While some have argued that the
gap between the rich and the poor in this part of the world is getting wider by
the day, others believe it is the normal thing all over the world for the
underprivileged to be continually submissive to the wealthy.
However, a driver to a senator in
the seat of power in Abuja ,
FCT recently decided to take his destiny in his hands and openly showed his
boss that what a poor man cannot get easily, he could get by force.
On this fateful day, Senator Ehigie Uzamere,
an architect by profession and a legislator representing Edo South Senatorial District
was reportedly robbed of his car and a brief case containing huge sums of money
and vital documents at gun point by his official driver, Mallam Mohammed
Ibrahim. The briefcase contained N4 million and $25,000 and of course, the
senator must have planned to use the money for some important project.
But this was not be as the
senator was dealt with by his driver, who decided to betray the trust reposed
in him by his boss, and took the money from him at gun point.
“It was around 12 noon on Friday,
when on the way to the airport the senator decided to check his briefcase to
ascertain if all he was going with were complete only to discover that part of
the money inside ha d been taken.
“The money had developed wings,
when he had earlier left the driver in the car on his visit to the Chinese
Embassy.
Apparently dissatisfied with the
way and manner the money left the bag, he decided to return home and find a
solution to the missing money.
According to sources, Senator
Ehigie had asked the driver to abort the trip to the airport, when he
discovered that the sum of N1 million was missing from the money he kept in the
bag. But surprisingly, on the way back home, Ibrahim suspected that his act had
been uncovered suddenly parked the car, walked towards the senator's door, put
a gun to his head and ordered him to get off the car if he loved his life.
The bewildered senator did not
think twice, even before he recovered from the shock and ran out of the car,
while Ibrahim sped off with the vehicle and a brief case containing huge sums
of money and vital documents, and he has not been seen since then.
The senator, who has not
recovered from the shock of the attack, revealed that the driver had put a gun
to his head, dragged him out of the car
a black Mercedes Benz S.430 and disappeared with the car.
The senator, who was said to be
on his way to Benin City , Edo State
for the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) state congress, had irreplaceable
documents, personal and official, now in the possession of his run-away driver.
It was learnt that the driver,
Mallam Mohammed Ibrahim who had been his personal driver for the past seven
years, is 35, and is from Niger
State .
Speaking to our correspondent in
Benin, Senator Ehigie said that, on the way just before they reach his house
(in Jabi) by the junction (of Ebitu
Ukiwe and Bala Sokoto), the driver suddenly parked the car, came to his
side, put a pistol on his head, practically dragged him out and disappeared.
We further gathered that the driver who had
won the hearts of Uzamere's family members over the years, later called a
member of his boss' household to come and pick his father's car somewhere in
Life Camp area of the Federal Capital City, Abuja.
The flustered senator, who was said to have
been devastated for several hours, could not leave for the ACN gubernatorial
congress in Benin City
until late penultimate Saturday when it was almost concluded.
Meanwhile, similar attack had happened last
year when his police orderly attached to the senator was shot dead while his
driver, Mohammed Ibrahim, was in a coma and received treatment at an
undisclosed hospital in Benin City , the Edo state capital.
It was learnt that, the Senator
was returning to his father in-law's house, Mr. Sunny Uyigue at Zabayor Street ,
near the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium at about 8pm on the fateful day when the
heavily armed men attacked him.
Senator Uzamere was Action
Congress of Nigeria (ACN) senatorial candidate for Edo South at that time.
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