In a chat with The Guardian yesterday, Ihenacho said that on Thursday, September 13, 2012, the management of the company was shocked over the vicious invasion of their tank farm facility at Ibafon by a group of uniformed armed men, numbering about 30 and purporting themselves to be acting on the orders and instructions of the Director General of NIMASA and the Managing Director of a private company, GWVSL, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo.

In the course of the invasion, he stated that the intruders ransacked the entire tank farm complex, arresting and violently manhandling the workers at the complex, laying them flat on the floor and seizing their hand sets after which four members of staff of the company were abducted and taken to NIMASA for interrogation and have since been transferred to the SSS office at Shangisha where they are currently held in-communicado.

According to him, “On September 14, 2012, I was abducted and taken to NIMASA. This is because if you say I was arrested, there are some people who have duty and the power to arrest. But if you don’t have the duty and the power and you have some gun, you can abduct somebody.

“I was kept for several hours at NIMASA before the matter was subsequently transferred to the Lagos State Command of the State Security Service (SSS). In all of these, no formal notification as to the course of the attack on our tank farm or the siege on our businesses was ever made known to us.

“ I want the Federal Government and the national security establishment to quickly review the propriety of the unprecedented development of an armed unit within the NIMASA organisation. The armed unit at NIMASA could very well be said to be a private army, which is now being used for personal political purposes other than for Nigerian maritime capacity development.

“As at today (yesterday), the people that invaded our tank farm have actually taken over the place and have not vacated it, notwithstanding the fact that all the equipment, personal properties of people and other facilities cannot be accounted for now.

“We thought that if the Police or SSS, government agencies and others wanted to take over a place, they will do that with people who are working there to maintain the status quo.

2mch:

Well we cant say he was ever arrested or been to jail. You Nigerian's have no proof here.

afam4eva:
Where did the issue of proof come from? Let's not just throw words anyhow. Let's think before we talk.

2mch:

You again. I tell you Afam, your days are numbered. Na hypertension get you.

afam4eva:
My days are numbered simply because i tried to guide you? Do you want to assasinate me because of nairaland? What have i done to you?

2mch:

You are sounding alarm. So hypertension = Assasination. I see your baby sitter in the creche has abandoned her duties. Go and ask her for another bottle or sand to eat.

ogbeche77: White lie... You can tell that to the gods, we await the trial date

Orikinla:

How can a democratic government send an ex-militant Chief Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo after a bona fide responsible citizen of Nigeria? Is Tompolo now in charge of the police and SSS?

GEJ thinks Emmanuel Ihenacho is James Ibori?

They have turned Nigeria into a banana republic?

fankasibe: Wedà na arrest abi abortion....just pray there is no accidental discharge.

LAX89: All I can say is; 'BUHARI for 2015', and all these nonsense in Nigeria will END!

Bukkyade:
In ur dreams

afam4eva:
My days are numbered simply because i tried to guide you? Do you want to assasinate me because of nairaland? What have i done to you?