Category: Crime Diary

The operatives of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) have arrested the suspected killers murder of one Emmanuel Uba aka Onwa, a rising politician and youth leader in Festac area of Lagos State. Uba was gruesomely killed on July 21, 2017 along 7th Avenue Festac.

A manhunt was launched for his killers following the directives issued by the Acting Commissioner of Police , Edgar Imohinmi.

The suspects were eventually arrested and a pistol used for the murder recovered. One of the suspects Fatai Onifade alias Apase, 40, a native of Ilaje Ondo State, who confessed to have organised the assassination because Uba had become more popular than him among the political chieftains and youth leaders in the area.

Another suspects, Abidemi Kolawole alias Baido, 42, also an indigene of Ondo State, confessed to be a friend of the Uba and that his role was to lure the deceased to a meeting at 7th Avenue where the two assassins already waiting on a motorcycle assassinated Uba.

Also, two other suspects, Mufutai Tokosi alias TK, 31, who hails from Lagos Island and Michael Fashola, an indigene of Ibadan, confessed that they are cultists hired by Onifade to kill Uba.

The pistol used in assassinating the victim, it was gathered, was recovered from Onifade.

Unknown gunmen in the early hours of Wednesday invaded the home of a politician, Afolabi Iwalewa, and shot his security guard during the raid.

The house located at No 15 Surulere Quarters, off Iyin Road was also vandalised during the attack.

Iwalewa, his wife, Oluwatosin and son, Olasunkanmi were to be away on holiday in France and Portugal.

It was gathered that the suspected criminals stormed the compound at the wee hour of Wednesday, 22nd November, 2017.

The security guard was beaten and sustained wounds when he resisted the invaders leaving him in a coma and pool of his blood.

A source said Iwalewa’s house in Akure was recently attacked fuelling fears that the attack might be politically motivated.

He said: “Suspected political thugs had penultimate Saturday ransacked Iwalewa’s house at Plot 16, Ogunsakin Street, Akure, where their security dog was killed.

“It could be a possible assassination attack on the family. We have contacted the family members who said they would take steps but waiting for Iwalewa’s response.”

When contacted, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Alberto Adeyemi, said the case was yet to be reported to his office.

Wilfred Ugoh is two years old and currently battles a congenital heart defect commonly called hole in heart.

His father, Vincent, 35, and mother, Bethel, 30, had spent over N2 million on their son’s treatment all to no avail.

His father, a foodstuff trader, who hails from Ebonyi State, said he suffered a reversal of business fortune after spending all he had on his son’s ailment.

Our correspondent learnt that Wilfred’s mother, who graduated from Ebonyi State University, could not participate in the compulsory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) as a result of her son’s condition.

It was gathered that Wilfred was born with the congenital heart problem, but the ailment did not manifest until he was nine months old.

His father said: ‘’My wife still an undergraduate of Ebonyi State University when she was delivered of the baby (Wilfred) on February 13, 2015. Nine months later, our son started coughing and had high temperature and he was taken to the Federal Medical Centre in Abakaliki, where he was diagnosed with hole in the heart.

‘’We continue to manage his health until his condition relapse and he started vomiting while his skin occasionally turned blue. We took him to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) and we could not get him a bed space, hence, he was transferred him to Lagos University Teaching Hospital(LUTH), where doctors also diagnosed him with congenital heart defect and that his condition can best be treated in Indian hospitals. The cost of the treatment given to us by Apollo Hospitals in Indian is N6 million ”

In her words, the distraught mother of the boy, Bethel Ugoh said:” The boy can no longer eat, sit. He is restless and he reluctantly takes corn paste (ogi). We have been taking him to LUTH where a drug called Propanol is administered three times daily. We just returned from LUTH where he was admitted for about 16 days. We are calling on kind hearted Nigerians to help us raise a sum of N6 million to carry out a major surgery on him in Indian.”

Anyone willing to assist the boy can send their donation to a Diamond Bank account number: 0088720161 with the name: Chisimdiri Wilfred Ugoh, while his father can also be reached on 08034373758.