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  • Police nab man who threatened to blow up Atiku’s plane 

    …Used stolen phone to threaten Atiku, wife, daughter

    …Speaks fluent English, Ibibio, Russian and Portuguese languages

     

     

    The Nigeria Police Force on Wednesday paraded a 43 year old man suspected to have made scary threats asking former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to either withdraw from the 2019 presidential race or have his plane blown up mid-air.

    According to police spokesman, Jimoh Moshood, an Acting Deputy Commissioner of Police, the suspect named Augustus Akpan allegedly used a stolen phone to explicitly threaten wife and daughters of the former Vice President with rape.

    Akpan who hails from Edemaya village, Ikot Abasi LGA, Akwa Ibom State was arrested while fleeing to Lagos was also said to have extorted huge sums of Naira and foreign currencies from unnamed high profile citizens, with false claims of being a US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) operative.

    The police spokesman further said that the suspect who speaks fluent English, Ibibio, Russian and Portuguese languages is to remain in police custody until investigations are concluded and he is arraigned in court.

    “On the receipt of complaint of threat and intimidation from former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, GCON, the forty three years old Augustus Akpan was trailed and eventually arrested by the IGP Intelligence Response Team.

    “The suspect, Augustus Akpan was arrested at toll-gate along Lagos-Ibadan express way, Lagos State, while on the run to escape arrest; during interrogation, he confessed to the crime and admitted that he resorted to the threat and intimidation when all efforts to extort money from the former Vice President were unsuccessful.

    “The suspect, Augustus Akpan also admitted in his confessional statement that he is a professional fraudster and not working for any political party, that his mention that ‘Let Buhari run against your against your PDP members’ in his threat message to the former Vice President was merely to divert attention.

    “The suspect is fluent in English, Ibibio, Russian and Portuguese languages respectively; the phone and the SIM card he used for the threat and intimidation were recovered from him and were discovered to have been robbed by him from a lady (name withheld) who identified him as the person that robbed her few months back.

    “The suspect, Augustus Akpan further confessed that he had threatened, defrauded and extorted huge sum of money in Naira and foreign currency from so many prominent personalities and their family members while posing as a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent,” Jimoh Moshood stated.

     

    THE THREAT TEXT MESSAGES (AS DISCLOSED BY POLICE)

    i.      Text Message to Fmr Vice President, Alh. Atiku Abubakar GCON

    “ Turaki Atiku, we are watching you and your family, we ask you right now to withdraw from the race for Presidency , we will kill, rape your wife and daughters. That your ambitious and black daughter Maryam who worked at CBN and left because we were going to mess her up. We will molest, rape, deform her and kill her. Your daughter Fatimah the former Commissioner of Health in Adamawa State, we have a lot of information about her. Also pictures of her naked body, we will mess your overly prostitute wife Jennifer up. We have a lot about. Let Buhari run against your against your PDP members. We know that you are bigger than all those candidates in PDP. That is why we need you to step down. We will blow your plane off from the sky and we will poison you and your family. Atiku Abubakar, take our words for granted and watch what will happen to your family before you. You are going to see what we will do to you and your family. We know where and where your children travel to. We have watched your daughter who is a strong supporter of her father (your daughter Maryam) at number 5, Buzi close and number 5, Lake Maracaibo close”.

    ii .     Text Message to Wife of Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar GCON

    “Jennifer. Tell your husband to step down. We will blow up his plane and kill all of you his family. We will rape you and all his daughters and also kill all of you out there. Do not underestimate us. We know your office at 13 Danube Street Maitama. We will blow up the place and rape all your step daughters that we know you don’t like already . Tell him to step down now and forget about running for the presidency’’

    iii .    Text Message to Daughter of Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar GCON, Rukaiya Atiku

    “Tell your dad to step down. He should forget about the Presidency. If he refuses, we will blow up his plane the Gulf Stream from the sky and also rape you and kill of his daughters. No amount of Police or protection will stop us. We know where all of you live in. We know number 5 Buzi close and number 5, Lake Maracaibo close. Try us and blood shall spread.’’

  • Police arrest three armed robbers in Kano

    Police arrest three armed robbers in Kano

    Police in Kano Wednesday arrested three armed robbers after a robbery gang attacked lodgers at Tower hotels located along Igbo/Aba Road in the Sabon Gari area  of the state.

    The Kano state Police spokesman, DSP Musa Magaji Majia confirmed the robbery incident, saying, “three of them have been arrested and investigation is still ongoing to get to the root of the matter.”

    According sources, the robbers who had targeted an ATM machine close to the hotel, invaded the place at the wee hours of the morning and robbed lodgers of their money and other belongings.

    Luck, however, ran out on them when the security guard at the hotel engaged one of them in a scuffle that resulted to the shooting of the security guard.

    A distress call to the police, however, paid off as a team of police men dispatched from the Bomapai police Command trailed the robbers who were moving in two cars to Katsina Road and engaged them in a gun duel that resulted in the arrest of three of them.

     

  • Tension in Edo community over rape, killing of two women

    Tension in Edo community over rape, killing of two women

    There is tension in Ewu community, Esan Central local government area over last week killing of two elderly women by suspected herdsmen.

     

    The women were also found to have been raped before they were killed.

     

    Their bodies were found in their various farms by a search party when they did not return home.

     

    Names of the deceased were given as Christiana Ikheloa and Fatima Emoyon.

     

    Daughter of one of the deceased who gave her name as Patience Emoyon said cows were seen in the place where her mother’s corpse was found.

     

    She said her mother was found stone dead.

     

    Son of Christiana, Robert, said the person that picked his mother’s cell phone spoke Hausa language.

     

    He urged the state government to fish out the killers and rapists.

     

    Police spokesman, DSP Moses Nkombe, confirmed the incident but said he was not aware if any person has been arrested.

  • Lifeless body found in Ondo hotel room

    Lifeless body found in Ondo hotel room

    A middle-aged man whose name was simply called ‘Adegbite’ has been found dead in a room in one of the hotels in Ondo town, Ondo state.

    Although, the cause of his death has remained unknown at press time, it was reliably gathered that the deceased said to be an Engineer is reportedly a close friend to the proprietor of the hotel who is said to be a politician.

    Sources said before the incident, the deceased had lodged inside one of the rooms, before his lifeless body was later discovered late in the night on the fateful day.

    The discovery of his lifeless body was said to have made possible when the owner of the hotel came back later in the night and went straight to the room where he lodged apparently to see him.

    The news of the deceased has continued to generate controversy as people of the community particularly those residing where the incident occurred who were seen gathered in group discussing the development in hushed tone.

    They expressed divergent opinions on what could cause the the incident.

    The information on the death of the deceased Engineer brought spontaneous reactions as people believed to be his relatives suspected foul play and rushed to the hotel to express their shock on his sudden death.

    When contacted, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of Enuowa Divisional Police station, Kunle Omisakin was said to have been on transfer.

    A senior police officer who preferred anonymity confirmed the report, adding that the remains of the deceased had been deposited at the morgue of the Ondo state Specialist Hospital in Ondo town.

    According to him, the report on the incident has been sent to the appropriate section at the Ondo State Police Command headquarters, Akure.

    The Police Spokesman, Femi Johnson could not be reached for comments.