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Thursday, 10 July 2014

TWO POLICEMEN ARE STANDING TRIAL FOR STEALING N30 MILLION BELONGS TO OBA OF LAGOS

Two policemen, Victor Ikudehin, 34 and Philip Hunsa, 34, are standing trial before Magistrate Helen Omisore, on a four-count charge bordering on conspiracy and stealing N30 million belongs to His Royal Highness, Oba Rilwan Akiolu. Two policemen, used to provide security at the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu’s palace.

The prosecutor further said the policemen conspired to steal the said amount, adding that they also did not prevent one teenager (names withheld) from committing the offence.

According to the prosecutor, the offences are punishable under Section 409, 285 (7) and 408, of the Criminal Laws of Lagos state of Nigeria, 2011.
Sections 285 prescribes three years imprisonment, for any offender, if found guilty.
Earlier, the defendants had pleaded not guilty to the charges against them.

However, Magistrate Helen Omisore granted the defendants bail in the sum of N250,000 each with two responsible sureties each in like sum.
She adjourned the matter till July 31.

Wednesday, 9 July 2014

CHARLES OPUTA:WHY SHOULD WE BE PRAYING FOR 2 TO 3 HOURS NON-STOP?

“First of all, I am not a church goer. I am a Buddhist, though I was born into the Catholic doctrine. And part of my reason for not going to church is the fact that I have been to a lot of churches. For the first 20 years of my life, I was a mass servant. I was an ‘altar boy’ because my father was a disciplinarian. If you don’t go to morning mass, you are bound to be in trouble. I did all that for 20 years, and that’s the kind of background I was coming from. But things have changed regarding the mode of worship in most churches. They spend more time than necessary. Why should we be praying for two to three hours non-stop? I have other things to do.”

Tuesday, 8 July 2014

APC CHIEFTAIN ODEYEMI ITUNU AND THE GANGS:ARE THEY POLITICAL THUGS OR REAL ARMED ROBBERS?


All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, did you say honourable? Ok, Honourable Odeyemi Itunu, who claimed to be a personal assistant to Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State.was paraded alongside other suspects that specialised in snatching vehicles from their owners at gunpoint in different parts of the country by Operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, FSARS, Adeniji-Adele, Lagos, yesterday.

 Odeyemi Itunu (aka Gomina), was arrested when one of the suspects was arrested in Lagos with one of the victims’ Black Berry mobile phone, which led to the arrest of two members of the gang in Ekiti, who claimed to be members of APC. “The confession of the suspect in Lagos led to the arrest of Omoniyi Ajewole (28), who claimed to be a political thug in Ekiti.working for Itunu.

 “I have never participated in any robbery operation in my entire life. Ajewole is my political thug. He escorts me with the gun. All of us as chieftains were given slots in the state and as chieftains, we were supposed to work for the state government during the 2014 governorship elections.
“Every political party including ours, the APC, has factions. That was why I gave him the gun so that he could always protect me wherever I went. I also told him to be with me particularly as the Ekiti election approached.

“But before the elections, the Police stormed my house and arrested me. I found the gun on the ground during the 2007 elections violence in the state and had kept it for use. I am not an armed robber. I only gave Ajewole the gun to use for my protection. I cannot tell you more than that.” Itunu said.

The Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, explained that the arrest was made following a petition by one of the victims that his two vehicles and other valuables were stolen at gunpoint in his Ile Ife home on June 27, 2013.
He said: “The matter was transferred to Federal SARS, where a team led by the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Chris Ezike, swung into action.

“After months of sustained investigation, detectives traced the stolen GSM handset to one Jacob who opened up that it was sold to him by Omoniyi Ajewole who claims to be a political thug. When Ajewole was picked up, everything that was stolen from the house in Ile Ife was traced to him.

“During interrogation, he confessed that the gun was given to him by a councillor. Investigation reveals that Ajewole is deeply involved in the whole process. He is not just a political thug as he claims, he is actually a member of the armed robbery gang.
“This systematic investigation led to the arrest of six suspects who have been clearly linked with not just the initial robbery incident that was reported but to series of other armed robbery incidents that have taken place in various parts of the country.
“Apart from the six robbery suspects, two receivers of some of the stolen vehicles were also arrested.
“Of these 17 recovered cars, 12 of them are Toyota products. That again explains why we will continue to advise Nigerians, particularly those who use Toyota products, to know that they must go the extra mile of safe guarding them.”


 “I am not a robber. I am a political thug, I work for APC. Honourable Itunu employed me last year and gave me a gun. He pays me N50,000 every month and also assists me financially in other areas.

“What I do is to guard him whenever there was any meeting between him and members of other parties and during campaigns. But I have never used the gun to rob.
“I only gave it as barter to a friend whom I collected some things from. I did not know he used it to rob. One of them was arrested and he brought the police to me.” Ajewole said.
The receivers, Tolani Babatunde and Abubakar Umar, who are both car dealers, were arrested in Abuja.

Mba, therefore, called on politicians to play the game by the rules, warning that the police would bring the full wrath of the law on anyone or group of persons that would breach the law.

NB: ....is this another political motive?

TOLANI AJAYI WAS ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY MURDERED HIS DAD CHARLES AJAYI (SAN)

 Tolani Ajayi,21, 300-level student of Department of History and International Relations of Redeemer University, RCCG Camp, Ogun State, was arrested for allegedly killing his father, Charles Ajayi, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, in the Redemption Camp along Lagos/Ibadan expressway .

Muyiwa Adejobi, the Police Public Relations Officer, Ogun State Police Command in a statement on Sunday  6th July ,said its command uncovered the mystery behind the killing of a legal luminary who was slaughtered by his biological son.The suspect, Tolani Ajayi, was arrested the same day he committed the crime in his father’s residence where the incident occurred at about 5:30pm.

“The shattered body of Mr Charles Ajayi, 60, was recovered in a nearby bush at Canaanland Street in the RCCG Camp in a box after he was killed by his son.

“The DPO Redemption Camp, Superintendent of Police, SP, Olaiya Martins led a team of detectives and some members of the community who noticed the strange attitude of the suspect while dumping a box at the point where the body of the SAN was found and thereafter traced the ground marks of the dragged box from where the suspect dumped the dad’s corpse to the house of the Senior Advocate of Nigeria, where they met the suspect in a relaxed mood in the house.

“Upon interrogation, the suspect earlier lied that his dad had gone on evangelism before he eventually confessed to the crime when he was taken to the Redemption Camp Divisional Headquarters.

“He stated further that problem arose when his late father confronted him for not responding to the prayer points he (the deceased) was calling which made his father to slap him. He said he went mad and went straight to the kitchen to pick up a knife to stab him and later a cutlass to cut his throat, thereby killing him.

“The exhibits, including the knife and cutlass he used in killing his father, had been recovered by the Police and the corpse of the SAN had been deposited at a morgue in Sagamu.

“The Commissioner of Police, Ogun State, CP Ikemefuna Okoye has sent a powerful team of detectives led by the officer in charge of Homicide Section of the Department of Criminal Investigation, Eleweran, Abeokuta to assess the situation and take over the matter for further investigation and necessary action.

CRUELTY AGAINST WOMEN: NO ONE SHOULD KEEP SILENCE

Is this a Photoshop or real? Yes this is real and not a make-up. ‘The lady in this picture underneath is Tope Aduni Olabiwoninu Dougherty, who as you can see was allegedly beaten up by Tunde Ologundudu her boyfriend. These are some of the things no one should keep silence about. No woman deserves such treatment.’

Yes no woman in the whole world deserves to be treated like this; it is barbaric, animalistic behaviour, and it must be condemn in totality.

Culled:HNNAFRICA:

Saturday, 5 July 2014

EJIGBO WOMEN SODOMY: HOW FAMILY AND THE POLICE CHANGED THE STORY!!!

Dr Joe Odumakin (pictured right) is a women's rights activist and the president of the rights groups, Women Arise for Change Initiative. She spearheaded the arrest of the men who tortured three Ejigbo women last year. The men were recently arraigned in court for conspiring to murder. But it's no longer certain that one of the victims, Juliana, is dead.

Read what Dr. Joe wrote below...

Until that day some two months ago after we returned from Benin Republic to get clearance from their Interpol to excavate Juliana's body on forensic examination, I still carried the believe in my head that Juliana was underneath the mold of earth, near which I stood to promise her justice.

Maybe till now, I still do, because it sounds strange and mysterious to me that a family we had stood solidly for, even when we were yet to know or meet with them, carrying out protests and disturbing every institution for investigations, would turn back and suddenly change their story, which they made us in turn share to the world.

That voice from Baba-Ibeji as we journeyed to the Federal SARS office to collect feedback from the police on their meeting with the Interpol in Benin still resonates in my ears; "Doctor, I am sorry I did not tell you this before. Maybe it was the informant's fault that she told us to always maintain that Juliana was dead until all is over". That was Baba-Ibeji's voice, Juliana's father, known in the Ejigbo pepper sodomy case as the Palm wine tapper.

I thought I did not hear him well, he said it again, in imbalanced Yoruba language. I was confused, I asked what he meant. After his explanations, it dawned slowly on me that it must be the reason they had sent for me from the Federal SARS, asking me to bring him and his son along.

We had gone with the Police team from Nigeria to Benin Republic, with mission to gain easy permission to exhume the corpse for forensic check. However the day finished without achieving it. I had to return to Lagos very late that night from Benin Republic to catch flight back to Abuja, the National Confab required my input.

But we left the police over there, to continue with the assignment. We had thought we would do the forensics same day, but that did not happen due to long process of obtaining clearance from their Interpol.

I left late that night for Lagos. But Baba-Ibeji did not tell me what they told their own police in Benin Republic, and now to Nigeria's police when they arrived their yard for the assignment. We had communicated many times after then. But he did not still tell me they had a new story for the police than I knew, of Juliana's death.

Now in the car, he explained that Juliana was not physically dead, but that he thought we were the same (Women Arise) with the informant who brought him to us and collected the reward announced by the Lagos State House of Assembly. He said the woman (the informant) knew about it from day one, that Juliana was not physically dead to their knowledge, but got missing and was concluded to have died. He said he thought I also knew about the informant's position, asking that they maintain that she was dead whenever asked.

Terribly, I got disturbed!

I immediately began to think of many things; how I had gone to the grave; how I had made promises for justice at the grave site (which I was just being told no longer belongs to Juliana); how I had made the world believe the same thing I was told about Juliana's death; all the efforts; my integrity...and the rest.

We were on the third mainland bridge and heading for Adeniji Adele, office of the Federal SARS. I felt like jumping out on the car and into the lagoon. The day was saved by two men in the car with me asides from the palm wine tapper. Leye, the Women Arise Project Officer and Segun O'Law, the citizen reporter who had been capturing footages and rendering a documentary from the case. Himself, O'Law, almost broke down, but as he saw me go mute, thinning and profusely sweating, he grew himself back into the characteristic of a man so as to help me pull up fair approximation to a balance. I wanted to probe further, but O'Law cut it, making him suspend any further explanation yet, until we reached our destination. I understand O'Law wanted me to gain a some recovery from the shock first, before we'd proceed on that, but I was anxious.

O'Law prevailed, laying off the discussion temporarily. But I had almost lost sense of myself.

We assembled on the Federal SARS premises, and decided to talk further before going in to meet our prospective host. I had lost my appetite, but was famished. I knew more that day, that a worried mind is a quick drain pipe of body fluids. I could not tell difference between my own mass (or how flexible it felt at that time) from the size of a broom stick. I felt lighter for what a little amount of breeze would displace. My vision blurred, and I fast dazed.

Suddenly, our prospective host stepped out. He was leaving for other assignment. The officer noticed something was wrong with me and spent a great deal of time chatting with us about others things. He requested we fix another time, between when he called me to say he understood what had happened to me, which was his reason for fixing another time.

Sincerely, words cannot capture it. I thought I would not survive it. Nothing ever shocked or shook me like that. It was like a magnitude of tsunami capable off throwing a city into irreparable calamity hitting me, been tortured by the military, jailed, shot on my leg, robbed in gun point and faced multiple tragedies, they did not shake me as such. But something threatening my integrity was a worse hit. What would I tell the world now, whose attention I had turned on the Ejigbo case?

I began calling all that stood with us since start of the case. I called in the OPD officials, who are in collaboration with us on the matter. I hinted them. More people entered the disturbance.

Long story short, we invited the OPD attorney along for the next day fixed for meeting at the Federal SARS. Now, we were formally made aware of the news; we could not establish "murder" in the case, because victim's family said they weren't sure she physically died, but they had only buried her spirit in line with certain traditional practice. Baba-Ibeji insisted it was their practice to call over and bury the spirit of a person that has been missing for a long time, and later presumed to be dead. He said in their culture, if they called such person's spirit, who had gone missing for a while, the person would return. Otherwise, the person is dead. I had heard about people using charms to call their children home from abroad, they were distant stories yet, until Baba-Ibeji's strange narrations here. Even if that was, we had become too close not to have disclosed that to me, even till the moment I insisted he showed to me the grave site and I traveled with our team to see it in Porto Novo.

His excuse; he thought the informant woman was part of our team, and he already disclosed that to her when she located him and brought him to us for the announced reward. He said the informant told him not to say that again, but to simply say she was dead. O'Law then wondered aloud; "but you burst into tears the day we asked you about Juliana and it was in tears you announced to us that she died. Was that part of a rehearsed line with the informant", no convincing answer came.

So, the police would charge the suspects (the "pepper-trators" as O'Law called them in the documentary) only for inflicting bodily injuries, attempted murder and all the sorts. No murder charge, but is Juliana alive?

Although the police also said they met with local chiefs in the victim's village and were told Juliana is alive and had even just had a baby in a local hospital there, Baba-Ibeji insisted their rite never failed and that Juliana is dead since she did not return after the rite. I, OPD, Baba-Ibeji, O'Law and the entire Women Arise team kept asking, and till now, who saw Juliana and where is she? No answer yet. If the police claimed Juliana was not yet dead from what they were told by locals in Benin Republic and therefore expunged allegation of murder from the charges, it behooves of the institution to probe further and help locate Juliana; that I insist on. It will be my greatest joy if Juliana is not dead, so she will come and tell the world her own story, herself.

I still believed something must have changed the story with the family, perhaps, Juliana is in that tomb.
Could they have been bribed to change the story? But I give him and family some money each time we see so that they don't feel lack as such. Could the family possibly be afraid at the news that police wants to excavate the tomb for forensics and therefore claim she is not in it? Could this be; or could that be? Many questions, no answer.

I asked him if the police could still go ahead and open the tomb, at least to confirm if Juliana was buried there or not. But "No", he said.

The palm wine tapper insisted it was abominable for any corpse ever buried in their culture to be opened for any reason whatsoever. Even though I respect people's diverse cultures and traditional practices, my doubt for him on this one grew, yet more.

He said there was a body buried in that tomb he showed us but it belonged to his own mother. By practice, he said, missing Juliana's spirit was called to join his own late mother in his tomb. He said by that rite, if Juliana was still alive even though missing, she would return home, but after more than a period of eight months if she did not return after that rite, then it could only mean she is dead.

And dead, they had concluded, since it was abundantly more than a year yet she was missing and the rite to find or bury her had been conducted (according to Baba-Ibeji, the palm wine tapper). What I should add is that it was in a herbalist place in their hometown that she was taken for treatment, and one day they got there to the news that she walked away from there and had not been found ever since. Although another account has it that a man came to pick her from the herbalist place and later they saw her having a baby in a local hospital. Whichever is true, she was missing and by their rite, she was dead from there. Otherwise, the rite would have brought her back home; some Nollywood kind of story, you know!

I still have some bothering and we need help as under listed;

1. Since Baba-Ibeji keeps denying his daughter is still alive, even as the police claims so, the police could just help prove beyond doubt that she exists. Simply bring her out. Although I understand they could not continue to hold the suspects in detention but had to take them to court, listing some charges. So, they had to remove "murder" for now that there is doubt as to that claim. However, public opinion still charges murder, except otherwise those who claimed they saw her bring her for us all to see

2. Where was Juliana last seen by those who claimed they saw her having a baby in a hospital. Does the hospital have no name? baba-Ibeji should tell the police where the herbalist is, so he can tell us how a "patient" suddenly got missing. If she is dead, we should have her body, not bury her "spirit"

3. From the gruesome video which brought this case to world attention, it was clear to everyone that "someone" could die from that long moment of violent organic torture; including "pepper-trating" her genitals with help of hard sticks; terrific!

4. Does anyone know Ajase in Benin Republic well? Are u aware of any culture against forensic examination of dead persons?

5. Who has seen Juliana? Please we'd love to see her too, if you have any information that she still alive, please be generous with information and kindly share

6. If I see Juliana today, or any day after, the "pepper-trators" can still be validly charged for the offences for which they were arraigned last week. But if not, then, where is Juliana?

Dr. Joe Odumakin is President of Women Arise!
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SOLOMON OLADIMEJI: PREACHER, PASTOR ALSO OGBONI FRATERNITY HEAD

Solomon Oladimeji , 65, business man now Preacher is the founder of Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Orisun-Ayo, with branches at Alapere, Ketu, and Odogunyan in Ikorodu area of Lagos, revealed  that he is a church leader and also a top member of the Ogboni fraternity. According to him, he belongs to Saala Ogboni Fellowship of Nigeria (SOFN) where he occupies the position of Oluwo and the third in command to the overall head of the fraternity.

“I am not ashamed to confess my membership of the fraternity. I’m proud to be Ogboni member. In actual fact, being an Ogboni leader has made me not only a good disciple of Jesus Christ, but it has also gone a long way to make me a better citizen’’:

Prophet Solomon said he became a member of the Ogboni society over 20 years ago. ‘’ I was initiated into the Aborigine Ogboni fraternity, that is the one they call Ogboni Ibile, but later I joined Saala Ogboni fraternity, and since I made that decision, I have no regret.’’

As a member of Ogboni fraternity, my life is having a meaning. I have prospered. My coast has been enlarged. Members of my congregation are increasing every day. I also thank God that due to my diligence as a committed member; I have been able to rise to the enviable position of Oluwo within the Ogboni fraternity.

‘’What is there to be hidden? I am not ashamed of my association with Ogboni Society, and I don’t hide it from members of my church. They all know that I’m a leader in the Ogboni group. When you even come to my house, I openly display my regalia as Ogboni chief. Let me quickly tell you this, by making my members know that I’m Ogboni member, it makes me popular among them. They describe me as an open and honest person. For that, many of them have been voluntarily coming to me pleading to be initiated as a member of Ogboni fraternity’’.

Prophet Solomon claimed to be child of light and that darkness or anything evil has no place in his life or church but said: ‘’ I used herbs and leaves combined with other items to prepare soap, anointing oil for members and other people that are having spiritual problems.
Pastors that are not Ogboni members will have problem of church growth that is talking about membership that is why in some churches they don’t have up to 30 members, whereas in other ones you see a mammoth crowd.

For those who have large members, do you think it is by their own power that they do it?
No. Several pastors come to us and we do what we call ‘Aworo’  for them.(Aworo is a kind of charm that draws crowd to a place) and that is why you see many of them driving state of the art cars. For those pastors that don’t know their ways, you see them in penury, drinking garri and coconut most of the time’. He claimed.

Prophet Solomon also said that Ogboni fraternity is not  a cult, but  a society that is comprises of  transparent, honest , organized and disciplined people   While he described  cult as 'a group of people involved in secrecy, but Ogboni  are open to scrutiny.'

It is unfortunate that today a lot of Christians are suffering out of ignorance, deceit and manipulations, in as much as am not against Prophet Solomon association or membership of Ogboni fraternity because this act is still within the frame work of law, United Nation Chatter on the freedom of association , however , how can he then explain this ''You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for i the Lord your God am a jealous God......'' Exodus 20: 4-5 to his teeming congregations?