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  • Police arrest couple for selling daughter for N400, 000

    The Cross River Police Command on Wednesday said it had arrested a couple, [names withheld], for allegedly selling their six-year-old daughter for N400, 000.

    Presenting the couple before newsmen, Mr Hafiz Inuwa, the state Commissioner of Police, said the suspects were arrested at Ikom Local Government area on April 26 following a tip-off.

    According to Inuwa, the couple sold the child to enable them offset their house rent and open up a small provision shop.

    “On April 26, 2017, following a tip-off, our men arrested a couple, George-Sunday Udoh and his wife Victoria, for allegedly selling their daughter at the cost of N400,000.

    “The suspects were arrested by our operatives attached to the Ikom division.

    “The case has been transferred to State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department here in Calabar and investigation is ongoing,’’ he said.

    The father of the child, however, denied selling the child in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

    “It is true that we don’t have money and things are very hard with me and my wife, but we did not sell our baby for N400, 000,’’ he said.

    NAN reports that the commissioner also paraded 28 armed robbery suspects, cultists and others for various offences.

    The commissioner said on May 2, officers attached to the Akamkpa local police division arrested five robbery suspects who allegedly broke into a corps members’ lodge at Government Secondary School, Akamkpa.

    He said that the suspects carted away a laptop, handset and N3, 800, adding that investigation into the case was ongoing.

    “On May 3, we also arrested a security guard at Ekorinim area of Calabar Municipality for defiling the 11-year-old daughter of his boss.

    “The case was reported by the mother of the girl,’’ he said.

    The suspect told NAN that he had a mutual agreement with the girl before he had sex with her.

    “I did not defile nor rape her, we both agreed to have sex and I was arrested four days after the incident happened.

    “I am sorry that I slept with my madam’s daughter, but I did not defile or raped her because we both agreed to have sex,’’ he said.

    The Commissioner also paraded three armed robbery suspects suspected of snatching a Toyota Avalon car with registration number ANA 369 CK belonging to one Obi Joseph-Funmi on January 25, 2017.

    He added that in all the cases, the police had recovered five locally made pistols, two vehicles, an ax, machetes, live cartridges, and other weapons.

     

  • Calabar electrocution: Police confirm seven dead, 11 hospitalised

    Calabar electrocution: Police confirm seven dead, 11 hospitalised

    Cross River Police Command has confirmed seven people dead and 11 hospitalised in Thursday’s electrocution that occurred while some football fans were watching the Manchester United and Anderlecth game at a television viewing centre.

    The incident happened at around 9.30 p.m.  at Nyagasang area of Atimbo in Calabar Municipal Local Government area of the state.

    Mr Hafiz Inuwa, the state Commissioner of Police, gave the numbers at a news conference on Friday in Calabar.

    Inuwa said that the briefing became necessary following some reports in some national dailies and online blogs that over 30 persons died in the tragic incident.

    “To put the record straight, 18 persons were affected by the incident and taken to the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH).

    “From the records available to us, seven people died on arrival, 10 are in the emergency ward of the hospital while one victim is currently at the intensive care unit of the same hospital.

    “The false reports out there are alarming. This press conference will put an end to the rumours out there that over 30 persons died.

    “People should stop spreading falsehood in sensitive issues like this. The earlier reports that over 30 persons died and about 50 escaped death is false,” he said.

    A check by a NAN correspondent at the State General Hospital and some private medical centres showed that no victim of the incident was taken to them except UCTH.

    Eyewitnesses had told NAN that two separate blasts from electrical installations occurred around the centre before a live high tension cable fell on the zinc makeshift structure where many of the fans were watching the European League.

     

  • Two suspected robbers set ablaze in Calabar

    Two suspected robbers set ablaze in Calabar

    …Five arrested after shootout with police

     

    Angry residents, who have been incessantly harassed by dare-devil robbers, burnt to ashes two suspected robbers in Calabar, the Cross River State, Thursday.

    One of them was burnt along White House Street, while the other was at Abua by Ephraim Street.

    It was gathered that the suspected robbers numbering over thirty and armed with guns, machetes, axes and other weapons were walking through the streets in Calabar-South in broad daylight, robbing and harassing residents.

    They were however confronted by the police and there was a shootout which resulted in some of them sustaining gunshot wounds. Some still managed to escape with the wound, while five were arrested by the police.

    The two that were killed were among those that sustained the bullet wounds and while trying to escape were caught and burnt alive by the people.

    A resident who lives along Ekondo Street recounted, “It was like a war zone here, bullets were flying everywhere as the police and cultists engaged each other.

    “From Ekondo Street, Ebuka Street, King Duke Street, Abua Street, Nyong Edem Street, White House Street, up to Mayne Avenue and many other others in Calabar South it was a really terrifying experience. People were running helter-skelter to protect themselves from stray bullets.

    “It was complete pandemonium. The government should do something to check the activities of these cultists who seem to want to take control of this city. I actually commend the police for their response today, but something should be done to check this situation permanently.”

    Commissioner of Police in Cross River State, Hafiz Inuwa, in a text message Thursday said after received a distress call from residents, he deployed his men immediately to check the situation.

    He said five of them were arrested.