Embattled Chief Justice of
Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen has written a petition to the acting Inspector
General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu, over alleged threat to the lives of
workers on his farm in Masaka, Nasarawa State.
According to Thisday newspaper,
the petition written filed yesterday by his counsel, Mr. Ogwu Onoja, SAN,
alleged that men suspected to be herdsmen were at the farm on February 1,
during the afternoon and also later at night, inquiring about the owner of the
farm and issued frightening threats to the farmers.
Onoja stated that the workers are
now living in dreadful fear and have consequently stopped all farming
activities.
According to Onoja, the farm,
which belongs to the family of Onnoghen, is a large commercial venture that
provides employment to a large number of people who live on the farm and tend
to the commercial poultry, piggery, livestock as well as cash and food crops on
the farm.
While the petitioner said the
threat of the herders was being considered as an indication of imminent attack
on the lives and property on the farm, he called on the IG and police to
urgently move in and forestall any possible destruction of lives and property
at the farm.
He said in part: “We implore you,
in the discharge of your constitutional duty as the Chief Police Officer of the
nation, to deploy your men to secure the farm to avoid a breakdown of law and
order, the possible unleashing of mayhem on the workers, destruction of the
farm, including the property thereon and the disruption of ongoing farming
activities particularly in this season of harvest.
“We also call for a thorough,
exhaustive and stringent investigation into this matter so as to unearth the
identities of the persons behind this menace.
“We trust that you will use your
good offices to quash this impending threat and help restore confidence of the
people in the farm and its immediate environ.”
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So now it is clear this man is trying to buy time.
ReplyDeleteFrom herdsmen or police IG? Na wah for ur reasoning ooo. So if who get case report any issues wey em get again na time e dey wan buy? Wise king Solomon I hail u.
DeleteYou must be dumb
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