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Oscar Ofuka
By Akpan David, Calabar
Cross River State Security Adviser, Major-General Okoi Obono (rtd) has arrested and detained Mr Oscar Ofuka who was special adviser on cocoa development to former governor Ben Ayade.
Wife to Ofuka, Mrs. Joy Ofuka disclosed this to journalists wednesday evening, decrying the use of political power to intimidate perceived opponents.
Joy appealed to Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, and the Cross River state Governor, Senator Bassey Otu, to intervene and cause her husband to be released from what she described as unlawful detention.
Joy said her husband has severally been intimidated and harassed by agents of current government.
“May I used this privilege to call on the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun PhD wade into the matter so that this harassment and intimidation by the state security Adviser would be stopped.
“Am not a lawyer but as Nigerians we know that once a matter is taken in court no one is allowed to arrest anyone, in this matter the reverse is the case.
“The harassment and intimidation by the state security Adviser who is using his position to intimidate my family is not a good thing.”
She alleged a gang up against her husband who was in the eye of the storm when he was in office.
“I see the gang up and torment as a tool to distract the cocoa allottees to come against my husband. Let me state here categorically clear that no dime was paid into my husband’s personal account but accounts of the state government via the smart gov. platform authorized by the court’s consent judgment,” she said.
She maintained that her husband ensured that money owed cocoa landlords communities for more than a decade was paid.
Ofuka was reportedly detained at Afi army barracks, later to Akim Barracks in Calabar, federal housing police station and finally confined at zone 6 police commands Calabar.
Joy has further alleged that her husband has been maltreated, adding that the children and herself have been traumatized.
In his reaction, General Obono has denied having a hand in Ofuka’s arrest and detention.
“I am not responsible for his arrest and detention,” he said.
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