Arrest Emami immediately over alleged incitement, breach of peace, Group urges Security agencies

Alaowei, Cleric Ebikonbowei, Esq., 
A group under the auspices of the 
Centre for Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Crusade (CHURA) today urged Security Agencies to immediately arrest the Ologbotsere of Warri Kingdom, Chief Ayirimi Emami over an alleged "incitement" and "breach of public peace."

The Chairman Board of Trustees, CHURAC, Alaowei, Cleric Ebikonbowei, Esq made the call in a statement sent to Our Correspondent in Warri. 

In its reaction, the group said, Chief Emami whom it described as a "controversial Ologbotsere" is person who is supposed to be cooling his feet in the police cells. 

According to the group, "His delinquent and insidious utterances towards Ijaw people in the INEC Ward delineation exercise should have invited the security agents to visit him."

It would be recalled that Chief Ayirimi Emami had earlier called on the Inspector-General of Police to arrest former Deputy Governor, Barr. Kingsley Otuaro over boundary issues in the State. 

The group said, Chief Emami is an uninformed joker for calling for the arrest of Barr. Otuaro. 

The group said, "It's an insult but we will forgive Chief Ayiri Emami for calling on the IGP to arrest His Excellency, Deacon Kingsley Otuaro, former Deputy Governor of Delta State. 

"We have to forgive this controversial Ologboshere of Itsekiri nation because he is a glorified pseudo intellectual who is ingloriously suffering from an intellectual embecility. Indeed, the uninformed mind is a burden to the society."

The group explained that,"Issue of boundary adjustment is purely a civil matter. Granted that the office of the deputy governor of a State is statutorily empowered to carry out that function. 

"If in the exercise of such functions by a State government or even the Federal Government, the laws provide for a medium for an aggrieved person to ventilate his grievances. There's nothing incriminating for the security agents to come in to arrest a person who merely exercises his constitutional functions. 

"If there was any boundary adjustment exercise carried out during the tenure of Barr. Kingsley Otuaro as the deputy governor, it was not Kingsley Otuaro so to say that did it but the office of the deputy governor. That office is a legal entity created by the Constitution. Chief Ayiri is free at anything to approach that office to solve his problem. 

"The invidious Ayiri Emami should know that there's what we called Public Officers Protection Law of Delta State. Before he decides to embarrass himself in public, he should consult intelligent minds around him to tutor him properly. Nigerian constitution under section 36(12) CFRN, 1999 provides that: "Subject as otherwise provided by this Constitution, a person shall not be convicted of a criminal offence unless that offence is defined and the penalty therefore is prescribed in a written law, and in this subsection, a written law refers to an Act of the National Assembly or a Law of a State, any subsidiary legislation or instrument under the provisions of a law."