Group condemns smear campaign against Boyloaf, calls for arrest , prosecution of culprits

A group, the National Coalition for Strategic Governance (NCSG) has raised an alarm over the alleged smear campaign against one Ex- Militant Leader from the Niger Delta region, Chief Ebikabowei Victor-Ben also known as General Boyloaf over his role at stopping the planned October 1, 2010 bombing and plot to assassinate the then President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan GCFR.

According to the group, those involved in the alleged smear campaign have purportedly released to the public, through Social Media, copies of highly classified documents in the possession of the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Presidential Amnesty Office.

The Group, in a statement issued on Tuesday and made available to newsmen in Yenagoa by its Publicity Secretary, Comrade Kolawole Mustafa stated that the leaked classified documents include written statements inside the DSS Headquarters on how the patriotic alBoyLoaf, single-handedly worked with high ranking DSS officials and provided enormous intelligence that drastically reduced the impact of the 1st October 2010 assassination attempt on then President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan including Members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), and several foreign Presidents and Dignitaries seated at the Eagle Square in Abuja, FCT.

In the statement, the group while attesting to the sterling qualities of the 99% of officials working at the offices of the NSA and the DSS over their roles in securing the nation, alleged that preliminary investigation into the clandestine leakage of the classified documents was traced to the Presidential Amnesty Office.

According to the group, “The highly classified documents was posted on the Facebook page of the “Meinbutus Voices. It was alleged that Mr Denis Otuaro the Amnesty Boss severally visited the “Meinbutus Voices” where they took group pictures and posted them on their Facebook page.

“All of a sudden, these highly classified documents, which were in possession of the State, suddenly started flying around on the Facebook page of the “Meinbutus Voices” meant to incite uninformed citizens against General BoyLoaf, and to label him as an informant for working with the security agents to save the life of his brother, kinsman and then-President Goodluck Jonathan.

“In order to preserve the integrity of these professional security agencies, we are calling on the NSA Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, and the Director General of the DSS, Mr Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi to urgently recommend the immediate suspension of the Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme Mr. Dennis Otuaro and to immediately arrest and prosecute members of the Meinbutus Voices in the Niger Delta region for their illegal release of classified documents on their Facebook page.

“It is particularly important to note that the documents in question surfaced on the Facebook profile of Meinbutus Voices, with their group picture with the Amnesty Boss Mr. Dennis Otuaro and Mr. Henry Okah who was convicted of terrorism, and these pictures were prominently featured and displayed on their Facebook cover page.

“We must ask if they are Dennis Otauro and his gang were sympathizers or financiers of Henry Okah’s gang as at 2010, or whether they were unsatisfied that Henry Okah and his gang failed in their mission to assassinate the former President of Nigeria from the Niger Delta region and his cabinet members?

“In addition to these classified documents being leaked, a confidential report written by Otuaro’s predecessor Hon. Kingsley Kuku, that was addressed to the DSS DG since 2012 which has only being in the custody of the Amnesty office and the DSS were among the documents that were leaked to the public.

“This breach and failure did not only compromise the integrity of the DSS, but also exposes our national security. Which is why we need urgent answers on why someone who is serving as the current Amnesty Boss will allegedly leak classified documents.

“The Kingsley Kuku’s report to the DSS was inside the Amnesty office while the attempted assassination of Ex-President Jonathan’s statement which was hand-written by General BoyLoaf and kept hidden inside the DSS Headquarters and has always and only been in the DSS headquarters were leaked on Facebook.

“Most surprisingly, both secret documents were leaked at the same time on “Meinbutus Voices” Facebook page shortly after meeting with Mr. Dennis Otuaro, the Amnesty Boss. How were these classified documents leaked to the public? Did they pay someone inside the DSS Headquarters to give them these documents?

“We have also petitioned the South African Government, the United States Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the British Government and several governments around the world to launch investigations of alleged Terrorism Financing and International Money Laundering between these individuals and Henry Okah’s gang in their failed assassination plot of their country’s Presidents and Diplomats that was at the Eagle Square on 1st October 2010.

“May we remind the world that the information that General BoyLoaf provided to High-ranking DSS Agent enabled them to stop all vehicles from going into Eagle Square. This move possibly saved the lives of hundreds of people, including the life of the then President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan” NCSG stated.

Public Affairs officials of the Amnesty Office declined to react to the statement.