A former bank manager in Aba, Abia State, Chief Ike Opigwe Chinedu has petitioned the Abia State director of the State Security Services (SSS) over alleged threat to his life and that of members of his family by a female staff of the Service, Mrs Ekwutosi Obialor who works at the Osisioma Ngwa office of the agency.
In a petition by the ex- bank manager, titled, “Threat to my life and family by Mr. Samuel Obialor and his wife Mrs. Ekwutosi Obialor” a copy of which was made available to Pointblanknews.com, the petitioner alleged that on February 11, 2011, he lent the husband of the SSS woman, Samuel the sum of N90, 000 with which he paid her daughter’s school fees.
Chinedu said that Samuel promised to pay back the money within one month, but failed to do so despite the intervention of their kinsmen from Isuochi their home town in Umunneochi local council, whom he reported the matter to.
According to him, he was hoping that Samuel would pay him back the money when surprisingly, “On October 26, 2012, Mr. Samuel Obialor came to my office to tell me that his wife (Ekwutosi Obialor) will use the weight of her office on me and that I will die away in their detention camp.”
The petitioner said he never took the threat seriously until “Ekwutosi Obialor (the wife) personally came to his office on October 29, 2012 and told me that since I have reported her husband’s indebtedness to me to Isuochi people, that she was going to use the instrument of her office to deal with me and she vowed to put me out of circulation.”
The ex- bank manager said he was forced to do the petition following series of threatening text messages he had been receiving from a man who identified himself simply as Joseph with phone number 08181588997 and claims to be an operative of the SSS working at the state headquarters in Umuahia and who he believes Mrs. Obialor has been using to harass him.
Chinedu lamented that Mrs. Obialor has began the process of perfecting his threat of putting him out of circulation for no just cause only that “I helped her husband who was in a hopeless situation”, and appealed to the state director of SSS to call Mrs. Obialor to order and mandate her husband to pay back the money he borrowed from him.
When contacted on phone for her own side of the story, Mrs. Obialor promised to get back to our correspondent but she never did despite repeated calls and text messages to her mobile number.