The governor of Nariño, Luis Alfonso Escobar, He referred to the anonymous person who pointed out that he had allegedly financed the assassination of the senator. Miguel Uribe Turbay. He said that this is a serious accusation, which is why he announced that he will file a lawsuit against former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez.
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The governor of Nariño, Luis Alfonso Escobar. Photo:Milton Díaz/EL TIEMPO.
The letter
The anonymous letter, which the former head of state referred to in a complaint by FM journalist Darcy Quinn, mentions an alleged meeting in Manta, Ecuador where a governor and a former mayor of the department of Nariño participated.
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Former president Álvaro Uribe. Photo:EFE
“He agreed in Manta to finance the assassination of Senator Miguel Uribe. He confirmed to me the agreements with the different groups outside the law,” the document says.
“They are putting a tombstone on my head,” declared the sectional leader when attending a decentralized session of the Nariño Departmental Assembly, which was held in the municipality of Sandoná, in western Nariño.
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The governor of Nariño, Luis Alfonso Escobar, and the Nariño port of Tumaco. Photo:Nariño Governorate. Right photo, EL TIEMPO
‘I am innocent’
“The media woke up today with an accusation from former President Uribe, who I am going to demand, of course, the accusation of an anonymous person,” he said in his speech.
He also maintained, “the governor of Nariño is innocent” and stated that he will seek the support of all the people of Nariño.
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Then he stated: “Through an anonymous person, former President Uribe links the President of the Republic and the governor of Nariño in the murder of Miguel Uribe, he comes out and says they called me and they gave me a letter linking the president and the governor going to Manta, I say to Manta”.
Later he maintained that this is a very serious complaint, because it came from a man who is heard the most in the political world of Colombia.
Escobar defended himself by emphasizing that he is an honorable man, a university professor with more than 26 years of experience.
“Without a doubt, no one who knows me can believe that the governor of the department of Nariño could enter into a conspiracy to generate an assassination which we have completely rejected,” he assured.
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The governor declared himself to those attending the event as a man of peace and not of war or death.
In his speech before the deputies of the Departmental Assembly of Nariño and a large number of inhabitants of that municipality, he emphasized that he is a defender of the peace that he is fighting to achieve in the territory.
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He then said: “We are realizing that peace has enemies and very powerful enemies, because if peace is showing results and President Petro has said so in his last council of ministers, it is in Nariño.”
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