Henry and Charles Okah and their entire family have refuted the claim by Chief Edwin Clark, that his son, Ebikeme Clarke was kidnapped by the duo.
The Okah family denied the accusation on Friday in a statement issued by their counsel and spokesperson, Festus Keyamo.
In the statement, signed by John Ainetor, Esq. assistant head of chambers at the Festus Keyamo Chambers (Abuja) and Benedicta N. Obanye, practice manager in the same chambers, the Okahs described the accusation as “outlandish, outrageous, factually wrong and logically untenable” because the Okah brothers are both incarcerated.
“Firstly, our clients are in prison custody both in South Africa prisons and Kuje prisons, Abuja”, the statement read.
“They are under the watchful guidance of security agencies. It is therefore unthinkable that such a complex plot as a kidnap will be hatched and executed from such distance and confinement. That will be a scathing indictment of security agencies and prison officials”.
Ainetor and Obanye said it is curious that Clarke did not mention any other fact to back his accusation. They described the accusation as “hanging in the air and is, at best, a figment of his imagination”.
The Okah family held that although the respect Clarke very much, if he continues with the baseless accusation, they would be forced to take radical legal steps.
“Whilst our clients’ family accords the elder statesman his respect on account of age, they will like to state that they will not fold their arms and watch helplessly as Chief Clark seeks to apply the sledge hammer on their sons that have already been wrongly accused and oppressed as a result of hire-wired politics. They intend to seek legal redress if Chief Clark continues his diatribe against them”.
