Dimapur, June 21 (MExN): Former Speaker of the Naga Students’ Federation Cusayi Lohe today issued a statement refuting the allegations of his involving in ‘booth-capturing’ activities and related events that later led to his impeachment from the NSF post. On his alleged involvement in an attempt to “booth capture” on April 16 near Porba village, Lohe denounced it as totally baseless and unfounded and said “it was a conspiracy hatched by some minister, MLAs, and NPF party leaders in connivance with my esteem student Leaders with ulterior motives”.
He said that on April 24, some NPF leaders “secretly invited “CSU” president and colleagues” to have a meeting with village council Porba”. As soon as the CSU president and CSU deputy speaker reached the village, the council meeting was summoned. In the meeting were “massive presence of NPF leaders” and even government servants. Lohe stated that “one Male attendant PHC spoke and charged him for being responsible for injury of his youngest brother and death of Mr. Zapo, the elder brother of injured. Everything was taped by CSU and they used it as evidence in their campaign against me,” stated Lohe who also enclosed the statement of the Male attendant in a VLC media file.
On April 25, the CSU’s president and general secretary served a letter asking Lohe to resign. Subsequently, The CSU terminated his membership from the CSU while the NSF was informed that the union had withdrawn him as NSF Speaker.
“All those sequences of events has proved and testified beyond doubt that conspiracy was hatched against me. It was beyond human intellectual ability to comprehend the logic as to how and under what authority does a federal unit have power to take law into its own hand and take action against the constitutionally elected official of a federal authority,” Lohe lamented. He cited a number of clauses in the NSF’s constitution to buttress his claim.
Lohe also said to have submitted an application for reimbursement with a detail report of expenditures to the finance secretary which are “only the expenditures I could remember because most of the time, I used to spent from my pocket while discharging official duties”.
Here Lohe made the claim that “one day” the NSF president (not named in Lohe’s statement) called and asked him to collect a letter seeking donation in Pfutsero. The “NSF president” allegedly assured Lohe “that the collections shall be adjusted in reimbursement”. So the former NSF speaker ‘requested’ the Pfutsero Traders’ Union “to look after it”. He was then allegedly asked to “contact the non-locals personally, so I met some non-local shopkeepers where they suggested to collect it community wise”. Lohe then entrusted “one non-local guy” to distribute letters seeking donations.
Lohe also claimed that “my driver tried to extort money for which a case of extortion was registered against me” and the police “illegally detained me on 6th May 09 and released me after public and my well-wishers became agitated on 8th May 09”. No arrest warrant was produced, he stated. Lohe claimed that he was “illegally impeached” but “gracefully accepted it because my parent body spearheaded in conspiracy against me”.
