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  • Husband impregnates wife’s sister, strangles baby after birth

    Husband impregnates wife’s sister, strangles baby after birth

    The police in Bayelsa State have arrested a 47-year-old man, Moses Otimba, for impregnating his wife’s younger sister, Joy Mathew, and killing the male child five days after birth.

    Otimba was said to have asphyxiated the child to death and buried him in a shallow grave at a river bank.

    The suspect, an indigene of Ogbogoro community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state, reportedly executed the devilish act in connivance with the 19-year-old girl.

    The two suspects were paraded on Thursday by the Commissioner of Police, Bayelsa State Command, Mr. Asuquo Amba, at the command’s headquarters in Yenagoa, the state capital.

    Amba said policemen from Yenagoa Police Division arrested the suspects, who confessed to the murder.

    The commissioner said: ”Mr. Moses Otimba, male, 47, impregnated one Joy Matthew, 18, a younger sister to his wife, Glory. The pregnant Joy was delivered of the baby by a traditional birth attendant at Amarata, Yenagoa on May 8, 2017.

    ”On May 13, 2017, Moses, Joy and the baby left the birth attendant and went across Swali bridge where Moses took the baby from her mother (Joy), went down the river shore, sniffed the baby to death and buried him in a shallow grave.”

    Amba said Joy, who claimed to be under the influence of ”some spirits”, disclosed the incident to her mother three months after the act.

    He said angered by the development, Joy’s mother reported the matter to the police, which swung into action and arrested the suspects.

    Amba said:  ”The police visited the scene of the incident. By the time they got to the scene, the current of the river had washed off the child’s body.

    ”The suspect, Moses Otimba, has confessed to the crime and Joy Matthew has also confessed on her alleged involvement in the murder of the baby. Investigation is ongoing.”

    Otimba, in his confessional statement said he killed the baby boy because he was ashamed to tell his wife (Glory) and his mother-in-law.

    He admitted killing the baby with the consent of Joy, after discussing his predicament with her.

    Otimba said: ”I killed the baby boy because I was afraid and scared. I did not really know how to face my wife and my mother-in-law that was why I killed the baby. I am really sorry.

    ”I took the baby to the bush in my community and closed his nose until he died. When I was carrying out the act, I was weeping and crying but I had no choice.

    ”When I got to the site, he was five days old then, I closed his nose and within some seconds, he stopped breathing. After that, I started regretting.

    ”The mother of the baby agreed that we should kill the baby. I told Joy that the situation was precarious for me and that I did not know how to tell my wife about the development.

    ”On that day, she was carrying the baby. She gladly gave me the baby to do whatever I wanted to do. My wife was not aware of all of this.  But somehow, I did not know what happened. I learnt the baby’s mother told her mother who alerted the police and we were arrested.”

  • Abia police decorate officers with new ranks

    Abia police decorate officers with new ranks

    The Abia State police command has decorated officers who were recently promoted by the Police Service Commission (PSC) with their new ranks.

    The decoration was performed by the state Commissioner of Police Adeleye Oyebade with other senior officers of the command in Umuahia, the state capital.

    The Nation gathered that the newly promoted officers included a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) and six Superintendents, totaling seven.

    The state Police Commissioner in a chat with our reporter said that the promotion of the personnel was done according to seniority and with the approval of the Police Service Commission.

    He disclosed that the command was still sorting out the names of other officers due for promotion at the state headquarters especially within the ranks of Inspector who would be elevated to Assistant Superintendent of Police.

    The state police chief however charged the promoted officers not to abuse their ranks, but to see it as reward for hard work and call to be more committed to their duties and added that the promotion of the officers would encourage and inspire others to work harder.

    He used the opportunity to reiterate that the police command frowns at indiscipline amongst its officers, stating that the command would not hesitate to discipline any officer who tarnishes the image of the force.

    This is even as he stated that he would not equally hesitate to recognize any officer that has shown professionalism, diligence and commitment to duty.

    Oyebade further called for the cooperation of all and sundry in providing police with useful information on the activities of hoodlums in their neighbourhood, stressing that the police were ready to ensuring that Abia was safe for business and economic activities to thrive.

  • Abia police chief: strategies on security yielding positive results

    The Commissioner of Police (CP) in Abia, Mr Leye Oyebade said the strategies introduced to combat crime and criminality in the state was yielding positive results.

    He said this when he briefed newsmen at the Police Officers Mess in Umuahia on activities and achievements recorded by the police command in the state.

    He said the command arrested 30 criminal suspects in connection with kidnapping, armed robbery, car snatching, cultism and other security breaches in different parts of the state.

    He restated the command’s commitment to crime reduction, adding that “my officers and men are prepared to make Abia uninhabitable for hoodlums.

    “We have recorded substantial successes and reduction in crime wave and that is because of the different proactive measures and strategies we have put in place.”

    The police boss attributed the successes recorded to cooperation from the public, saying “they have been assisting us with useful information.

    “But I am using this opportunity to appeal to great people of Abia not to rest on their oars; they should continue to volunteer information to us to enable us to serve them well.”

    The list of suspects included Chigozie Akpara, Ndubuisis Nwoko and Nnamdi Kanu, said to have broken into Oza Secondary School, Asa, where they allegedly carted away eight computer sets donated to the school by the Niger Delta Development Commission.

    Others were Sunday Agu and Chinagorom Nwaobwugwu, allegedly arrested in possession of three stolen 200-AMP trailer batteries.

    Some of the items recovered from the suspects included pistols, double-barrel guns, AK47 rifles and other dangerous weapons.

  • Police declares Biafra Security Service illegal

    Police declares Biafra Security Service illegal

    The Commissioner of Police Abia, State Command, CP Adeleye Oyebade has declared the recently formed Biafra Security Service of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as illegal.
    Oyebade in a press briefing at the command’s headquarters in Umuahia, the state capital warned those behind the formation of the security network he described as “unlawful and illegal” to retrace their steps.

    He stressed that the Nigerian constitution recognizes only the Nigerian Police, Nigerians Army and the Department of States service, adding that any other group claiming to be providing security without an approval from constitution was illegal.

    The state police boss further stated that the full weight of the law would be brought upon the organizers of the said BSS who he noted were displaying videos of the “outlawed” security service on their social media network.

    Oyebade who stated that the police and other security operatives in the state would never fold their hands and watch unscrupulous elements to disrupt the relative peace in the state reiterated that the police in synergy with other sister agencies to make the state safe for business and economic activities to thrive.

    He also used the opportunity to parade suspected armed robbers, kidnappers, cultists amongst others who he said were still being investigated and would soon be arraigned in court for trial for commencement of prosecution.

    Amongst the paraded suspects was a car snatcher identified as Onyekachi Nwaogu of No. 7 Nwankwo Street  off Obohia, Aba South Local Government Area of the state.

    Oyebade also disclosed that detectives attached to the D7 SCIID, Umuahia, but operating in Aba also recovered a Red coloured Toyota Camry with reg number SSM 521 TP with engine number 5X3249568 and chasis no. 4018G12K4TU74221 suspected to have been stolen from its owner.

    He appealed to Abians to always provide necessary information about the activities of hoodlums in their areas to the police and other security agencies in the state who he stated were ready to make the state unsafe for criminals to thrive.

  • Be persistent, Mind Builders graduands told

    TO succeed in life, graduands of Mind Builders High School, Ikeja, have been told to be persistent.

    They heard from no other than the Commissioner of Police, Police Medical Services, Ikoyi, Dr Efunsola Sowewimo, to incorporate the three Ps (Pray, Plan and Perform) into their daily activities as the work towards their goals.

    In her keynote speech titled: “Persistence, a vital key to Success”, she advised the 22 graduands never to give up, sharing examples of great men who won because of persistence.

    “You may have to tweak your plans.  Thomas Edison tried 2,000 times to create the light bulb.  If he had given up we won’t have light today.

    “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.  Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talents.  Genius will not take the place of persistence,” she said.

    The school’s Education Director, Mrs Bolajoko Falore, also shared her three Ps – Patience, Persistence and Perspiration.

    She told the graduands they were responsible for their success and otherwise.

    “Dream big; patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success..

    “Finally, remember that obstacles cannot stop you; problems cannot derail you; people cannot stop you.  The only one who can stop you is yourself,” she said.

    As good ambassadors of the school, she charged them not to forget the school’s pillars of character; be kind and good to people; be guided by God’s words, and think big.

    Forty-four awards were presented to the graduating class, while pupils in the other levels shared 23 awards.  Awards were also presented to outstanding parents and special guests, including Mrs Yinka Ogunde, CEO, Edumark Consult Ltd.

    One of the graduands, who won prizes for distinguishing herself in sports, Zainab Yunusa, said her sojourn in Mind Builders exposed her to a variety of activities.

    “We were exposed to so many things.  We had so many outings.  The school taught me to be independent and not rely on others.  Mind Builders taught me to speak up for myself,” she said.

    The event was spiced with choreography, duet, ball joggling/hoopla as presentations by the school choir and the orchestra.

  • Abia police parade suspected robbers, cultists

    Abia police parade suspected robbers, cultists

    The efforts of the police and other security agencies in Abia State have led to the arrest of suspected criminals, the rescue of kidnap victims as well as the recovery of stolen items in the state.

    Abia State Commissioner of Police Adeleye Oyebade paraded some suspects at the state command headquarters in Umuahia, the state capital, saying that the suspects were those nabbed in June and July. Oyebade attributed the arrests to intelligence gathering and prompt information to the police by members of the public about the activities of hoodlums in their neighbourhoods.

    Oyebade hailed his officers for being alive to their duties, saying that they were not going to rest on their oars but remain more committed and resolute in combating crime in the state.

    He urged his men to be professional and do their work with the fear of God.

    Oyebade explained that the stop and search operation in Aba and other parts of the state is not to extort money from road users, but to checkmate activities of hoodlums. He added that any policeman found wanting will face the music.

    Giving a breakdown of the command’s activity in June and July, Oyebade said “On 01/07/2017 at about 1200hrs, sequel to information received on the missing of one Peter Alaebuonu Eseonu, a tricycle operator, 67 years ‘m’ of Ekenaobizi Umuopara Umuahia on 27/06/2017, detectives attached to Central Police Station, Umuahia swooped on one Chinonso David Ibekwe, 25 years ‘m’ of Ndiotu Ntalakwu, Bende LGA. The suspect, a 200 level Computer Science student of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike Abia State gave a lead towards the recovery of the decomposing body of the said Peter Alaebuonu Eseonu in a ditch at Amuzukwu Umuahia. He has however, confessed to the crime while the decomposing body of the deceased has been deposited in the morgue for preservation and autopsy. The suspect has been charged to court and remanded in prison custody.

    “On 09/07/2017 at about 1100hrs, information was received that someone was shot dead along Obohia road Aba. Sequel to this, a patrol team attached to Ndiegoro Division on routine patrol rushed to the scene at No. 22 Obohia road Aba where the deceased was met in a pool of her own blood. The Divisional Police Officer, Ndiegoro mobilized other patrol teams and proceeded to the scene where one Ogbonnaya Igwe ‘m’ of 22 Obohia road was arrested in his hide-out at the ceiling of the house. One Pump-Action rifle and double barrel gun with 15 live cartridges and four expended cartridges were recovered from the suspect and at the scene respectively. Corpse of the deceased later identified as Ijeoma Chibuzo was deposited in the mortuary for autopsy.

    The police released more information on the arrest of several other suspected hoodlums and the recovery of stolen items.

  • Suspended Baale was travelling around but ‘faked kidnaping’

    Suspended Baale was travelling around but ‘faked kidnaping’

    Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, yesterday suspended the Baale of Shangisha in Magodo, Chief Yusuf Ogundare, for allegedly faking his kidnap.

    The governor’s order was contained in a memo signed by the Commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs, Teslim Folami.

    It directed Ogundare to stop parading himself, henceforth, as the Baale of the community till further notice.

    The ‘fake’ kidnap allegedly took place on July 5 along Centre for Management Development (CMD) Road in Ikosi-Isheri LCDA.

    Folami said: “I am directed to convey the approval of His Excellency, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of the suspension of Chief Yusuf Ogundare, Baale of Shangisha, with immediate effect.

    “The suspension is in accordance with Section 38 (1) of the Obas and Chiefs Laws of Lagos State which states that ‘the Governor may suspend or depose any Oba or chief whether appointed or after commencement of this law, if he is satisfied that such suspension of disposition is required according to customary law or is necessary for the interest of peace and good government.’”

    According to Folami, Ogundare’s suspension was approved moments after the Lagos State Police Command paraded him alongside his younger brother, Mohammed Adams, for allegedly conspiring to fake the kidnap.

    Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, said Adams, on July 5, reported the alleged kidnap to the police which collaborated with other security agencies, especially the Department of State Service (DSS), in the investigation.

    Owoseni stated that Ogundare was apprehended by men of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) in Alausa on July 11, after he was dropped off by a car.

    Owoseni said: “On July 11 at about 10pm, a team of RRS patrol officers working around Alausa sighted a vehicle which dropped a male adult in a suspicious manner close by Shoprite along the Secretariat road.

    “The speed with which that car drove off attracted them to that spot and, fortunately, before they got to the spot, the car had taken off. But a quick inquiry revealed that it was the Baale that was allegedly kidnapped.

    “While Ogundare was being debriefed, he sold a dummy that the kidnappers dropped him off, but, unknown to him, it had been found out that on the 5th of July, the day he was allegedly kidnapped in Lagos, investigation had revealed that he was driving around in Ibadan around Ashi; he went to Ilorin, he went to Iwo, he was just on a frolic.

    “Also, unknown to him, his younger brother and his wife were being questioned because of some discrepancies that were noticed in the interaction they had with security agencies.

    In furtherance of the synergy existing between the police and DSS, we jointly compared notes and our findings were such that the act of the chief was despicable and amounted to crying wolf where there was none,” Owoseni said.

    He said Adams told security agencies that he was with the Baale at CMD Hotel when some people who claimed they wanted to buy land whisked them away and later freed him.

    But, according to Owoseni, Adams was never in the hotel with the Baale but was only at the hotel’s restaurant but left after some minutes.

    “The wife of the Baale actually drove the Venza car allegedly used to abduct the supposed victim into the hotel,” he said.

    The CP added that after the suspects were confronted with the facts, they confessed.

    Owoseni said immediately Ogundare was allegedly kidnapped, Adams went to the community and called the town crier to order traders to close their shops and markets.

    Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem, who also spoke on the incident, demanded the unconditional release of the six children kidnapped from Igbonla Model College since May 25.

    He said it was disheartening that while the state government and security agencies were working to secure the release of the children, “some unscrupulous persons deemed it fit to raise false alarm,” on kidnapping.

    Kazeem said it was situations such as this that prompted Governor Ambode to sign the anti-kidnapping bill into law.,

    The government, he warned, would not hesitate to prosecute anyone who runs fowl of the law.

    Kazeem noted that Section 5 of the anti-kidnapping Law prescribes that “a person who overtly or covertly puts himself forward to be kidnapped or abducted by another for the purpose of extracting money or ransom, from another or for any other reason commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to fourteen (14) years imprisonment.”

  • Niger gets new Police Commissioner

    Niger gets new Police Commissioner

    The new Commissioner of Police of Niger state, Austin Iwero Agbonlahor has appealed on the people of the state not to relent in providing information that could lead to criminals in the state.

    Agbonlahor made this appeal Friday when he resumed duties as the Commissioner of Police of the Niger state Police Command.

    He stated that information is a key factor in policing adding that information would enable the Police to fight criminality in the state.

    The Commissioner assured every one of his commitment to duty adding that, “I am going to improve on the performance of the outgone Commissioner of Police.”

    The Outgone Commissioner of Police, Zubairu Muazu said in his one year tenure in Niger state, 1,627 suspects were arrested for various offences across the state with797 reported criminal cases.

    He added that 2,501 cattle, 110 goats and 826 sheep were recovered during the period.

    Muazu, who have been posted to be the Commissioner of Police in Akwa Ibom state, said that the people in the state have more confidence in the police which have yielded into massive increase on the supply of useful and credible intelligence to the Police adding that the gap between the Police and the public have been bridged.

     

  • Mob kill Badoo suspect in Ogun, set corpse ablaze

    Mob kill Badoo suspect in Ogun, set corpse ablaze

    An irate mob on Wednesday attacked a young man suspected to be a member of the deadly  Badoo cult, beating him thoroughly before setting ablaze at Magbo Ogijo area of  Sagamu,  Ogun State.

    The Nation learnt that the mob had accused the suspect of being in possession of severed head of a baby and thereafter, began to strike with blows and sticks until struck him down.

    It also gathered that the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, whose convoy was heading to Ogijo at the time for an official visit, ran into the burnt suspect.

    The mob and other crowd that had gathered on sighting the police convoy fled the scene, fearing they could be arrested.

    But Policemen on the CP’s convoy quickly evacuated the remains of the suspected cultist.

     

  • Armed robbers on the increase in Plateau – CP raises alarm

    Armed robbers on the increase in Plateau – CP raises alarm

    The Commissioner of Police, Plateau state command CP Peter Ogunyanwo has raised an alarm of increasing numbers of armed robbers in Plateau state.

    CP Ogunyanwo said the command has arrested at least 50 armed robbers in the last one month in the state.

    Ogunyanwo who disclosed this in a press conference held at the Officers Mess Jos, said, “From May 2017 to date, over fifty (50) Armed robbery and culpable homicide suspects have been put in custody.

    According to Mr. Ogunyanwo, “We regret that car thieft was on the increase in Plateau state, a notorious expert in car snatching were recently arrested in the state.

    “There are reported cases of missing vehicles on daily bases in the state.

    “For instance, On the 16th May 2017, a three man gang of alleged car snatchers were arrested by men of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) Jos, Bukuru and four vehicles and a pistol were recovered from them”

    “In other crimes, a man who stabbed another to death is in police custody, one Bulus Dewan male, of Barkinladi was arrested and brought to Barkinladi police division headquarters for stabbing one Dapan Garba Shut, male of Rutaso village in Fan district who died as a result of the injury sustained.”

    The CP applauded the efforts of men and officers of the command and attributed the successes recorded within the last one month to professionalism and intelligent of the men of the command.

    He said the command also arrested and detained a 50 year old man who allegedly raped his five year old niece, and another 43 year old suspected rapist are among the criminals cooling their heels in police cell in the state.

    “One Abdulahi Yusuf, male aged fifty (50) violated his niece one Fatima Ibrahim, female aged five (5) years by having unlawful carnal knowledge of her. In a similar case of rape, one Judith Sati aged three (3) years old was allegedly raped by one Daniel Yahaya male aged forty three (43) years old”

    The commissioner, in appreciation to the efforts of his men in tracking down criminals, presented certificates of commendation to some of his men who displayed some level of professionalism. He also presented an undisclosed sum to the nine police officers who arrested and recover four cars with ammunitions.

    He charged other police officers in the command to work hard as rewards await officers who are up and doing in their duties.

    Mr. Ogunyanwo assured the public of adequate securities, he pledged that police in the state were doing its best to stem the tide in crime and assured every citizen to go about their lawful businesses and be vigilant at all times.