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Sunday 18 June 2017
PHOTO: HOUSE BUILT BY KIDNAPPER EVANS FOR HIS MOTHER IN NNEWI !
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PHOTOS: FIRE GUTS IKEJA HOME OF GENERAL OLADIPO DIYA (RTD)
The cause of the sudden fire at the house located on Adekunle Fajuyi road, GRA, Ikeja Lagos is yet to be unraveled.
PHOTOS:BLIND FORMER SUPER EAGLES FEMI OPABUNMI DUPED BY PASTORS AND ALFAS WHILE TRYING TO CURE HIS BLINDNESS !
In a chat with Complete Sports he said, he had two unsuccessful surgeries in France, and when neither helped him regain his sight, he relocated to Nigeria to find a cure for his partial blindness.
According to him, rather then get the help he desperately needed, he got duped by so-called men of God. He said:
“Many believed I was cursed, even my mother because in Paris the doctors medically said there was nothing wrong with my eyes.”
“Funds were given to me to survive by my former teammates (including Osaze Odemwingie) and well wishers. I gave pastors some of the money, hoping that if I got healed I would start afresh with a coaching career.
“I visited several churches and mountains in search of a cure but it never happened.
“They duped me of my small cash. I paid more that 400k to pastors to see that I got cured but nothing happened.”
“I also went to see some Imams as well. But they all turned out to be false men of God who duped me all the way.”
Opabunmi played for a few clubs, including Shooting Stars FC, Grasshoppers Zürich and Chamois Niortais in France.
He scored a goal to help Nigeria win the African U-17 Championships in 2001. He was a key player at 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship where he scored a hat-trick against Australia and won the Silver Shoe as second highest goal scorer.
He also won the Bronze Ball as third best player in the tournament, helping Nigeria to reach the final where they lost to France.
Opabunmi represented Nigeria at the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea and Japan and had a total of three caps for the Super Eagles.
Saturday 17 June 2017
NIGERIAN PASTOR HAS FOUR PASSPORTS
Suspicions were raised in the Port Elizabeth Magistrate’s Court on Friday, on information contained in the passport of a Nigerian pastor charged with human trafficking and sexual assault.
Testifying on the third day of the pastor’s bail application, an employee from the Department of Home Affairs, Ivan Claasen, conceded to the State that he had found it strange that an immigration officer would stamp the pastor’s new Nigerian passport while there was no visa details in the booklet.
According to information before court, the pastor’s old passport expires in August this year. Claasen told the court that the department’s movement system showed that when the pastor last left the country, he had used a new passport which expires in 2021 and did so on three occasions.
As Magistrate Thandeka Mashiyi perused the pastor’s passports, of which there are four, it emerged that stamps from Japan, Israel and the United States of America reflected in the pastor’s travel documentation.
“Yes, I do find it strange because [his] visa was in the old passport. The suspicion is that you scan this [new] passport but the visa is in a different passport,” said Claasen.
“I need to check with officials at OR Tambo [International] Airport [in Johannesburg] if procedures were followed, if a passport is used a visa will also need to be scanned.”
Claasen told the court that normally when a person applies for a new passport, the old passport is taken in.
“What is strange is that the old passport has not yet expired but he is in possession of a new one,” Claasen said.
Claasen said that by face value he could say that the passports, including the visa were authentic, however, he suggested that the original documentation be handed over so that he could do the necessary checks for verification.
“I can’t check security features on a copy I need the originals.”
Claasen also told the court that it was possible to verify, through the South African embassy, the allegation that the pastor had been arrested for fraud in the United Kingdom and deported to South Africa after European authorities found his travel documentation to be falsified.
By way of affidavit the father of three has vehemently denied this allegation made by the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (known as the Hawks).
Advocate Alfonso Hattingh, for the defence dug into this.
“What hope is there? The allegation that he was arrested in the UK and deported in 2000. He has Nigerian citizenship, how was he deported from the UK to [South Africa]? Keep it in mind when doing your investigation.”
The State believes that the pastor is a flight risk and will interfere with witnesses if released on bail. The investigating officer, warrant officer Peter Plaatjies, previously told the court that investigators were unable to obtain his two passports and work permit despite several attempts.
The pastor, who is based in Durban, is alleged to have trafficked more than 30 girls and women who were from various branches of his church countrywide. He allegedly took the girls to a house in Umhlanga, in KwaZulu Natal, where he sexually exploited them.
According to the testimony of Plaatjies, senior members of the church would recruit “vulnerable” girls between 13 and 15 and lure them into performing sexual acts with the pastor. Following a foiled attempt to effect an arrest in Bloemfontein over the Easter weekend, the televangelist was arrested by the Hawks on April 20, at the Port Elizabeth airport and has been in custody ever since.
By way of affidavit, the pastor has vehemently denied allegations of sex with naked girls.
The 58-year-old father is facing 22 counts of human trafficking and sexual assault.
The bail hearing was postponed to May 12, for the Department of Home Affairs to verify the pastor’s travel documentation.
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INSIDE STORY OF LAST ABDUCTION THAT NAILED EVANS
His reign, however, came to an end last Saturday, after a police special squad led by Abba Kyari, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), arrested him at his No 3, Fred Shoboyede Street, Magodo, Lagos home, after a fierce gun battle which lasted several hours.
Details of the last abduction carried out by his gang on February 14 this year that paved way for his demystification and subsequent arrest has emerged.
Read below as narrated by TheNationonline:
On that day, which coincidentally was celebrated all over the world as St. Valentine’s Day otherwise known as lovers day, a pharmacist and the owner of Maydon Pharmaceutical Company, Ilupeju, Lagos, Mr. Donatus Dunu, was abducted by Evans’ gang.
Dunu had barely left his office in the evening when he was blocked by a vehicle. Before he knew it, Evans’ gun-wielding men had stepped out of the vehicle and bundled the pharmacist into their vehicle and sped off to No 21, Prophet Asaye Close, New Igando, a Lagos suburb where he was kept for three months.
Evans subsequently demanded the payment of a sum of one million euros as ransom. Despite efforts to make Evans see reason and reduce the money, he would have none of it, even after a sum of N100 million had been paid to him. It was either the money was paid or Dunu paid with his life.
While looking for the money, Dunu’s wife, who is also a director of the company, staff members organized prayers for the safe return of their boss. One of the workers said:
“We did not only pray but engaged in fasting too. Who will not pray and fast if his or her boss was in such condition? It was really traumatic for us.”
Unknown to Dunu’s wife and his workers, the person who gave the information leading to Dunu’s abduction was one of the staff members of the company, identified as Emeka, who was employed about five years ago.
At the gang’s den in New Igando, where Dunu was kept, he had given up hope on the possibility of regaining his freedom.
But he had a big break in the early hours of Friday, May 12, 2017, while his captors were deep in sleep. Despite losing his weight, Dunu managed to wriggle out of the leg-cuff he was held with. He was only wearing a pair of short and white singlet. A perimeter fence with broken bottles was to become a major obstacle to his escape, but the victim used his bare hand to manoeuvre the shattered bottles and climbed his way to freedom.
It was learnt that when he landed into an adjoining building, he was mistaken for a fleeing robber or cultist. Security guards raised the alarm which attracted neighbours to the scene and it was providence that saved him from being lynched by a mob.
One of the security guards who asked not to be named said:
“I just came to my duty post that day when I started hearing the shout of ‘thief! Thief!’ I came out and saw this fair-complexioned man running towards me. I stopped him near that mini- tanker (he pointed at a decrepit stationary tanker).
He was wearing only his boxer with his white singlet placed on his shoulder. There was fear in his eyes and he looked sick and traumatised. His body was blood-stained and there were injuries on his legs probably because he had been cuffed on his legs for a long time.
“Some people were unwilling to listen to him and they wanted to take him away. I said no, they should leave him here and instead call the elders of the community.
I took him to the front of that Foursquare Church and told him to sit at the entrance of the church. I then asked how much the kidnappers were demanding from him and how much he had paid and he said they were demanding N500m and he had paid about N100m. I was shocked.
We then took him to the Igando Divisional Police Station. Later that afternoon, the operatives of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) returned with him to the street, but he was so tired and sick; he did not even come out of the vehicle. They broke into the compound but the kidnappers had escaped. So many things were discovered in the compound, including guns, a white bus and a power bike. I had never seen any power bike on this street before then.”
Home of the alleged kidnappers’ informant
Abductors’ den
Number 21 Prophet Asaye Close, where Dunu was kept, is at the end of a close facing the entrance to the street. The compound has only a single bungalow. The compound is covered with interlocking stones. It is a study in irony.
Carved on the gate is the sentence ‘Jesus is Alive.’ There is a doorbell on the left side of the gate. Observing the building closely, it is easy to see why the kidnappers settled for it.
It is a single bungalow, so no noisy neighbour or neighbours to snoop into their business. It has coconut trees at the back, but there were no high rise buildings from where anybody could monitor what they were doing.
Asked about the activities in the compound, our source said:
“They (abductors) kept to themselves. The guy there, whenever he was driving in from outside, the gate would have been opened before he got to the gate. In addition, loud music was always wafting from the bungalow. This always muffled every noise coming from there. This happened mostly in the day time. In the night, of course, the generating set would take over. So, we (neighbours) could never have known what went on there”.
With the escape of Dunu, he was able to make useful statements to the police about his kidnap. The next day, May 13, SARS operatives in four patrol vans stormed Franzaki Street, Bucknor Estate, off Isheri Osun Road.
It was the rented home of one of the workers of Maydon Pharmaceutical, identified as Emeka, a pharmacist. He is from Oguta, Imo State, and in his late 30s or early 40’s; he has a wife and a child, according to the residents, who were rattled by the early morning raid.
Emeka was whisked away from his house by the police. Since then, the residents said he has not returned.
It was on the basis of this breakthrough that the Lagos Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, four days after Emeka’s arrest on May 16 declared a certain faceless Evans wanted. He said:
“We are encouraging Nigerians to blow the whistle on this kidnapper. Whoever blows the whistle will get N30 million rewards as stated by the Inspector General of Police…Evans has been on the wanted list of the Police in Anambra, Edo and Lagos states for years. The suspects arrested have given us valuable information, which the command is working on to ensure that he is apprehended by all means.”
Operatives of the Inspector General of Police’s anti-kidnapping team went into action and with the aid of high tech equipment, they were able to track key members of the kidnap syndicate, rounded them up and then set the stage for the final arrest of Evans. This came last Saturday when Evans was demystified by the police.
At the headquarters of Maydon Pharmaceutical Company Limited at 15 Wilmer Street, Ilupeju, Lagos, the atmosphere was subdued. The workers discussed in low tone. There were several innuendoes about a certain Emeka from Oguta. Both Mr. Donatus Dunu, the chairman of the company, and his wife, the managing director, were not on seat.
However, one of the male workers said they had been warned not to discuss their boss’ harrowing experience with pressmen and that it was only the boss or his wife that can speak on the matter.
Pressed further, he described his boss’ escape as miraculous. When shown the picture of the compound where Dunu was kept with the inscription ‘Jesus is alive’, he exclaimed ‘indeed, Jesus is alive!’
DIVORCE BATTLE: JANET JACKSON ALL SMILES AS SHE APPEARS IN LONDON COURT
While Wissam Al Mana looked sombre and all alone with his prayer beads when he made his way out of a side entrance of the court.
The pop-star split from the Qatari businessman just months after giving birth to her first child at the age of 50. The couple wedded in 2012 and their son, Eissa, was born on January 3.
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SUSPECTED FEMALE KIDNAPPER CAUGHT IN IKORODU
While angry Lagosians waited outside demanding that they mete jungle justice on her, the lady who was tied up almost immediately after she was nabbed, was taken away by the Vigilante Group of Ikorodu, popularly known as the Onyabo, led by Mr Lanre Labinjo and locked up on Number 3/5 Building on the street.
It was also gathered that the landlord of the building,Leo, a Chief is waiting for the security agencies to the rescue.
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