EFCC returns forfeited property to fraud victim 

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC has recovered proceeds of crime  from a fake army general one Bolarinwa Abiodun.The Lagos Zonal Commander of EFCC, Ahmed Ghali, on Thursday stated that  Abiodun had posed as an Army General and  defrauded one Bamidele Olusegun of the sum of N266,500,000.

Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offences Court Ikeja Lagos, had on July 8th 2022 sentenced Abiodun to seven years imprisonment and also ordered him to forfeit all the proceeds he accrued from  the crime.

 In compliance with the judgment, EFCC officials  handed over a property  at 1A, Joke Ayo Street, Riverside Estate, Alagbado, Lagos, a Range Rover Sport Utility Vehicle, SUV, a black BMW car, a black Toyota Land cruiser car, a white Toyota Hilux recovered from the fake army general  to the fraud victim  Olusegun.

   

 POLICE ARREST SERIAL PEDOPHILE  PASTOR  FOR DEFILING A 14 YEARS OLD GIRL

An alleged  pedophile Pastor identified as  Olumeje Sunday was arrested for allegedly molesting a 14 year old girl. 

A source who spoke with the Advocates  For Children and Vulnerable Persons Network ACVPN said  the pastor has been allegedly defiling children before he was reported to the police and arrested.  

Ebenezer Omejailile Cordinator of ACVPN said " Our Ajah-Ibeji-Lekki focal person Comrade HArmony Tache reliably gathered that pastor Olumeje and the girl have been  transferred to the SCID PANTI" 

 Man kills wife for not picking his calls. 

A Tanzania woman identified as Swalha was allegedly shot dead by her husband for not picking up his calls after he called him seven times. The incident took place at the couple’s home after she returned home. 

Her jealous husband queried her why she didn’t take her calls.The jealous husband, out of his insecurity and jealousy, shot her seven times before killing himself too. Reports from close people say that Swalha’s husband, known as Said, took the decision due to what is alleged to be love jealousy. 

He said Swalha a Make Up artist went to work and was late returning home. Her husband was not happy with his wife’s delay in returning home, so an argument broke out between them, which led to Swalha’s husband firing on her seven times before killing himself.

 Pastor sentenced to death for killing 7-Year-Old Boy whom he buried Head under Church's Altar For Money Rituals

Justice Taiwo of the Ikeja High court has sentenced a Lagos based pastor and his accomplices to death after they were found guilty of killing a 7-year-old boy and burying his head around their church's altar in the Ikorodu area of the state. 

The judgment is coming after the act was committed in 2017.

Sources stated that the 7-year-old boy, identified as Kazeem Rafiu could not be found and the pastor was fingered . The pastor was subsequently arrested and he led policemen to the church's altar where they buried the head of the boy while the body was dumped in a canal inside the church. 

ACVPN, DOHS Podcast takes " Speak Up Against Sexual and Gender-based Violence," campaign to Lagos Community

 

 

The Advocates for Children and Vulnerable Persons Network (ACVPN) in partnership with the ‘Document Our History Podcast,’ (DOHS) will on the 27th of August 2022, carry out a sensitisation programme in the Abule-Odu community, Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State.

Mr. Ebenezer Co-founder/Chief Operating Officer ACVPN said the programme is timely and in response to escalating cases of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) reports in the Abule-Odu community.

According to ACVPN , in 2020, ACVPN attended to 216 SGBV cases, with 70% of these cases emanating from Alimosho LGA.

The local government has a high number of sexual and physical abuse cases. It also has a high number of sodomy and child neglect cases.

It was, however, discovered that most of these victims were unable to access help because of several reasons, including ignorance about their fundamental human rights. Also, there is the problem of supposed community gatekeepers, who become enablers of abuse, undermining the place of arrest, prosecution, and conviction.

DOHS host is domiciled within the community and has revealed how a victim of SGBV lost her life in the community because a safe shelter was not provided for her.

The escalating cases in the community further inform the decision of the DOHS to partner with ACVPN to employ a grassroots strategy in curbing SGBV by carrying out the sensitisation and reorientation campaign against SGBV in the community.

The sensitisation programme is key to the sustainable human development, economic growth, peace, and security of Lagos State, and Nigeria as a whole.

The need for mass enlightenment is to make the community understand what constitutes domestic and SGBV cases. There is a need for continued advocacy and for legal action against perpetrators of SGBV.

To this end, ACVPN has designed a programme that will:

*Educate the next generation about what to do if they encounter abuse of any kind.

*Teach citizens how to become advocates for ending SGBV themselves.

*Create a safe space for victims to report and share their stories.

*Offer basic health checks as well as HIV testing and counselling for residents by People Awareness on Health Foundation in Nigeria (PAHFIN), another organisation affiliated with ACVPN.

*Facilitate placement of women and girls who need to be rescued and sheltered in government-approved facilities.

The event is billed to be attended by health educators, government officials with expertise on the subject matter, law enforcement agencies, and a coalition of nongovernmental organisations that constitutes ACVPN.

The chief operating officer of ACVPN, Mr Ebenezer Omejalile, who is enthusiastic about the forthcoming programme, said: “The sensitisation programme envisions that many women, children and other victims will be liberated from potential abuse in the Abule Odu community as we build a culture of, ‘See something, Say something, Do something.’ In effect, shattering stereotypes about victims shaming and stigmatisation, and instead, shaming the abuser. Therefore, the theme, ‘Speak Up Against Sexual and Gender-based Violence,’ is apt.” 

 

Octogenarian Monarch Sentenced To Death By Hanging.

 

One Chief Essien Matthew Odiong with 12 Wives and 60 Children has been sentenced to death by hanging for murder by the Akwa Ibom State High Court.

  The accused monarch is the village Head of Efen Ibom in Ika Local Government Area of the State and was standing trial on four counts of conspiracy, directing unlawful trial by ordeal, stealing of the motorcycle and murder of Udoma Udo Ubom.

Justice Edem Akpan for the murder of one Udoma Udo Ubom sentenced the accused to death, seven years imprisonment with hard labour for directing unlawful trial by ordeal and three years imprisonment for conspiracy with others now at large.

It was gathered that the late Ubom was accused by his brothers of being a wizard and was reported to the Village Head, who brought him before the Council, where the deceased was administered an oath to swear and prove his innocent.

The court held, “The admission of the process of trial and the decision of Efen Clan Council to administer oath on the deceased, has logically brought to the conclusion that a plastic bath on the head of the late Udoma Akpan Udo Ubom and injecting some chemical susbtance through a syringe into his buttocks by the village head, caused the death of the deceased.”

The court further held, “Having sensed the consequences of his criminal activity, the monarch escaped from the Village since 2017 and returned in 2019, when he was arrested by the Police.”

Delivering judgment on Friday, Justice Akpan said the court found the accused guilty of murder of the deceased by injecting some chemical substance on him, leading to his death on 26th April, 2017.

Justice Akpan stated, “The accused had voluntarily admitted that he sat at Efen Clan Council with five other village heads and members of the Clan Council to try the deceased on the allegation of witchcraft, and the law has relieved the prosecution of the burden to prove the offense of conspiracy.”

 MAPOLY beauty queen abducted, murdered in Ogun

A female student of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Happiness Odeh has been found dead after she was abducted by unknown men.

The deceased who was a Mass Communication Student of the institution was abducted along Iperu road while on her way to a movie set location at Ipara, Ode-remo with the consent of her parents.