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The Police Command in Kaduna State, said its operatives have rescued a kidnap victim, a housewife in the early hours of yesterday.

The command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Mansur Hassan, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Kaduna.

Hassan said: “At about 0100hrs on Sunday, our operatives received a call that a group of armed men not yet ascertained invaded a house at Dogarawa area of Sabon Gari Zaria Local Government.

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“The kidnappers kidnapped a house wife aged 37, at the residence “On receiving the call our team of patrol rushed to the scene and pursued the criminals. Due to our fire power superiority, they abandoned the kidnapped victim, which led to her rescue.”

He said the kidnapped victim had been reunited with her family unhurt .

Hassan said investigation was ongoing, while efforts were also intensified to arrest the fleeing suspects to face the full wrath of law.

He appealed for timely and useful information for proactive measures.

Operatives of the Enugu State Police Command have arrested a young man, Somadina Orji, for allegedly killing his mother, Mrs. Charity Orji, and his sister, Miss Ukamaka Orji.

The suspect allegedly buried the deceased in a shallow grave at their backyard in their home at Umuagu Inyi, in Oji River Local Government of Enugu State.

The 25-year-old suspect, who hails from Igbariam in Anambra State, was said to have committed the offence on December 4, at Umuagu Inyi, in Oji River Local Government of Enugu State.

According to reports and videos of the incident, the late Charity, an indigene of Inyi, but married in Igbariam, Anambra State, had been living in her family house with her children for some years.

Unfortunately, her son, who allegedly was into hard drugs and had been having issues with her for some time, killed her.

A community leader at Inyi, Mr. Ben Obi, who spoke to reporters, said problems started weeks ago when the suspect quarrelled with his younger brother.

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“Somadina had wanted to hit his younger brother before Charity, their mother, stopped him. She promptly reported the incident to their kinsmen, asking them to come and chase him away from the house because he wanted to kill the younger brother.

“Before all this started happening, the younger sister of Somadina was already missing. For two weeks, nobody saw her or knew her whereabouts.

“We learnt that their mother went for a condolence visit at Akpugoeze, and when she returned in the afternoon, the son, Somadina, killed and buried her in a shallow grave in their backyard.

“When the younger brother came back and was looking for their mother, he suspected something was wrong and raised the alarm.

“The villagers gathered at the compound and upon interrogation, Somadina confessed that he had killed his mother.

“He also confessed that he killed the missing younger sister some weeks ago.

“The confession left the entire village devastated that something like this happened without anyone of us tracing it,” Obi said.

The community leader said when the police were invited, the remains of the mother and the sister were exhumed and deposited at the mortuary, and the suspect was arrested.

He said Charity, until her death, sold ‘fufu’ to feed her family.

Confirming the incident yesterday, police spokesperson DSP Daniel Ndukwe said the suspect had been arrested and investigation was on.

He said after investigation, he would be arraigned.

The police have given insight into how the 18-year-old undergraduate of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU,) Ile-Ife, Osun State, was murdered.

The student, Quadri Salami, was last seen on November 8 by the family. His father reported at the Kemta Divisional Police Headquarters, Ogun State, on November 14. His body was however discovered in a shallow grave on December 6, with the head and wrists missing.

One Akeem Usman, who was in possession of the victim’s phone, has since been arrested. His arrest led to the arrest of another, Ifadowo Niyi, and investigations have shown that both of them slaughtered Quadri.

A statement by spokesperson of the Kemta Divisional Police Headquarters, Omolola Odutola, reads: “The Ogun State Police Command has unravelled the disappearance of one Quadri Salami (18), an 100-level student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, whose father reported him missing at Kemta Police station, on November 14.

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“The Commissioner of Police, Alamutu Abiodun, on December 6, personally led a team of Tactical Squad to Mile 6 in Ajebo area of Abeokuta, to a shallow grave to exhume the decomposing body after a tracking clue beamed on one Akeem Usman who was arrested for being in possession of the victim’s phone. He implicated one Ifadowo Niyi (m) that both of them committed the crime.

“Ifadowo bought Quadri’s head and wrists for N100,000. The suspects thereafter continued to sell the victim’s other body parts on demand to internet fraudsters and buried the heart, legs and flesh inside a plastic rubber for rituals. They also used the remaining parts for Awure, a crime against humanity.

“The suspects, in their confessional statement, admitted to have used four other human heads for money rituals known as Osole. They are now in Eleweran at SCID for continuation of discreet investigations and will be prosecuted.

“The CP is committed to ensuring that justice is served, and will continue to investigate further to bring all perpetrators to face the full extent of the Law.”

Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested five suspects in connection with the recent robbery attacks and killings in some parts of the state, particularly at the Gateway Polytechnic, Saapade.

The command said it recovered two Lexus cars stolen during recent robberies.

Police Commissioner Abiodun Alamutu made this known yesterday while speaking about the security situation across the state.

Suspected hoodlums recently invaded communities hosting students of the Gateway Polytechnic, Saapade in Remo North Local Government, robbed and shot some of the students.

Alamutu said operatives of the command in Remo North Division received a distress call on December 2 about 3am that robbers were on the rampage in their community, adding that the Divisional Police Officer and his men responded to the call, met a group of robbers and there was an exchange of gunfire between the police and the armed men.

He said in their bid to escape, the robbers shot at four students, who were walking along the road and made away with a Lexus car they had snatched at gunpoint from another student.

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Alamutu said one of the victims of gunshots died on the way to hospital, while the three others were treated and discharged.

He said the police later tracked the stolen Lexus car to Oke Itoku area of Abeokuta where it was recovered.

He said another Lexus car, discovered to have been snatched at Ajuwon by the same gang, was also recovered.

The CP said some members of the gang were later arrested through intelligence gathering, while a member of another gang that robbed people of their phone at gunpoint was also nabbed.

“He had escaped into the bush upon the arrival of policemen on the scene, but was later fished out with the help of the indigenes. As we speak, about eight police patrol teams now operate within the area,” Alamutu added.

• Firearms recovered

The Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command, CP Haruna Garba, has warned against any form of disturbance of public peace, unlawful assembly and criminal infiltration of lawful assembly within the FCT.

He gave the warning yesterday while confirming the arrest of five suspects in connection with the attempted  infiltration of the November 30, 2023 National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) convention to disrupt the process.

The suspects were promptly intercepted by security operatives, some of whom were handed over to the Police by the Department of State Services (DSS).

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The suspects are: Adeniran Femi, Ishaya Christopher, Obigi Emeka, Fatokun Ayodele and Abdullahi Saliu.

Exhibits recovered from them include a pump action gun, one locally made double barrel shotgun, two locally made pistol, one baretta pistol, 15 live ammunition, cartridges, an axe, 12 cutlasses, mobile phones, bag containing uniforms of security agencies and a Mazda car with registration number RBC909DP, which contains some of the exhibits.

According to a statement issued by the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, investigation is being intensified while efforts are ongoing to arrest other suspects still at large.

Adeh said the suspects would be charged to court on conclusion of investigations.