PHOTOS: NINE MEN ARRESTED FOR ROBBING PASTOR AND OTHERS IN ABUJA

Detectives attached the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT) have busted that the gang that used to terrorized residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.

The IRT, led by Assistant Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, arrested nine men believed to be members of the dreaded gang and recovered stolen cars and operational weapons.

Items recovered the latest arrested suspects are one Samsung Galaxy, one Infinix Hotnote, one Nokia phone, a gold wrist watch and Toyota Camry 2010 model belonging to Pastor Davies and six other stolen cars were recovered from the suspects. Police also recovered their house breaking and carjacking tools.

A police source said: “The gang’s downfall started after series of the complaints. Among the complainant was one pastor Davies. Many other victims attacked and robbed are residents of Mabushi area in FCT. Clearly determined to stop the gang, the IGP, Ibrahim Idris instructed IRT to track and apprehend the gang members.

“The IRT operatives immediately launched a massive manhunt against the robbers. On May, 22, one of the gang members, Lawal Peters, 25 years old was arrested and a stolen Infinix Hotnote phone recovered from him. Peters confessed to armed robbery and led operatives to their hideout at Mabushi FCT, where the first five suspected gang members were arrested.”

Other gang members have been identified as Emmanuel Adole 26, who sold the robbed Camry of Pastor Davies for N400, 000, Ojuma Onoja 24, who is in possession of the two robbed phones and a gold wrist watch belonging to the Pastor. Others are Danjuma Mohammed 30, Dickson Uche 21, and Ali Abdul 24.

The suspects were all arrested at Mabushi FCT Abuja. The suspects are alleged to have confessed to several armed robberies in Abuja. The confessions of the suspect, witnessed operatives travelling to Akwa Ibom and Cross Rivers states to catch other suspects identified as Friday Emmanuel 28, Akaninyena Etukdo 32, Ikechukwu John 32 and Joe Effiong 28.


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HAMBURGER: "TWO MEN CONFESSED TO MURDERING MY HUSBAND"~~ WIFE

Mrs Bello,  wife of murdered chairman of Tricycle Riders Association, Shogunle branch, Oshodi, Lagos State, Mr Razak Bello aka Hamburger, has urged policemen investigating the murder of her husband to ensure that justice was done.

According to Mrs Bello, two men, who were behind the murder of her husband, have been arrested and are presently in the custody of policemen.

The alleged killers, were said to have handed themselves to police. It was also gathered that the supposed killers all grew up together with the slain man.

Mrs Bello explained that she and her daughter became uneasy when attempts made by them to see the killers of their breadwinner repeatedly failed.

The grieving widow said that she couldn’t understand why Investigating Police Officers, at the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID), Homicide Section, were shielding the killers from them.

The wife of NURTW chieftain killed in Shogunle on May 29 returned to Nigeria with her eldest daughter, for the burial of her husband and had since been going to Panti to know the outcome of police investigation.

She explained that she and her daughter, frustrated, stopped going to Panti and returned to Dublin after she got fed up with the bureaucracy at the Panti, coupled with the police refusing to allow them see those alleged to have murdered Bello.

She said: “My husband was killed on the 29th by a gang led by one Samson and his boys. According to eye witness, they killed my husband and ran away. But later, Samson and Tunde, went and handed themselves over to policemen at Panti. Community and family members have sent a petition to different offices.
“The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni and some other top officials were at our residence to pay us condolence visits. They all promised us justice. Now that two of the culprits are in police custody, I and my family demand justice.
“I was at Panti to meet with policemen in charge of the investigation, they are Popoola Fatai and Olaniyan Razak; they both confirmed that the two suspects were in their custody. I’m pleading with the Lagos CP, to ensure justice is done as he had earlier promised.
“All I want is justice. We’re talking about a family man with kids and aged a mother. He was the breadwinner of our family and his life was snuffed out just like that. I want Nigerians to be aware of what is going on. I believe that nobody should be above the law. I was also with the Rapid Response Squad, RRS Commander, Disu Tunji, he also promised us justice.”
Although it was earlier alleged that the two killers handed themselves over to Disu, but the commander denied this.

Attempting to clarify the matter, Disu said: “We heard that one Golden and another man were behind the murder of Bello. I heard that they went to SCID to hand themselves over to the police. I didn’t see them. I never saw them. Before they went to hand themselves over to the police, I had been tracking them. I wanted to arrest and charged them to court. I wasn’t able to lay my hands on them.”

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Olarinde Famous-Cole said: “I can only tell you that some people have been arrested in connection with the murder of Hamburger and they would soon be charged to court.”
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BELGIUM BASED BUSINESSMAN REMINDS FOR CURRENCY COUNTERFEITING

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, July 6, 2017 arraigned one Jonathan Isikwei , a Belgium based businessman,before Justice M. B. Idris of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on a 15-count charge bordering on possession of counterfeit currencies to the tune of CAD $17,500  and USD $14,300

The defendant, Isikwei, was arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on September 18, 2015 at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos for unlawful possession of 448 pieces of traveler cheques, while he was aboard a Lufthansa airline to Brussels, Belgium.

He was subsequently handed over to the EFCC for investigation and prosecution.
One of the counts reads:
“That you, Jonathan Odu Isikwei on or about the 18th day of September, 2015 at Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court had, in your possession, negotiable instrument of Postbank Frankfurt with registration number 29734, knowing it to be counterfeit and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 5 (1) (b) of the Counterfeit Currency (Special Provisions) Act, Cap C35, Vol.4, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.”
Another count reads:

“That you, Jonathan Odu Isikwei, on or about the 18th day of September, 2015 at Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court had, in your possession, negotiable instrument of Gunnebo Canada Inc., with registration number 152501 and value of CAD $3, 500 (Three Thousand,  Five Hundred Canadian Dollars), knowing it to be counterfeit and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 5 (1) (b) of the Counterfeit Currency (Special Provisions) Act, Cap C35, Vol. 4, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.”
He pleaded not guilty to the charge.

In view of his plea, the prosecution counsel, George G. Chia-Yakua, asked the court for a date to commence trial.

In response, Isikwei’s counsel, Oludare Falana, while moving a motion dated June 28, 2017, urged the court to admit his client to bail.
Falana also prayed the court to remand his client in the EFCC custody pending the ruling on the application.

The prosecuting counsel, in a counter- affidavit dated July 4, 2017 opposed the application and urged the court to remand the defendant in prison custody.
Justice Idris adjourned to July 7, 2017 for ruling on the bail application and ordered the defendant to be remanded in prison custody.

BILLIONAIRE KIDNAPPER EVANS REPORTEDLY VANISHED !

According to a report be Saturday Sun, billionaire kidnapper, Evans has vanished from police custody and taken to an unknown location. Read their report below...
Saturday Sun has gathered that Evans is not dead as his family now fears but has been moved from the Lagos police command headquarters cell by about 30 heavily armed men at midnight few days ago to an undisclosed destination. Some senior police officers in the know told Saturday Sun he was moved to Abuja Indeed, in the last few days, a palpable silence seemed to have enshrouded the Evans phenomenon.

Where is Evans? It is a question the police is not prepared to officially answer right now. A man who hitherto divulged the details of his criminal life to the public almost on a daily basis is suddenly no longer accessible to even the press corps. All a Saturday Sun reporter who visited the state police command was told was that Evans is no longer allowed to talk to the press till further notice.
The secrecy surrounding his whereabouts in the official quarters baffles those who have closely followed his story since his arrest.

After days of sniffing around the Lagos police formations to get information on Evans whereabouts, it was gathered that the kidnap kingpin had been moved out of the Lagos command headquarters days ago by heavily armed policemen and is yet to be returned.
Police had last week said they had got a court order to detain him for three months to give them enough time to complete their investigation. This followed two suits filed by Evans lawyer, Olukoya Ogungbeje, at the High Court seeking his release and claiming N300m damages from the police. Some senior police officers who spoke to Saturday Sun on condition of anonymity expressed fears that Evans might not make it to the court.

They argued that he might plot his escape from prison, or get across to some of his members who are still on the run. Their concerns are not farfetched, given that several inmates in the past had reportedly committed much heinous crimes even while in prison.
Some of the officers confirmed that Evans was no longer in the police cell in Lagos. “He has not been returned since he was moved out. Evans is a broken man; police can’t resort to extra-judicial killings at this point. He is cooperating, and he is ready to help return all his ill-gotten wealth as soon as possible”, one of the officers said.

Another reliable source at the police command told Saturday Sun “Evans is not an ordinary criminal. I guess that they took him out for further investigation but I don’t know why they are yet to return him to his cell.” The source further assured: “No one is planning to kill Evans. I believe that they will return him later. He could be in any good cell in the state for security reasons, but I can assure you that he is not dead yet. Even if anything happens to him, if he dies in custody, it will be as a result of cancer which he claims he is suffering from.”

RESTRUCTURING: YORUBA PEOPLE IN KOGI STATE WANT RE-UNION WITH SOUTH WEST

Following the call to restructure the Nigerian polity, Okun Development Association (ODA), the umbrella socio-cultural group of the Yoruba people in Kogi State, has set up a committee comprising eminent Okun sons and daughters to among other oversight functions, chart a new course for the Okun nation.

Prominently, the committee which is headed by the immediate past ODA President, Chief Emmanuel Otitoju, is to work out modalities that would lead to the people achieving their age-long agitation to be carved out of the North-central geo-political zone and reunited with their kith and kins in the South-west zone.



The ODA National Executive Committee meeting which was held in Kabba recently, was conveyed by ODA National President, Babatunde Fadumiyo, and had 15 members of the executives in attendance.

After an extensive deliberation, ODA resolved among others that the Okun people would support any form of restructuring of the polity that would see the “Okun nation occupies its rightful place in the comity of nations.”

It was further resolved that “there is the urgent need to evolve a throw-back mechanism into the workings of the Okun people whereby genuine people’s needs, liberty, self-determination through national and global development, hard work, transparency and accountability which are veritable virtues associated with the Okun people are brought back and better refined; that there should be deliberate and concerted efforts at driving out the negative virtues of social marginalisation, abject poverty, mutual distrust, tension, segregation, rancour and acrimony as these are negative virtues which impede the economic and political growth of Okun land.”

The group expressed appreciation to the administrations of President Muhammadu Buhari and the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, for considering the people of Okunland to serve in key positions in the present dispensation.

The ODA NEC appraised the lingering political crisis in the state, and resolved that it was a creation of factions within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), adding that in the interest of peaceful co-existence of all Kogi people, members of the APC at the national level should as a matter of expediency bridge the lacuna that occasioned the imbroglio between Governor Yahaye Bello and Senator Dino Melaye and create a veritable platform for an amicable resolution.

It condemned “vituperations, unsavory utterances and violent activities of some political office holders which are meant to drag the good name of Okun people into the mud. The executives believed that such unguided activities, if not checked, could tarnish the most cherished culture of honesty, dedication and hard work which are characteristics of the Okun people.”

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BADOO: POLICE ARREST 87 SUSPECTS

Lagos State Police Command, security agencies and local security volunteers have arrested 87 suspected Badoo members while declaring 20 other people wanted in connection with activities of the group in Ikorodu.


The 87 suspected Badoo members were arrested in an all-night operation on their hideouts in Owutu and Odongunyan in Ikorodu. Those declared wanted for cult related killings include: Moshood (a.k.a. Mosho); Alfa (a.k.a. King of Boys); Papa; Fela; Alakoto and Chukwudi. The police also declared 14 others wanted for kidnapping in Ikorodu.

They include: Agbara; O/C; Femi (a.k.a FM); Pencil, Odidan; Jaru; Allen; Bush; Happiness; Fagbo; Junior; Nuru and Jamiu. The police called on the suspects to come out of their hideouts and report themselves to the nearest police station. The Command equally advised members of the public with useful information on the suspects who are all residents of Ikorodu to assist the police.

The raid was an extensive operation on the two areas - Odongunyan and Owutu. The operation was necessitated by more intelligence on the membership of the dreaded cult group and their mode of operations. Before the operations, the police in conjunction with members of the Department of State Security Service, representatives of the Nigerian Army, Lagos Neighbourhood Security Corps and Odua Peoples’ Congress (OPC) met with herbalists and Babalawos in Ikorodu and its suburbs on the need to collaborate with the police to wipe out the cult group in Ikorodu.

Representing the Lagos State Police Commissioner, CP Fatai Owoseni at the meeting, Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP Imohimi Edgal, warned the herbalists and Babalawo and local vigilantes to eschew jungle justice, stressing that the Command would not tolerate further excesses from the security stakeholders. Edgal solicited for more information that would help the police to speedily end the activities of the group in the area.

The Police Commissioners later met with Obas and traditional rulers in Ikorodu. Also involved in the exercise were the Commander, Rapid Response Squad (RRS), ACP Olatunji Disu; Acting Area Commander, Ikorodu and all DPOs in Ikorodu among other senior police officers.

OAU FORMER VICE-CHANCELLOR AND BURSAR REMINDED IN PRISON FOR ALLEGED N1.4 BILLION FRAUD

An Osun State high court has remanded a former vice-chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Anthony Elujoba, in custody until Tuesday next week, after the  Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned him over an alleged N1.4 billion fraud.

The former vice-chancellor and the university's bursar, Josephine Akeredolu, who both appeared in court in handcuffs, are facing a seven-count charge of diversion of funds and abuse of office.
Messrs. Elujobi and Akeredolu have denied any wrongdoing.

They appeared before the court presided by Justice David Oladimeji on charges bordering on an intent to steal money belonging to the university and conspiracy to defraud. among other offences.
The counsel to the defendants, Ibrahim Lawal, in an application for bail, prayed the court to remand his clients in EFCC custody pending the determination of the application.

But the EFCC counsel, Festus Ojo, asked instead that they be remanded at the Ilesha Prisons.
In his ruling, Justice Oladimeji ordered that the defendants be remanded in EFCC custody pending the hearing of the application on Tuesday, July 11.

Workers of the university, including the current Vice-Chancellor, Ogunbodede Eyitope, were in court to show support to their embattled colleagues.