Portable escapes death

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w Attacked At Lagos Event, Says His ATM Card, Two iPhones, Stolen; His Signees Missing

Nigerian singer Habeeb Okikiola often known as Portable has been allegedly attacked by a group of boys in Iju Ishaga.

In a video shared by the singer on his Instagram page on Monday, he can be seen at home with his wife, groaning in pain.

According to Portable, he was attacked while celebrating with a friend, and although he managed to escape, some of his friends are still missing.

The singer claimed that his attackers stole two iPhones and his ATM card. He described the experience as a repeat of a previous incident where his ice chain and gold earring were taken.

Portable called out his attackers, referring to them as “evil” and urged them to return his stolen belongings and release his missing associates, who are also his artists.

Captioning the video, he wrote,

“Wahala big Palaba around iju ishaga We go celebrate with @lincon_orn wey dey sell motor … Inside Adugbo wey we. Dey do show na so all dis Egbon adugbo achieve us, ZEHNATION boys are still missing oo.. they attack my boys after I escape … @lincon_orn should help tell those Egbon adugbo to return @iam_sexyshay 2 iPhones and my atm.. we see @dullarboi phones and car … and we can’t still find him…I never see @bamidola_ we hear say them attack him .. those are my artists that are missing oo. God, no, go shame us 🙏 all these people are evil na so them achieve me those Egbon adugbo Collect my ice chain and my gold earring after I show them love give them all my money they still won collect my bag …. Are they Fans or enemies”.Information

Outrage and Uproar: Indian Doctors Protest Against Colleague's Horrific Murder

 

Indian  doctors across the nation have intensified their protests and strikes following the brutal rape and murder of a fellow  doctor, igniting a wave of anger over the persistent issue of violence against women.

Protests Erupt Nationwide

The shocking discovery of the 31-year-old  doctor's bloodied and battered body at a state-run hospital in Kolkata has triggered widespread outrage. An autopsy has revealed evidence of sexual assault, prompting the victim's parents to express suspicions of gang rape in a plea to the court.

Calls for Justice Grow Louder

Thousands took to the streets of Kolkata in a late-night rally on Wednesday to denounce the heinous crime. Police vigilantly guarded the R.G. Kar Medical College following its vandalism by unidentified perpetrators on August 15.

Demand for Action

Amidst the escalating fury,  doctors and healthcare professionals in Kolkata and other cities, including New Delhi and Nangpur, have united in demanding swift and decisive action in response to the tragic event. The horrific incident has once again brought to light the urgent need for effective measures to address the pervasive issue of violence against women in India.

Explosion in Rivers state: Police To arraign Suspect, As CP Disu visits scene of explosion at APP secretariat.

  

The Rivers state police command led by the Commissioner of Police CP Olatunji Disu has visited the All - Peoples Party APP secretariat in the state  where an explosion occurred. 

In a statement by the state police spokesperson SP Grace Iringe - Koko, the command also revealed that a prime suspect who allegedly is an expert in detonating explosive devices has been identified by the command , and he would soon be arraigned accordingly. 

The statement read  " On August 12th, 2024, at approximately 12:30 am, the Rivers State Police Command received a distress call reporting a loud explosion at the All-Peoples Party (APP) secretariat located in Tombia Extension, GRA Phase 2, Port Harcourt.

The Commissioner of Police, Rivers State Command, and a team of tactical units with experts from the Explosives Ordinance Disposal (EOD/Anti-Bomb) Squad were immediately mobilized to the scene to assess the situation. The team cordoned off the area and commenced Explosive Ordinance Disposal Procedures and search operations". 

" The Command's EOD experts identified a crater created in front of the building where the device was placed, causing shockwaves and damaging the glass of the windows and doors.

Eyewitness accounts around the time the explosion was heard revealed that a car had been parked a few meters from the APP Secretariat, and two men had alighted from the car, walked to the building, and ignited the suspected device before throwing it at the secretariat. They then re-entered the vehicle and drove off". 

"The discovery of a crater and other pieces of evidence, as well as eyewitness accounts, indicate the detonation of an explosive device. Thankfully, no loss of life was recorded, but damage was done to the front of the building. Samples from the site of the explosion have been taken for further forensic investigation. Operatives of the Command have been detailed to intensify efforts to investigate and apprehend all suspects involved in this incident.

Regarding the previous explosion that occurred along the Port Harcourt – Aba Expressway on June 25th, 2024, the arrested suspect who sustained serious bodily injuries and has since been undergoing treatment has been identified as Preye Josiah, alias Metusah, aged 40 years and a native of Kabiama Community of Sagbama LGA". 

Investigations revealed that Preye Josiah has been on the Police wanted list for participating in some high-profile bank robberies led by one Daniel Gogo, alias Full Payment, between 2012 and 2016, where three AK47 rifles, a Lar rifle, 360 rounds of live ammunition, 20 magazines, five dynamites, two pistols, a rifle servicing equipment, and three exotic cars were recovered in Bayelsa State by Operatives of the then IGP-IRT.Preye, who was evasive to Police arrest, was identified as the dynamite detonating expert of the gang. The suspect had also informed operatives of the Command that the explosion was a result of a dynamite. He is a member of the Vikings Confraternity. Efforts are still ongoing to arrest others involved in the crime.

Preye, who has undergone three major surgeries and has made a significant recovery, will soon be charged to a Court of competent jurisdiction after the investigations are completed" .

The Commissioner of Police, Rivers State Command, CP Olatunji Rilwan Disu, urges members of the public to be vigilant when such cases of explosion occur and to steer clear of the vicinity, as there is a tendency of another device being present. In the event of an explosion or suspicions of one, the public is advised to call the police on the following numbers:

POLICE PRESS RELEASE
UPDATE ON EXPLOSIONS IN PORT HARCOURT

Port Harcourt, August 16, 2024

On August 12th, 2024, at approximately 12:30 am, the Rivers State Police Command received a distress call reporting a loud explosion at the All-Peoples Party (APP) secretariat located in Tombia Extension, GRA Phase 2, Port Harcourt.

The Commissioner of Police, Rivers State Command, and a team of tactical units with experts from the Explosives Ordinance Disposal (EOD/Anti-Bomb) Squad were immediately mobilized to the scene to assess the situation. The team cordoned off the area and commenced Explosive Ordinance Disposal Procedures and search operations.

The Command's EOD experts identified a crater created in front of the building where the device was placed, causing shockwaves and damaging the glass of the windows and doors.

Eyewitness accounts around the time the explosion was heard revealed that a car had been parked a few meters from the APP Secretariat, and two men had alighted from the car, walked to the building, and ignited the suspected device before throwing it at the secretariat. They then re-entered the vehicle and drove off.

The discovery of a crater and other pieces of evidence, as well as eyewitness accounts, indicate the detonation of an explosive device. Thankfully, no loss of life was recorded, but damage was done to the front of the building. Samples from the site of the explosion have been taken for further forensic investigation. Operatives of the Command have been detailed to intensify efforts to investigate and apprehend all suspects involved in this incident.

Regarding the previous explosion that occurred along the Port Harcourt – Aba Expressway on June 25th, 2024, the arrested suspect who sustained serious bodily injuries and has since been undergoing treatment has been identified as Preye Josiah, alias Metusah, aged 40 years and a native of Kabiama Community of Sagbama LGA.

Investigations revealed that Preye Josiah has been on the Police wanted list for participating in some high-profile bank robberies led by one Daniel Gogo, alias Full Payment, between 2012 and 2016, where three AK47 rifles, a Lar rifle, 360 rounds of live ammunition, 20 magazines, five dynamites, two pistols, a rifle servicing equipment, and three exotic cars were recovered in Bayelsa State by Operatives of the then IGP-IRT.

Preye, who was evasive to Police arrest, was identified as the dynamite detonating expert of the gang. The suspect had also informed operatives of the Command that the explosion was a result of a dynamite. He is a member of the Vikings Confraternity. Efforts are still ongoing to arrest others involved in the crime.

Preye, who has undergone three major surgeries and has made a significant recovery, will soon be charged to a Court of competent jurisdiction after the investigations are completed.

The Commissioner of Police, Rivers State Command, CP Olatunji Rilwan Disu, urges members of the public to be vigilant when such cases of explosion occur and to steer clear of the vicinity, as there is a tendency of another device being present.

In the event of an explosion or suspicions of one, the public is advised to call the police on the following numbers:
08036219523
08032003514

SP GRACE IRINGE-KOKO (ANIPR)
POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER

RIVERS STATE POLICE COMMAND

ACVPN irked as police officer arrest, brutalizes Widower who went to buy food for his hungry children, connived with Task Force Office , Magistrate to send him to Kirikiri on trump up charges

  ---- victim calls on IGP to fish out and punish officer who  rendered him disabled

---- Task Force commander, Magistrate should be relieved of their positions , made to face the law for sending innocent Nigerians to prison ----ACVPN

-----Lagos state police command keeps mute on Police brutality of Widower.

 

A widower , Oseni Adewale  a father of three said he is a  victim of police brutality and the lack of fair hearing by the magistrate attached to the Task Force Office in Oshodi Lagos state Nigeria  .

Adewale , who is a commercial bus driver said he was   arrested  by the police attached to the Makinde Police station  and  his arrest, prosecution and incarceration for three weeks for alleged '' wandering '' at night  has  brought to the fore the need to look at the manner the Lagos state  Task Force office and Magistrate operate to the detriment of citizens ‘s human rights where young men are arrested and charged to court for alleged wandering at night.

This request  to look into alleged   human rights abuses by the police men attached to the  Makinde police station and their alleged co conspirators in the Task Force Office and Magistrate therein was made by  a non profit human rights group the Advocates For Children and Vulnerable   Persons Network (ACVPN) .

ACVPN ‘s request became necessary following series of cases the rights groups  said it has received from citizens over the alleged high handedness of the police in the Makinde police station. One of such cases of police brutality was reported by Mr. Adewale who is writhing in pains from the wounds on his body he claimed was inflicted on him by a police officer he  identified as Supol Akeem popularly known as Spider attached to the Makinde Police station.

Narrating his ordeal to ACVPN ,  the father of three said ‘’  My name is Oseni Wasiu Ajadi Adewale known as Oseni Wasiu aka Wasiu Royal. I am an Oyo state indigene, I was born in Ibadan, after graduating from secondary school in 2002, I came to Lagos for greener pasture and how to feed myself while working. I started working as a transporter, on the 14th of July, 2024, the commercial transport vehicle that I drove had mechanical fault at Iyana-Isolo,  it's not my vehicle, I usually deliver to the owner so I couldn't have left it there, so I got a mechanic to fix the bus so that I can present the bus to the owner, the repairs took my time till past 10pm in the evening’’

 ‘’On getting home, my children age 14, 10 and 6yrs old have not slept,  they told me the food I left for them before I left home has been eaten in the afternoon and they have nothing to eat in the evening, meanwhile their mother passed on about two months ago,  I know how I feel when am hungry so I couldn't have let them go to bed without food, so I left home that night to go buy food for them at a canteen nearby at Alhaja's place at Oshodi road, on my way back home to go feed my children,  I just noticed someone packed a vehicle closely behind me,  I noticed he is a police officer attached to Makinde Police Station at Oshodi known as Supol Akeem aka Spider. I pleaded with him and showed him the food I went to buy for my children but he was so heady and tough with me, he knows me very well within the community,  he knows I'm a commercial bus driver,  I begged him for minutes and he still made up his mind of taking me to the station with the foods I bought for my children, I live in a rented apartment, I'm not living in a family house that if my parents don't see me they will take care of my children, no one knew I was arrested at that moment and they didn't know how my phone got misplaced so I couldn't call anyone. As I continue begging him, he refused to listen to my plea,  he was holding an iron (base ball baton) which he used to hit me hard on my right leg,  I didn't even know it's something that will degerate to these level’’. 

 

I knew the leg pained me excruciatingly ,  he then took me away by force with the foods in take away pack in my hand.  

‘’I took it as a fate, believing the next morning he will let me go so I can go meet my children but to my surprise he ordered all of us  he picked that night to come out of the cell,  we were about 6 in number, some called their family who came to bail them,  those of us that couldn't reach out to our families were asked to write down our names,  he then ordered us to board the minibus known as korope, he then drove us to task force office at Oshodi without been caught stealing and not been in conflict with the law. I was told to write a statement at the task force office,  about 30 minutes later I was called along with others that the lawyer wants to see us.  I explained everything that happened to the magistrate, with all my plea, I was sentenced to 3 weeks in Kirikiri correctional centre,  I felt so bad and pained because my children don't know my whereabout or what happened to me’’. 

 

When I got to Kirikiri my leg started developing much pains and started swelling up, on waking up the next day I noticed it has bursted due to the injury Supol Akeem aka Spider inflicted on me, since then it became a big soar till I left Kirikiri on 10th of August, 2024. Since then the pain continues,  I couldn't sleep or eat,  I can't do anything nor go to work because of the leg.  It's just dripping water and paining me. When I got to the health center at Oshodi, they said I will be treated just for today that if I want them to continue treating my leg I should get a police report, I wondered because I didn't sustain gunshot injury. The handcuff Supol Akeem used to tightened my hand inflicted serious injuries on my wrists,  the correctional centre at Kirikiri tried for me because they have health facility within, I was given medications and injections but it doesn't look like I got real treatment’’. 

 

‘’I was taken to task force because I didn't see anyone to come bail me at Makinde Police Station. I was looking at my house ahead when the officer got me arrested. The food I went to buy for my children was taken a long with me to task force office, yet it was evident that I went to buy food for my children,  I showed the food to the magistrate, yet I got jailed for 3 weeks. I want the Inspector General of Police and the Lagos State Commissioner of police to intervene and do the needful on the officer that almost killed me and rendered me disable’’ 

 

I want justice, I've been borrowing money to buy medications because he can no longer work as bus driver due to the injury the police officer inflicted on him. If i die on the spot that day of the incident i believe the police will throw my corpse away or parade my dead body as a thief. I want the police to pay my bills, pay compensation and also punish the officer that abused his office despite knowing me as a commercial bus driver, all because i couldn't reach out to my family as my phone got lost during the arrest and couldn't call anyone to bail me so he preferred sending me to jail because of personal interest.

My Children are also feeling the heat because their mother died two months ago, i couldn't fend for my  children as expected.

 

The public should also hear my cry and help me.

I was directed to the office of ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE PERSONS NETWORK ACVPN to get justice’’

Mr. Ebenezer Omejalile the Coordinator of ACVPN while condemning the brutality against the victim said ‘’ This is the most inhuman treatment Melted to a Non Offender citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.This is simply police brutality, abuse of office, human rights abuse, racketeering, agencies conspiracy theory and miscarriage of the criminal justice system against law abiding citizens of Nigeria.The alleged perpetrator Akeem aka Spider has been on our raider for time for his abusive behavior at every given opportunity. What correlation is this with Task Office and sentencing?Report has it that Akeem aka Spider has been transferred out of Makinde division on numerous occasions yet he finds his way back simply because he has his God fathers he often sends returns.Despite the victim showed and proofed that he went to get food for his three children Akeem still went ahead to treat him the way he did ,this simply means Akeem aka Spider has a personal vendetta against the victim despite he knows him as a commercial driver’’.

 

‘’What beat my imagination was the transfer to Task Force office simply because he didn't part with money Akeem aka Spider decided to rope the victim as a wonderer with full proof that he wasn't.The Task Force office in OSHODI is a breeding ground for criminally minded officers, the mistreatment melted to Non offenders is unimaginable, The TaskForce  office Commander should also face the wrath of the law for such animalistic behavior on a non offenders’’

 

Speaking further, Mr. Omejalile said ‘’The Lagos State of Ministry of Justice Annex office whether Mobile Court is a complete disgrace to the criminal justice system, despite the victim showed that he was wrongly arrested yet the sitting magistrate still went ahead and sentenced him for three weeks its a complete sham and a high level of Monkey Business between the Makinde Police Division,the TaskForce  Office and the Sitting mobile court. There has been several insinuations that they are generating revenue to the Commissioner of Police Lagos . ACVPN can beat its chest against such insinuations the present CP Lagos will never be associated with such unGodly act .Akeem aka Spider and his cohorts must face the consequences of their inactions through the Provost office .We won't be keep quiet on this’’.

 When contacted , the Lagos state police command spokesperson SP Benjamin Hundeyin said he was not available for comment .

From Moniya To Oje : How human parts dealers operate effortlessly in Ibadan City ----- Police tackling crime ---- Oyo CP

 

----- " some  Victims allegedly seeking ways to get rich fast"  ---- source 

 

Is human killings becoming rift in Ibadan Oyo state ?  This  excerbated murder of a human being and extracting the body parts for alleged purpose of ritual for get rich fast wealth  is no doubt worrisome. 

Last weekend  , one  Malik Kareem was reportedly killed for rituals 

Kareem it was gathered wrote his final examination for  the WAEC sources stated. 

Following the crime, the Oyo state police command  arrested one Muhammad Adekunle. 

The Oyo state Commissioner of Police CP Ayodele Sonubi paraded  Adekunle and other suspect. It was gathered stated that Adekunle is a member of a gang that specializes in killing human beings for rituals purposes.

 Other members of his alleged gang were identified as Lukman, Olobe and Ifa. 

The suspects were fingered in human killings for ritual purposes in January and also in  April the gang allegedly murdered one  Adekola Sodiq at the  Monica area of the state  severed his head and legs. The gang sold the severed body parts. 

Also on   August 7th , the suspect and others allegedly  stabbed one Malik Kareem to death and severed his head and legs which was sold to one Rashidat Akanji at Oje Market for the sum of Seventy Thousand Naira (N70,000.00).

Three human body parts were allegedly found when a search was conducted in the prime suspect house in a well. it was learnt. 

One  Muniru Salawudeen ‘m’, Rashidat Akanji ‘f’ Ismail Olalekan ‘m’ and Obaleye Sanmi arrested by the police allegedly  confessed that they bought different types of human parts for money ritual from the said Adekunle Mohammed.”

Also  one Muyideen Raimi was arrested  for exhuming and severing  his late cousin head. 

When Protesters behaviour become worst than the government they are protesting against

 

Protesters in Benin City Edo state have turned the ongoing protest in the country to a broad daylight  extortion  venture. Our correspondent who visited the protest venues along the  Benin –Ore Express  road watched as the protesters mounted road blocks and subjected motorists to hellish ordeals and extorted road users.

Mourners , security agencies, residents, business owners  and persons on emergency duties were not spared as they were harassed, intimidated and made to part with money before they were allowed to move from one road block to another mounted by the protesters.

More than five road blocks  were seen  from the GRA area of the state to the 7UP Bottling company towards Ore  Express road and each roadblocks were manned by fierce looking protesters used sticks and tyres to barricade the roads.

Our correspondent noticed that the protesters who are majorly men  also forced the road users to use green leaf  on their cars and punished others  by compelling them  to dance along with them before they were made to drive through the barricades on the road after the motorists paid them a fee.

Some mourners who had come to Benin city to bury their dead and were heading back to their various destinations  recounted how their pleas to leave Benin City fell on deaf ears until they had to pay some amount of money  to the protesters before the protesters  allowed them through each road block.

One of the mourners who gave his name as Salua said ‘’ I came to Edo state for a burial. Some of my colleagues and friends were with me all through the burial but on Saturday after the burial and we headed back to our various destination, we started experiencing hellish situation in the hands of the protesting young men. Some faces I saw are faces you do not see on a normal day. The protesters were angry with us because they felt we were not protesting with them. But we showed them our obituary posters that we came to the city to bury a loved one. That  explanation  got them angry the more as they subjected us to long wait since they have barricaded they roads. We were held on the illegal road blocks for a long time . The entire areas were rowdy with various group of young men shouting, screaming and barking orders that the road block should not be opened for us and other motorists to move. In order to get out of the chaotic scene, we noticed that the young men were demanding for money before they can allow our vehicle to move on. After making us to part with money, they screamed at us and said ‘’ This is what you people supposed to have done since, you were busy telling us that you came for burial  , don’t you know that we are hungry? Now that you have given us money , you can move but be rest assured that you will meet another road block in front that one is not our business , we have collected our own money from you people’’ at every road block we encountered,  we parted with two thousand naira and bought them sachet alcoholic drink’’ .

Our correspondent also narrated how the protesters intimidated her to dance  before she can get along the road .

She said  ‘’ We drove into the protesters and from one road block they mounted to the other on the Benin –Ore Express road. They ensured we regretted coming out on the road. I counted about eleven road blocks mounted  by the protesters . They  were also extorting motorists before they can allow a passage, you pay some money to them. They charge  between N1000 to N2000 on each vehicle depending on how they feel. There was one of the road blocks that I and other persons in our vehicles were made to dance. The leader of that road block and his goons came at us while we were held in the traffic they created as a result of the road block they mounted and he was very angry with  us. He ordered us to come down from our vehicle and start dancing with them. We were so scared of the fierce looking men they are and we danced were forced to dance . When the leader noticed that some persons among us were not  dancing to their satisfaction, he will come at us and shouted orders for use to dance well because if we do not dance to their satisfaction , they will not allow us to drive through the barricade on the road . At that point of helplessness and seeing that any form of disobedience can have serious harsh consequences , we decided to dance and kept dancing. They targeted me and made me dance more because to them I was looking like someone that is not hungry. I danced my heart out seeing that we were in their midst without any security personnel to help us. The protesting youth rendered the security of the state useless. There were no sight of security personnel at all the road blocks they mounted . These protesting youth had a field day harassing anyone on the road and extorting them. They are lords to themselves and the people their subjects they treated as they deemed fit, they held us hostage saying we cannot leave ,intimidating their fellow citizens and forcing us  to part with money to regain our freedom and movement . It was a very horrible situation I found myself and all through the ordeals from one road block to the other , money and prayer including obeying what they said was what got us out of their menace. I danced and when the leader saw that I had danced to their satisfaction, he ordered that we should be allowed to drive through the barricade. Some of them insisted that we must give money as well  to appease them which we did . One of our persons in the vehicle gave them some money before they removed the sticks  and we were allowed to pass through the barricade’’.

Narrating further, the correspondent said ‘’ When we got to the road , a particular road block just before the  7up bottling company, the protesters were so many in that road block and they kept us on the road for more than 40 minutes . Everything including money we gave them so we could drive pass but still they refused to allow us through.  We had no choice but to wait endlessly on the road while they danced to their music. We later found out that a woman was the leader of that road block and some of our friends went to appeal to her but she did not bulge. They begged her but she said we must remain on the road with them to protest that the protest was for the good of everybody and we should stop seeing them as our enemies. One of the protesters came to us and told us that they will make us stay on the road till 6pm for daring to move on the road when there was a protest .  Another man came to us that if we sabotage the protest, he was going to buy a gun with his last money and become an armed robbers that people are suffering while we are travelling .After waiting for more than thirty minutes and forced  to part with some amount of money, the protesters let us pass through their barricade  and we headed  to yet another road block about two minutes after. The road blocks are about two minutes apart  so there is no trick you can display, you will encounter them on the road. When we got to  the road block near the 7up bottling company,the protesters at this particular road block were very mean and they came against the motorists in their numbers . They were shouting and screaming at the motorists that we have the boldness to come out. There was a vehicle conveying some mourners. The vehicle was driven by a soldier man and there were two other soldiers in the entourage with the mourners. As soon as the protesters saw the soldiers, they went into a rampage and were shouting but the soldiers were very calm. The soldiers were armed and they allowed the tension to douse before they  walked up to the protesters and gently spoke to them that they were escorting mourners to a burial ceremony because the mourners used the army ambulance. A man who claimed to be the leader of the protesters on that road block told the soldiers that they respect them because the soldiers did not try to use any strong tactics to get their way. The soldier told them that they were not there for trouble and they should allow them to pass but one of the youth was very angry and still preventing the soldiers from  passing. Other protesters got angry with him and they started fighting and dragging him from the road. Fortunately, one of the soldiers held back the other protesters that they should stop beating the young man because at this point, a fight had broken out . It was the soldier man that stopped the protesting youth from beating up  the young man who was bent on preventing the soldiers from driving through the barricade. The other protesters had to drag that particular young man away from the road and that was how the soldiers and other motorists were allowed to pass through the barricade but the motorists were extorted . There was also this particular young man that got the beating of his life for recording the altercations at the roadblock  . The protesters ensured they beat him up mercilessly with evidence of blood gushing from his mouth before they let him go. One of them made the man to delete all the recordings before they let him go’’.

Other motorists spoke against the protesters mounting  roadblocks  and the hellish experience they faced in the hands of the protesting youth on the road . They call on the president President Bola Ahmed Tinubu , the Inspector General of Police IGP Kayode Egbetokun and the army to restore order in the country as the protesters have sadly become a menace to fellow Nigerians .

One of the motorists who gave his name as Jude said ‘’ I am a resident of Benin City and what I was made to go through in the hands of these criminals calling themselves protesters was hellish. How can a sane government allow criminals and hoodlums to take over the country in the name of protest ? Imagine what we are being subjected to by these criminals because those calling for protest in the country allowed harden criminals , cultists, yahoo yahoo boys and all sorts of criminal elements to come out from their hiding places to unleash terror on innocent citizens. Is this what a  protest is all about? Forcing your fellow Nigerians to dance, part with money and wait endlessly , threatening , harassing others to join in a protest. People on emergency duties were harassed, intimidated and extorted by these so called protesters. Is this what protesters are supposed to do? Forcing people to part with money for their lives and movements . Are they not the ones  protesting against so called bad government so tell me are they not worst than the politicians in Abuja ? This is not a protest and I know why they are protesting . They are having a field day extorting and harassing motorists and that is why they are coming out to protest. They are benefitting from the protest as they are forcing fellow citizens to part with money or face hell on the roads. They are criminals that should be removed from the roads. These so called protesters have weakened our security and they have taken over the country while our security are standing by looking helplessly  and even begging these criminals so that they can move on the road . This should not be acceptable to anybody. Even poor people coming out to eke a living are not spared. Are they the ones feeding the poor? Why resort to intimidating and  extorting your fellow Nigerians  ? ‘’

Another motorist who identified himself as Ken said  ‘’This is very wrong and the government and security agencies should not sit back and allow those calling for protest in their houses to continue to do so because they are hiding in their houses while calling people out on social media to protest. Who are the people bearing the brunt? , It is the fellow Nigerians that are made to suffer because hoodlums and criminals have taken over the protest. They are the ones mounting roadblocks and extorting their fellow citizens . I and my co travelers were extorted by these so called criminals .  They forced us to dance, wait endlessly and still we gave them sachet alcoholic drinks , and more than ten thousand naira in all we were extorted from one road block to the other . After they have kept motorists waiting and shouting and screaming at us, the next thing is , they will come and say ‘’ Oya bring money ,bring N2000 before we let you pass the road block’’. We had to give them the money so that we can get out of their midst. At a point we resorted to prayers and pleading for our lives and properties . At some points, our co travelers had to join them and behave as if they are part of them all to clear the barricades  so we can move but still they were not tricked as they know one another . At the end of the day, it was the mercy of God that got us out of all the terrible roadblocks and the money the hoodlums called protesters extorted from us. In my view, those calling for protest are doing more harm than good because they sit in the comfort of their houses and call for protest whereas it is criminals that are having a field day and subjecting hungry citizens to more hellish situations. I am traumatized as I am speaking to you’’.

Another motorist who identified himself as  Blessing said ‘’ If this is what protest is, I am not a party to it because this is suffering ourselves. If we say the government is bad then what  these boys doing to fellow Nigeria is it good? They are worst than the government and should vacate the roads because how can you explain the extortion of Nigerians who want to drive through the roads? Why force them to pay or intimidate them to give protesters money?  This is horrible and it must be put to an end immediately because we have seen that the passion they bring to protest is fake passion, they are protesting because they are having the time of their lives forcing Nigerians to part with money for them and the media is not reporting the criminals hiding under the cover of protest. The media are busy giving hoodlums 24 hours coverage while  fellow citizens  are being harassed and extorted in the name of protest. Social media and traditional media houses are aiding these evil wicked protesters by giving them coverage and this must stop. Is this  what protesting is about ?  So tell me why are they condemning the  government whereas they are doing worst things to fellow Nigerians . The hellish experience the protesters subjected us to is a life time trauma I and my co travelers will never forget  ’’.

 

Protest : Oyo police command assures residents of adequate security .

--- Says  " We have embarked on joint patrol of the state ". 

The Oyo state police command has assured residents of the state of maximum security during the intended nationwide protest. This assurance was given by the Commissioner of Police CP Ayo Sonubi during a stakeholders emergency meeting in the state on Friday. 

CP Sonubi who was represented by the Deputy Commissioner of Police DCP Akinade Adejobi said the police in collaboration with other security agencies in the state are patrolling the state and will ensure that the protest will not  be hijacked. 

He said " Part of what we discussed here today is the assurance that we are going to cooperate with them if they come out at all. We will ensure that the protest is not hijacked. As I talk to you , alot of measures have been put in place on patrol of the town. There is what we call joint patrol". 

 Stakeholders at meeting include local government chairmen , councillor among others. 

The  governor of Oyo state Engr Seyi Makinde who was represented by the special assistant on security Rtd commissioner of police CP Fatia Owoseni said the planned protest is permitted under the law as long as it is peaceful. 

He calls for the use of security emergency toll number 615 in case of any security threat.

He said " I must emphasize that this is not tailored towards stopping anybody from exercising his or her fundamental human right to peaceful assemblage. What is the essence of the protest if at the end of the day we are counting casualties"

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