Who wants Senator Abaribe dead?

Pray, who wants Chief Enyinnaya Abaribe, former Deputy Governor of Abia state and, currently, a Senator of the Federal Republic, dead? (Picture right shows bespectacled Senator Abaribe ardoning a black cap on the right)

Abaribe, representing Abia South Senatorial District, escaped death by the whiskers when his convoy was attacked by gun men in the night of Sunday May 19. Most unfortunately, Senator Abaribe's police orderly fell to the superior fire power of the assailants.

Senator Abaribe said he was returning from from an oversight function in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, during which he joined Senator Nkechi Nworgu of Abia Central District at a People's Democrtaic Party (PDP) consultative forum she organized in the state. Abaribe was only a kilometre away to his house at Ohuhu, Obingwa council area of Abia state, when the attackers struck.

Opinions, however, vary on whether Abaribe's attackers were hired assassins or kidnappers.

Scared Senator Abaribe remarked that if his killed police orderly did not engage the gunmen, he would been a dead man, maintaining that returned fire temporarily warded them off.
But the question remains: Who is after the life of Senator Abaribe? Was he a victim of the ever political intrigues in Abia state? Or did he just fell prey to the kidnap gangs ravaging the state and beyond?

Whatever the answer is, the attempt on Senator Abaribe's life was unfortunate, and a sad commentary on our polity. It is, also, unfortunate that Abia, God's Own State, has sudenly become a den of miscreats and all sorts of evil men.

KlinReports, therefore, calls on the People's Progressives Alliance (PPA) government in the state, led by Chief Theodore Ahamefula Orji, to brace up to the security challenges of Abia state. The government, if need be, should declare a security emergency in the state, with a view to giving adequate security to the indigenes and residents of the state.

KlinReports, also, canvasses adequate compensation for the family of the security officer who lost his life while protecting Senator Abaribe. This dangerous situation whereby armed bandits continue to run rough shod over the citizenry is simply because of arms proliferation in the country. And the earlier the government of the day battles this menace to a stand-still, the better for us all.