Bizman escapes assassination attempt few days to mum's burial.

By Chinonyelum Ojiaku
An Abuja based Estate Developer, Peter Okolo who returned to his Nnewichi-Nnewi country home in Anambra state for Christmas and new year celebration as well as put final touches to burial arrangement of his mother Madam Monica Okolo cheated death by the whiskers.

The Estate Surveyor who spoke with journalists from his hiding place yesterday claimed that four armed men in security patrol vehicle gave him a chase and actually shot at him at certain point in the industrial town of Nnewi.

Okolo while recounting his experience said he has petitioned the Inspector General of Police(IGP) Director General DSS and others as he is forced to constantly change his place of abode in his own community because of fear of his assailants

He alleged that a business partner, Baroness Halima Fernandez, Chairman, Valedictorian Nigeria Limited has actually threatened that she would ensure that he is not alive to bury his late mother.

Okolo said that he actually had a contract with Federal Capital Development Authority in 2003 and Baroness Fernandez and her company was meant to be the facilitator and agent but that since then, the woman whose relation was appointed the DG of DSS has threatened to use the nation's 'secret police' to eliminate him.

The Estate Developer said he has bent backward too much to accommodate the new position she was advancing just to ensure that the deal ends peacefully but instead of seeing reason, her partner reported him to EFCC on trump up charges.

He pointed out that at the end of their investigations, EFCC gave him and his company a clean bill of health and even expressed shock that he sacrificed so much to carry her partner along.

"Since I came out of EFCC probes unscathed, she has resorted to all manner of intimidation and harassment which got worse since her relation was appointed the DG of DSS. I never though she meant all her threats until I actually ran for my dear life when four assailants came after me.

"Baroness Fernandez is my primary suspect because she was the only one I had dealings with who has openly threatened to eliminate me before the burial of my mother which is to come up on 4th January 2018 in Nnewi.

The hunted property developer has however sent a save my soul message to the Director General of DSS and the Inspector General of Police to come to his aid before his life is cut short in his prime.

Attempt to hear from Baroness Fernandez and the Anambra State Director of DSS did not yield any positive dividend as their cell phone were not reachable at the time of filing this report.