Regarding Gen Akpan’s kidnap saga

Next newspaper of February 2nd 2010, reported that “the State governor, Godswill Akpabio, who rushed back to the state following reports of the incident (kidnap of Gen Akpan), is said to have offered his administration’s readiness to pay compensation to the families of all the dead victims”. People posited that that kind of reactions of […]

Next newspaper of February 2nd 2010, reported that “the State governor, Godswill Akpabio, who rushed back to the state following reports of the incident (kidnap of Gen Akpan), is said to have offered his administration’s readiness to pay compensation to the families of all the dead victims”. People posited that that kind of reactions of the Governor could be suspect.  But the Governor in The Nation and Nigerian Tribune of February 5th 2010, accused the opposition for being behind the spate of kidnappings in the State to which he added, “In fact, they are even accusing me as the one behind the spate of kidnappings in the state; and the question I ask them is: when al-Quaeda struck in the United States, was former President Bush accused of being the one behind the attack?”

 He also said that 20 of his supporters have been earmarked to be kidnapped before the next elections and that he has security report on who those kidnappers or their sponsors are. He should please volunteer the information to the security agencies for action. The Kwara State Police Commissioner, Alhaji Mamman Sule, who secured the release of the PDP national secretary’s son (Biodun) narrated in the Sunday Vanguard of February 7, 2010, how he used the GSM number surveillance system to track down the area where the kidnappers of the boy were located.  One then asks if men of the Akwa Ibom  state Police Command do not have the requisite knowledge on such tracking system.     

Katherine Eno Akpan, Plot 1348 Gwarinpa Estate-Abuja, FCT. [email protected]