Student Union Government (SUG) President of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Oluwadamilola Peter Edema and 18 others detained at the Oyo State Police Command headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan have been released.
The students, according to the command’s spokesman, Adekunle Ajisebutu, were arrested last Friday for assaulting policemen, breach of public peace and invasion.
But the students claimed that they were at the command to bail two of their colleagues, who were wrongly arrested.
Edema and Treasurer Mariam Anifowose confirmed the release.
The students did not give details of their ordeal and the conditions in which they were released.
Ajisebutu said they were released, following the school’s intervention.
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Police release 19 arrested students
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Police arrest man for allegedly hacking mother to death
Osun Police Command says it has arrested a man who allegedly killed his 85-year-old mother with a machete.
The police spokesperson in Osun, Folashade Odoro, said in a statement in Osogbo that the suspect, allegedly machete his mother, Mrs Taibat Ayiola, to death at Akinleye Village near Osu on Friday.
“The reason for the killing is yet to be ascertained because the suspect has not given any reasonable cause for his action.
“The corpse of the victim had been deposited at the OAU Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife for autopsy while the case is under investigation,” said the police spokesperson.
Similarly, the police in Osun said it had arrested a 45-year-old man in Ikirun on Thursday for allegedly killing a man who bought a piece of land from him.
The police said the man was killed when he asked for a refund. (NAN)
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Two suspects arrested over alleged robbery of bishop
The Nasarawa State Police command has arrested two men, Mohammed Abdullahi and Abdullahi Ibrahim, for allegedly robbing the Anglican Bishop of Nasarawa Diocese, Rev. Miller Maza.
Maza was robbed alongside 17 other clergymen on JAN. 27.
The Spokesman of the command, Mr Kennedy Idirisu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lafia that the suspects were arrested at a military check along the Keffi-Gitata highway.
He said the suspects were arrested while driving a Toyota Highlander jeep belonging to the bishop.
Kennedy said that the suspects and four others still at large had on Jan. 27 robbed the bishop and other clergymen at about 3 a.m. at Star Guest House in New Karu, Nasarawa State where they lodged.
He said the suspected armed robbers dispossessed the clergymen of their valuables, including cash, mobile phones and the vehicle.
The spokesman said that preliminary investigation revealed that the suspects were taking the vehicle to Kaduna State for sale before luck ran out on them.
According to Idrisu, the suspects have confessed to the crime and have given useful information to the police regarding their operations along the Mararaba-Karu highway.
He said that the police were on the trail of the fleeing suspects, noting that the suspects would soon be prosecuted.
Idrisu also disclosed that one of the suspects had been arrested for a similar crime last year and was granted bail by a court
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Gunmen attack Kogi police station, kill two policemen, detainee
Some gunmen in the early hours of Friday, attacked a police station at Eika community in Okehi Local Government Area of Kogi, killing two policemen and a detainee.
The News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) gathered that the bandits invaded the police station at about 1 am and immediately opened fire on policemen on duty, killing them, alongside a detainee
The heavily armed hoodlums, said to be about 10, later set the station ablaze and proceeded to the house of Mr Sadiq Obomi, Chairman, Eika Community Development Association, and killed him.
The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Abdulahi Chafe, confirmed the incident , promising to provide details later.
However, a resident of Eika community who is also a member of a local vigilante group, told NAN that the gunmen came in two vehicles and started shooting into the air as they made their way to the police station.
He said that the gunmen later escaped after the operation, which he said, lasted almost two hours.
Security men have been deployed to the community to maintain peace. ( NAN)
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Corrupt uniformed men to blame for high cost of food items- Minister
Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has blamed rising cost of food items on corrupt practices of men of the Nigeria Police, Nigeria Army, and Nigeria Customs Service.Ogbeh told stunned members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture that the extortionist practices of the uniformed operatives especially at the numerous check points and ports was responsible for the acute hunger in the land.The minister spoke at the 2017 budget defence of his ministry.He noted that despite having written formally to the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, Comptroller General of Customs, Hameed Ali and other heads of security agencies against the unhealthy situation, the fraudulent practices remained unabated.Ogbeh said: “One of the factors responsible for the high cost of food items is the daily unbearable extortions men of the Nigeria Police, their counterpart in the Army and Customs Service visit on truck drivers conveying farm produce from the hinterland to urban centres under the guise of carrying out security checks.“These truck drivers based on raw lamentations made to the Ministry in recent time, alleged that at every check points, they are always forced to part with reasonable amount of money by any group of the security agencies, which they said, made farmers to have no option than to factor cost of the extortion into prices of the food items”.Ogbe also listed other factors that affect government’s agricultural policies including high cost of diesel which now sells for N300 per litre .He noted that because trucks conveying farm produce are powered by diesel, the cost of diesel affect the cost of the produce.He also said that the treaty on free movement of goods and services put in place by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) among member states, paved the way for movement of not less than 300,000 trucks of grains outside Nigeria on daily.The Ministry of Agriculture, he said, cannot check such huge movement of grains outside the country..He assured that the federal government would soon reduce prices of food items following the Presidential committee set up to that effect.He however said that farmers were already kicking against the move to reduce the prices of food items.Ogbeh noted that farmers were angry with him over the move to reduce prices of food items because they see the subsisting situation as very favourable economically to them.He said: “The situation on ground as far as high prices of food items are concerned is one of a dilemma to me because while the city dwellers are unhappy with us, farmers are very happy and seriously kicking against any move to tamper with their happiness by cutting down the high price of farm produce for now.”The Minister said one of such farmers asked him recently in Katsina not to tamper with the present price of food items.The farmer, he said, claimed that he made N4 million from the sales of Sorghum which had catapulted him from the realm of poverty to that of affluence.He said that another farmer in Anambra state claimed to have made N1 million profit from sales of rice as a result of the current market price.Ogbeh told the committee that his Ministry’s 2017 budget would be driven by the need for food security in the country. -
Retired banker, 60, arrested for assault
The police, on Thursday in Lagos, arraigned a retired banker, Femi Fasoranti, before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly assaulting his younger sister.
Fasoranti, 60, a resident of No. 22, Road 4, Omolayo, Akobo, Ibadan, Oyo State is facing a two-count charge of assault and breach of peace.
The Police Prosecutor, Insp Peter Nwangwu, told the court that the accused committed the offences on Dec. 26, 2016 at about 4.30 p.m. at No. 158, Adekunle Fajuyi Road, G.R.A Ikeja, Lagos.
Nwangwu said that the accused assaulted the complainant, Mrs Racheal Olatunbosun, by threatening and beating her to a pulp.
He said that the accused and the complainant went for a wedding at Ibadan, Oyo State, and an argument ensued between them at the venue.
He said the complainant alleged that the accused was a fraudster, who sold their mother’s house without the family’s consent.
The prosecutor said the accused suddenly pounced on the complainant, slapped and beat her and also destroyed her gold jewellery valued N350,000.
Nwangwu said Fasoranti also threatened to deal with her sister, hence the report to the police.
The prosecutor said the offences contravened Sections 166 and 170 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2011.
The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The Magistrate, Mrs Y.O. Aje-Afunwa, granted the accused bail in the sum of N200,000, with one surety, whose address must be verified by the court.
Aje-Afunwa also ruled that the surety must be a blood relation, gainfully employed with two years tax payment to the Lagos State Government.
She adjourned the case till March 8
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iPhone theft: Police fail to produce Egbegbe in court
The trial of movie marketer, Seun Egbegbe, alleged to have stolen nine iPhones from a shop in Computer Village, Lagos, was stalled on Wednesday at an Ikeja Magistrate owing to the failure of the Police to produce the defendant in court.Although, Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Y.O. Aje-Afunwa had set the date for commencement of trial, but neither the Police nor the defendant were in court for the proceedings.A Police source however told journalists that the suspect’s failure to appear in court was because he is still in Police custody over alleged foreign exchange scam committed at Gbagada last week.The movie marketer was arraigned before Chief Magistrtate (Mrs) Aje-Afunwa in November last year for allegedly stealing nine I-Phones from a company, Kaaltex Innovation Consultancy situated at the computer Village, IkejaThe police had arraigned Egbegbe on a one-count charge bordering on stealing.
The police, in the charge preferred against Egbegbe stated that the stolen iPhones were worth N2.4m.The charge reads, “That you, Oluwaseun Olasunkami, on November 22, 2016, at about 9am, at 9, Simbiat Abiola Way, Ikeja, in the Ikeja Magisterial District, did steal nine iPhone 6s, valued at N2,400,000, property of one Kaaltex Innovation Consutancy, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 278 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.”Egbegbe had pleaded not guilty to the one-count charge preferred against him by the Police. He was granted bail in the sum of N1 million and two sureties in the like sum.Meanwhile, Chief Magistrate Aje-Afunwa has fixed April 12, 2017 for the trial. -
Nursing mother ‘slashes rival’s breast with razor blade’
The police have accused a nursing mother, Tina Promise, of slashing her rival’s face and breast with a razor blade.
The police said Tina, a mother of three including a three-month-old baby, suspected that her lover was also dating a cleaner at Eko Hotel, Esther Onogwu.
It alleged that on Monday at about 9:20pm on a street on Victoria Island, Lagos, Tina, 28, accosted Onogwu, 22, on the suspicion that her lover was in Onogwu’s home and attacked her with the blade.
Tina, of No. 71b, Molade Okoya Thomas Street, Victoria Island, was arraigned Wednesday before Magistrate A. F. Botoku of an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos on a one-count charge of unlawful assault.
Prosecuting Sergeant Francesca Job told the court that the defendant committed the alleged offence on February 6, 2017, at about 9:20pm.
Responding to a question from Magistrate Botoku, Job said: “On the day of the incident the victim was on her way home after close of work when the defendant approached her and demanded for the key to her room. Onogwu asked who the defendant was and why she needed the key to her house, but the defendant suddenly brought out a razor blade and started cutting her on her head and left breast.”
“She then tried to leave but passersby apprehended her and asked her to take the victim to the hospital for treatment, but she refused, saying she didn’t have money to pay for the treatment.”
It was the passersby, Job said, that took Onogwu to the Bar Beach Police Station from where she was taken to a hospital.”
According to the prosecutor the alleged offence was punishable under Section 244 (a) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
Tina denied the charge and Magistrate Botoku granted her N200,000 bail with one surety in the like sum.
She adjourned the case till March 1.
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N15m Fraud: Our lives under threat, Ondo lawmakers cry out
Following the impeachment of the Speaker, Ondo State House of Assembly, Mrs. Jumoke Akindele, Deputy Speaker, Fatai Olotu and Majority Leader, Ifedayo Akinsoyinu, over alleged N15 million fraud scandal, some members of the assembly have alleged threat to their lives.
The immediate cause of the Speaker’s impeachment, on Friday, January 27, 2016, was the Assembly’s paymaster and ally of the Speaker, Mr. Makanjuola Adesina, who was caught with N15 million in cash at the Assembly Complex.
Mr. Adesina was said to have confessed that he was holding the money for Mrs. Akindele.
Addressing journalist in Ibadan Wednsday, the spokesperson of the Assembly, Mr Iroju Ogundeji who was accompanied by the Acting Speaker, Mr Malachi Coker and other 11 lawmakers who signed the impeachment of the erstwhile speaker, Iroju said they ran down to Ibadan because they have been receiving series of text messages and calls from unknown person threatening their lives if they do not reverse the impeachment of the former speaker.
Iroju called on the Inspector General of Police and the State Commissioner of Police to provide adequate security for them and protect their families.
He also urged the State Commissioner of Police to immediately withdraw security aides attached to the impeached Speaker since she is no more the speaker, adding that all heads of the security agencies in the state should also withdraw their men from Mrs. Akindele.
“20 out of 26 members signed the notice of impeachment. The impeachment has come to stay and there is no going back on it because the members that carried out the impeachment formed the 2/3 majority of the State House of Assembly,” he said.
Iroju also accused the State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko of backing the impeached Speaker, adding that he has been calling each of them and playing a divide and rule tactics.
“The executive arm has been interfering in the impeachment of the speaker which ought not to be so because we are an independent body. Both Mrs Akindele and Olotu should have been impeached last year March for high-handedness but Governor Mimiko intervened and assisted her to escape impeachment.
“We are not against Governor Mimiko but we are against corruption. These principal officers of the house has committed an offence and they must go,” he said.
He also disclosed that the impeached speaker has approached the court to obtain an injunction stopping her impeachment but the court declined her and adjourned the case till March 6, 2017.
Similarly, the new Majority leader, Mr Olamide George said the impeached speaker claimed to have used the N15 million for the execution of the assembly project, but challenged her to produce the contractor and identify the project.
“The impeachment of Mrs Akindele and others have nothing to do with the new governor coming into office and it is not All Progressive Congress (APC) that is using us as it is been speculated in some quarters. APC has nothing to do with this. Those of us that are People’s Democratic Party (PDP) members are not thinking of crossing to APC. We shall remain and stay in PDP. We are in control of the house now because we have the Maze of office and other instrument of office,” he said.
George called on all well-meaning indigenes of Ondo State to prevail on the impeached officers to allow peace reign in the state and allow the Assembly to work.
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My 33 years in the police, by ex-AIG Ajakaiye
Chief Ade Ajakaiye retired from the Police Force in February 2008, as an Assistant Inspector General of Police in-charge of Zone 6, Calabar, which covers Cross Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Ebonyi and Rivers states. He spoke with TAYO JOHNSON on his experience in the police and other issues.
Experience in the police
As a junior officer, I worked as Divisional Police Officer in many stations in the old Oyo State and as a Chief Superintendent of Police. I served in the Force Headquarter then in Lagos in the public relations department. And I really enjoyed it because initially that is where I wanted to serve in Nigeria Police. I served also in Zone 5 in Edo State as Deputy Commissioner in the operations department. I served in Kano State too as Deputy Commissioner in the command and I served in Lagos and Borno states as Commissioner of Police, and as AIG I served in Zone 9 Umuahia covering Akwa Ibom, Cross Rivers and Ebonyi and Rivers states. I served also in Zone 8 Lokoja and Zone 6 Calabar where I retired in January 2008.
33 years and the challenges
Every day for a police officer is a day of challenges and there was a case I can never forget so quickly. When I was a Commissioner of Police at the Special Fraud Unit (SFT) in Lagos State, I handled a case and my intention was pure and simple to polish police image. The case involved an investigation into N100 million fraud. A customer had taken the money to a bank to change to dollars. I did my investigation with all sincerity of purpose and good will, but the authority thought then I had taken bribe to do the job because of that I was removed as the Commissioner of police in charge of SFU and moved to Force headquarter on special duty where I had no office for six months. I was being prosecuted for something I investigated with a pure heart. But perhaps any of my officer took bribe, I wouldn’t know because neither the complainant nor the suspect brought such a complaint to me. Any time I remember that case I always know that God justifies the righteous and I am still happy. Fortunately, my own investigation on that case correlated with the findings of the Central Bank of Nigeria. That is a big vindication.
Life after service
I thank God that I retired happily and in good health. When I looked back at my life, I always give glory to God. As a police officer, your decisions cannot always be yours because you have to take orders and instruction from your superior; when of course the order or instruction is legal. All glory and thanks to God who has kept me alive and sound till this day.
I have been doing a lot of writing in poetry, articles for newspapers and other literary things. I also engage in gardening, reading and small businesses to continue to make life meaningful and healthy and my environment more friendly. For me that is the essence of life.
Assisting the govt
Why not? It is a called to duty to the nation. I am still ready to serve the nation in any capacity I can, that will promote the interest of Nigeria.
Security firm
You know everything you do springs from your soul and interest. I have been writing poems since my secondary school days and my interest on it develops daily and that is why I have rediscovered this talent again. Not every retired officer sets up security outfit. By the grace of God, I will make a public presentation of my third poetry book titled: “Fire in my Soul” in March this year. It’s about the social, religious and economic issues in Nigeria.
Thoughts on bribery
in the police
Some policemen may be corrupt, but not all policemen are corrupt. If Nigerians are not corrupt, then the police too will not be corrupt, because if the environment is clean, the people too will be clean. I am glad to note that no police officer has been indicted today in the ongoing corruption war in the country. On this note I wish to commend Mr. President and his government for fighting corruptions in the country relentlessly. The Police are only responding to the behaviours of Nigerians when it comes to the issue of bribery and corruption. I have come across some policemen that will never collect bribe. But I am not in any case approving of bribery and corruption. No! What I have said is only on the narrative of corruption in Nigeria and the police.
10,000 new officers
They need high level of disciplined because the junior officers seem to lack discipline. Ten thousand new officers is an added advantage for the force operationally. But how will they recruit such a high number without recruiting criminals? That’s an issue. Anybody that lacks good character should be thrown out. Discipline is the soul of any organization, especially the security forces.
Magu and Senate
It’s so sad that everything in this country is being politicised. Politicians will always be politicians. The acting Chairman of EFCC worked under me when I was the CP Special Fraud Unit in Lagos. He is a devoted and seasoned officer, and I have looked at those who are calling for his removal and found out that he is only being witch-hunted. They should allow those who are capable to handle this job do it. The senate should confirm Ibrahim Magu. I know he is so thorough and a sticker to details and facts. He is reliable and not corrupt.
It seems to me the Senate wants to use the issue of Magu’ confirmation to gain some leverage against the Executive. Nigerians need to seek for the progress of this country, and it does not depend solely on the Presidency. Lawmakers, the Judiciary and every citizen need to stand up for the truth. The progress of Nigeria is a duty for every citizen. Nigeria belongs to us all. I say it as I see it.
Politics
I can’t be a politician because I don’t have the resources to fight the war! Yes! But everybody is a political animal as you know. And as I want the best for my community and my country, you can say I am a politician in a sense. As long as I live I want to serve God, my community, as well as my country. That is the biggest legacy. I also don’t have the temperament to be a politician.