Ms Joi Nuneh
Former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Joi Nuneh whose Port Harcourt home was besieged by hooded policemen on Thursday morning until Governor Nyesom Wike rescued her, has narrated her ordeal in a phone conversation with Channels TV, monitored in Lagos.
According to her, she had immediately alerted Senator Magnus Abe to relate the incident and got the reassuring response from him that he would notify the Police Commissioner in the state but to her dismay the faces she saw when she tried to open the door and admit them were masked and menacing. She immediately locked the door and retreated into the house.
She said Senator Magnus Abe called her after a while to say the CP in Rivers did not really know about it and that the CP was going to reach me. “The CP did reach me and said he was not aware of what was going on.” he said.
She continues: “The CP asked that I send him my address and which I did and then I saw the cars come in. So, I asked if that was the CP, and they said no. Fortunately, I was just wise enough. I stayed by the door, and they wanted to drag me, so I just banged the door, so they can’t come in.”
“So, I now left the front door to call my governor to tell my governor that this is what has happened, and he said no, I should not go anywhere that he was on his way. They kept trying to pull down the door and then I asked them for a warrant of arrest and I said I can’t go anywhere without a warrant of arrest.”
“I needed to see the warrant. We are not in the Banana Republic. So, as they were still trying, my Governor came and sent them out that why would they come to arrest a woman like an armed robber that they should leave the compound.”
“The Governor then said I should enter the car with him. So, I am now with my Governor in Government House, Port Harcourt.”
“I really want to thank the Governor. I really don’t know what to say but my Governor is a man. He is a man. He didn’t just say it that nothing should happen to me, he came to my rescue. I want to say thank you to my Governor,
“They kept hitting the doors, trying to break in. I had to alert the governor who came and asked me to come out. He asked for the warrant for my arrest and they had none.”
Nuneh who had been having a running battle with Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio over corruption she accused him of perpetrating at the Commission, was planned to appear before the joint Committee of the National Assembly investigating the matter on Thursday.
She said she would hold the appointment virtually later in the day.
