The Rivers State Government has described the threat by Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, Commander Akin Fakorede to drag it to court for libel as a joke of the century.
It promised that such a suit was welcome as it will afford the State Government the opportunity to expose him and show to the world that he is a disgrace to the Nigeria police and a threat to lives and democracy.
The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, had ordered Fakorede, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), to sue the government for libellous publications against him.
However, in a statement on Friday in Port Harcourt, the State Commissioner for Information and Communications Barr Emma Okah, said the state government stands by the various publications complained of by Mr Faorede and described him as a man who has no shame and whose love for inordinate money and power has deeply blinded him up to the point of selling his integrity and compromising his commission as a senior police officer.
He likened Mr Akin Fakorede to the proverbial satanic pig that eats the crops of the farmer and still waits in ambush to attack him instead of running away.
“In this regard, the Govt of Rivers State will stand shoulder to shoulder with AkinFakorede and his sponsors in defence of the rights of Rivers people to freely choose who will represent them through free and fair elections as other Nigerians are entitled to.
“Rivers State Government is eagerly waiting for the court processes and we dare Mr Akin Fakorede to put his reputation to test,” Okah said, noting that the image of MrFakorede is not worth a piece of tissue paper.
The statement added that Mr Akin Fakorede is taking advantage of the rising moral decay in our society as otherwise, in an ideal situation, his likes ought to be roting away in jail for the attrocities of polluting the electoral process in an alarming scale.
On the demand for the sum of N2Billion as compensation for libel, Okah said Fakorede is a gold digger whose reputation has evaporated and wondered the basis for such a laughable claim.
“We expect that he will heed this advise and act well by treating Rivers people with deserving respect and dignity,” he said.
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