Counsel to the detained Senator representing Abia South, Enyinnaya Abaribe, Chukwuma-Machukwu Ume (SAN), has said the senator’s recent outbursts on alleged illegal insertion of N30 billion into the budget of Ministry of Power without his committee’s knowledge was one of the issues that landed the senator in trouble.
Ume also alleged that operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) who raided the lawmaker’s home on Friday seized phones belonging to some visiting Americans who they met in his residence.
The counsel, who addressed newsmen in Abuja on Saturday, claimed the operatives subjected Abaribe’s Abuja home to intense search for over six hours on Friday.
According to him, the operatives have also denied the Senator medications, access to his family and his personal physician.
He stated that the operatives showed him a warrant of arrest which showed that they were…
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