NIMASA Staff Alleges Threat To Life
A 50-old-staff of Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Mr. Auta Walbe, has said that his family members have threatened to kill him and called on Nigerians, Inspector General of Police and State Security Service to intervene and serve his life. Walbe said that his people are seriously planning to take him out of his office in Calabar to Jos where they will have access to him.
He told newsmen in Calabar Tuesday that his family members have fabricated stories and sent to his office in Lagos alleging that he was not medically fit to work and needed medical attention immediately and requested his office in Lagos to release him to them to be taken to Jos for medical attention.
Hear him, “My relations have reported to my office in Lagos that I have not been in a stable health condition and would be needed to be moved from Calabar to Jos for treatment,” Walbe who has been in the employment for over 24 years and a senior staff said he had been under trail by suspected hired assassins since 2013.
He explained that the plan of his people was to move him to a hospital in Jos where he could be killed with a lethal injection. He also said that the same people had bundled him to an unnamed hospital in Jos, but was able to escape through the swift intervention of his lawyer who alerted the police of the action.
“I received a telephone call from my cousin, Felix Walbe, telling me that one of my relations had informed him that if I fail to come to Jos, it will affect my job. This was not too long before a top ranking staff of NIMASA in Lagos called me that one Umar and one Anslem had written to him [top ranking staff] that I am not well; that they want to come to Calabar to take me to the hospital,” he revealed.
Mr. Walbe, who pointed out that there had been some suspected visitors to where he is leaving of recent, appealed to other security agencies to come to his rescue.
Some staff of CROSS River State office of NIMASA who spoke with journalists on the matter on condition of anonymity said, Mr. Walbe has been hard working and has been relating peacefully with all staff.
“We are very surprised to hear this. Mr. Walbe is a very nice man who had never failed in his duties and had never displayed any form of ill-health,” they said and called on the NIMASA authorities to also use its internal mechanisms to investigating the matter.
