Akpabio’s Aide Lied, There Was No Attack On Akpabio’s House – Police

Police Say Akapabio’s House Was Not Attacked

The police in Akwa Ibom state said there was no attack on the country home of a senator, Godswill Akpabio, as claimed by the senator’s aide.

Akpabio’s media aide, Anietie Ekong, said earlier that some unknown gunmen stormed the senator’s home in Ukana Ikot Ntuen, Essien Udim, Akwa Ibom state, around 7.30 p.m on Tuesday, and were shooting sporadically in front of the gate before they were repelled by police officers and other security personnel attached to the senator.

Naija News earlier reported the senator was holding a political meeting in his home when the incident happened, according to information made available by Ekong.

“That information is false,” the police spokesperson in the state, Odiko MacDon, said Wednesday morning. “There was an attempted robbery at a filling station close to Senator Akpabio’s house. The filling station is 200 metres away from the senator’s house.  “Nobody attacked the country home of Senator Godswill Akpabio,” MacDon, a deputy superintendent of police, said.

The divisional police officer (DPO) in Essien Udim corroborated MacDon’s position that the shooting was at a filling station, and not the senator’s house.

“There were some policemen on the ground at the filling station, so when the armed robbers started shooting, the policemen there fired back, and the robbers ran away,” the DPO said.

Udim said when he learnt of the shooting, he visited the area that night, in the company of the police area commander.

He said he and his officers stopped by the senator’s house that night, and the gate was locked.

“We stayed around there till late into the night before we left,” he said.

When contacted, the senator’s media aide, Ekong, said: “What we know is that there were sporadic gunshots outside the gate of the senator’s house.”