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  • PSC promotes Larmode, Mba, 8,914 others

    The Police Service Commission said it has approved the promotion of 8,916 senior Police Officers to their next substantive ranks to fill existing vacancies.

    Amongst those promoted is the Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba. He was promoted from the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police to Deputy Commissioner of Police.

    The Commission said the promotions were the high points of its 5th Plenary meeting held in Abuja on 26th and 27th March 2019 which was presided over by its Chairman, Musiliu Smith.

    Details of the promotion is contained in a statement in Abuja on Sunday by the Commission’s Spokesman, Ikechukwu Ani.

    It reads: “The Commission approved the promotion of three Commissioners of Police to the next rank of Assistant Inspectors General of Police. They are; Jona Jackson Mava; Olushola Babajide David and Titus Sumba Larmode.
    “The acting appointments of two Commissioners of Police were also confirmed. The beneficiaries are; Rudolf Echebi Obe, Works and Danladi B. Lalas, Air Wing.

    “71 Assistant Commissioners of Police were elevated to the next rank of Deputy Commissioners of Police and they include Ogundare D. Emmanuel; Alonge Adebowale; Augustina Nwuka Ogbodo; Ibrahim Abdullahi; Garba Ahmed; Uzuegbu Kanayo; Zubairu Abubakar; Vincent N. Nwajiofor (works), Polycarp Chilaka Dibia and Emeka Frank Mba, the Force Public Relations Officer.

    “102 Chief Superintendents of Police, CSPs, were also promoted to Assistant Commissioners of Police. They are ; Michael M. Masomene; Egbe Eko Edum; Onyeamu Akaeme Onyeamu; Dauda I. Ayuba; Chinedu C. Ugwu; Moses Gana; Victor Akongtender Bepeh; Aminu Musa; Danjuma Madugu; Promise Chinedu Udeh; Anthony Okon Placio; Ikechukwu E. Nwosu; Okey C. Nwabufo; Ayodeji A. Dagunduro; Kanu Kanu Okoronkwo (works); Agbo B. Usman (forensic); Mustapha A. Rufai; among others.”

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    The statement continues: “The Commission also promoted 487 Deputy Superintendents of Police to Superintendents. The new Superintendents of Police include Atiku Ibrahim, Personal Assistant to the acting Inspector General of Police; Florence Odewo; Ojo Abraham; Mohammed Idris and Abraham Ogedengbe.
    “1,165 Assistant Superintendents of Police, ASPs, were promoted to the next rank of Deputy Superintendents of Police, DSP, while 7086 Inspectors were elevated to Assistant Superintendents of Police.

    “Some of the new DSPs are: Chinemelum Bartholomew of the Complaints Response Unit, Force Headquarters, Abuja, Jeremiah Zumnan; Adewale Ajibuwa while Hope Nnah of Abia Command; Saviour Etetim made the list of the newly promoted Inspectors to ASPs.”

    The promotions according to the Commission will be conveyed through a letter to the Ag. IGP Mohammed Adamu on Monday, April 1, 2019.

    The letter is signed by the Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Commission, Nnamdi Maurice Mbaeri.

  • Police intercept bus laden with stolen PMS

    The police in Lagos on Sunday said they intercepted a Fiat bus laden with sacs of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) suspected to have been stolen.

    The recovery, according to spokesman Bala Elkana, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) was made on March 28, around 12:30pm at Canoe in Ejigbo.

    In a statement released Sunday afternoon, Elkana said policemen on anti-crime patrol led by Sergeant Sunday Joseph had suspected the bus with registration number LND825BC.

    The contrasting paints on the bus- Lagos commercial vehicles colour in front and blue at the back- was said to have aroused the suspicion of the policemen who drew closer to the vehicle to interrogate the occupants.

    But on sighting the policemen, Elkana said the three occupants jumped out of the vehicle running in different directions.

    “The policemen pursued them and caught up with one of them, Wasiu Oyewole of 3, Oluwaseyi Street, Agodo Egbe, Lagos. The other two escaped.

    “The suspect confessed that he and his cohorts loaded the bus with multiple sacs laden with PMS. He claimed further that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
    (NNPC) pipeline was bust in Owutu, Agric in Ikorodu where the products were loaded while their intended sales point was Ijegun.

    “Efforts are being made to track other accomplices who jumped off the vehicle on sighting the police. Meanwhile, NNPC officials have been contacted to decant the product.”

  • Police and the NSCDC officer’s death

    ON the surface, the order by the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, that a comprehensive investigation be carried out on the alleged murder of a Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) officer, Ogar Jumbo, should be applauded. But in fact it should not. Mr Jombo, an assistant superintendent, was allegedly clubbed to death by two police traffic wardens for a routine traffic offence. His wife and children were said to have witnessed the killing. But the police had claimed that the NSCDC officer slumped during interrogation, without saying why a traffic offence needed interrogation.

    Until investigations, which will include an autopsy, are concluded, no one can say categorically whether Mr Jombo was murdered by the police or not. But neither the government nor the police authorities had ever satisfactorily answered why a statutory law enforcement institution like the police constantly would need to be prodded or ordered to do their job. It should be routine. It is embarrassing to sustain a culture in which victims and other aggrieved persons petition the IGP to compel his subordinates to do their job. Even when there is a cover-up, higher authorities should not need to be coaxed to trigger remedial actions.

    Not many past IGPs have left a lasting impact on the police. If Mr Adamu is to leave a legacy, let him reform and restructure the police to enable them routinely do what is necessary at all times, discharging their constitutional mandates in such a way as to restore pride to an institution that has become the butt of jokes around the world. The country is tired of the display of mediocrity and inefficiency. The police should also be tired of the same lack of diligence and initiative in their establishment, especially the appalling cover-ups that seem to consistently foster the culture of bad policing. It is time the police restored pride in their service.

  • Police nabs kidnap syndicate, recover arms in Katsina

    The Katsina state Police command yesterday announced the arrest of a notorious Cattle rustling and kidnapping Syndicate, recovering in the process an AK 47 riffle with breech no. 1977. A press release which was signed by the Public relations Officer in the state Superintendent Gambo Isa, said the arrests was based on a tip off.

    He listed those arrested to include: Umar Usman alias “ORI”, aged 45, of Garin Dan -Gambo village, Rugu forest, Safana LGA, alleged to have been terrorizing Safana and Batsari LGAs of Katsina state.”In the course of investigation one AK 47 rifle with breech No. 1977 was recovered in his possession.  The suspect is assisting the police with useful information that may lead to the arrest of other members of his syndicate,” he said.

    In a related development, the State Command has also announced the recovery of one Ak 47 rifle breech no.89-11825 with two rounds of 7.62mm live ammunition, just as a fire wood cutter, one Aliyu Sani, aged 25 of Sabon Layi village, Faskari, was reported to have been attacked by armed bandits in the forest.

    The release further stated that the Police patrol team was immediately dispatched to the scene and engaged the hoodlums in a gun duel, with the team succeeding in dislodging them and recovering one AK.47 rifle with breech number 89-11825 and two rounds of 7.62mm live ammunition abandoned by the hoodlums.

    Also the Command arrested the duo of Sanusi Sani, aged 30 of Landan-Ketare village, Kankara LGA of Katsina state and one Bello Abdullahi,  aged 30 of the same address, who while armed with dangerous weapons, blocked Tashar Kawu – Unguwar Zaki feeder road, Kankara and robbed one Abbas Halilu, aged 25 of Bada’u village, Kankara of his Techno Handset valued at ten thousand naira  and another unregistered motorcycle Bajaj valued one hundred and eighty thousand naira (180,000:00K) after beating him to a state of coma.

    The release disclosed that In the course of investigation, the suspects confessed to have sold the motorcycle at the cost of one hundred thousand (N100,000:00K) in Kano state, and also  confessed to other series of armed robbery incidents, terrorizing Kankara and its environs.

    The PPPRO assured that all the arrested suspects will be diligently prosecuted in a law court.

     

     

  • Tensions in A’Ibom as Policemen kill NURTW chairman

    There is palpable tension in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital following the gruesome murder of the Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Comrade Ubong Udo Udofia, by angry Policemen.

    Udofia, 45, a.k.a ‘Evolution’, was said to have been killed by four policemen who used to hit him after trying unsuccessfully to kill him through direct shooting.

    Narrating her ordeal at their home at 179, Ikpa Road, Afaha Oku, Uyo, the state capital on Friday, the distraught wife, Margareth, fighting back tears, explained that her husband met his untimely death when minor argument with a Policeman resulted in full blown brawl.

    “I was just returning from the market when I was called suddenly to witness what happened to my husband. When I got to the place, my husband was already gasping for breath until he gave up in my present”.

    According to her, “a Policeman had parked his car and was loading passengers near the Itam motor park, when members of the task force working for my husband accosted him and directed that he should enter the park and load so others should not join”.

    The Policeman, on mufti, she added, resisted and the task force members demanded for the car key and he refused. The car, it was gathered, was pushed into the park on the orders for the deceased to adjudicate on the matter.

    “My husband was inside another vehicle waiting for the car owner, not knowing he had called four of his colleagues, who arrived, and immediately opened fire but when the bullets could not get at him, they resorted to using gun butts to club him till he became unconscious.

    “Several other Policemen attached to construction firm, Julius Berger, were called for more reinforcement and more sporadic shooting followed leading to people scampering for safety including the task force officers,” she explained.

    Mrs. Udofia, who lamented over what would become of her nine children left behind with the death of her husband, called the Inspector General of Police (IGP), the state Police Command and the government of governor Udom Emmanuel, to ensure justice was done in the case.

    “We have nine children to take care of and the eldest is just 15 and none has entered the university yet. So my appeal is that my husband should not die in vain because all the evidence point to deliberate and premeditated murder because my husband and the task force members did not beat the Policeman.

    “All they did was just to direct him to comply with the regulation of loading in the park and not constitute road nuisance by loading on the road side because touting is illegal in Akwa Ibom.

    “Luckily, one of the Policemen who participated in my husband’s death was trying to escape from the scene and unfortunately for him, his identity card fell off his shirt and was picked up as evidence on the scene.

    “The name of the Policeman is Sergeant Nwafor Silas, from Ebonyi State Police Command and attached to Julius Berger with service number; 425015”, she said.

    Disturbed by the incident, it was gathered that NURTW officials were poised for protest, even as angry youths of Afaha Oku, were said to have plotted a reprisal attack.

    The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Itam Division, CSP Francis Irabor, who visited the deceased at the God’s Own Hospital, Park Road, before he died, promised full scale investigation into the matter, assuring that appropriate punishment would be meted on the culprits.

    Besides, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Odike Macdon, confirmed the incident but could not ascertain whether any reprisal attacks were in the offing.

    The truth of the matter, he assured would be known at the end of the investigations, even as he appealed to the people not to take the laws into their own hands.

    The remains of the late task force chair, according to the family have been deposited at the Etang Ekak Mortuary along IBB Way, Uyo.

  • Man kidnapped on his wedding day in Nasarawa

    The last two weeks have witnessed serial kidnappings and murder in Nasarawa state, especially in Nasarawa local government, as one Kamilu Dalhatu of Bursery Department of the Federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa was kidnapped alongside three of his friends on his wedding day.

    They were kidnapped on Saturday, 16th March, 2019 on their way to Nasarawa from Udege-Mbeki having attended the wedding ceremony. They were later released after their families paid an undisclosed amount to the abductors as ransom.

    In a related development, Alhaji Jibrin M. Usman, the Managing Director, Nasarawa Micro Finance Bank, also in Nasarawa local government was kidnapped at his Marmara residence on Sunday, 24th March, 2019. He, like others, was released after payment of an undisclosed amount to his abductors.

    A newly wedded man by the name Shuaibu Owuna was reportedly murdered in cold blood by unknown gunmen on his way to Nasarawa from Onda. He was said to have wedded last Saturday, 23rd March, 2019 at Onda, his community.

    Similarly, gunmen on Wednesday attacked vehicles along the busy AkwangaAkwanga-Akwanga-Keffi expressway kidnapping four women in the process.

    Chairman of Correspondents’ Chapel of Nigeria Union of Journalists in Nasarawa State, Suleiman Abubakar’s wife, Yahanasu Abubakar, was among those kidnapped.

    Suleiman told newsmen that the incident happened around 7:00 p.m. along Gudi-Garaku road in Akwanga Local Government Area of the state.

    He further disclosed that negotiations for the release of the women was ongoing as the kidnappers have demanded for N5 million ransom.

  • Anambra woman begs husband’s kidnappers with N9,000 ransom

    A middle-year old man was reportedly kidnapped in Okpoko, Ogbaru local government area of Anambra state.

    The victim, simply identified as Chikodili, was abducted in the wee hours at his residence in No. 65 Nwokedi street.

    The Nation gathered that the abductors, numbering three, had stormed the area and whisked the victim away.

    A resident who preferred anonymity said the wife pleaded for his release, saying she was willing to offer the sum of N9,000 as her “widow’s mite”.

    He said the suspects had accepted the offer which she had gone to get when they took her husband away.

    The Nation however learnt that the victim was taken to a nearby bush from where the abductors intended to take him to an unknown destination before they were apprehended by the community’s vigilante.

    Leader of the vigilante group in the area, Mr. Okpala Victor, confirmed the incident, saying the suspects have been arrested.

    He said the suspects were apprehended inside the bush following a tip-off.

    He said, “The vigilante group stormed the bush, freed the victim and arrested the trio suspects who are now at the Police station.

    “The Police have assured us they would be charged to court immediately.”

    Reacting, President General of the community, Edwin Emesinwa, applauded the vigilante for the feat, describing the security outfit as the best in the state.

    He said, “Since my assumption of office about a year now the community sleeps with two eyes closed.

    “Those saying criminals have taken over the community are the criminals themselves.”

  • Police: kidnappers on the prowl in Plateau

    Plateau State Police Command has alerted residents that kidnappers have stormed the state.

    It advised them to be vigilant and report suspicious movements and people to the nearest police station.

    A statement in Jos to reporters yesterday by spokesman Terna Tyopev, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), reads: “The Plateau State Police Command wishes to inform the public of a new trend of crime in the state. Criminals now go into people’s homes to kidnap.

    “The command is using this medium to assure the public that everything is being done to track these criminals. It has been established that the kidnappers are not far from the communities and we have got the profiles of some of them through our intelligence network. They will soon meet their Waterloo.

    “The commissioner of police urges the affected families to share their information with the police, no matter the threat from the kidnappers. He assures them that such information will be treated with confidentiality.

    “The command, in its drive to rid the state of crimes, has arrested a notorious criminal, Daniel Useini, male, of Rukuba Road, Jos, who has been on the wanted list for criminal conspiracy and armed robbery.

    “The suspect was arrested on March 26 with one locally made revolver pistol with 10 rounds of live ammunition and 15 rounds of rubber ammunition. Investigation is on. The public shall be briefed at the appropriate time.

    “The command enjoins the public to be security conscious and report any suspicious movement to the police. They are advised to volunteer information to the police, to serve them better.”

     

  • Policemen allegedly kill man over N200 bribe in Lagos

    Policemen on Thursday morning allegedly killed a motorcyclist identified as Ademola Moshood in Surulere, Lagos Mainland for refusal to part with N200.

    The incident was said to have occurred few blocks away from the victims’ house at the wee hours of Thursday at Kilo.

    It was gathered that the policemen involved in the alleged murder were attached to Soloki Police Station, Surulere with two of their names given as AK, Patrick.

    According to a witness, the policemen were on patrol when they sighted and stopped the deceased by Kilo Bus Stop in a bid to extort him.

    A resident alleged that when Ademola refused to part with the usual N200 bribe on ground that he had closed business for the day and was homebound, one of the cops, an Inspector, went close to him, placed his gun on the man’s head and shot him.

    They were said to have fled the scene with the man’s motorcycle, abandoning his body on the ground after shooting him dead.

    It was gathered that residents who witnessed the incident stormed the police station in Aguda in protest and sighted the culprits who hid behind a van.

    They demanded justice, insisting that those involved be charged with murder.

    Police spokesman Bala Elkana, a Deputy Superintendent (DSP) said the Commissioner Zubairu Muazu had ordered that the culprits be detained and tried.

    “A petition was sent to the CP on the matter and he has ordered that those involved be detained and tried,” he said.

  • Gunmen kidnap four women in Nasarawa

    Gunmen on Wednesday attacked vehicles along the busy Akwanga-Akwanga-Keffi expressway kidnapping four women in the process.

    Chairman of Correspondents’ Chapel of Nigeria Union of Journalists in Nasarawa State, Suleiman Abubakar’s wife, Yahanasu Abubakar, was among those kidnapped.

    Suleiman told newsmen that the incident happened around 7:00 p.m. along Gudi-Garaku road in Akwanga Local Government Area of the state.

    According to him, the gunmen shot at the union bus they were travelling in from Keffi, where his wife had gone to register at the National Youth Service Corps orientation camp.

    He said the bus ran into a ditch after it was shot at which gave the gunmen the opportunity to abduct his wife, the wife of a former state assembly member, who was on the bus as well as two other women from another vehicle.

    Meanwhile, ASP Samaila Usman, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, said the command had mobilised officers to the area to search and rescue the abducted women.