LATEST ON CHIEF OLU FALAE: ABDUCTORS DEMAND N100 MILLION RANSOM

The abduction of the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), who is the traditional ruler of Ilu-Abo, is the latest in the series of high profile kidnappings that have taken place in the state in recent time.

A close family source, who disclosed this to reporters, said Chief Olu Falae was in his farm in Ilu-Abo a suburb of Akure, the state capital, when some suspected herdsmen stormed the farm and took him to an undisclosed destination.

This is coming barely two years after he lost his son, Deji in the Associated Airlines plane crash in Lagos.

However, in his own statement,Femi Fani-Kayode, said:
“The abduction of Chief Olu Falae is not only unacceptable but it also an exceptionally dangerous development. I say this because he is not only an elder-statesman of our country but he is also one of the most revered leaders of Afenifere and the south-west. We cannot sit by idly and watch our leaders and elders being endangered, shamed and humiliated in this way.

It is the governments job to keep us all safe and secure and they are failing in that duty. I call on the President and our security agencies to effect the expeditious and immediate release of Chief Olu Falae. They must rescue him from these vagabonds and vandals as soon as possible before things get out of hand. Let it be clearly understood that if anything happens to him and if he doesn't come home hale and hearty we will hold the Federal Government responsible and there will be consequences. Those that are in power would do well to take what I have said very seriously.” 

POLICE RESCUE KIDNAPPED BUSINESSMAN IN IBADAN

  Lagos-based businessman, Alhaji Abdul Akeem Amoo, 54, who was kidnapped by some yet-to-be-identified kidnappers around the Oluyole Local Government Area of Ibadan, Oyo State has been rescued by Oyo State Police Command.

He was on Sunday afternoon rescued by a police patrol team at Idi-Ayunre in the same local government area of the state.

According to police sources, Alhaji Amoo was kidnapped during a visit to his quarry and mining firm located at Ese-Apata via Abanla in the area. He had gone to the site with a view to paying some of his staff at the quarry and some of the contractors supplying him diesel and those rendering him supplementary services.

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"POLICEMAN DEMENDED SEX IN EXCHAGE FOR ACCESS TO MY HUSBAND"

Joy Bassey, a mother of four has narrated the disappearance of her husband since February 2015, after her he was arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja Lagos Command and later disappeared while in SARS’s cell.
  
Till date, she hasn’t set eyes on her husband and her children have been asking questions; questions she lacks answers to. Joy, said the unknown policemen had been threatening to kill her if she persisted in asking for the whereabouts of her husband, Mr. Bassey Ekpo Ekpeyoung. She wondered aloud how to break the news to Bassey’s parents that their son had gone missing. She wailed: “I’ve not told Bassey’s parents that I can’t find him!

I don’t know what to tell them. People told me that Bassey might have been killed in SARS custody, but I don’t believe that! The police have no right to kill a suspect in their custody! Right now, I’m worried and desperate. These days, I hardly sleep. I think too much. I have no home. I and my children roam about, seeking where to sleep and eat.

“Our landlord kicked us out after SARS men came to our home with Bassey in handcuffs. My children are no longer going to school because I don’t have money to pay their fees. I just want the police to produce my husband dead or alive! I need to know what has become of him!”
Joy, now a shadow of herself, said she stopped going to SARS, to locate her husband after a senior policemen harassed and attempted to intimidate her to have sex with him in exchange for access to Bassey. She explained that when the policeman, who posed as a Good Samaritan, realised she was sincerely shocked at his sexual advances, he had reaffirmed his love, promising to marry her and make her his second wife.

He categorically told her, “Forget your husband! He’s a closed chapter!” The woman, who had been married for over 13 years, with her first child being 13 and the youngest just a year-old, said that the mere suggestion of the affair filled her with revulsion.She turned down the offer, but persisted in trying to locate her husband. She however finally gave up the efforts and went underground when the threat from mysterious callers became too much. She felt it was sensible to be alive and take care of her four kids.

 It would be recalled that, Bassey, 39, along with Senator Nwobodo Princewill Eze, 55, Amira Abdallahi 32, Daniel Okpara 30, Paul Irior 37 and Royal Nwabuike 32, was arrested by SARS operatives for using Economic and Financial Crimes Commission reflective vests to allegedly rob and dupe unsuspecting Nigerians.(Read story here )

Nwobodo, said to be the ring leader, allegedly has houses spread across the nation, including a hostel in Ambrose Alli University, Edo State. Police said Nwobodo had been arrested several times for robbery, but always seemed to escape conviction whenever he was charged to court. Police said that the gang had used EFCC uniforms, handcuffs and guns to rob bureau de change operators in Abuja and Lagos State of foreign currencies.

Allegedly recovered from them were a Bryco 59 pistol with serial no. 930945, with six rounds of 5.56mm live ammunition, single barrel pistol cut to size with four live cartridges, and three Toyota Highlander jeeps. The police alleged that Bassey was charged by SARS with kidnapping in 2012 and recently arrested for impersonation.

The syndicate was later charged to court and remanded in prison, awaiting trial. But surprisingly, Bassey was not among those charged to court. Joy didn’t know what had become of Bassey, but she said SARS men would know. Joy said that after the gang was remanded in prison, she went there, but Bassey wasn’t among them.
Joy, who said that her husband used to work as a barman in a hotel in Abuja, wept silently: “Is it the right of the police to pass judgment on any suspect they arrest? They called and were threatening that they would detain me. They usually call me with hidden numbers. They said I should stop coming to SARS to ask for my husband.

They are doing this to me and threatening my life because I don’t have anybody.” She recalled that before the matter was charged to court, she had gone to meet a female friend, to assist her, so that she could see her husband. The lady’s father is a retired soldier. The friend’s father directed her to the senior police officer, who was supposed to be her Good Samaritan, but he ended up making her miserable.
She said: “I went to meet my friend, whose father is a retired soldier. The father said he had somebody in SARS who could be of assistance. He invited the policeman. The supol asked the retired soldier how much I had so that I could settle him. I told him that I didn’t have a dime.
To eat during that period was a problem for me and my kids. He said I should go and look for money. He said that I should call my family. I still told him I didn’t have any money. He now said he would try to assist me anyway he could.”

When the police officer realized that Joy truly didn’t have any money to offer, he allegedly decided to get his ‘payment’ in another way. When she poured out her heart to the retired soldier, disclosing the sexual advances of the policeman, the old military man smiled and said: “If you don’t have money to pay, you should pay in kind!” Ironically, the woman still wasn’t allowed to see her husband even while these sexual negotiations were going on.

She narrated: “The officer started demanding sex from me. I complained to my friend. She said there was nothing wrong in having sex with the policeman. She said it didn’t mean anything to have an affair with the man; she said I wasn’t a kid. She said I should just embark on the relationship. I said never!
“I thought the policeman wanted to help me. He assisted me when the police wanted to detain me. He made sure they didn’t detain me. “But then he wanted to sleep with me. He said that he wanted to take me as his second wife. How can he want to take me as a second wife?
He detained my husband, called him a criminal! What is he now? Is he not also a criminal? He wants to sleep with a criminal’s wife! If that was the kind of help the policeman wanted to render to me, I didn’t want it!
Let him go to hell with his help! Let the will of God be done!” Remembering how Bassey was arrested, Joy said: “I was in Lagos, while he was in Abuja. He was working there. I went out one day with the kids.
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Another part of help that the said officer rendered was to go to his superiors, said Joy. She said she didn’t know what they discussed, but he returned and instructed her to bring Bassey’s property.
“They said I should bring the things my husband gave me to keep. But my husband didn’t give me anything. They went to ask him, he told them the same thing. He told them that the last money he gave to me, which was N500, 000, was collected from me by him when he was leaving for Abuja,” said Joy. She continued: “They said I should bring my husband’s car. They said Bassey bought the car with the money he made from the businesses they arrested him for. I handed the car over to them. They took the car and said I should keep the landed property..”

When Sunday Telegraph contacted the spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command, Mr. Joe Offor, on Thursday on the matter, he promised to get back to our correspondent. When he was contacted a second time on Thursday night, he said the officer- in- charge of SARS was not available. He had not reached our correspondent as at press-time

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SARAKIGATE; APPEAL COURT DISMISSED HIS EX-PARTE APPLICATION....SEE THE LIST OF THE HIS HIDDENPROPETIES...

The Court of Appeal has dismissed the ex-parte application by Senate President, Bukola Saraki, seeking to set aside the order made on Friday by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) issuing bench warrant for Saraki’s arrest.

It said it cannot interfere with the proceedings pending at the lower court. It will be in the interest of notice for the respondents to be put on notice.

Consequently the ex-parte application refused and the motion on notice set down for hearing on September 29 Justice Armed Mohammed of the Federal High Court, in another ruling just delivered, refused a similar application by Saraki.

He adjourned to September 30 for the hearing of the substantive suit by Saraki, challenging the competence of charge before the CCT and the preliminary objection filed by the CCT, Code of Conduct Tribunal and Federal Ministry of Justice.

Justice Mohammed held that, in view of the constitutional and radical nature of the issues raised in the respondents’ objection, it was reasonable for the court not to waste time on interlocutory applications.

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BUKOLA SARAKI’S ASSETS are N120 million and $224 million incomes as annual rent from his landed properties in Nigeria and London.

·        HIS LANDED PROPERTIES IN NIGERIA & ITS VALUES :Plot 212 Musa Yar'Adua Street, Victoria Island, N700 million.
Others are a plot of land on Lekki Phase (block 72), N7 million
Ibafo near Ajah, N5 million; Buildings on number 42 Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, N750
million; 19 Roxton Road, Ikoyi, N500 million; 62 Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, N100 million;
15A & B MacDonald, Ikoyi, N160 million ;6 Vulga Street, Maitama, Abuja, N60 million.

·        HIS LANDED PROPERTIES OUTSIDE NIGERIA & ITS VALUES:
123A, Ashley Gardens, Thirleby Road, London, valued at $750,000. (N120 Million Naira)
56 Cheyne Court, SW 3, London, $900,000; (N144 Million Naira)
54 Ashley Gardens, Ambrasden Avenue, London, $2.5 million; (N400 Million Naira)
141 Ashley Gardens, Thirleby Road, London, $600,000;
(N96 Million Naira)
Nell Gwynn House, Sleave Avenue, London, $400,000;
(N64 Million Naira)
Ormond House, Ormond Street, S/London, $400,000;
(N64 Million Naira)
53 Ashley Gardens, Ambrasden Avenue, London, $2.5 million, (N400 Million Naira)
70 Bourne Street, S/W London, valued at $4.8 million.
(N768 Million Naira)

·        HIS MOVABLE PROPERTIES
Mercedes S320, N16 million; 
Mercedes S500, N20 million;
Mercedes G500, N18 million;
Mercedes V220, N6 million
Mercedes 300E, N2 million.
Mercedes ML 240, N8.5 million;
Mercedes CLK 320, N9 million;
Mercedes E320, N11 million;
Mercedes G500 bullet-proof, N45 million
Mercedes S500 bullet-proof, N30 million.
Ferrari 456 GT N25 million;
Navigator, N15 million;
Peugeot 406, N2 million,
Lexus Jeep bullet-proof, N30 million
Lincoln Navigator bullet-proof, N25 million.

·        HIS CASH DEPOSITS IN DIFFERENT BANK
ACCOUNTS
NIGERIA
Societe Generale; N11 million
Ecobank, Broad Street, Lagos, N350, 000;
Citizens Bank, Broad Street, Lagos, N390, 000;
Citizens Bank, Broad Street, Lagos, N600,000;
Ecobank Nigeria plc, Broad Street, N10.3 million,
Guaranty Trust Bank, Adeyemo Alakija Street, Lagos,
N2.9 million.
Societe Generale Bank, Oke Arin Street, Lagos, N23
million
Guaranty Trust Bank, Adeyemo Alakija Street, Lagos.

·        FOREIGN BANK ACCOUNTS
Coutts & C, 440 Strand, London, £905,000; (N235.3
Million Naira)
Northern Trust International Banking Corporation,
Merrillynch Piece Fender, $400,000 (N64 Million Naira)
Fortis Bank, Camoile Street, London, £2 million. (N520
Million Naira)

·        HIS FOUR CHILDREN
His four children Tosin, Seni, Teniola and Teniayo, are
worth N741.89 million in cash,

·        HIS WIFE
Toyin Saraki, had a net asset of N1.49 billion as at 29
May 2003.

Source: SAHARA REPORTERS

''IN MY PLAYING DAYS I USED CHARMS".....TARIBO WEST

Taribo West, former Super Eagles defender turned pastor, said he contacted some traditionalists ‘aka JUJU men’ to make him charms which he used during his glorious days as a footballer.

"Of course yes (I was involved). I don’t know why people decline to talk about their involvement with charms. Football has to do with a lot of powers. When there are big events, you look at the stadium, you see people, fans invoking all kinds of things; magicians are there, voodooists are there. In my playing days, when I was ignorant, I used to get some mallams and babalawos (traditional doctors) to make charms for us, which we took to (national) camp.

 Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t. In some clubs, before every game, the president or leader of the club will give you a lucky charm to play with. They will tell you to put it in your boots or socks and play. It’s their superstitious belief; that it can help them win matches. There are some coaches who are connected to African magicians and soothsayers from Senegal, Burkina Faso, Zaire or even Nigeria. These people are consulted to give these coaches results of games even before the matches are played.

 These people see strange things and they can tell you with their magic and charms, what the outcome of a match will be. People believe and use it. It works for those who believe in it. I saw it, I experienced it, I was with players that used it and I used it. So, why are people denying it? There are charms and rituals in football. It still exists.”he said

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''I WILL APPEAR BEFORE THE TRIBUNAL TOMORROW''....BUKOLA SARAKI

Bukola Saraki, says he will be at the Code of Conduct Tribunal tomorrow September 22nd as a mark of respect for the rule of law. The Senate President said this in a statement he released this afternoon on his Facebook page…….

The Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki will appear before the Code of Conduct Tribunal tomorrow Tuesday 22nd of September 2015. While the Senate President Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, had stated and maintained that he is ready to submit himself to due process of the law on any issue concerning him, he also believes that he has an inalienable right to resort to the same judiciary for protection when he feels his fundamental rights are about to be infringed upon.

The Senate President is a law abiding citizen and his absence from tribunal was based on legal advice he received from his counsel that it is not necessary for him to appear before the tribunal at this stage since the jurisdiction of the tribunal and the process of initiating the matter are being challenged before the federal High Court Abuja.

Following the adjournment for the determination of the motion on notice and the substantive suit before the Federal High Court to 30th of September and the appeal pending before the Court of Appeal adjourned to the 29th of September 2015, the Senate President has decided, as a law abiding citizen, to appear before the Tribunal in the interim.

Dr. Saraki has taken the decision to attend the Tribunal sitting to demonstrate his respect for the rule of law in spite of his personal reservation on the process of his trial and the purpose it may be intended to serve.

Dr. Saraki wishes to assure Nigerians of his absolute belief in the judicial process and is therefore confident that the course of justice would be served at the end of this matter.

BREAKING NEWS: CHIEF OLU FALAE KIDNAPPED !!!

Afenifere chieftain, Chief Olu Falae has been kidnapped. He was reportedly kidnapped at his home on Oba-Ile Road, Akure, the Ondo state capital this afternoon. The police and all security agencies in the state have launched a manhunt for his kidnappers.Chief Olu Fale ran for presidency on the joint platform of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) and the All People’s Party (APP) in 1999.