This has raised one other severe concern and questions over your complete story from the Home member and his camp.
“Hon. Lami Danladi Ogenyi hates injustice and oppression, and won’t be quiet when and the place evil is being perpetrated. Therefore, her rebuttal on the unverified declare by Agbese and the fast arraignment and detention of harmless younger males with out due investigation.”
She, nonetheless, urged the judiciary, which she sees because the final hope of the widespread man and the instrument for the interpretation of the regulation, to hold out due diligence on the matter in order to show itself as soon as extra because the final hope of the widespread man.