The Kogi State Police Command has confirmed the death of a staff of the Nigeria Television Authority, (NTA) Chukwu Obiahu.
DAILY POST had earlier reported that Obiahu was stoned to death on Tuesday evening shortly after he closed from work at NTA Okene booster station in Kogi State.
The Police Public Relations Officer, (PPRO), DSP William Aya, who confirmed the incident on Wednesday evening to DAILY POST, said the command has begun an investigation to unravel those behind the killing of the NTA engineer.
“information got to the command that an unidentified corpse was discovered along Okene-Magongo road.
“When the Okene command visited the scene, it was discovered that the dead man was a staff of Nigeria Television Authority booster station in Okene. When the body was examined it was discovered that there were blood stains in the body and bruises all over the body.”
DAILY POST reports that the corpse of Obiahu has been deposited at a mortuary in Okengwe hospital, Okene Local Government of Kogi State.
The Police in Lagos State have arrested three youths for the murder of an Uber driver, Morenikeji Stephen Oluwaniyi.
The operatives attached to the Meiran Police Division nabbed the trio over the death of the 27-year-old. They made away with a Toyota Corolla car.
The suspects, Rilwan Nasiru, 27, Sodiq Taiwo, 23, and Oladimeji, 20, booked an Uber, lured the driver to the Meiran area and strangled him to death.
Afterward, they dumped Oluwaniyi’s body on the Abule Egba bridge, along the Lagos – Abeokuta expressway.
The stolen car has registration number KSF 830 GX. Detectives swung into action following a report by the victim’s fiancée and tracked the criminals to their hideouts.
The Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu has directed that the case be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation and prosecution.
Odumosu advised drivers on taxi platforms to be security conscious always and be wary of the passengers who patronize them.
A 65-year-old man, Gilbert Nnagi, has been allegedly raped to coma by two men in Ondo Town, headquarters of Ondo West Local Government of Ondo State.
With one of the suspects on the run and the other detained at Yaba Police Division, Ondo town, they accused of allegedly performed sodomy on the victim who is a farmer.
The suspect was said to have apprehended by the police from Yaba Division after the suspects’ neighbour raised an alarm over the development.
According to sources, the victim had informed his wife that he was going to somewhere at Ajilo area but did not return home until Saturday evening when he was seen lying half dead at the suspect’s house.
One of the sources said that the victim who could not talk was immediately rushed to a hospital.
According to the victim’s daughter, Alaba Nnagi, “Police came to arrest my mother accusing her of leaving her husband drunk. But my mother told them that her husband doesn’t drink but only take snuff and that we have been looking for him since on Friday.
“The police said they picked him from one house where he was locked up. They said it was the neighbour who lives in the house who came to report the case. The neighbours told us that they raped him through his anus and two of the suspects have been arrested, but one ran away.”
Meanwhile, investigation was said to have began into the case towards unraveling the development.
The Minister of Defence, Bashir Magashi, has said bandits operating in the northwest are becoming a nuisance.
Magashi made the remark while hinting at the urgency to deal with bandits.
He made this public after President Muhammadu Buhari met with security chiefs at the State House on Tuesday.
Addressing reporters, the minister said the insecurity challenges in the north are a cause of concern to the country’s leadership.
According to Magashi: “From the meeting, we believe that the spate at which these things are happening in Zamfara State and north-central is a source of concern to the government and to all agencies that are responsible for the execution of the operations in the north-central.
“We discussed the need for urgency in our dealing with the bandits. We believe they’re becoming a nuisance; killing people, they are doing what they like, they make careless statements, they say what they think they should say in order to solicit the kind of audience they want from the society.”
The activities of bandits have been on the increase in the northern part of the country.
Schools, religious centres and security formations have been attacked by these bandits lately.
Zamfara, Kaduna, Niger, Sokoto, Kebbi, and Katsina states are worst-hit by the activities of banditry.
Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State, has revealed the identities of bandits wreaking havoc in Nigeria, particularly the northern parts of the country.
The governor of President Muhammadu Buhari’s state of origin, said the criminal elements who have plunged the entire nation into unusual security crisis are majorly Fulani herdsmen.
Governor Masari made the claim on Monday while featuring on a Channels Television programme, ‘Politics Today’.
He revealed that the elements have same religion, language like himself, stressing that they have been living “with us for hundreds of years”.
He said, “Bandits are persons who speak same language like me. They profess the same religious beliefs like me.
“These bandits are not aliens, they are people we know. They are people that have been living with us for hundred of years.
“The infiltration we have from some African countries and non-African countries, are people of the Fulani extraction.
“Majority of those involved in this banditry are Fulanis. Wether it is believable or not, that is the truth. These are people who live in the forest and their major occupation is rearing of cattle.”
Like other states in the north, Katsina has witnessed high level of insecurity birthed by the activities of bandits who have consistently killed residents and have continued abduct others for ransom purposes.
Rivers State Police Command has confirmed the killing of two notorious cult gang leaders allegedly terrorizing Ibaa community in Emohua Local Government Area of the state.
The command said the officers while acting on credible information, arrested one Goodluck Ezekwu A.K.A ‘Big Daddy, the leader of the notorious gang who killed a member a local vigilante group in Ibaa, Amobi Oguzo and his son, Prince Oguzo two weeks ago.
The Command in a statement on Monday by its Public Relations Officer, Nnamdi Omoni said Big Daddy was “arrested in Imo State and taken to custody”.
The statement said during interrogation he made a useful confessions and led the police team to Ibaa community, where one Ebere Amesi and other members of the gang were hibernating.
According to the statement, on sighting the police, Ebere Amesi, who has been in charge of ammunition of the gang and members, aggressively engaged the police in a fierce gun battle and in the exchange of gunfire, both “Goodluck Ezekwu and Ebere Amesi were caught in the cross fire”, where they sustained fatal gunshot wounds.
Omoni said the two gang leaders “were immediately taken to the hospital where they were confirmed dead by the doctors”.
The statement further disclosed that one AK-47 rifle and one assault rifle, with three live ammunition were recovered from the criminals.
Meanwhile, their corpses have been deposited in the mortuary, while efforts have been intensified to ensure the arrest of the fleeing gang members.
A 25-year-old farmer has been sentenced to two years imprisonment by a Magistrate Court sitting in Ondo town, headquarters of Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State for selling adulterated palm oil.
The convict, Hassan Kazeem was said to have been involved in the illicit business of mixing palm oil with some chemicals in order to produce more palm oil for the unsuspecting public.
It was gathered that after mixing the substances, he used to sell the adulterated palm oil for N34,000.
Kazeem is said to have committed the offence on August 22, 2021, where he was caught selling the adulterated palm oil at Sabo market, Ondo town.
While pleading guilty to the charge, he begged the court to forgive him as he promised not to perpetrate such crime again.
“I was looking for N32,000 to travel around to search for my wife and children because they travelled to our town and they have not come back since. That is why I did it when I did not see anyone to borrow me.”
The Police Prosecutor, ASP Iyabo Omolara, however, urged the court not to give judgment after the defendant had pleaded guilty to the crime.
The Presiding Chief Magistrate, Toyin Olowookere, in her judgment, found the accused guilty and sentenced him to two months imprisonment without an option of fine.
The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Fulani Socio-Cultural Association has called on the National Assembly to intervene and stop attempts by some state governors to enact anti-open grazing laws targeted at Fulani pastoralists.
The National Secretary of the association, Mr Saleh Alhassan, made the call at a National Peace Summit and Investiture of Queen Mother Amina Temitope Ajayi as the Miyetti Allah Brand Ambassador, held at Uke, Karu Local Government, Nasarawa State.
Alhassan said the law would undermine the relative peace and stability currently enjoyed in the local communities, threaten the social order and exacerbated cattle rustling.
He said the anti-open grazing laws would destroy livestock production and send into poverty millions of people that depend on the livestock value chain.
Alhassan appealed to the National Assembly to come to the rescue of the pastoralists by resuscitating and passing the Grazing Reserves Commission Bill and other livestock management bills that were initiated by the previous assembly.
The secretary, therefore, called on the Federal Government to create a Federal Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries as obtainable in many African countries.
He stressed the need for the government to take an inventory of all the existing grazing reserves, traditional grazing areas, transhumance corridors, major stock routes and fully develop at least one grazing reserve in each Senatorial District.
“This is in line with the recommendation of the Inter-ministerial Committee on Livestock Development in Nigeria 2015, the Report of the President Committee on Pastoralists and Insecurity 2014 and National Livestock Transformation Programme,” he said.
He said the review of the Land Use Act was long overdue to accommodate the interest of all land resources users, including pastoralists.
He said that ranching as envisaged by many required capital investment and was difficult to sustain, not economical “and it is not small livestock holder-centred”.
Alhassan, therefore, called for the proper funding of the National Commission for Nomadic Education and the expansion of its mandate.
“Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore totally condemns the continuous extortion and profiling of the Fulani pastoralists by Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue and we call on him to offer an apology to the Fulani race.
“We commend the courageous efforts of the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari for listening to our consistent call to restore the existing grazing reserves, routes and create new ones.
“Because it is the only sustainable solution to the farmers and herders conflicts in the country,” he said.
Responding, Ajayi said she joined the association with a view to engender peace, unity and development as well as chart a new course of action for the Fulani pastoralists.
“I have developed a blueprint for the total transformation of the cattle rearing and farming business that will change the Gross Domestic Product of Nigeria.
“If we are able to implement half of my development agenda for the Fulani pastoralists, the lingering clash of Fulani versus farmers will be a thing of the past,” she said.
