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  • Edo LG workers nabbed for issuing fake revenue receipts

    Two revenue enforcement workers of the Egor Local Government Area of Edo State have been arrested for issuing fake receipt to unsuspected commercial drivers.

    The sum of N280,000 believed to have been realised from the sale of ticket was recovered from the suspects identified as Monday Esewi and Iyoha Osagie.

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    Governor Godwin Obaseki had last year introduced e-ticketing as a means of collecting revenue by government officials.

    Luck ran out of the two suspects when the council boss, Ms. Eghe Ogbemudia, accosted a commercial driver and demanded to know whether he has paid the approved daily payment of N800.

    Ogbemudia was shocked to see the ticket provided by the driver was different from the official receipt.

    The council boss led other official to Uselu Market where the driver said he obtained the ticket from and discovered several booklets of fake receipt in the possession of the suspects.

    She further discovered that the usually began the sale of fake tickets at 6am before resuming at the council secretariat at 8am to collect the genuine receipts.

    In a chat with newsmen, Ogbemudia said it was shocking for her to know that the people she empowered with jobs would be the ones to destroy the system.

    According to her, “We discovered cash and fake receipts booklets from the two revenue enforcers. It was a driver that told me he bout the tickets at Uselu Market.”

    The suspects however denied selling fake tickets to commercial motorists.

    According to Monday, “Those receipts are not fake. They were given to us by staff of the local council.

    Iyoha said, “I was shocked when they said the receipts are fake. All the tickets I sell everyday are collected from the council secretariat.”

  • Woman hired assassins to kill ex-lover in Edo

    Woman hired assassins to kill ex-lover in Edo

    Men of the Edo State Police Command are on the trail of a lady who allegedly hired assassins to kill her ex-lover, Mr. Okundolor Omoruyi.

    Omoruyi, aged 39, was killed in May at Utagban quarters in Egor local government area few weeks after he arrived Nigeria from Italy.

    The lady whose identity was yet to be ascertained was said to have contracted the killers because she was jilted by the late Omoruyi.

    State Commissioner of Police, Haliru Gwandu, who paraded two suspects arrested in connection to the killing said another 18 years old girl was killed by the gang for recognizing one of them.

    He said a lady contracted the suspects to kill the Italian returnee.

    Gwandu assured that other suspects in the killing would soon be arrested.

    One of the suspect who gave his name as Odion Igbinogun gave the names of other fleeing suspects as Power and Moses.

    Odion said it was Power that pulled the trigger killing Omoruyi saying he was only asked to accompany them on the mission.

    He said the deal to kill Omoruyi was sealed at a bar but he could not recognized the lady that gave out the job.

    According to him, “My friend put me into this problem. He said I should follow them somewhere. When we got to a shop, he said I should collect the apron from the seller. I didn’t know how much was in the apron.

    “I later saw my friend brought out a gun and kill the girl. They later said we should go to another place where we killed the man.”

     

  • ‘Why female circumcision is good’

    Members of the Uwelu Community in Egor local government area have dismissed alleged dangers associated with female genital mutilations otherwise known as female circumcision.

    They said circumcised females are not prone to prostitution neither do circumcision causes infection in females.

    The Uwelu community spoke when the Health Reform Foundation of Nigeria (HERFON) led advocacy visit to the community as part of activities to mark the international day of zero tolerance to FGM.

    Spokesman for HERFON, Dr. Gabriel Ogbeide had told the women that FGM could lead to severe bleeding, complications at child, infections and trauma death.

    Dr. Ogbeide said circumcised females don’t enjoy sex and could experience painful pregnancy.

    He urged the community members to join in the fight to stop FGM and protect the girl child.

    A member of the community who claimed to be an expert in circumcision said female circumcision helped to prevent girls from engaging in prostitution.

    He said circumcision helped a girl to keep herself before marriage and explained that bleeding occurred when an adult is being circumcised.

    Another female member of the community said circumcision helped to stop scratching of the vaginal and that anybody who is not circumcised in the community is seen as a ‘dirty person.’

    According to her, “I do not think we can do without circumcising our female children. We have not seen that circumcised girls are passing through the problems you highlighted.

    “There is no infection and there is little bleeding because the person is a child.”

    Chairman of HERFON, Mr. James Uwaifo, reminded them of the law against female circumcision in the state.

    Uwaifo urged them to discourage female circumcision and not subject female children to pains.

     

  • Fire razes over 50 shops in Edo community

    fire on Monday night razed over 50 shops at the popular Edaiken Market at Uselu, Egor Local Government Area of Edo State.

    The fire was said to have started at 8.30pm and spread to several shops.

    But the local government chairman, Victor Enobakhare, said the fire was a sabotage by those who opposed the reconstruction of the market.

    Enobakhare donated N1 million to the victims as a palliative measure.

    He said: “I want to say that it was an act of sabotage. The area involved doesn’t have electricity because they don’t sell at night. They close as early as 7pm.”

    Many of the victims were lamenting over the losses they incurred when our reporter visited the market yesterday.

    A trader in the market, Mr. Chidera Nwakeze, said he just stocked his four shops with rice, beans and other food items before the fire occurred.

    Nwakeze said: “I came to the market around 8.30pm and discovered that it was on fire. But before I could get to my shops, they had already been consumed with all my goods gone.”

    Another victim, a businesswoman in the market who spoke in confidence, said the fire was a conspiracy by Igbo traders because they were the major victims.

    “I don’t think that the fire was caused by any electrical fault because the section which got burnt had been without power supply.

    “Someone must have set fire on this area of the market because it is dominated by Igbo traders,” she said.