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Sections News Editorial/Opinion Cover Choice Arts & Life Business Politics Sports   Subscription Form Click here       Daily Independent Online.         * Monday, July 05, 2004. Akume berates police over attack By Tom Chiahemen Senior Correspondent, Abuja Four months after gunmen attacked his convoy along Lafia-Akwanga road, Benue State Governor George Akume has chastised the police for not doing enough in their search for his assailants. Speaking to journalists at his Asokoro Governor’s Lodge in Abuja at the weekend, he insisted that the armed attack on March 3 was “a planned assassination attempt” on his life, not a robbery incident. The attack claimed the lives of a police escort, former Managing Director of Nigeria Airways and member of the board of trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Andrew Agom, who sat beside the governor at the back of his official jeep. Akume regretted that four months after the incident, he had not received any further briefing from the police on their efforts to identify and apprehend the gunmen. Asked whether he was satisfied with the attempts by the police to solve the crime, Akume said: “I will be satisfied when they arrest those people (the gunmen) and finally bring them to justice”. He, however, expressed belief that God would punish those who attempted to assassinate him:  “My god is a living God. If he doesn’t do it now, certainly he would do it later”. On the recent report by the Senate joint committee that investigated the bloody crisis in Kwande Council Area in Benue State, Akume said: “In parliamentary democracy, when a report is tabled before the Senate, it must be debated and a decision arrived at. The report is a raw material which, under the normal procedure, should have been allowed to be processed by the Senate. The report was presented and the chairman of the committee was all over the place talking rubbish. “I know my responsibility under the Constitution. I have read the report and I find it conflicting. At a point, the committee recommended that the ANPP (All Nigeria Peoples Party) should go to the tribunal. Do not forget that the National Assembly has no powers to make law for the local governments”.       Copyright� 2002. All Rights Reserved Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.dailyindependentng.com e-mail: [email protected]

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