DR. IME SAMPSON UMANAH BETRAYED BY A MOLE

Rightly or wrongly, Ime Umanah would be regretting giving a helping hand to a deserving indigent Ikemesit Iyire when that one’s father could not be there for him.

Ime, nicknamed “friend of the poor” lives up to the task hence the kind of Iyires fall within his humanitarian gestures. He trained Iyire up to the university level. Taken for granted, Ime after advising Governor Akpabio (one-on-one) to no avail decided to employ Iyire’s services to further this. Ime made a fatal mistake by confiding in the young man who is from the same Ukana village as Akpabio.

Probably Iyire was a mole in Ime’s camp. It could be that he received mouth-watering benefit from Akpabio or that he was only trying to please his closer kinsman and decided to play along and in the process implicated his real benefactor. Ime Umanah is an Annang man but from Abak axis while Governor Akpabio and Iyire are from Ukana in Ikot Ikpene axis.

What gladdens one’s heart is that the Iyire man confirmed that Ime only requested him to advise Akpabio by sending him text messages from three different SIM cards and that Ime was not privy to the final contents of the messages. Knowing Akpabio’s antics well; he must have succeeded in framing Ime in order to get him out of his way. Ime was warming up with a plan to replace Akpabio. Akpabio had moved along this line against some other fellows. It should not be ruled out that Akpabio may have even asked Iyire to use those words in order to implicate Ime further.

Has it occurred to anyone that there is no way Akpabio would have known who sent those messages if not through Iyire himself? Iyire may have either given the information out to another close friend or even direct to Akpabio. Those are the only possibilities. Even if Iyire had given information to a third party other than the governor, why did he claim the ownership of the SIM cards that were not (registered) in his name?

Chief Okon Nseobong Akpan, Ndoneyo, Onna LGA, Akwa Ibom State.