BREAKING: GOVERNOR WIKE RESCUES JOI NUNIEH FROM HOUSE ARREST

The Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike has rescued the former acting managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Ms. Joi Nunieh from her house after armed policemen laid siege to her house.
 
Wike arrived Nunieh’s residence off Herbert Marculay Street, Amada-Flat at about 10:30 this morning following reports that she had been prevented from leaving her house by  a team of policemen allegedly on the order of   the Inspection General of Police
 
Nunieh was scheduled to appear before the House of Representatives ad hoc committee set up to probe malfeasance in the commission.

A visibly angry Wike questioned the policemen on who authorised the siege and when they claimed it was from the IGP, he beckoned on Ms Nunieh to come out from her house.

Recently, Nunieh accused Akpabio of asking her to move some funded projects of the NDDC out of programmes the commission they were budgeted for.

“Akpabio wrote me to put a list of projects from the refugee commission in the budget of NDDC. Refugee commission is another federal government commission for IDPs,” Nunieh told Arise TV last week.

She alleged that the minister engineered her removal for failing to follow his illegal orders. She also accused the minister of harassing her sexually which made her slap him.

“Why did he not tell Nigerians that I slapped him in his guest house at Apo? I am the only woman that slapped Akpabio. He thought he could come up on me. He tried to harass me sexually,” she said.

Akpabio, however, refuted the allegations made by Nunieh snd described them as false, malicious and libellous.

In a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media, Anietie Ekong, the minister said the interviews Nunieh recently granted and published in some media outfits were campaigns of calumny against his person.

Akpabio said he has taken steps to instruct his lawyers to seek necessary redress in a court of competent jurisdiction on his behalf over the defamatory statements made by Nunieh.

He said he was committed to President Muhammadu Buhari’s mandate to unearth alleged looting and financial misappropriation that had gone on at the NDDC since its inception in 2001 through the forensic audit and will not be deterred or distracted from that goal.