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  • My life in danger – APC Assembly candidate, Twinny, cries out

    The All Progressives Congress (APC), House of Assembly candidate for Abeokuta North Constituency in Ogun State, Hon. Taiwo Oludotun, (Twinny) has cried out that his life, as well as his family members and workers are in danger.

    The aspiring lawmaker in the state, who has written the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu and Department of Security Services (DSS) in the state over threat to his life, sought the protection of police for himself, workers and his family.

    Oludotun alleged that the state governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, and Allied Peoples’ Movement (APM) candidate for House of Representatives for Abeokuta North, Obafemi Owode, and Odeda Federal constituency, Hon. Mikhail Kazeem, were after his life, adding that they were planning to eliminate him or planting incriminating items in his house or office, in order to be arrested or detained not to participate in the incoming elections.

    In the petition dated February 1st, 2019, submitted to the force headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, and DSS office in the state, the engineer-turned politician said that impeccable source has notified him that agents of the current administration in Ogun State are trailing him for the purpose of eliminating him.

    He said that on January 31st, 2019, he was in a campaign convoy with APC gubernatorial candidate in the state, Prince Dapo Abiodun, at Elega junction Abeokuta, when Hon. Mikhail Kazeem attacked their campaign rally, but the Nigeria police operatives that were with the convoy were able to stop him and his thugs from harassing them.

    He added that about 5:00pm same day of the campaign, he received a private (hidden)? call that Mikhail Kazeem with his thugs led by Adeola Kazeem (Mikhail Kazeem’s brother) and one FAJOL were planning to attack him and destroy all his properties particularly his business premises.

    Oludotun said immediately at about 5:50pm on the day, he called Kazeem to let him know that he heard about his plan to kill him and destroy his office, admonished him to have a rethink, but surprisingly he sent his thugs to his car wash at Akinolugbade road, Abeokuta, to kill him and destroy his car alongside the cars within the premises.

     

     

  • Family of slain policeman cries out for justice

    • We are still looking for the corpse —CP

    The family of a policeman, Inspector Musa Sunday, who was allegedly murdered on duty on November 29 November, 2016, in the Ibeju Lekki area of Lagos State, has urged the Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim Idris and the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, Mr Fatai Owoseni, and Chairman of Police Service Commission, Mr. Mike Okiro, to fish out his killers and order the release of his body for a befitting burial.

    Speaking with The Nation, the spokesman of the family, Mr Jonathan Arome, said: “Police should release the remains of our brother, Inspector Musa Sunday, for a befitting burial and all the perpetrators should be brought to book, no matter how highly placed in the society.

    ‘’Two, one Chief Ogunbekun should be made to explain his alleged involvement in the murder of Inspector Musa, as allegedly mentioned by the high chief whose name is yet to be known.

    ‘’Also, the Inspector General of Police should compel the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police Command, to tell the family of the deceased Inspector the real situation on ground with respect to the revelation of a high chief who is now assured to be their suspect.’’

    Arome said the family has yet to break the news of Sunday’s death to his wife.

    “The full name of his wife is Mrs Halimat Sadia Musa. She is a full housewife with four children, two boys and two girls. Musa has an aged mother too. The matter has not been disclosed to them because they, the wife will demand for the corpse. I was highly devastated when I heard of Inspector Musa’s death, how much more his wife and his aged mother. Still I have not seen the corpse to date.’’

    Recalling Musa’s disappearance and circumstances surrounding his death , Arome said: “Inspector Musa left for work on November 29, 2016.Following a distress call, he and two other policemen who were on duty were sent by the Administration Officer (AO) of their station to repel a kidnap attempt in Osoroko community in Ibeju Lekki. They were able to rescue two community members from the so-called kidnappers, who later turned out to be land grabbers. The land grabbers came out from the nearby bush in large numbers, abducted Inspector Musa, and took him to an unknown destination.’’

    Speaking further, he said: ‘’Attempt for us to get further information about the whereabouts of Inspector Musa was frustrated because of our inability to have access to the Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni.

    ‘’We started relating with the officer in charge of the command’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Sanni Umar Paiko, and the operatives of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team in Lagos, under the supervision of Superintendent Philip, and by the grace of God their combined efforts yielded result when they started arresting the suspects.

    ‘’During one of my visits to SARS office, one high chief from the community (Osoroko) whose name I do not know confessed to the police that everybody in the community knows about the case of the policeman that was killed in the community.

    ‘’The chief also added that he came in respect of the people arrested in connection with the case and told them in clear terms that Inspector Musa Sunday was not missing but dead.

    Contacted, the officer in charge of SARS, CSP Sanni Umar Paiko said the police had made arrests. He promised that everyone involved in the case would be apprehended.

    Speaking with The Nation, CP Owoseni said, you know we have made arrests, even your newspaper or one other newspaper published it.

    Owoseni said the command was still looking for Musa’s corpse. He, however, assured that the command ‘’is seriously doing everything humanly and professionally possible to find the corpse.’’

  • Save us from cultist group, Delta community cries out

    Youths numbering over 50 yesterday stormed Asaba, the Delta State Capital, protesting the activities of a cultist group known as White Ladder in Okirighwre community, Sapele Local Government Area of the state.

    Okirighwre community is a suburb of Sapele town.

    The protesters blamed the numerous cases of murders, arson and kidnapping since 2009 on the cultist group.

    Defying the heavy down pour, the protesters marched on the Delta State Ministry of Justice where they tendered a petition to the office of the Department of Public Prosecution  demanding investigation into the alleged murder ,arson and kidnapping cases against the group led by one Okoro alias G1.

    The protesters carried placards with inscriptions such as:‘A Cry to the NPF to swing into action because Okoro is dragging their name into the mud’, ‘We reject cultism, killings and kidnapping in Sapele’, ‘Sapele politicians stop shielding criminals,’A cry for justice’,  ‘DPP prosecute the killers of our brothers from Okirighwre,’ among others.

    According to the leader of the group, Gabriel Omofeye, who spoke to The Nation, the community has not known peace since 2009 due to the activities of the White Ladder cult group.

    He accused some politicians of the ruling PDP in the state of being behind the cultists who allegedly worked for their election victories.

    He alleged that some policemen were aiding the criminal elements, making fat gains through them.

    His words, ‘The reason we have come for this protest is that our lives are at stake. Series of killings have been going on in our community. There is this notorious boy, popularly known as Sunday,  a.k.a G1 who has been killing innocent people from Okirighwre community. Killings have been carried out in broad daylight. Three of the cultists are in Sapele Prisons right now.

    “The arrest followed a petition written to the Delta State Commissioner of Police.  He has evaded police arrest, even when policemen from  Zone 5 Office in Benin came, they could not arrest them. We have all fled our community for fear of being killed. A top PDP chieftain is behind this group who have continued to terrorise us. It is the same politician who is trying to arm-twist the DPP to enter a no case submission in favour of the suspects.”

    He added: “A particular police officer (names withheld) is aware.  Since 2009 when these killings started,  he has always tipped these cult guys off any time the police want to arrest them.”

    A victim, Agboroki Agboroh William, while narrating his ordeal said: ”I have not been around because I have been away to Ghana. I returned home February 4th to renew my passport and return. The cultists asked me to join their gang or I must leave the town. I was given an ultimatum to leave the community, but I exceeded the ultimatum.

    “The cultists numbering over 10 attacked me with bottles and knives shooting sporadically to scare away people. I was left for dead, but a Good Samaritan saved my life. I only regained consciousness in the hospital .I have not relented since this attack because they (cultists) stole a lot of my properties. The two fingers on my left hand are paralysed .This led to the arrest of three cultists who are now remanded at Sapele Prisons. But the cultists are threatening to come after me, boasting that a no case submission will be entered in their favour by the office of the DPP and they will be released.”

    The Director of Public Prosecution, (DPP), who spoke through an official, Champion Umukoro, denied allegations of bribery against the DPP’s office. His words: “I assure you you have done the right thing by ensuring that your protest is peaceful. We can assure that we do not shield criminals. All allegations will be investigated. The DPP has a reputation of integrity. Justice will be done.”

  • Save me, kidney patient cries out

    He retired hale and hearty three years ago. He was fit and was still thinkig of what to do on retirement when fate dealt him a cruel blow. He was fell by renal failure.

    Isaac Adeyinminu, who retired as maintenance crew head at C&C Towers, Victoria Island, Lagos, lies prostrate in his 260, Murtala Mohammed Way, Yaba, Lagos Mainland residence.

    Since he was struck down by the ailment last year, relatives have been wheeling him to the hospital twice a week for dialysis. He coughs out N70,000 weekly, that is N3.36 million per annum, to sustain his life. He said he has exhausted his savings and that of his wife.

    With a puffy face and lying on a couch in his living room, Adeyinminu barely audible, said: “Doctors told me it has got to a stage where I cannot continue with dialysis because of adverse effects; that I must do kidney transplant as soon as possible.”

    Though he has found a donor, he now needs N6.5 million for the life saving surgery. Dr E.L Bamgboye, a Consultant Transplant/Nephrologist at St. Nicholas, said Adeyinminu was diagnosed with “chronic kidney disease, secondary to hypertensive nephrosclerosis.” The hospital spoke “on the long term management options and advised that a live donor renal transplant confers the best ‘quality of life’ in established end stage kidney disease.”

    Bamgboye said an initial deposit of N5 million is needed to cover the cost from pre-transplant investigations to post-operative admission of donor and recipient. He said N1.5 million would be needed for the recipient to remain on regular immuno-suppressives for the first year to prevent rejection of the graft. “Even though not to be deposited, the unit would seek reassurance that he would have access to these funds (N1.5 million) over the period,” Bamgboye said.

  • Save me kidney patient cries out

    He retired hale and hearty three years ago. He was fit and was still thinkig of what to do on retirement when fate dealt him a cruel blow. He was fell by renal failure.

    Isaac Adeyinminu, who retired as maintenance crew head at C&C Towers, Victoria Island, Lagos, lies prostrate in his 260, Murtala Mohammed Way, Yaba residence.

    Since he was struck down by the ailment last year, relatives have been wheeling him to the hospital twice a week for dialysis. He coughs out N70,000 weekly, that is N3.36 million per annum, to sustain his life. He said he has exhausted his savings and that of his wife.

    With a puffy face and lying on a couch in his living room, Adeyinminu barely audible, said: “Doctors told me it has got to a stage where I cannot continue with dialysis because of adverse effects; that I must do kidney transplant as soon as possible.”

    Though he has found a donor, he now needs N6.5 million for the life saving surgery. Dr E.L Bamgboye, a Consultant Transplant/Nephrologist at St. Nicholas, said Adeyinminu was diagnosed with “chronic kidney disease, secondary to hypertensive nephrosclerosis.” The hospital counseled “on the long term management options and advised that a live donor renal transplant confers the best ‘quality of life’ in established end stage kidney disease.”

    Bamgboye said an initial deposit of N5 million is needed to cover the cost from pre-transplant investigations to post-operative admission of donor and recipient. He said N1.5 million would be needed for the recipient to remain on regular immuno-suppressives for the first year to prevent rejection of the graft. “Even though not to be deposited, the unit would seek reassurance that he would have access to these funds (N1.5 million) over the period,” Bamgboye stated.