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  • Man gets life sentence for killing father

    The Ibiono Ibom Division of Akwa Ibom State High Court has sentenced Utibe Ita, an indigene of Nkim village in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area, to life imprisonment for killing his father.

    The presiding judge Justice Bassey Nkanang said Ita is to spend the rest of his life behind bars for committing manslaughter.

    Our correspondent learnt that Ita was originally arraigned on a one-count charge of murder, contrary to Section 326(1) of the Criminal Code Cap. 38, Volume 2, Laws of Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria 2000.

    But he had the charge commuted to manslaughter.

    It was deduced from his confessional statement to the police that he had been having a misunderstanding with his father over some thorny family matters.

    The bubble burst when his father, Mr. Oscar Ita, went missing between June 5 and 11, 2017, prompting his brother, Mr Godwin Udoisang, to initiate a search party.

    Udoisang, who testified as prosecution witness I (PW1) in the trial, said he first inquired about his brother from the accused, who responded that he had not also seen him.

    The witness told the court that he organised a search party to comb the surroundings and nearby bushes which yielded no fruit.

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    Udoisang said he then searched for his brother in his house where he lived with the accused and discovered a heap of earth.

    It was gathered that the accused made no effort to escape.

    Though he attempted to escape when youths of Nkim arrested him, but it was too late.

    At the Homicide Department of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Ikot Akpan Abia, one detectives, a photographer and a pathologist accompanied the youths to the scene where the remains of late Oscar Ita were exhumed.

    An autopsy conducted on the body indicted that the accused buried his father with his left shoe.

    From the confessional statement, the autopsy report and police investigation, there was a strong suspicion that the accused may have buried his father alive.

    Utibe confessed that he hit his father “and he fell down”, adding that he “rushed” to a neighbour, begged and obtained a shovel used in digging the shallow grave.

    The Chief State Counsel O. P. Okpo, who led the prosecution, averred that though there was no eyewitness, one of the ingredients to prove an offence of murder, the confessional statement of the accused and circumstantial evidence of the crime were sufficient to prove the charge of murder against the accused.

    Lawrence S. Udonwa, the defence counsel, contended that since there was no eyewitness to the alleged offence, evidence of the four state witnesses could not sustain the conviction of the accused.

    He argued that exhibits 1 to 3 (post-mortem report, photographs of scene of crime and body of the deceased) tendered by the Investigating Police Officer (IPO), were improper as the latter was not an expert.

    During the trial, the state called four witnesses and tendered five exhibits, while the accused was his own witness.

    In his first judgment, Justice Bassey Nkanang considered the arguments and submissions by the parties before concluding that “the court believed that there was mutual physical assault”.

    He added: “A person who unlawfully kills another in the circumstance of mutual physical assault committed manslaughter, and not murder.

    “The prosecution has proven all the ingredients of murder. The court is persuaded to convict the accused for the offence of manslaughter. Consequently, the accused is sentenced to life imprisonment.”

  • ‘How I sold old woman’s pants for N2000’

    The Ekiti State Police Command has arrested a man who reportedly stole Madam Modupe Adekoya’s pants.

    Efoghae Friday, 21, confessed to have stolen the underwear belonging to Madam Adekoya, who resides in a three-bedroom flat on 15, Olorunsogo Street, Basiri, Ado-Ekiti, the state capital.

    According to the police, Friday said some people ordered him to get a pair of pants for them with a promise to give him N2,000.

    The suspect said one of the two pairs of pants belonging to Madam Adekoya was stolen and delivered to the men.

    Speaking with The Nation, the old woman said: “I know Friday very well as he usually comes to assist me in doing some domestic chores at my home. To show appreciation to him, I used to give him meals. I never thought he could do this.

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    “I had washed my pants and put two of them out to dry at 3 a.m on June 10 at the corridor of my house. But when I went to remove it the next morning, I found out that one was missing; then I raised the alarm.

    “After series of investigations, a relative who suspected Friday, called him and urged him to confess. The relative promised not to be angry with him. He did eventually confess to stealing the underwear and that was when we invited the police to arrest him.

    “When he was arrested, he took the police to the house of three boys, claiming that one of them asked him to fetch the underwear and promised to give him N2,000,” she said.

    The suspects were transferred from Irewolede Police Station to the New Iyin Police Station on Bank Road, Ado-Ekiti.

    A relative of the old woman, who did not want his name in print, urged the police to prosecute the suspect and make him provide the pant stolen.

    He also urged the police to charge the suspects to court since they had admitted of have committed the crime.

  • How Osun Speaker was duped of N38m, by policeman

    A witness yesterday gave an account of how Osun State House of Assembly Speaker Timothy Owoeye was duped of N38 million by fraudsters.

    The witness, Police Sergeant Adetunji Adejare, gave the account at a Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, the state capital.

    Adejare told the court that eight accused persons implicated in the matter – Kazeem Agbabiaka, AbdulRasheed Ojonla, Oyebode Femi, Babatunde Oluajo, Adebiyi Kehinde, Oyebamiji Oyeniyi, Ismaila Azeez and Awodunmola Kehinde – were arrested with a telephone tracker.

    The witness further testified that the investigation took the police to Imesi-Ile in Ekiti State, as well as Lagos and Abuja, the nation’s capital.

    Adejare, who works in the State Intelligent Bureau of the police command, said the investigative team were led to the shrine of one of the defendants at Arubiidi, Ile-Ife and Olojabala via Osunjela, where the complainant was subjected to “inhuman treatment”.

    The policeman told the court that the defendants explained the sharing formula of the ransom in their confessional statements.

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    He said: “The complainant submitted a petition bordering on advanced fee fraud (419), conspiracy and threat to life to the Osun State Police Command on July 10, last year. We started investigation with tracking of the phone number of the first, second, third and fifth defendants.

    “We went to Oke-Imesi Ekiti, where the first defendant was arrested. He later led us to Ado-Ekiti, where the second respondent was arrested. We proceeded to Lagos State for the arrest of the third respondent, who had travelled to Abuja by flight. The Intelligent Response Team in Abuja eventually arrested him with a tracker.

    “The first defendant claimed to have bought a Toyota Highlander Jeep and the second defendant confessed to have used his own share to purchase the same type of Jeep but had not been delivered to him.”

    The police sergeant said Bamidele Tosin, who was said to be a motor dealer, was arrested through the help of the Director of AMK Motors in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

    He added: “The motor dealer confessed that the fourth defendant, Babatunde Oluajo, paid him in US dollars for the two jeeps of the first and second defendants.”

    The witness explained how the investigative team recovered dollar and naira, unregistered Toyota Highlander Jeep, single-barrelled gun, cartridges and other items in the home of the first, second, third and fourth defendants.

    He added that the sixth defendant was arrested for his role in the threat to life of the complainant and the sending of his nude video to police Sergeant Arawole Jimoh, who volunteered a statement that led to the arrest of the seventh and eighth defendants who had been using the video to extort money from friends and associates of the complainant.

    But attempt by the prosecution counsel, Moses Faremi, to tender the statements of the defendants was opposed by counsel tot eh accused persons.

    Messrs Kazeem Badmus, J. P. Jones, O. U. Yusuf and Chief A. Olodo, said the statements were signed by their clients under duress.

    The court adjourned the matter till July 1 for trial-within-trial.

     

  • Unemployed man remanded for ‘defiling’ girl, 10

    An Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Monday, remanded in prison custody a 26-year-old man, Uchechukwu Okoro, for defiling a 10-year-old girl.

    Magistrate K. O. Doja-Ojo gave the order after hearing a temporary two-count charge of defilement brought against Okoro by the police.

    The court did not take Okoro’s plea.

    Mrs Doja-Ojo ordered the police to duplicate the case file and send a copy to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for legal advice.

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    She adjourned further proceedings till July 3.

    Earlier, Prosecuting Inspector Peace Chukwudi told the court that the defendant allegedly committed the offences at 9:40 a.m on May 16 at Dumping Market area of Lagos Island.

    Chukwudi said the defendant sexually assaulted the girl by penetrating her private part with his manhood.

    “The defendant sent the girl on errand and used the opportunity to perpetrate the alleged act,” she told the court.

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Man allegedly detained, extorted for cautioning policemen over reckless driving

    An office support staff of the Lagos State Inland Revenue Service (LIRS), Mr. Michael Green, has alleged that he was detained at Makinde Division, on false accusation of being a thief and phone snatcher.

    The incident allegedly happened on Friday June 7.

    According to Green, he was riding in a colleague’s car when he cautioned the policemen who were coming from Ogun State in a Toyota Sienna car against dangerous driving.

    Apparently irked by Green’s audacity, the policemen were said to have stopped his vehicle and arrested him.

    He was taken to Makinde Police Division where the operatives who were attached to the Inspector General Squad claimed he was a thief and phone snatcher.

    It took the intervention of his senior colleagues in his office before he was freed after a sum of N4, 500 was collected from them as bail fee.

    ‘’A colleague in my office gave me a lift in her car after close of work in the evening. When we got to Obadeyo axis of Lagos-Abeokuta expressway, the driver of a Toyota Sienna car painted in wine colour drove dangerously and almost ran into our car.

    ‘’Since I was seated beside my colleague who was driving the car, I told the driver of the Toyota Sienna car to stop driving dangerously, without knowing they were policemen.

    ‘’Suddenly, they came out of the vehicle wearing small badges indicating they were operatives of a special police team, they dragged me out of the car and asked my colleague to go.

    ‘’Inside their car, I noticed that they had arrested two conductors around Sango Ota area of Ogun State. They took us to Makinde Police Station, Oshodi, and accused us of being thieves and phone snatchers and they left the station.

    ‘’When I tried to explain to the policemen at the station that we are not robbers, they threatened to deal with me. If not for the intervention of my senior colleagues in the office, I would have been arraigned for a crime I did not commit.

    ‘’An officer at the station who they handed me over to called Hakeem collected a sum of N4,500 for my bail before he releasing me. ’’

    Contacted, police spokesman, Mr Bala Elkana, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) said records at the station did not confirm the story narrated by the victim.

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    He however promised that  a thorough investigation would be carried out to establish the veracity of the allegation.

    ‘’ The records at the station in question have been checked and nothing confirms thatsuch arrest on the said date.

    ‘’However, since the complainant has mentioned an officer called Hakeem as allegedly being the officer that handled his case and collected money for his bail, we would investigate the matter to confirm if that actually happened and revert to you(our correspondent).’’

    As promised, the police spokesman later told our correspondent on the telephone that the officer called Hakeem had been identified and arrested.

    ‘’We have been able to identify the said officer called Hakeem. He said the policemen who brought the victim to the station were from Ogun State.’’

    Elkana said a policeman named Hakeem curiously claimed the said victim dashed him the sum of N4,500 and was immediately arrested and is currently detained for investigation because “the Lagos State Police Commissioner will not tolerate indiscipline on the part of policemen.’’

     

  • ‘Why I chopped off 11-yr-old boy’s right hand’

    A 61- year- old fish pond owner, Jeremiah Obrifor,  arrested by operatives of Lagos state Police Command for allegedly cutting the right hand of an 11-year- old boy, has given reasons for his action.

    ”It was not the boy’s hand that I targeted. It was the fishing hook that I targeted so that he would not succeed in taking the fish in his hook, but the devil which must have been sent by people from my village who envy me out of hatred and jealousy because I am a successful man made me to miss the target just to put me in this trouble.

    ‘’Let me give you a little background of my life before the devil struck. I used to buy baby fish, about 3000, buy fish food and nurse the fish for five to six months before harvesting them.

    ‘’I used to buy my fish for N2000 and by the time I started harvesting I would make like N450,000 to #500,000 excluding the ones I will give to my neighbours as gifts.

    ‘’Let me tell you why I cut the boy’s right hand. I was living outside my house and every week, I go there to inspect the pond at No. 14 Isha Ibrahim street, Mechanic bus stop, Mebanu, Okokomaiko, a suburb of Lagos.

    ‘’I am an electrician but in 1996 I felt that I could not do electrical work again due to age. As a result I decided to build a fish pond in my compound at the address I earlier told you. I reared cat fish, water snapper that have scales which used to nap water with tail. When I noticed that thieves used to come to steal my fish I decided to raise the fence to prevent thieves from having access to my pond but that measure or step did not stop them.

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    ‘’In fact, the people in the neighbourhood had arrested these boys many times and I had always asked my neighbours to let them go. The only thing they used to do whenever they catch a thief stealing my fishes is to seize the stolen fish and later hand the stolen fish to my wife. However, the boys re-strategized and by digging holes through the wall of the fence through which they cart away my fish almost on a daily basis. All my three children are in the university. The first daughter is in 400 level. I was planning to go home and rest when all of them graduate but these thieves became a nuisance to my struggle.

    ‘’On the 1st of June this year I went to my house to see my pond as it rained heavily and I wanted to go and check the water level but as I entered my compound I saw fish flying up and being drawn through holes. I saw hooks drawing fishes. The thieves were about seven and they all ran away when I shouted , who are you?.

    ‘’The following day which was Sunday, I had a meeting with my kinsmen living in Lagos. The meeting was scheduled to be held in my house so I arranged chairs downstairs for the meeting.

    ‘’It was the same day I had arranged for a carpenter and a mason to come and cover those holes made by the suspected thieves. As I was waiting for the mason I said let me call the carpenter to prepare the platform which the mason would use when he arrives. As I was seated upstairs trying to call the carpenter on phone the thieves came again and I saw their hook ropes drawing away my fish.

    ‘’I did not know what to do, rather, I decided to go down and see what the thieves were doing well. As I came down, I took the machete I kept near the pond which I used to clear grass near the pond and went straight to where the hook rope was coming from one of the holes. I targeted the hook but, very, very unfortunately, the machete missed the rope and cut the boy’s right hand and the hand fell inside the pond. I became confused and afraid because the boy ran to the street behind my house shouting in pain which attracted one of his relations , passersby and neighbours who came in droves. The boy’s relation entered the pond and brought out his chopped hand and rushed to a nearby police station.

    ‘’Oh! I was nearly lynched  if not  for the courage and gallantry of two out of the three policemen who risked their lives to rescue me from the mob and took me to their station. You can see the sign of the serious beating I received from the mob. I am from Delta state, Isoko  and my brother is married to an Igbo woman. The Igbo woman is from Ebonyi state. I have not even seen the face of the small boy. They told me he is within the age range of 11, 12 , 13 years. My wife had gone to see them for a peaceful resolution of the matter but she was not given attention. If God sets me free from this problem I will relocate to my village. I will never do fish pond  again till I die.

    ‘’As I speak, I am still wondering why such an incident would happen because I am a very quiet and friendly person known by my neighbours. There is a retired military officer who is my neighbour. You can go and ask him about me. He will tell you that I am not a bad person. He himself, will be surprised how I got myself  involved in this case and I am suspecting people in my village must have hands in this thing that happened and the way it happened. I know that some of my people in the village hate me and are very envious of me.’’

    Confirming the incident, the spokesman of Lagos State Police Command, Mr Bala Elkana, a Deputy Superintendent of Police(DSP), said: ‘’On the 7th June, 2019, at about 12;20pm, one Doris Isaac of No. 6 Ajanaku street, Okoko, reported at Okoko Police Station that on the same day at about 8;30am, her foster son, Goodluck Amechi, of the same address, an 11- year- old boy was attacked with a machete by one Jeremiah Obrifor.’’

    Elkana said the 61- year- old man Obrifor who resides  at No. 14 Isha Ibrahim street, Mechanic Bus stop, Mebanu, Okoko, allegedly cut off the boy’s right hand and it fell off.

    He added that the victim was  rushed to Igando General Hospital for medical attention.

    Elkana said, the suspect alleged that he saw the victim around his fish pond and thought that he came to steal his fish, that was why he brought out the cutlass and attacked him.

    He also said that investigation was still ongoing and the suspect would  be charged to court after  police  investigation .

    Meanwhile, Obrifor has been arraigned before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly chopping off the right hand of a 11-year-old boy.

    Obrifor was slammed with a four-count charge of attempted murder,causing  grievous harm and unlawful assault.

    He pleaded not guilty.

     

  • New Customs chief to smugglers: avoid my zone

    The Assistant Comptroller General of Customs (ACG) for Zone B, Bashir Abubakar, has taken over the mantle of leadership of the Zone ‘B’ as its Zonal Coordinator.

    The new Customs chief warned smugglers of contraband to steer clear of the zone.

    He said: “It is not going to be easy for smugglers and their accomplices under my watch.”

    Addressing the personnel of the zone when he assumed office Thursday, Abubakar told the officers and men that he would not tolerate any form of indiscipline from anyone.

    The ACG urged them to redouble their efforts at taking the service to an enviable height by allowing their training and experience to make the right impact.

    He advised them to desist from all forms of indiscipline and lukewarm attitude to work.

    The ACG appealed to the public to expose anybody found smuggling anything in the zone.

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    “You must operate within the confines of the law to avoid bringing the service to disrepute. We must work together as a team to boost the revenue generation profile of commands in the zone,” he said.

    Abubakar promised to operate an open-door policy, saying he will not hesitate to discipline any erring officer.

    “I am a disciplinarian to the core, punctuality at work, on neatness. Strict adherence to laid-down rules must be your watch words. Any form of abscondment from duty without due approval will not be tolerated.

    “However, I have received good news about this zone and wish to urge you all to sustain the good works,” he said.

     

  • Navy destroys 2,829 firearms surrendered by ex-Ondo militants, others

    The Nigerian Navy (NN) on Thursday started the manual destruction of 2,829 firearms recovered from participants in Ondo State Amnesty Programme and unserviceable weapons belonging to the service.

    The Nation reports that 475 of the firearms were service rifles of the Navy which were no longer useable, while 2,281 others were recovered last year from repentant militants in Ondo State.

    The exercise, which was organised by the Naval Ordinance Depot (NOD), Ojo, Lagos State, following an approval by the Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, was the first since the depot’s establishment in 1966.

    According to the Admiral Superintendent NOD, Rear Admiral Abdul Adamu, the weapons comprises of 2,108 single-barrelled rifles, 57 units of double-barrelled rifles, 189 short guns, 187 FN (Fabrique Nationale) rifles, 215 SIG (Schweitzerische Industrie-Gasellschaft) rifles and 73 SMGs (sub-machine guns).

    “The depot was established in 1966 as a strategic naval establishment primarily responsible for the storage and issuance of arms and ammunition to NN fleet and establishments.

    “Its overtime roles expanded to include installation, servicing and on-demand maintenance of arms on board NN ships. The depot also caters for sister services in storing their ordinances from time to time.

    “The naval headquarters recently authorized the depot to destroy the unserviceable weapons, which comprised weapons seized from repentant militants by the Ondo State Amnesty Programme and unserviceable NN weapons. These consist of 2,108 single barrel rifles, 57 units of double-barrelled rifles, 189 short guns, 187 FN rifles, 215 SIG rifles and 73 SMGs, which are earmarked for destruction during this exercise.

    “It is also significant to state that the exercise will be conducted for two days to ensure that the weapons are rendered unusable. This would involve cutting of the barrels into tiny unusable pieces and finally burying the pieced weapons in a dug hole at the depot.

    “It is believed that this approach will permanently deny criminals and miscreants access to the seized weapons, which could pose security threats to the society.

    “Solving the problem of firearms proliferation is not for security agencies alone. These criminals are subsets of the society. Thankfully, the President has signed into law a bill that prohibits bearing of arms. The police are doing well in arresting and parading the local manufacturers as we usually see in the media.

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    “What the Navy has done with this exercise is another great step to stop the weapons from finding their way back into the society. So, I recommend that sister security services with such arms in their armouries or inventory should destroy them so that bad eggs within the system do not recycle these firearms back into the society and put them in the hands of these criminals.

    “In the custody of the Navy today, this is all we have to destroy. As you know, security is dynamic and these criminals keep evolving. But we are not sleeping also. Definitely, as we arrest them in future, I am sure the Navy will also approve their destruction.”

    The CNS, who was represented by Director of Arms Naval Headquarters, Rear Admiral Danjuma Dongoyaru, decried the proliferation of firearms.

    He noted that the destruction was part of measures to curb the menace.

    Acknowledging there were other use the metals could be put to, he said the navy didn’t want to take chances that could make the weapons land in the hands of criminals again.

    “There are other uses for the metals but we do not want to take chances. We do not want a situation whereby they will get into wrong hands and are fabricated again.

    “Moreover, in the process of disarmament, after you have seized the weapons you must destroy them even if they are brand new.

    “We see daily seizures by the security agencies. A lot of weapons are being displayed but I can tell you that is just a tip of the iceberg. Destroying these weapons is a means to curb firearms proliferation.

    “Allowing them find their way back into the society will amount to fetching water with a basket. What we expect is for other security services with such arms in their custody to also destroy them,” he said.

  • Methodist priest arrested for ‘faking own kidnap’

    The Ekiti State Police Command has arrested a Methodist Church priest, Rev. Peter Adegoke Adewuyi, for allegedly faking his own kidnap to collect ransom from church members and other individuals.

    The police also arrested Sunday Oluwadare Adewole, who was allegedly helping the priest to make calls to unsuspecting members of the public to demand ransom on the phantom abduction.

    A source at the command told our reporter yesterday that the two suspects will be charged to court as soon as the police conclude their investigations.

    The 31-year-old priest was said to have lodged in a hotel in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, and hid himself from public view from where he and his accomplice were making calls to the members of the public to pay ransom for his release.

    He claimed that his “captors” demanded N3 million “ransom” for his freedom.

    The development reportedly threw his church into confusion with members raising cash to pay the ransom for what turned out to be a fake kidnap saga.

    The phoney abduction stunt was busted by the police, which intercepted and arrested the holder of the phone with GSM number 09078589516 with which the N3 million ransom was being demanded from family members and church members.

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    Unknown to the priest, he was being tracked to a location near First Bank in Okeyinmi area of Ado-Ekiti where he went to pick the ransom.

    During interrogation by the police, Adewuyi confessed to have masterminded his own “kidnap” and demanding for a N3 million ransom.

    The priest also confessed that he lodged at a hotel during the period of his self-enforced disappearance from the public.

    The two suspects are in detention at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) of the police headquarters in the state.

  • Three-day-old baby stolen in Plateau hospital

    A three-day old baby has allegedly been stolen from Plateau State Specialists Hospital, Jos, the state capital, from her mother.

    The suspected baby thief was said to have disguised as a hospital worker and claimed to be acting on the instruction of the doctor to bring the infant.

    The 30-year-old mother, Mary Chukwuebuka, who addressed reporters on Wednesday in Jos, said the baby was taken away from her on Friday, May 31, three days after birth, by a lady who disguised as a hospital medical worker.

    She said: “The lady who took my baby dressed in a laboratory coat, just like the hospital worker, came straight to my bed in the hospital and requested to carry the baby to the children’s ward for blood sample.

    “At first, I resisted and said a doctor just left here after a cross-examination but she did not mention that the baby was sick or there was need to run a task.

    “The lady insisted that she was directed by the doctor to carry the child to children’s ward for blood sample. I willingly released my baby to her, believing that she was a medical personnel working in the hospital.”

    Mrs. Chukwuebuka said she came to the hospital on May 28 and gave birth the following day at 4:47 a.m while the baby was stolen on May 31.

    “I went through all the antenatal care in this same hospital and I delivered in this hospital. I was just waiting to be discharged when this happened.

    “But it only dawned on me when, after waiting for a long period, I went to the children ward and could not find my baby. I went to complain to the other doctors only to discover that my baby was missing. Since then, I have not seen my baby.”

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    The distraught mother said the matter was reported to the police but that she had not received any explanation from them and the hospital management.

    The hospital’s Chief Medical Director (CMD) Dr. Philemon Golwa said the management contacted the police immediately they were informed of the incident.

    He added that the hospital could not disclose anything until the police complete their investigation.

    The CMD promised that everything would be done to recover the baby.

    Police spokesman Matthias Tyopev, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), said the command had started investigation into the matter to track down the suspect.