Oshiomhole aide’s murder: Our director is innocent — ANEEJ
The
African Network for Environmental and Economic Justice has described
the arrest of its executive director, David Ugolor, by security
operatives as a “frame-up by some highly-placed persons.”
Ugolor was picked up on
Friday in connection with the assassination of the private secretary to
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Mr. Olaitan Oyerinde.
But ANEEJ in a statement
by its Programme/Policy Officer, Mr. Innocent Edemhanria, in Abuja,
said Ugolor insisted that he was innocent of the allegation against him.
Edemhanria said the security operatives ransacked his boss’s private home and office taking away some items.
According to him,
employees of the organisation had their cell phones taken away from them
and switched off for about three hours.
“The operatives returned
the phones and left the office. An employee of Centre for Social
Justice, Mr. Kingsley Nnajiaka, was at ANEEJ secretariat and was also
held hostage for the same period.
“The security men met
with some relations of Ugolor and his lawyer and informed them that one
of the suspects arrested in connection with the murder of Oyerinde had
mentioned the name ‘David’ to them, hence his arrest.”
Thereafter, Edemhanria
said Ugolor was said to have been taken for an identification parade
before the suspects in the presence of his lawyers and relations.
ANEEJ said, “They are still holding Ugolor and we suspect strongly that somebody is framing up our executive director.
“We understand the impeccable private
relationship that existed between the slain Oyerinde and our director.
None of them could plot the killing of the other.”
