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Ngige May Release 3 Prisoners On 'Liberation Day' Anambra From Charles Onyekamuo in Awka Anambra State Governor, Dr Chris Ngige will on Saturday, as part of the activities marking the States Liberation Day, release about three prisoners who may have spent a considerable length of time in persons in the state. The state's Commissioner for Information and Culture, Chief Joseph Ofokansi who addressed journalists in Awka yesterday as part of activities to mark the commemoration of the foiled abduction of Dr Chris Ngige, July 10, 2003 said the governor was seriously considering releasing prisoners. Some hitherto political friends of the governor-led by his now estranged godfather, Chief Chris Uba had instructed some policemen led by the late Assistant Inspector General (AIG) of Police, Mr Raphael Ige who actually abducted the governor on the fateful day in a bid to forcefully remove him from office under the pretext that he had resigned from office the previous day. Before Ngige had access to a mobile telephone at the Choice Hotels, Awka, from where he contacted the Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over his ordeal, a resignation letter purportedly written by Ngige had been accepted by the State House of Assembly which in turn wrote the state chief judge, Hon. Justice Chuka Jideofor Okoli to swear-in the then Deputy Governor, Dr Okey Udeh. Although Udeh who acted briefly, dishing out orders moments after the house wrote the state chief judge to swear him in was not sworn-in after all, the house has subsequently deleted every record of the proceedings relating to Ngige's resignationletter and its acceptance from the house's records. Udeh was also impeached several weeks after the house investigated and found him culpable of being one of the masterminds behind the foiled abduction and forceful bid to remove Ngige from office. But yesterday in Awka, Ofokansi said the state government would commemorate the date (July 10, 2003) with trumpet next Saturday as the day marked the liberation of Anambra State from stranglehold of money bags, economic parading as politicians, and destroyers of social, economic and political structures of government. Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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