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  • Man kills girlfriend, dumps corpse by roadside

    A 19-year-old boy identified as Junior Omo Shaba has killed his lover and left her corpse by a roadside.

    The incident happened at No. 2, Akugbe Street, Off Siluko road, Ogida, Egor local government area.

    It was learnt the deceased, Matilda Odiri, who is 18 years old was stabbed to death inside her boyfriend’s room during an argument.

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    The deceased was said to have gone to her boyfriend’s house to spend the night when she was stabbed with a knife on her right upper breast.

    Witnesses said the victim was stabbed at about 11pm after she accused her boyfriend of having affairs with other girls

    The boyfriend reportedly dumped her body by the road side after killing her to cover his deeds.

    He was said to have fled when his father called in the police.

    Police sources said the suspect is currently in custody at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID).

    The police source said the suspect confessed that he murdered his lover and dumped her body on the street to cover his evil deed after an argument ensued between them at night.

    Shaba told the police that he killed his girlfriend with a knife which she used to peel some oranges they took that night.

    Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Chidi Nwabuzor, said it was a case of murder and the suspect would soon be arraigned in court.

     

  • Rivers State: Court to rule Jan. 26 on bail for murder accused

    Rivers State: Court to rule Jan. 26 on bail for murder accused

    A High court sitting in Port Harcourt has fixed Jan. 26 for ruling on a bail application by Ifeanyi Dike and two others,  standing trial for  alleged murder and conspiracy charges.

    Justice Enebeli Adolphus fixed the date on Tuesday.

    The other two accused are:  Ogochukwu Nnamiro  and Sgt. Johnbosco Okoroeze .

    Dike, the first accused, who is 23 year’s old  and an undergraduate of University of Port Harcourt ( UNIPORT ),  was alleged to have murdered an eight-year-old girl, Miss Chikamso Favour and removed her genitals in August 2017.

    Nnamiro, the second accused, was alleged to have been aware of the crime, but did not report to the police, while Sgt. Okoroeze, who is the third accused, was alleged to have aided Dike’s escape from State Criminal Investigation Department ( SCID ) where he was detained.

    Counsel to the Nnamiro and Okoroeze had applied to the court to grant his clients bail, while the first accused had at the opening of the  trial on Jan. 12  refused to take a plea.

    He jolted the court with some erratic behaviour,  shouting after the case was called.

    The court entered not-guilty plea for him, while his counsel, Mr Lizinna Ameegua urged the court to order Dike’s mental test to ensure that he was  okay.

    NAN

  • Family accuses police of obstructing justice over Lagos property

    Family accuses police of obstructing justice over Lagos property

    …Police: Possession was taken illegally

     

    The family of a former Head of Service in Lagos, the late Mr. C.O. Bajulaiye, has accused the police of denying its members access to their late father’s house in spite of a court judgment authorising them to take possession.

    The family had approached the Lagos Magistrates Court in a bid to recover the property from a tenant, a company.

    On May 8, the court ordered the company to give up possession of the property made up of a five-bedroom detached house, a two-bedroom guest chalet, and three-room boys quarters on or before May 10.

    The company was also ordered to pay a “mesne profit” at the rate of N3million on the property located on 8, Agoro Odiyan Street, off Adeola Odeku Street, Victoria Island.

    However, the family, in a petition to the Commissioner of Police in Lagos, Mr Fatai Owoseni, accused the police of frustrating the enforcement of the judgment.

    The third son of the late Bajulaiye, Segun, said the family, through the court’s Bailiffs, duly executed the judgment, took possession of the property and placed five security men to guard the property after the bailiff took inventory of the things they met in the compound.

    Bajulaiye said they were shocked when policemen from the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) Panti stormed the property and arrested the guards.

    “They brought along thugs armed with dangerous weapons and sealed up the property, denying us access,” Bajulaiye said.

    The family added in the petition: “Senior Police officers led by DCP Salami and CSP Asuquo both of Panti, SCID, dislodged us from taking possession and arrested and detained our security guards.”

    Bajulaiye said inscriptions made by the Bailiff on the walls to indicate that possession had been taken were also wiped off, adding that the company’s application for stay of execution of the judgment was earlier dismissed.

    Besides, the family’s lawyers are contending that even if there was an appeal, which they said was not the case, it does not operate as a stay of execution, nor was it also the place of Police officers to pronounce the process of a competent court as unlawful and to supplant them from possession with police might under any guise.

    Bajulaiye said Owoseni, in response to their petition, directed the Deputy Commissioner of Police, SCID Panti, Bolaji Salami, to ensure that there was no one occupying the house, yet the order was not carried out.

    But, the Police claimed that the family took possession of the house illegally, claiming that the Bailiff executed the order without autorisation from the force.

    The Police also claimed that there was an appeal on the judgment, and that it was investigating the circumstances in which the execution was carried out.

    However, the family’s lawyers have sent a Freedom of Information request to the police, demanding a report of investigation and its reasons for denying them access to the property.

  • Policeman in detention for allegedly ‘killing’ Aba resident

    Policeman in detention for allegedly ‘killing’ Aba resident

    A Policeman said to be serving under Aba Central Police Station (CPS), identified as Chinedu Ibe is currently cooling off his feet at the detention facility of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) of Abia Police Command in Umuahia, the state capital for allegedly killing an Aba resident.

    The victim identified as Mr. Chinedu Peter, from Anambra State was said to have been killed by Ibe while on a routine patrol with members of his team in front of Christ the King Cathedral Catholic (C.K.C) along Asa road.

    While a report has it that the body of the deceased was dumped in a secluded part of the commercial town, another account has it that the victim died at a private hospital along Aba-Owerri road where he was taken to for medical attention.

    A relative to the deceased family who pleaded anonymity said that they knew about the death of their brother a day after the incident and accused the police of trying to sweep the matter under the carpet.

    According to the relative, “on March 11, he was coming back home with his girlfriend and other passengers in a commercial bus when policemen on duty in front of C.K.C stopped their vehicle and ordered them to come out from the bus. They complied and were asked to lie down on the main road which they equally did.

    “After a while, the officers asked an Hausa man who was with the passengers to go. That action by the policemen angered Peter who confronted them to know why they should allow only one person amongst the passengers to go. It was at the heat of the argument that the police officer shot at him, leaving him in the pool of his blood. The police officers, we learnt later took his corpse to an unknown destination. But his girlfriend who observed the gruesome killing of her boyfriend and our brother reported the matter to us.

    “Complain was lodged at the Aba Central Police Station where the policemen were said to be serving, but they denied having knowledge of the incident. The matter was further reported to the office of the Aba Area Commander (ACP, Peter Wagbara) who through later ordered that the policemen on duty that night should come to his office. It was at the Area Commander’s office that Peter’s girlfriend identified her boyfriend’s killer. The Area Commander ordered that the killer police officer should be detained, but we later learnt that they (police) were treating the matter with kid gloves and making attempt to sweep it under the carpet. But after a rigorous and stressful search operation by family and friends, his (Peter’s) body was found on March 18.”

    The State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Geoffrey Ogbonna couldn’t be reached for comments, but a source in Aba Area Command confirmed that incident and however debunked that Peter was intentionally killed by the cop.

    According the source, the policeman accidentally shot at the victim who was said to be alighting from a cab while aiming at the tyre of a fleeing vehicle.

    Contrary to the claim that the corpse of the victim was dumped at unknown location, the source told our correspondent that the victim was rushed to a private hospital within the city center where he died while receiving medical attention and stated that family members of the victim have met severally with the police to see how they can fashion out amicable way of settling the matter.

    The officer who shot the victim is right now in Umuahia at the State CID office where he is undergoing interrogation and may soon be charged to court at the completion of the investigation.

     

  • Kidnappers free Bayelsa lawmaker’s octogenarian father

    Kidnappers free Bayelsa lawmaker’s octogenarian father

    Abductors of Chief W.G. Watson, the 81-year-old father of a member of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Chief Alfred Watson, have freed him.

    The lawmaker confirmed in a terse statement in Yenagoa that his father was released in good condition at about 3:00pm, on Thursday.

    However, he did not disclose whether ransom was paid to the hoodlums to secure the freedom of his father.

    Two people linked to the abduction of the octogenarian were arrested and handed over to the police following personal investigations conducted by the lawmaker and some youths.

    The suspects were taken to and detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) of the police where they were said to have made useful statements.

    The octogenarian chief of Okpoama Kingdom, was kidnapped on August 5 at about 9.25am by gunmen who operated on a speedboat.

    The octogenarian was said to be conveying the remains of his wife from Okpoama mortuary to Egweama, the deceased maternal home for burial as customs demand, when the gunmen struck.

    The hoodlums fired four gunshots, attacked the boat driver with machetes and stole valuables of persons occupying the casket-bearing speedboat before whisking the old man away to an unknown location.

    The profiles of the two arrested suspects and the evidence against them indicated that the dastardly act was masterminded by persons close to the family.

    The kidnappers earlier demanded N70million ransom but later reduced it to N5.5million with a request that the money should be supported by two gallons of fuel and three bottles of Chelsea gin.