The State Security Service, SSS, yesterday announced that it has arrested one Adelola Tamunotonye Olaore, in connection with a phony plan to assassinate Senator Aloysius Etok, disclosing that it would soon charge the suspect to court. The SSS said Olaore was arrested on April 29, 2013, following a letter titled, “Report of Planned Assassination” by a man who calls himself ‘General Africa,’ an ex-militant, written to the service by Senator Etok. Assistant Director Public Relations of the State Security Service, SSS, Marilyn Ogar, said the arrest was made possible following the cooperation of Etok, who agreed to play along with the suspect.
According to Etok, on April 28, 2013, Olaore telephoned and introduced himself as General Africa claiming that he has been contracted by Governor Godswill Akpabio’s loyalists to assassinate him. “Subsequently, he was asked by the Senator to come to Abuja on April 29, and was lodged in a hotel from where he was apprehended,” Ogar said.
According to Ogar, the suspect is a 29-year-old graduate of Mechanical Engineering from the Rivers state University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt and a native of Okeho in Kajola Local Government Area of Oyo State but was born and bred in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
She said in the course of interrogation, Olaore confessed that he went to the office of the Niger Delta Development Corporation, NDDC, in Port Harcourt, to submit a mail whereupon he stumbled on a mail bearing the complementary card of Senator Etok from where he obtained the senator’s contact details.
She continued: “That he, being aware of the political interests between the senator and the governor over the Ikot Ekpene Senatorial seat by 2015, seized the opportunity to contact Senator Etok. He introduced himself as “General Africa” an exmilitant from Bayelsa State. He then told the senator that he had been contracted by three of the governor’s loyalists to assassinate him.”
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