The Speaker Abia State House of
Assembly, Barr Chikwendu Kalu has denied ordering the shooting of two officers
of the Federal Road safety corps, shot by his Police orderlies on the Aro -Ngwa
axis of the Enugu Port- Harcourt express on Saturday.
Kalu who spoke to journalists at his
official residence in Umuahia, also condemned the over zealousness of the
security officers said to be involved in the incident.
The speaker who added that he was
not physically present at scene of the incident, pointed out he only sent his
security details together with his younger brother to find out the people that
accosted his wife while on her way to Aba.
He said, “I received a distress call
that while my wife was on her way to Aba with her friend and orderly, some
officers of the FRSC accosted her car, ordered them to come out of her car and
started hitting her car with their stick, and finally dragged out her chief
details, who is equally a woman out of the car.
“When I was informed of the
incident, I sent my details to find out who the people in question were,
because we thought the people on that uniform may not be right people, it was
in the course of doing that the incident happened.
“I was informed that somebody
sustained a gunshot injury and we been on top of the situation, trying to find
out what really happened.
“But I want to say that with every
sense of responsibility and humility that I’m well informed about the
importance of human life, and equally aware of the provisions of section 33,
sub-section (1) of the 1999 constitution as amended that forbids taking
away one’s life, I’m equally aware of the sister provision of section 33
sub-section (2) of the same constitution on the mode a human life could be
taken.
“I strongly condemn any over zealousness
on the side of any security personnel be the person a member of the Police,
Road Safety, the Army and Department of States services. I think I will
be the last person to encourage it because it doesn’t augur well with State and
the Country at large.
“ I’m well informed enough to
know that I don’t have the authority to order anybody to shoot and I can’t even
encourage such an action, even under the highest degree of provocation, I would
rather proceed to the law court as practicing lawyer, than take the laws into
my hand”.
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