Leadership (Abuja)
18 December 2007
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The youths, mostly from Ogara, Ibori's home town, took over the Warri-Sapele Expressway, holding motorists hostage and demanding the release of their kinsman.
In another development, the multi-million naira palatial residence of the former governor has been sealed up by security agents.
Sources told LEADERSHIP that the Oghara home of the embattled governor was taken over by security men last Wednesday, just about the time he was being arrested in Abuja.
It could not be easily ascertained whether the security agents were deployed by the EFCC as none of the operatives was ready to speak on their mission.
Neighbours of the ex-governor said they observed that the security agents were in mufti and refused visitors entry into the complex which Ibori was using before his arrest.
Security sources said the agents might have sealed up the complex to prevent desperate allies of Chief Ibori from accessing the house with the intention of destroying documents that might be stocked there.
Meanwhile, three militant groups in the state have threatened to shut down major oil installations in the Niger Delta if by today the former governor was not granted bail.
The groups, in separate statements issued in Warri, noted that the latest travail of Ibori was the handiwork of some persons who were envious of his rising political profile, warning that his arrest could trigger fresh social unrest in the region.
"We are going to shut all major installations in the Niger Delta. We are going to fight this naked injustice with the last drop of our blood," they stated.
The groups are Niger Delta Gomora, Niger Delta Survival Front and Olosa.
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is not fair the efcc allow this governos to be bail just like that they have to pay for what they have commited not by money because the have all our bilions of naira in their pocket they should sentence them to live in prison and pls i was a former student of university of benin and the most pain that i feel is pls try and help me to tell efcc to look 4 lucky igbinedion that artless governor cost us alot of problem in our life if they can find him they should ask is father i am speaking 4rm outside the country they former goverment were all criminals thanks 4 ur understanding