By Jonathan Ugbal Edet Okon Asim, the Special Adviser on Biodiversity to Governor Benedict Ayade of Cross River state has died. Family sources told CrossRiverWatch that he slumped in his car on Tuesday night in Calabar. Mr. Asim was okayed for prosecution by the Cross River state government following allegations of rape. But, he was
By Jonathan Ugbal Governor Benedict Ayade on Wednesday appointed 90 aides including an ex aide, Edet Okon Asim whom his immediate past Attorney General okayed for trial for alleged sexual offenses. A statement signed by his spokesman, Christian Ita and issued in Calabar listed 90 Senior Special Advisers and Special Advisers. This is in sharp
By Archibong Jeremiah Over two months after the former Cross River State Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General, Barrister Joe Abang, okayed the trial of Chief Edet Okon Asim (former Chairman of Calabar Municipal and Ayade’s Adviser on Biodiversity) over allegations of raping an underage girl (name withheld), the matter is yet to be filed
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Three months after the arrest of Mr. Edet Okon Asim, a former Chairman of Calabar Municipality and Special Adviser to Governor Ayade on Biodiversity, he will now be arraigned at the High Court on charges of raping a fifteen year old girl. Edet Asim will be charged along with two other accomplices,
By Archibong Jeremiah Barrister James Ibor, founder of Basic Rights Counsel Initiative has accused Mrs. Edet Asim, wife of the embattled Special Adviser to the Governor of Cross River State on Biodiversity, Mr. Edet Okon Asim, who is alleged to have sexually abused a fifteen-year-old girl child (name withheld) over the course of three years
By Ushang Ewa A former local government chairman of Calabar Municipal and Special Adviser to Governor Ben Ayade on Biodiversity, Mr. Edet Okon Asim, is currently in police custody for continuously defiling an underaged girl (names withheld) for a period spanning about three years. The girl is said to have been coerced into aborting two