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  • Police nab man with ‘human parts‘

    The police in Ekiti State have arrested a man simply identified as Nifemi, for allegedly going about with human parts.

    Nifemi, 23, was nabbed last Saturday at Ijero-Ekiti during a stop and search.

    An eye witness, who craved anonymity, told reporters in Ado-Ekiti yesterday that the suspect was held while going to Okemesi-Ekiti with the hands of a human being.

    The source said the young man reportedly kept the human parts in a polythene bag and was apprehended on Ijero-Ikoro road while heading for Okemesi to sell the parts to customers.

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    “When quizzed by the police, the man said he got the two hands at Asa farmstead, near Okemesi and brought them to Ijero.

    “He told the police that he wanted to take the human parts to Okemesi to sell to some people,” the source added.

    Before the arrest, the police in Ijero Division had tightened security across the local government, following a tip-off by the public that robbers were planning to invade the area.

    Police spokesman Caleb Ikechukwu confirmed the arrest.

    He said investigations had begun.

  • Command nabs four for alleged murder, cultism

    Ekiti State Police Command has arrested four persons for alleged cultism and murder.

    The suspects are reportedly members of Eiye confraternity, who were allegedly involved in the killings of members of Black Axe “AIYE” confraternity in Ekiti and Ondo states recently.

    Among those nabbed by the Special Anti- Robbery Squad are Ayodele Ayodeji, 31, Olamide Olurunsola, 43, Gbenga Aluko, 29, and Adewale Adekunle, 23, all from Ifaki-Ekiti. Others escaped.

    A statement by Police Commissioner Mr. Asuquo Amba in Ado-Ekiti yesterday said the suspected cultists claimed that they surrendered their guns to a prominent king in Ondo State in 2017, but the claim was found to be false.

    Investigation showed that the suspects had been using a Toyota Camry Car with number plate KJA 710 FF to perpetrate the killings of victims. The vehicle has been recovered and is in police custody.

    Amba said items recovered from the suspects are: one cutlass, charms, one Dell laptop, a foreign woman photograph, two Ipad phones and one Infinix phone.

    He said:  “On February 11, about 2:30pm, at Ifaki-Ekiti, effort intensified by the team led to the arrest of some members of Eiye Supreme Confraternity Group. The suspects confessed to be members of Supreme Eiye Confraternity and

    claimed that their guns were in the custody of their fleeing colleagues.”

    The CP said the police have also arrested Kehinde Adams and Adeyanju Timilehin for allegedly receiving stolen property.

    “On February 8, the suspects were arrested with the aid of tracking technology.

    They confessed to have bought a stolen Infinix Hot 5 phone from Adeniyi Adewumi and Sunday Idowu, who belong to a robbery syndicate, who had earlier been arrested, charged to court and remanded in prison custody.”

    Amba said the suspects would be arraigned after investigations.

     

  • Police speak on alleged siege on Ekiti Assembly complex

    The Ekiti State Police Command has allayed the fear of the people of the state on the alleged deployment of armed policemen to the House of Assembly complex Wednesday night.

    Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Caleb Ikechukwu, said there was nothing wrong with the alleged deployment which he described as a security matter.

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    Ikechukwu said: “Anytime you see deployment of policemen it is to ensure the safety and security of that place and the people there.”

    The police spokesman who spoke in a telephone chat said there was no need for anybody to panic about the deployment of security men in the quest to ensure security of life and property except for those who have some form of crime to hide.

    Ikechukwu added: “Anytime you see us doing deployment, it’s for a reason, it is to ensure safety of that place at a given time. That means there must be information which we are working with and that shows how proactive the Nigeria Police Force is.”

    On the alleged letter seeking for police deployment, Ikechukwu said: “Are you now meddling into our internal affairs? Anybody that disclosed that information is disclosing secret information and that person should be arrested and prosecuted.”

  • I’m not in Ekiti to fight Fayose – New Ekiti CP

    I’m not in Ekiti to fight Fayose – New Ekiti CP

    A new Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Chafe, has assumed headship of Ekiti State Police Command dismissing insinuations that he was deployed to destabilize the administration of Governor Ayo Fayose.

    Addressing his maiden press conference at the command headquarters in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, Chafe who was transferred from neighboring Kogi State he is in his new duty post to fight crime and make the state safe for investment.

    Chafe also denied being posted to Ekiti State to rig the 2018 governorship election in favour of a particular political party saying he only knew that the election will hold in the state after his assumption of duty.

    He said: “I am not under any instruction to come here to fight anybody. Even when I was transferred, I did not even know that Ekiti election is coming soon; it was when I got here that I knew that election is coming here soon.

    “I value my profession and personality above any other thing. Even if you check all the elections that had been conducted recently, President Buhari didn’t interfere in police works. So, I am here to perform my statutory duties.

    “I am a Nigerian and wherever I go to, I see myself as part of that community and I can’t come here to cause trouble. I have worked in all the six geopolitical zones of the country and I have good records.”

  • Police parade suspected killers of paymaster, Council official in Ekiti

    Police parade suspected killers of paymaster, Council official in Ekiti

    …Female student paraded for organizing colleagues’ gang rape

     

    The Ekiti State Police Command has arrested suspects who killed its paymaster, SP Idowu Taiwo on December 18 and an engineer attached to Ido/Osi Local Government Council, Kunle Enisan, on December 19 last year.

    The command also arrested a fake police Inspector, Olalekan Ezekiel and a female student of College of Health Sciences and Technology, Ijero-Ekiti, Busayo Kayode, who specialized in tricking her colleagues to the den of criminals to be gang-raped.

    The Commissioner of Police, Wilson Inalegwu, who spoke on Wednesday while parading a total number of 26 suspects arrested for various crimes like murder, armed robbery, kidnapping, gunrunning and possession of hard drugs.

    Property like a car, phones, a motorcycle and weapons were recovered from the suspects.

    Inalegwu disclosed that eleven suspects who were arrested in connection with the murder of the police officer were also held in connection with an attempt to kidnap one Emmanuel Adeleke who is based in Turkey on December 22 last year.

    According to him, the suspects were trailed to Kaduna and Kano based on intelligence where they were arrested. Inalegwu revealed mobile phones belonging to their victims were recovered from them.

    The police chief said: “The operatives successfully recovered a Samsung Galaxy Note 4, Motorola Android Phone and Blackberry Passport belonging to the late OC MSS (Paymaster).

    “Also, Infinix and Itel phones belonging to the waitresses working at a joint where the late officer was abducted before being killed, were recovered.”

    Inalegwu explained that the Ezekiel who had been parading himself as a police inspector attached to the command’s Operations Department was arrested on February 20 along Awo-Esure Road with one unregistered red colour Honda motorcycle recovered from him.

    The police boss stated that Busayo was arrested in Ijero for colluding with a ten-man gang suspected to be members of Ave Cult group who take turns to rape their victims with the intent of initiating them into the group.

    He said all the suspects would be charged to court as soon as the Police concluded their investigation.

    In a bid to stem the tide of kidnapping in the state, Inalegwu explained that has carried out the mapping of forest belts in the state where the criminals operate and keep their victims most especially along Ikere-Igbara Odo-Ogotun axis and Ise-Emure axis.

    He added that the command is working in partnership with Ondo, Osun, Kwara and Kogi commands to tackle kidnapping and make the zone safe for law-abiding residents and travellers.

    Inalegwu said: “We are also enlisting the services of local hunters and vigilante groups for constant patrol of these deadly forests, so that when we occupy their hideouts, they will have no option than to run.”

    The Police Commissioner disclosed that he had established a ‘Crime Hot Spot Policing Squad’ to smash criminals that have taken Atikankan, Adebayo , Ajilosun and Ojumose areas of Ado Ekiti,  as safe havens.