The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has released the younger brother to Governor Ben Ayade, Frank Ayade on a bail function. Although, it is still unclear about the bail conditions as reports reaching us could not clarify.
Nevertheless, Frank Ayade was said to have arrived Calabar on Friday at noon with his Governor brother, Prof. Ben Ayade. The two were sighted leaving office at about 3PM and after a brief close door meeting with him at their private residence in State Housing Estate in Calabar, drove together in the same vehicle to inspect the delivery of equipment for the 20 Megawatt gas and diesel fired embedded power generating plant at Parliamentary Extension in Calabar.
The governor seemingly perturbed by his arrest twice addressed the issue indirectly.
“If somebody gets up somewhere in the world and says the garment factory belongs to an individual when there is a provision to check the ownership and in such ill deliberately constructed story begins to gain grounds and then partners begin to fan it, you feel a deep sense of pity because if they truly know your heart, they won’t have this” Ayade said at a media parley on Wednesday.
“When we started, they said it was all a lie, there is no garment factory. When it started, they said it belonged to somebody. Now, they say the budget has been swallowed and it is very ungodly to seek destruction” Ayade told Journalists at the garment factory when Ngige visited.
According to reports from CrossRiverWatch, the ripples of Frank Ayade arrest drew the fury of a section of Cross Riverians with the Special Assistant on Prosecution to President Muhammadu Buhari, Okoi Obono-Obla calling on the House of Assembly to impeach the governor.
“When a Governor deliberately allows his sibling access to the public till of his State to loot with reckless abandon, then, such a Governor has betrayed the truth placed on him by the people. It is well settled that a Governor who commit such an act of gross misconduct is liable to be removed from office by the House of Assembly” Obla said.