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SARS arrest Lebanese nursing mother over robbery

Posted By: PATIENCE OGBOon: April 18, 2015In: Crime Watch, ONLINE X-tra3 Comments

•Other gang members also in police net
The arrest of a suspected female robber Amira Abudallahi, 32, is one rare case of women involvement in armed robbery. Amira who hails from Lebanon is a divorcee and mother of five.
According to the police, Amira though a nursing mother of a six month old baby, allegedly belonged to a gang arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-robbery Squad attached to the Lagos State police command for allegedly robbing bureau de change operators in Abuja and Lagos.
The police operatives recovered $13million cash from Amira’s gang members. Other items recovered from them include exotic cars and cash in both local and foreign currencies. Narrating how she got into crime,Amira said. “I am an interior designer.
I just had a baby, my baby is six months old. I got into crime while I was still pregnant. This is like a year but I became an active member six months ago after I had my baby.
What I do for the gang is that I converse with prospective victims on the phone. The leader of our gang known as Senator gave me the numbers to call. He told me what to say and then I call the victim.

Cash and other eqipment recovered from the robber

“I have not built any house; I have made over N12 million since I joined the gang. I used part of it to buy a car and the other to pay my children’s school fees. I take care of my five kids alone since I am divorced and my husband abandoned me. I still live in a rented two-bedroom apartment in Lekki area in Lagos,” she said.
Amira who said she regretted her involvement in crime said she became desperate to fend for her children and her business was not making profits.
She said “I am not proud of myself neither am I proud of what has happened, I just hope I can make a positive change on the society, I pray God will give me the opportunity to do so in the future, I believe no one is above mistake and I believe God will grant me grace.
“Like I said what I did was wrong nobody is above mistake, it was my financial responsibility and the economic situation of the country that led me into the gang”. The Lagos State Police commissioner of police, Mr. Kayode Aderanti, said Amira belonged to a gang that specialised in impersonating operatives of EFCC to rob bureau de change operator in Abuja and Lagos state.
The CP gave the names of the suspects as Princewill Eze, aka senator Nwobodo, 55; Amira Abudallahi, 32; Daniel Okpara, 30; Paul Irior, 37; Bassey Williams Ekpenyong, 39; and Royal Nwabuike, 32, were arrested in Lagos, Ogun, and Abuja respectively. CP Aderanti said Amira was arrested following the confession of other members of the gang.
He said, “February 25, 2015 at about 5p.m., I received information about a gang of armed robbers who use EFCC uniform, handcuffs to rob bureau de change operators in Abuja and Lagos States of foreign currencies including dollars pounds sterling and Euro.
“As soon as we got the information, I immediately directed the OC Special Anti-Robbery Squad, (SARS)SP Abba Kyari to launch a massive manhunt. The manhunt paid off as they detectives tracked and arrested the kingpin, one Princewill Eze, aka senator Nwobodo, who lives in Ajah on February 27, 2015 at about 4pm. His confession led to the arrest of a female member of the gang, a Lebanese nationale, one Amira Abudallahi and other members of the gang”.
According to the Lagos Police boss , “the suspects who were arrested in Delta, Abuja, Ogun and Lagos states have all confessed to have carried out several robberies in Lagos and Abuja.
Also during the follow up, One Bryco59 pistol with serial no 930945 with six rounds of 5.56mm live ammunition, single barrel pistol cut to size with four live cartridges, Toyota highlander ash colour with registration number, No LSR 110 DB, Toyota highlander Maroon colour with registration number No LSR 671 DK, Toyota highlander ash colour with registration number Toyota highlander jeep Maroon colour with registration number No KTU380 DK, Toyota Sienna 2012 model, with registration number JJ424CQ, Toyota Forerunner with registration number KRD 449 DG, one Toyota Camry Saloon car unregistered four million naira (N4,000,000) cash and thirteen thousand US dollars (S13,000) cash) have been recovered”.

Fleet of cars seized from the gang.

Saturday Mirror learnt that one of the suspects, Corporal Bassey Williams Ekpenyong is a dismissed police man who was charged to court by SARS operatives for kidnapping in 2012. Other members of the gang narrated how they got involved in crime. The suspected gang leader said, “My name is Princewill Eze.
I am from Nkanu LGA in Enugu state. I am married with five children. I was into hospitality business before I ventured into robbery. My gang members know me as Senator. The senator name is an appellation.
I don’t hold a political position. I live in a rented apartment at VGC. I do not own the house. Some of my daughters are in school abroad. “I didn’t recruit anyone of them into the gang; they all joined the gang on their own freewill because they are all adults. We have made about N15m.
I have used the money to buy different property, but the police have seized them all. I bought different vehicles too” Narrating their modus operandi, the dismissed police corporal said, “We don’t use guns. I was serving with CMS Mopol 2, Lagos. I built a house in Benin. I met the senator in 2014. My role was to act as a policeman.
I wear uniforms and pose with my gang members who are fake EFCC officials. Any time they have a deal, they invite me. Sometimes, I get a million naira after an operation. “They usually pretend to be EFCC official and we will tell the victims that we have cases against them.
“The victims would bring the money to us in convenient places like hotels and banks so we can drop the borgus allegation against them. I also run a hotel. I have been in this gang for about five years. I was arrested by the police four years ago for a similar issue, but got bail from court. “The police gadgets like the Walkie Talkie recovered from me were obtained during the Anambra elections. I was not into politics, but I was part of that election.” Another suspect Royal Nwabuike, said, “I am 32 years old.
I went to Auchi Polytechnic, from there, I went to Delta State University. Upon graduation I got a job as a real estate and property manager in Onistha. Later the company closed down.
After the company closed down, I went to a marine school that enabled me to work in the sea, unfortunately the company was sold to an Indian who retrenched all the workers and we weren’t paid any gratuity.
“It was at this point my friend called Bassey introduced me to the Senator who is the gang leader. Senator promised to help me secure employment in a company. When I called senator he told me to meet him at Eko Meridian hotel in Lagos where he lodged.
After explaining to him, he said he will get back to me the next day but he didn’t. About three weeks later, he called me and asked me to meet him in a secured location.
“When I got there, he asked me to enter his vehicle. He told me that there was someone he wanted me to meet that will give me a large amount of money. He said I should tell them that I am from EFCC. At the time, we had not started using the EFCC vest. Senator is the one that told the victims that they were from EFCC, and that they have charges of corruption.
Most of the victims would prefer to settle rather than go to EFCC office. I have gone to about seven operations I have made close to ten million naira; I used part of the proceeds to buy a Forerunner, 2004 model, N2.4 million.
The remaining money is in my account and my wife’s account. I also rented and furnished the house where I live in Lagos. I also built a house in my village. I am married with a kid,” the suspect narrated.

Osibajo’s bank account hacked

Posted By: PATIENCE OGBOon: October 24, 2015In: Highlights, News2 Comments

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N8million stolen
Police in manhunt for undergrad mastermind

Policemen attached to the Special Anti- Robbery Squad (SARS) Ikeja are investigating an alleged theft of N8million from Vice President Yemi Osibajo’s bank account.
It was gathered that two undergraduate students of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka identified as Ebuka Orumba and Patrick Nwafor allegedly hacked into the account of Simmons Cooper Partner, a law firm said to belong to Vice President Osibajo and allegedly stole eight million naira (N8miilion) from it.
According to investigation, the undergraduates Nwafor is a final year 500level student of Environmental Science while Orumba is a final year Computer Engineering student.
It was gathered that the students used fraudulent means to hack into the email of the Account manager of the VP’s law firm, one Mr. Tunde Irukera, and they allegedly sent a mail to UBA PLC branch to one Obuba Fidelia on July 2nd instructing the bank to transfer eight million naira from Simmions Cooper Bank account to three different bank accounts they opened for the fraud.
It was further gathered that the undergraduates allegedly connived with a tricycle rider one Artor Kalu to open a bank account with Zenith bank account number 2086943174 where three million naira (N3,000,000) was transferred to with the false name Engineer Asukwo Okoro.
The remaining amounts were said to have been transferred to two other unnamed bank accounts.
Luck however ran out on the undergraduates when their alleged gang member, Mr. Kalu went to the Zenith bank account at Mushin to withdraw the N3,000,000 but was nabbed by detectives from SARS following a tip off from the bank.
The police subsequently arrested Kalu and following his statement, the police arrested Orumba but Nwafor escaped.
Following the investigation, the police discovered that Kalu with the help of others got a fake Driver’s license which he used to open the Zenith Bank account.
The police has since charged Orumba and Kalu to court on a 5 count charge on conspiracy, stealing and fraud while efforts is on to arrest Nwafor whom the others claimed to be the mastermind of the fraud.

I bought houses, cars with fake dollars —Suspect

Posted By: PATIENCE OGBOon: October 17, 2015In: Crime WatchNo Comments

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Policemen attached to the Special Anti Robbery squad, Lagos State police command, are investigating a 42-year-old man, Rafiu Olusamokun, over allegation of money counterfeiting. According to the police, Mr. Olusamokun, was caught with fake local and foreign currency running into millions in his house at Ayidolapo Street, in the Ikotun area of Lagos.
The Lagos State Commissioner of police, Mr.Fatia Owoseni, while reacting to the arrest, stated that the suspect belongs to syndicate which specialized in producing fake currencies but luck ran out on the suspect when following a tipoff by members of the public who have fallen victims to the gang, the police placed a covert surveillance on the suspect and he was arrested in the act. The suspect was later paraded alongside his iron box filled with different currencies .
The suspect however stated that he joined the gang to make ends meet adding that he was lured into crime by bad friends “I am a motor mechanic before I was deceived into production of fake currencies. I worked with some people who are still at large.
They are the ones who taught me this business. I have made alot of money .I have bought houses and cars. Luck ran out on me when the police recovered an iron box full of fake dollars, pounds and naira notes from my house. Some materials such as cotton wool, paints and oil, allegedly used in the production of the money, were also recovered by the police.
Some men introduced me into the business. I ran into them by chance and they told me they just returned from Europe. They brainwashed me and forced pay about N600, 000 to purchase the materials to produce the fake currencies. He said, “I met those people early this year. I was working as a motor mechanic, and I just ran into them.
They said they recently returned from Europe. When I visited them at a hotel in the Bar Beach, Victoria Island area, they brought out the samples of the currencies they had, and said I could produce same if I wanted to become wealthy. “I was immediately interested. A friend, Sule Sulaimon, who went with me, also became interested.
Their leader said all I needed to do was to purchase the chemicals from them. He said I should bring N1m, but I eventually paid N650,000 for the chemicals. “I did not know the samples they gave me were fake; the papers looked so original. I first gave him N400,000, and then N250,000. He said I could reproduce as much hard currencies as I wanted from the materials I had.
“The currencies recovered from my house runs into millions, but I was not through with the reproduction. If I had finished with it, I would have been a wealthy man. I would have evaded the arrest.”
A police source said that Olusamokun was to give part of the money reproduced to the syndicate, so that he could be given more materials. He added that the police were still on the trail of the group. “The syndicate gave him the materials and the currencies to wash into original. The money is actually worth millions. He was producing 100 and 200 and pounds.
The police found the fake cash in his house,” he said. Mr.Owoseni, said the police will soon arrest other members of the gang adding that the suspect would be charged to court.

A prophet told me to kill my mother for breakthrough —Murder suspect

Posted By: PATIENCE OGBOon: February 13, 2016In: Crime Watch, Saturday MirrorNo Comments

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A middle age man Oluyinde Ibrahim who was arrested by policemen attached to the Oko- Oba Police Station at Agege area of Lagos State for allegedly stabbing his mother to death has been explaining why he carried out the dastardly act . Ibrahim a barber , was said to have visited his mother on Friday morning at her residence at No. 3 Bunmi Christopher Close, Off Arowolo Street, Abule Egba a suburb of Lagos State and confronted the elderly woman with allegations of witchcraft police sources informed our correspondent Police sources said Oluyinde came from Abeokuta, Ogun State to visit his mother on Friday at her apartment on Bunmi Christopher Close Abule Egba but strangely killed her in cold blood by stabbing her severally on the neck with a kitchen knife.
Ibrahim reportedly fled from the area, before neighbours can come to the rescue of the old woman whose name is yet to be ascertained. A neighbour who claimed to be at home when the crime was committed said “At about 2pm on Friday, I was in the kitchen when I heard some sharp cries from the woman’s room. She was calling on neighbours for help. “Others and I went to the woman’s door; it was locked. So, I went round and opened the window, I saw Ibrahim’s hand; it was wet with blood, but he refused to open the door “We asked him why he attacked his mother; all he said was that it was his mother who killed his father. We were all shocked. The man is a barber. He plaits hair too. He, however, managed to escape.
The police later arrested him and brought him to the house on Saturday. Another neighour said “I have been living in this compound for sometime and mama has been with us. Her children come here to visit her from time to time . On Friday when the incident happened, I went to take my bath when I heard mama shouting for help that her son wants to kill her and I rushed out to discovered that the door was locked from the inside and I knocked and ask Ibrahim to open the door and he said I should go back” The neighbour said he was not satisfied and said he went to the backyard to see what was going on in the room through the window and he saw blood stains splashed in the room and on Ibrahim’s body.
“As at the time I opened the door,Ibrahim had ran through the backyard and escaped other tenants who went inside the room saw the lifeless body of the woman in a pool of blood. “He stab her on the neck severally. It was last year that the woman moved in with her husband. She was about 57. She was a goldsmith. One of her grandchildren – the daughter of her first daughter – was staying with her before this incident happened. Oluyinde’s father, however, died last year from sickness. He could not talk for some time before the sickness eventually claimed his life.the source added It was gathered that the murder was reported at the OKO Oba Police Station and the Police lunched a manhunt for the fleeing Ibrahim who was eventually arrested on Saturday morning. Police sources revealed that when the suspect was questioned, he revealed that he killed his mother because he received a prophesy that his mother killed his father and was behind his stagnation in life.

Raped at 15, abandoned at 16

Posted By: PATIENCE OGBOon: October 18, 2014In: LivingNo Comments

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Raped, impregnated by father and abandoned by family, a 16 year old girl needs help urgently, writes PATIENCE OGBO.
Child birth in this part of the world can be a thing of joy. But for the young 16 year old, the coming of the new born is just the beginning of another unending nightmare. She was raped by her father and also impregnated by the worthless man. The police though picked the father up for trial, but her father’s family and all friends have abandoned her because they see her as an object of abject shame. This is the story of a young girl who needs help, desperately. But his name, picture and identity can’t be revealed unless to any individual with a large heart willing to provide sustenance for the unfortunate mother and child.
The police said the girl, a Junior Secondary School student has given birth to a baby boy on September 9th 2014 but she has no place to go with her baby as her family has disowned her and her child. Bisi Ilobanafor, the Oyo State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, said the girl and her son are currently staying at the police command’s custody as efforts by the police to reunite her with her family have proved abortive.
Ilobanafor, a Superintendent of police, said the girl’s ordeal started after she summoned courage and reported her father, one Segun Oderinde, aged 42, to the police at the Igbeti Police Command of the state over allegations that her father raped her and she suspected she was pregnant with his child.
“On April 30th 2014, a 16-year-old girl in JSS2, reported a case of rape to the police station at Igbeti, alleging that that her father , one Segun Oderinde 42 years raped her . The girl is the only daughter of her father and her mother is divorced from her father.
The mother of the girl has been taking care of her since she was 3 years old but when she clocked 15, her father who has two other wives went back to his estranged wife and got his daughter to stay with him. The girl said that her father was not living with any of his wives. She said she was living with her father and was the one cooking and doing other domestic chores for him. She told the police that sometime in 2013, her father came back home very late drunk and forced her to have sex with him.
She added that her father continued in this incestuous act and despite her complaints to her step mothers, none of them took her serious. She, however, summoned courage and reported the matter to the police and her father was arrested.” Ilobanafor narrated.
The police superintendant also added that the girl gave a vivid account of how she was allegedly raped by her father. “She said her father raped her on December 1st 2013, April 18th and 20th 2014. She discovered that she was feeling weak and she was taken to a clinic in Igbeti.
The owner of the clinic informed her grandfather and her father that she was pregnant but her father started maltreating her until the case was reported to the police. Initially, her father denied the allegation but after a while, he confessed he slept with her but denied he was responsible for her pregnancy.
Her father’s family pleaded with the police that they will handle the matter as a family issue but the police carried out a thorough investigation and took the girl to the General hospital at Igbeti where it was discovered that she was four months pregnant. The girl’s father was arraigned at the Magistrate Court Kisi on a three count charge of rape. He was remanded in prison custody but her father’s family would not want to have anything to do with the girl and her pregnancy.
The police have been taking care of her and on September 9th, she gave birth to a baby boy. She was discharged from the hospital on September 14th and her family has refused to take her and the baby in. She and her baby are with the police,” said the police officer. Ilobanafor decried the maltreatment rape victims undergo in the society. She urged religious and cultural bodies to preach against immorality in the society. “It is very sad that this girl is suffering double jeopardy.
She is the victim but her family does not want to have anything to do with her. They wanted to settle the matter, but a crime has been committed. Rape is a serious offence and the Nigeria Police Force does not take issues of rape and defilement with levity.
We ensure that all cases of rape reported in our stations get the desired attention and after a thorough investigation, we prosecute the suspects. It is therefore not true that the Nigeria police Force allow families to settle cases of rape. “The Nigeria Police Force is worried about rape. We have been carrying out awareness campaign in schools, rural communities, motor parks, and other public places against rape and defilement.
Our Campaigns in school teach girls how to identify suspicious moves from a person that can abuse them sexually. We teach them to speak out and not to keep secrets especially with men. “The campaigns have been yielding positive results as people are willing to speak out against rapists.
The awareness against rape in Oyo State has helped to reduce issues of rape and defilement. It is unfortunate that this girl is in this mess. We are calling on spirited Nigerians, religious bodies, companies to come to the aid to this girl and her child,” Ilobanafor said.

9 month after girl’s abduction, police say no money to fund rescue

Posted By: PATIENCE OGBOon: January 31, 2015In: Crime Watch1 Comment

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It has been nine months since suspected gun men kidnapped a 15- year -old school girl, Precious Okoro. But as days has run into weeks and months, hopes that Okoro will regain her freedom soon appears farfetched as efforts to track her abductors are hampered by paucity of funds, according to police.
Saturday Mirror exclusively learnt that policemen at the State Criminal Investigations Department at Panti Yaba have abandoned the investigations to rescue Okoro who was kidnapped on May 25th 2014 at the Songotedo area in Lagos State on her way to the Ikenne Communty College, Ikenne, Ogun State. It was learnt that gun men intercepted the bus conveying Precious to school and whisked her away to and after three months, the abductors contacted her father demanding for a ransom.
Though the policemen attached to the SCID Panti have arrested four persons in connection with the kidnap, it was gathered that the policemen move to rescue the girl is being stalled because the, identified as Mr Nwaigwe Okoro, is said to have ran out of cash to sponsor the police investigation. Police sources said the suspected kidnappers after abducting Precious, took her to a hideout in Niamey, Niger Republic, where she and other girls are being held hostages.
The police source added that the kidnappers demanded $100, 000 ransom and they have contacted the parents to provide the money, failure upon which the girl will be made a sex slave . Sources added that Precious became a target for kidnappers after her father, a bush meat seller at the Ajah area of Lagos went to his wife’s village to sponsor two burial ceremonies.
It was learnt that policemen are working on the theory that some relatives of the kidnapped girls allegedly masterminded the kidnap as they might have felt that her father is wealthy after they saw the manner he spent money during the burials. It was learnt that Precious told her mother that one Kelvin from her mother’s village is the brain behind her kidnap.
A police source said “The kidnappers allowed Precious to speak with her mother on the phone. Precious spoke a different dialect and told her mother that one Kelvin is behind her kidnap. She said the kidnappers also have other girls in their custody.
Precious’ mother later spoke with one of the kidnapers and she told them to send Kelvin’s mobile telephone number which the abductor did so that she can speak with him directly. Precious’s mother, however, discovered that the number the kidnapper sent is the same number that one of her cousins, Kelvin is using.
The police has been on the manhunt for Kelvin but there has not been any success because tracking his number involves spending money which the family don’t have and there is no financial help coming from anywhere.
Police sources who requested anonymity said, “This girl’s case has received a lot of attention from human rights groups who have visited the police to push for her rescue, but all efforts have been in vein because what is required to rescue the girl is money.
The father of the girl is a bushmeat seller but he went to the village in the Eastern part of the country on two occassions to sponsor burial ceremonies for his wife. “From police investigations, the relatives were praising him for spending a lot of money during the burials so they felt he has money and one of them masterminded the girl’s kidnap.
But from what they have learnt, the man is not as rich as they thought but they said he is lying and they are demanding for that huge ransom. The man is very broke and cannot sponsor the investigation.
“The police team are supposed to go to Niamey for investigation but there is no money and the father of the girl said he is very broke. All the NG0s coming here promised to raise fund for the investigation but they have not shown up, so money is hindering police work”.
The police source added that it is sad that Precious and other girls are still being held in custody of the Niger Republic based kidnapping gang and their continuous stay in the kidnapper’s den will endanger their lives. “From our investigation, Precious informed her mother when the kidnappers allowed her to speak on the phone that she is being held in captivity with other girls.
This is a case that the Federal, state and human rights groups should be interested in considering the similarity with the Chibok girls kidnap. Money to investigate is a major hindrance to the rescue efforts of these girls at the moment,” the source said. In his statement to the police, Mr. Okoro narrated how the kidnap ordeal started.
He said “August last year after three months my daughter was kidnapped, I received an international call from some persons who claimed they kidnapped my daughter and she is in Niger Republic. They demanded $100,000 ransom money but I told them I don’t have. They told me if I want my daughter back alive, I should cooperate with them.
They later reduced the money to $30,000 and they sent an Ecobank account number .They used 15 different international numbers to contact me but I told them I don’t have money.
“They also sent a Diamond Bank account number. The police used the bank to arrest some of them. I don’t have any money to give them. I don’t have money for the investigation and this is stalling the rescue of my daughter,” the father lamented.

Battered Lagos bus driver can’t eat, sleep –Wife

Fisayo Falodi

Gbemisola, the wife of Moshood Olaniyi, the man, who was battered on Wednesday by a soldier, Emmanuel B.J., says her husband’s health is deteriorating due to the extent of the injury he sustained.

She told our correspondent on Thursday on the telephone that her husband had not been able to eat any food or drink any liquid since the incident happened.

Gbemisola said Olaniyi had been vomiting the food he ate despite the treatment he received at a medical facility immediately the soldier released him.

PUNCH Metro had reported on Wednesday that Emmanuel battered Olaniyi at the Berger Motor Park in Lagos State for sneering at him.

The soldier had alleged that Olaniyi attempted to hit him while reversing his vehicle, and that when he asked why, the driver just sneered at him.

Emmanuel slapped Olaniyi, lashed him with horse whip and threatened to kill him.

He did not release the driver until much pleading by eyewitnesses and other motorists.

Olaniyi was thereafter taken to a hospital in the area for treatment.

But Gbemisola, who claimed that the treatment did not improve her husband’s condition, said Olaniyi could not sleep in the night because of injuries he sustained in the attack.

She said apart from groaning with pains, her husband had been unable to keep any food down his stomach.

She said, “My husband could neither eat nor sleep. The only thing he took today (Thursday) was tea, which he also vomited some minutes later.

“His health is fast deteriorating; the N15, 000 we paid at the hospital he was taken to for treatment has not achieved anything. He was given drips and some injections, but there has been no improvement. He is complaining of pains.

“We are contemplating on taking him to the hospital again for an X-ray, but we don’t have the money to pay for that. All the money we had at home was the N15, 000 we paid for treatment at the hospital on Wednesday.”

One of Olaniyi’s colleagues, who preferred to be address as Crown, said he and other friends were worried about the bus driver’s condition.

Crown said when he went to check on Olaniyi at his resident at about 2.30pm on Thursday, he met him in pains, being massaged by his wife and other sympathisers.

He said, “Olaniyi will need effective medical attention to regain his health. He was groaning with pains when I went to see him.” Copyright PUNCH.

Police nab NURTW chief for alleged murder

Samson Folarin

The Anti-Robbery Squad of the State Department of Criminal Investigation, Lagos State Police Command, has arrested a murder suspect, Kunle Oshineye, aka Eyin Bouncing, for alleged involvement in the killing of two men in Akoka, Bariga.

Oshineye, an executive member of the National Union of Road Transport Workers in the Jibowu area, was said to have been arrested at a party last Friday.

A police source told PUNCH Metro that the suspect, who allegedly belonged to the Eiye Confraternity, was among those who killed Daniel and Abiye, who were slain on January 22, 2016.

The deceased were said to be members of the Aiye Confraternity, a rival group.

The death of Daniel and Abiye, had led to the killing of a 63-year-old businesswoman, Mrs. Adejoke Adefuye on Oshinfolarin Street, Bariga, a day later.

The source said, “After the arrest of the first set of eight suspects, we continued our investigations and combed the Fadeyi, Somolu and Bariga areas, where most of the suspects have their base. We got a tip-off on Oshineye as one of the henchmen, and he was arrested.

“He confessed to be an Eiye member and said it was a prerequisite to becoming a member of the NURTW in his area. He said you are either an Aiye or an Eiye member to be part of the NURTW. He confessed to be among the cult members that were involved in the killing of Daniel and Abiye and has been assisting with investigations.”

The suspect, however, told our correspondent that he was not a cultist and did not kill anyone, adding that he only lied against himself to avoid police harassment.

Oshineye, who admitted to being called Eyin Bouncing, said it was an alias he got because his mum sold eggs.

He said, “I am the Organising Officer of the NURTW, Jibowu branch. I dropped out of secondary school because I had to start fending for myself. I am married with two kids.

“People call me Eyin Bouncing because my mum sells eggs and that is all about the name. I am not a cult member and I didn’t kill anybody.

“I was at a friend’s party last Friday and had gone out to make a call when the police came to arrest me. I was taken to my house on Adekoga Street in Somolu for searching.

“I lied against myself because I didn’t want to be harassed. Please help me appeal to them to release me.”

However, a friend of the suspect, who was equally interrogated by the police, said he stopped associating with him after he tried to initiate him to cultism.

He said, “We were friends and I knew him to be a member of the NURTW. I was a tricycle driver and one day, he invited me for a party. At the party, they suddenly descended on me and started beating me. I suffered a lot of injuries and almost died, but I survived it. They said it was an initiation and that I had become a member of the confraternity.

“But after that experience that day, I fled. I am not a cult member and I have my job that I do.”

The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, when contacted promised to call back, but she had yet to do so as of the time of filing this report.

19 dead in suicide attack on Cameroon market.

At least 19 people were killed in a double suicide bombing at a market in northeastern Cameroon on Friday, local officials said.
Several other people were injured in the attack on the market at Meme at around 0900 (0800 GMT) which was carried out by two female suicide bombers, said the officials, who did not wish to be named.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Cameroon’s northern border region with Nigeria is regularly attacked by Boko Haram fighters.
The Nigerian-based jihadist group began targeting Cameroonian territory in 2013, with more than 1,200 people killed in attacks since in the country’s Far North region, according to the government.

Friday’s bombings in Meme were the sixth suicide attack since the start of this year in the Far North, where Boko Haram have increasingly been using teenagers and women as bombers. Markets are frequently targeted.

Officials say multiple army operations since the end of November have considerably weakened the jihadists’ position, but Boko Haram has upped the rate of its suicide bombings in Cameroon as well as continuing with its attacks in northeast Nigeria.
An army offensive last week in Ngoshe, on the Nigerian side of the border with Cameroon, inflicted heavy losses on the jihadist group, with troops able to seize large quantities of arms and ammunition, according to the Cameroonian government.
The army assault was carried out as part of operations by the multi-national force formed to fight the rise of Boko Haram, which includes troops from Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Benin.
Boko Haram’s insurgency, seeking a hardline Islamic state in northern Nigeria, has killed at least 17,000 people and left more than 2.6 million others homeless since their six-year campaign began.
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Jonathan’s abducted nephew found dead in Bayelsa creek

Simon Utebor, Yenagoa
Mr. Samuel Oki, a nephew of former President Goodluck Jonathan, was today found dead in a creek in Otuoke community, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.
The 35-year-old was reportedly kidnapped on Wednesday alongside the 72-year-old foster father of Jonathan, Chief Inengite Nitabai.
It was learnt that some fishermen from the former President’s community in Otuoke, discovered Oki’s decomposing body floating on Otuoke river while fishing, two days after the abduction.

Some indigenes of the community said though many were not aware of Oki’s whereabouts during the abduction of Nitabai, the discovery of his body in the creek has, however, heightened their fears of Nitabai’s safety.
Some community members claimed that the sound of gunshot heard during the abduction of the septuagenarian might have been targeted at the deceased.
A community source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said “We are worried about the safety of our uncle, Chief Inengite Nitabai. The men that abducted them have killed Oki and we pray they don’t touch our uncle.”
The deceased, community sources said, was always seen in company with Nitabai.
The villagers, who were reportedly seen discussing the sad incident, alleged that the young man (Oki) tried to resist the kidnappers.
According to them, divers and local fishermen had recovered the body and anchored it by the riverside to prevent the body from being washed away.
This is the second time Nitabai has been kidnapped. He was first kidnapped On February 28, 2014 and later freed by security forces on March 10, 2014.

Pregnant woman dies aboard Arik Air flight

Olawunmi Ojo and Gbenga Adeniji
Barely 48 hours after a middle-aged female passenger was found dead in a toilet at the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, another female passenger, on Friday, died aboard an Arik Air flight from Port-Harcourt to Lagos.
The passenger, who was said to be pregnant, was accompanied on the 11am flight by her husband and cousin.
A statement by Arik Air’s PR and Communications Manager, Adebanji Ola, stated that the passenger was confirmed dead on arrival by medical personnel at the Murtala Muhammed Airport Domestic Terminal 1.

The cause of death, according to the statement, has yet to be ascertained.

When contacted to confirm the identity and whereabouts of the corpse, Ola declined to comment, saying that there was nothing more to say than to confirm that a female passenger was confirmed dead on arrival.
The Lagos Airport Police Command also confirmed the incident.

Man kills mom 2 days after finishing 30-year murder sentence

Associated Press

17 February 2016

MAYS LANDING, N.J. (AP) — A man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to killing his mother two days after he completed a 30-year prison sentence for killing a neighbor.

Steven Pratt pleaded guilty to manslaughter for killing Gwendolyn Pratt, 64, at their Atlantic City home in October 2014. An autopsy found that she died from massive blunt-force head injuries.

Pratt was 15 when he shot and killed his next-door neighbor Michael Anderson in an apartment building in 1984. He was tried as an adult and was convicted of murder in 1986.

According to court records, Pratt and Anderson argued after Pratt and some of his friends refused to leave an apartment hallway where they were noisily hanging out. Pratt went back to Anderson's apartment with a lead pipe, but Anderson took the pipe away from Pratt and bloodied his face, the records show.

Pratt then returned with a borrowed handgun and shot Anderson in the face and shoulder, the court records show. Anderson, who Pratt said acted like a father to him, died days after the shooting.

Pratt told a judge through tears after killing his mother that he was guilty and didn't want a trial.

Pratt, 47, must serve 85 percent of a 25-year prison sentence before he'll be eligible for parole.

Thursday, 11 February 2016

Church members arrested during service for noise pollution

AUTHORAfeez Hanafi

February 11, 2016

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The police in Lagos have arrested six persons for allegedly disturbing the peace of residents of Olaomibiyi Street, Ogba, during a church service.

The members – Ngozichukwu Onyebuchi (44), Clement Eromosele (26), Chukwudi Akwegbu (26), Chibuzor Chukwu (18), Godspower Enudi (21) and Okorie Livonus (36) – were arraigned in a Lagos Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ogba.

They were accused of converting a residential apartment to a church.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the landlord and residents of the building where the defendants gathered to worship had complained that the congregation caused noise pollution whenever they prayed.

They were said to have cautioned the worshippers to lower their voices, but the members reportedly declined.

Our correspondent gathered that the church was reported to the police at the Pen Cinema division, who arrested the six members on January 14 during Sunday service, while the others were said to be at large.

They were brought before a Chief Magistrate, Mrs. T. Akanni, on two counts of engaging in a conduct capable of causing a breach of the peace.

The offence, according to a police prosecutor, Inspector Clifford Ogu, is punishable under sections 410 and 166 (1) (d) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011.

The charges read, “That you, Ngozichukwu Onyebuchi, Clement Eromosele, Chukwudi Akwegbu, Chibuzor Chukwu, Godspower Enudi and Okorie Livonus, and others still at large on Olaomibiyi Street, Ogba, Lagos, on January 14, 2016, at about 8am in the Lagos Magisterial District, did conspire to commit felony to wit: conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace.

“That you and others still at large on the same date, time and place, in the aforementioned magisterial district, did unlawfully convert the residential apartment of the aforementioned house to a church and disturb peace of the landlord and other tenants as you were praying on top of your voice, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 166 (1) (d) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011.”

The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges and elected summary trial.

The presiding magistrate, Akanni, admitted them to bail in the sum of N50,000 each with two sureties each in like sum. The magistrate added that the sureties must provide evidence of tax payments and their residential addresses to the court for the perfection of the defendants’ bail.

The case was adjourned till February 15, 2016, for mention

Man rapes, impregnates 13-year-old step-daughter

AUTHORAde Akanbi, Akure

February 11, 2016

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A man, Femi Orojo, has allegedly raped and impregnated his 13-year-old step-daughter in Okitipupa, in the Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State.

The suspect allegedly committed the offence in October 2015, while his wife and mother of the victim, Bunmi, was not at home.

According to the mother, who had been married to the suspect for the past six years without any child, the suspect took to his heels after confessing to the crime.

Bunmi explained that she discovered that the girl was five months pregnant last week.

She said, “When I asked her who was responsible for the pregnancy, she started crying, saying if she told me she would die. I took her to my pastor and after much pressure, she confessed that it was my husband.

“She told my pastor that when I was not around, my husband entered into her room with a machete and raped her.

“After the rape, my child said he brought out a red handkerchief and warned her not to tell anybody or else she would die.”

The police spokesman, Mr. Femi Joseph, said the suspect had yet to be arrested, adding that investigation into the matter was still ongoing.

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Woman, two-yearold son detained over husband’s debt

By Taiwo Jimoh / in Crime / on Monday, 08 Feb 2016 02:09 AM / 0 Comment / 293 views

A police sergeant attached to Ladipo Police Post in Mushin Local Government Area of Lagos has detained a mother and her two-year-old son over her husband’s inability to pay his debt.
The policeman, Jonathan, detained the two year-old boy and his mother because her husband, Gibson Ukeje, owed a company some money.
The little boy, Emmanuel Ukeje and his mum, Uju Ukeje were arrested and detained for two days because police couldn’t locate Gibson. Uju said: “On January 4, 2016, my son and I were in my restaurant at Egbeda when policemen, led by one Sergeant Jonathan came there and ordered everyone to get out.
He locked up my restaurant. I pleaded with him to tell me my offence. The sale’s representative lady from the company, who supplied goods to my husband, stepped out. She said she was the one who ordered for my arrest because my husband couldn’t be reach.”
Uju, who said she knew her husband owed the company money, said it was never her husband’s intention to delay payment. She said: “My husband was robbed; that was why he couldn’t repay the company. All the food in my restaurant got spoilt on that fateful day.
When we got to the station, the policeman threatened to take my baby away from me. He later took my baby, gave him to someone and locked me up. I wasn’t released until my husband paid the company.” Uju alleged that she and her baby were detained for two days without food.
At a point, the baby started vomiting. She was finally released after her lawyer and that of the company sat down and rubbed minds on how best to settle the issue.
Gibson said that he had been transacting business with the company for seven years now and couldn’t under why the management would order for the arrest of his wife and kid. Gibson said: “Sometimes in May 30, 2015, the company through their sales representative, brought the goods to my shop as was the normal practice. Our mode of payment was to issue the company a postdated cheque. This cheque serves as collateral.”
He said before the sales rep left that fateful day, he gave her about N190, 000 postdated cheque. A few weeks after the goods were delivered to his shop, he boarded a commercial bus from Ikeja, heading to Lagos Island. Gibson recalled: “I and other passengers in the bus were attacked by some armed robbers.
They collected all the money I made that day. It was on a Friday. I would have deposited the money in the bank, but my bus was faulty.
That was why I boarded a commercial bus. The robbers stole N1million from me. It affected my business seriously; that was why I couldn’t continue with the business any longer. My shop was shut down. Unfortunately, it was as a result of the incident that I was later hospitalized. I couldn’t pay the company.
Even while I was on my sick bed, the company kept threatening me!” Gibson further said that after he was robbed, he called the company sales rep, to intimate her about the incident. He thought of calling the company’s Managing Director, to explain the situation, but he didn’t have the MD’s phone number.
“The company sent its lawyer and we talked at length. I had met with company lawyer about three their times before they finally brought policemen to arrest my family. We even reached agreement on how to pay back the money, but they still came to arrest my wife and son,” said Gibson.
He continued: “What annoyed me most was that when my lawyer went to the police station, the Investigating Police Officer (IPO), Jonathan, told the lawyer that he had not received order from the complainant to release them even though my son was sick. I want the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni to investigate the matter and call this IPO to order. To serve as deterrent to others.
Policemen are not supposed to be debt collectors. My family was made to sleep on the floor at the station without food. I didn’t deny owing the company.” A human right activist, Mr. Segun Adeeko, who went for the release of Gibson’s family, was allegedly mistreated by the police officer.

Chief priest remanded for attacking Catholic priest

By Uchenna Inya Abakaliki / in Crime, Metro / on Friday, 05 Feb 2016 01:42 AM / 0 Comment / 179 views

Chief priest of the popular Nte-ofina Echara shrine in Echara Community, Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Nteh James Onele, has been remanded in Abakaliki Federal Prisons for attacking a Catholic priest.
The catholic priest, Reverend Father Cornelius Ovuta, is in charge of Assumption Parish, Abina Ikwo. He was attacked by the goddess worshippers on his way to visit a sick member of his parish.
His catechist, who accompanied him on the visit, however escaped and alerted the villagers. The villagers later rescued Ovuta. The attack on Ovuta led to his being hospitalized for weeks at the Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki (FETHA). The priest allegedly lost valuables items during the attack. The chief priest of the shrine and perpetrators of the attack was said to have gone into hiding after the accident. The police trailed and arrested John. He was arraigned.
John, a septuagenarian, on October, 20, 2015, with those standing trial in suit No. MAB 458C/2015 and others now at large, attempted to murder Ovuta on his way to visit a sick person.
The accused purportedly damaged property of Ovuta worth N1, 546,000.00 during the attack. John was accused of damaging one white soutane valued at N20,000, mass box valued at N120,000, communion cup N30,000, packets of communion N10,000 and Cauli N18,000. Others are, one Alb N18, 000, one Skygo motorcycle N130, 000 driven by his catechist, Ezeaka Kenneth and one Nissan Sunny car with registration number AT 394GWA valued at N1.2 million.
John was said to have committed offences punishable under sections 324, 320(a), 451 and 355 all of the Criminal Code cap 33 volume 1 laws of Ebonyi State of Nigeria 2009.

Why my guardian slashed my body with razor –12-year-old

By Juliana Francis / in Crime / on Friday, 05 Feb 2016 01:42 AM / 0 Comment / 178 views

A 12-year-old boy has revealed in chilling details, the horror of the series of tortures he received in the hands of his guardian called Mama Sarah. The boy, Michael Madagwu, a primary 1 pupil, said his ordeal started after his father died and his granny handed him over to Mama Sarah in the village.
Madagwu said that he thought a better life waited for him in Lagos with Mama Sarah.But all he received was hawking and receiving all sorts of bodily harm.
Madagwu, who is now in the protective custody of Lagos State Child Protection Unit recalled in vivid detail, the day his guardian ruthlessly, slashed his body with razor. His words: “Mama Sarah used to beat and denied me food at the slightest provocation. She could use slippers, wire and any object to beat me. She had bitten me on my back and slapped my face several times.
When her beating became too much for me, I told her that she should take me back to the village; I didn’t want to live with her anymore. I told one of our neighbours at Obalende, where we sell, but the woman told Mama Sarah.
When we got home at Oshodi that night, she used rope to tie my legs and hands. She used razor to slash my body. She called me a thief and made me to kneel down.
She said that I should carry a big stone on my head. She used pepper to rub into my eyes and forced me to eat pepper. She used wire to flog me mercilessly all over my body and on my face. I can’t talk properly now because my mouth is swollen.”
The Lagos State Child Protection Unit where Madagwu is being cared for had already invited Mama Sarah to come and explain why the boy has several injuries on his body. The boy said his father died when he was just five-year-old.
A closer look at his body reveals scars he claimed were inflicted on him by his guardian. His young body bore bruises, teeth marks, broken teeth, swollen hands and mouth. Madagwu said he had been living with Mama Sarah for close to eight years since she took him from his grandmother.
The 12-year-old would have died from the torture he constantly received in his guardian’s house, but for the incessant interventions of a neighbour, Mr. Ik Odo. When Odo couldn’t stomach seeing the boy being tortured anymore, he reported Mama Sarah to Mr. Musbau Agbodimu, a human right activist in Lagos. While attempting to speak through his swollen mouth and missing teeth, Madagwu said he hadn’t eaten for days and feels pains all over his body.
Remembering the genesis of his troubles, Madagwu said: “My grandmother called Mama Sarah to take me to live with her in Lagos after my father died. I have been living with Mama Sarah since I was five years old, but she didn’t allow me to go to school. She kept me at home and made me to sell kerosene. But last year, she enrolled me into a primary school after Mr. Odo, our neighbour intervened.”
The boy said on the fateful day the woman pounced on him with razor he waited until she was asleep and ran away from home. His words: “I ran away from our home at Oshodi and slept under the Oshodi Bridge.
The next day, I begged people for money and I boarded a vehicle going to Obalende, from there I trekked to the Bar Beach Market to look for help, to escape from her. She got information that I was at the market and came there. She dragged me home and started beating me all over again. She locked me up in the toilet until Mr. Odo and other neighbours came to my rescue.”
Odo, who reported Madagwu’s abuse to the human rights group, said he was infuriated by the boy’s plight and decided to report the matter to the appropriate authority. Odo said: “Mama Sarah and her family are very mean to Michael. I’ve known the boy since he was five-year-old, but life had been cruel to him because of the people he lives with. They don’t love him. They beat him mercilessly.
Efforts to get her to change towards the boy didn’t work. Mama Sarah gave him heavy tables to carry and made him sit in front of the road to sell kerosene from morning till night.
“There was a day she battered the boy so much that the neighbours had to report her to the police. She went to the station, told the police that Michael was a thief and the police allowed her to go.
Michael too had gone to report her to the police for torturing him, but police sent him away without investigating his complaints. I took the bold step to report her because she locked him up in the toilet after beating him mercilessly. I don’t want her to kill the boy.” Mr. Agbodemu condemned the torture Madagwu had been subjected to.
He called for the arrest and prosecution of the persons who inflicted injuries on the boy. He said: “I took Michael and together with Mr. Odo, we reported the child abuse to the Lagos State Government.
He is with the state government Child Protection Unit. We have served the woman, he alleged to be the one who inflicted the bruises on him an invitation letter to appear before the Unit to explain herself. Nobody should inflict such wounds on another human being.”

IBADAN TRAGEDY:When we first met, I had no idea you would be so important to me

By Sola Adeyemo, Lanre Odukoya and Olushola Ricketts / in Crime, Top Stories / on Saturday, 06 Feb 2016 02:26 AM / 3 Comments / 588 views

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Heated tempers rose yesterday at the premises of the Iyaganku Chief Magistrate’s Court, Ibadan, Oyo State capital, when a sympathiser of the family of Yewande Oyediran, nee Fatoki, who allegedly murdered her husband, Lowo Oyediran. There were verbal attacks at Lowo’s elder brother, Adelani Oyediran, who furiously attempted to engage him in physical combat.
But for frantic intervention from some family members of the deceased who pacified their brother, and reprimanded the provocator, hell would have been let loose. Some other irate supporters also made move to attack the man, whose identity was not known.
The sympathisers had besieged the court premises to witness the arraignment of the accused staff of the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) in the Oyo State Ministry of Justice. She was allegedly to have stabbed her husband to death following a domestic issue of extra-marital relationship with another woman.
Charged before Chief Magistrate Kehinde Durosaro-Tijani of Court 1 on a onecount charge of murder, Yewande was ordered to be remanded in Agodi Prison till February 16. The man sympathising with the Fatoki family who was averse to Lowo’s family members’ taking the photographs, openly abused Lowo’s elder brother, calling him an idiot. In annoyance, some unprintable curses were rained on the man while some people shield and later escorted him towards the other side of the court premises.
Photo journalists, who also had strategically positioned themselves to take Yewande’s photos as soon as he was led out to mount the Black Maria, were reprimanded by some of her friends who accused them of meddlesomeness. Temper rose in the presence of the armed Prison Warders waiting to convey the accused person away.But, everyone was outsmarted when some personal belongings of the accused were put in the Black Maria and the vehicle zoomed off.
Many were disappointed when they later discovered that Yewande had been ferried out through the back door into a smaller car that drove her away. Saturday Telegraph gathered that she was driven out in a blue-coloured Primera car said to be owned by a lawyer.
The angered Lowo family members’ left in annoyance, when they realised they could not get her photographed. The accused person who looked so forlorn in the dock could not be represented by counsel from the justice ministry because the case was itself against the State.
She was, instead, represented members of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ibadan branch, led by its immediate past Chairman, Abimbola Oluwaseun. Yewande who was married to the deceased three years ago was not blessed with any child.
His late husband was however discovered to have married another lady in France where he was residing and had got a baby boy through her. The discovery was said to have angered the accused person leading to fight in the night of the fateful day.
Lowo was said to have been stabbed on the shoulder and back with a pair of scissors about 3a.m and treated at a close by hospital. On return to the house, it was gathered that the landlord of the rented house pleaded for calm and everybody later went to sleep.
By 6.10am, Lowo’s loud scream was heard as he ran to the landlord’s apartment crying for help. He had been stabbed on the neck with a knife. He was rushed to the same nearby hospital but the doctor had to refer him to Adeoyo State Hospital.
He died later at the hospital having lost much blood. Speaking with Saturday Telegraph after the court sitting, some lawyers expressed dismay at the development. Bakare said: “I have always known Miss Fatoki as a gentle and amiable person, dedicated to her job.”
Similarly, Senator Olaniyan said: “It is quite unfortunate that we have found ourselves in this ugly atmosphere. “This young lady who is alleged of murder is somebody that has a kind of high regard for due process of the law, and her stand in this regard is very impeccable.
“What could have led her into this, I don’t know. “As an Attorney, there is little I can say about it now so that whatever I say may not amount to subjudice because the matter is pending in a court of law. “But, in respect of her character, she is somebody that has good character before this incident arose.
“I don’t know what could have led her into this. Maybe it could be spiritual or borne out of emotional trauma. “It is only God that knows about it. But strictly speaking, I was taken aback when I heard this because she is the last person I could have thought could have taken law into her own hand .
However, many believe this is going to be a test case for the judiciary and the NBA. So, the members of the public are watching to see where the pendulum of justice will swing to. For now, nobody can say anything because nobody can have access to the character of the evidence for and against this matter.
“Let us keep our fingers crossed and see where the pendulum will swing at the end of the day. “More so, she is still presumed innocent of the allegation until proven guilty , and there is no law that precludes High Court from granting her bail. “The law is crystal clear in Section 118 (1, 2, 3) of the Criminal Procedure Law of who can admit an applicant to bail in murder-related case.
“For now, the case is a three-way traffic type as one Justice of the Supreme Court said: Justice to the accused; justice to the party of the accused, and justice to the society at large,” Olaniyan submitted. Saturday Telegraph checks through their social media network to gather reactions revealed that none of the embattled partners was still active on the cyberspace.
But worthy of mention is the fact that Yewande’s Facebook page had been recently tampered with. Over 12 photographs she had in her Facebook album had all been deleted for undisclosed reasons. Though her profile picture remains intact, the sight of the copious text occupying her ‘cover picture’ space, “When we first met, I had no idea you would be this important to me”, suggests emotion towards none other than her late husband.
The deceased’s few Facebook photographs are still in his album, but interestingly, not a single photograph had both of them together. Head of Ajanaku Family, Mr. Adelani Oyediran, told journalists in Gbongan, in Ayedaade Local Government Area of Osun State yesterday that Lowo’s wife, Yewande, 36, allegedly stabbed her husband with scissors in the back and shoulder at 12 midnight earlier on Tuesday before she purportedly stabbed him with a knife in the neck about 3:00a.m. the morning after which eventually led to his death.
“We believe that the police will do a thorough job and the case will get to court. “We believe in the judiciary. But, we have fear that some people may want to manipulate some things because the accused is a lawyer and she works with the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) in Oyo State Ministry of Justice.
“All the family wants is justice in this case. We don’t want any game at all. We don’t want justice to be perverted,” he said Lowo and Yewande, he stated, got married on February 9, 2013 at the Cathedral of St Peters’ Aremo, Ibadan. He said Lowo travelled to France in 2006 and did not come back to Nigeria until 2013 when he got married.
He further explained that Lowo contacted him in 2012 that he wanted a responsible Nigerian lady to marry and Yewande was introduced to the family by her younger sister, who got married to a native of Gbongan based in the United State. His family, he said, arranged for how Lowo and Yewande met in Dubai before they decided to get married.
Reacting to the incident, clinical psychologist, Dr. Richard Adebayo, said it was possible that Yewande is an introvert, one that doesn’t talk much or complain. He stresses that when quiet people finally speak they usually do so abnormally. But, according to him, it would be a different scenario when you are dealing with one that doesn’t tolerate nonsense or one that often speaks out when he or she doesn’t like a gesture.
“When you are relating with someone who expresses her or his mind, who does not have any stomach to bottle up things, you would always watch your limit or thread carefully.” For a sociologist, Dr. Oludayo Tade, there is peculiarity in any situation. He admitted that it would be inappropriate to make judgment since he wasn’t close to the couple.
“But no matter how gentle we are as humans we can be reactionary sometimes. “It could be a kind of psychological defect at that time. We are in Africa; we can’t rule out that too. “There may be a remote control of the sense; I believe so much in that because of my personal experience, though I know many people don’t believe.
“It might also be that the husband had done something to her that actually infiltrated the woman.”

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