By ERIC UGBOR

ABA—ABIA State Police Command has arrested two persons, Mr. Ndubuisi Anumoka and Ozioma Chinaka, for allegedly giving the Police false information of a phantom plot by four transporters operating in Aba, the commercial city of the state, to assassinate chairman of the Abia State Task Force on Environmental and Allied Matters, Capt. Awa Agwu (rtd).

The task force had been having running battle with the transporters over the  insistence of the former that the latter should relocate to government approved motor parks, which led to protests in the city last weekend.

Apparently acting on this development, the arrested men, said to belong to a rival motor union, RTEAN, and who it was gathered has been mounting pressure on the task force to ensure that all motor units, including mass transit operators relocate to the main motor park, on August 24, called Awa on phone to inform him that the four transporters, namely, Dr. Ifeanyichukwu Anele, Nchekwuba Eusebius, Marcel Amadi and Victor Ezeriwe plotted to kill him.

Based on the strength of the information, the task force chairman was said to have reported the matter to the police who arrested the four transporters.

On interrogation, the four men denied the allegation, saying it was a set up by their detractors who were hell bent on pitching them against the state government.

Determined to get to the root of the matter, men of the State Investigation Bureau, SIB, Police Area Command, Aba, traced the informant to Mr. Biggs, Azikiwe Road, where he was arrested.

When he was questioned by the police, the suspect admitted passing the information he claimed was given to him by Ozioma Chinaka to the task force chairman, but did not know it was false.

The suspects were also said to be behind the allegation that the four transporters planned to cause riot in Aba on August 27 to disrupt Abia day celebration on that day.