Date Published: 05/28/09
National Conscience Party [NCP]
[Abia State Chapter]
E-mail: ncpabiachapter@yahoo.com
11 May 2009 Press Release
ARREST SAM HART, ABIA GOVERNOR’S CPS
The attention of the National Conscience Party [NCP], Abia State Chapter has been drawn to a threat by the Chief Press Secretary to the Executive Governor of Abia State, Mr. Sam Hart, to handle [kill] a frontline activist in Abia State, Comrade Chidi Nwosu.
It should be recalled Nwosu’s organization, the Human Rights, Justice and Peace Foundation [HRJPF], which has been playing a vital role in the development and sustenance of our country’s nascent democracy had, in a story published by the Daily Independent alleged that the Abia State Government was planning to build mosques in each of the 17 Local Government Areas of the state.
In his reaction to the publication, which has generated heat at home and abroad against the inept and visionless Governor of Abia State, Hart stated inter alia, “We know Chidi Nwosu, we can handle him,” a thing that has been interpreted to mean “kill” the human rights activist.
It is regrettable that the Governor of Abia State, Chief T.A. Orji, who is supposed to ensure the security of the lives and property of Abia citizens has surrounded himself with dangerous elements that deceive him into perpetrating crime against humanity. Could this account for his non-performance since his assumption of office? Could this also explain why Abia has been characterized by senseless killings of innocent citizens by the Bakassi boys, armed robbers, ritual killers and kidnappers?
The NCP therefore demands as follows:
1) The immediate dismissal of Mr. Sam Hart as the Chief Press Secretary to the Executive Governor of Abia State;
2) Order by President Yar’adua on the Inspector-General of Police to arrest and prosecute Hart for threatening to eliminate Nwosu.
The NCP also wishes to join civil society organizations in Abia State in its statement that should anything happen to Nwosu, Hart and or Governor Orji should be held responsible.
Enough is enough!
Comrade Cassius Ukwugbe,
State Secretary.
