The Director General, Scientific and Equipment Development Institute SEDI, Prof. Samuel Ndubisi has been shot dead by unknown gunmen.
He was killed at the Enugu end of the Enugu/Porthacourt Express Road Enugu
The video which has gone viral in the social media shows the police orderly lying lifeless on the express while Professor Ndubuisi’s body lay by his Prado Jeep.
The driver who was reportedly injured in the incident was reportedly rushed to an undisclosed hospital for treatment.
The Jeep in which the Director General was riding in was riddled with bullet showing that his assailants had opens fire on the vehicle before it was forced to a halt.
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Reacting to the incident Enugu State Police Command Inna statement said “information surrounding a shooting incident today, 07/07/2021 at about 1600hrs, along Enugu/Port-Harcourt Expressway, said to have led to the death of a man and his Police orderly, is still sketchy. Meanwhile, preliminary investigation has commenced. Further development will be duly communicated.
The statement was issued by the Police Public Relations Officer PPRO ASP Daniel Ndukwe.
Executive Governor of Enugu state, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, has already visited the scene of the accident.
The police in Enugu has arrested three male suspects involved in railway tracks and slippers vandalisation.
A statement issues by the State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Daniel Ndukwe, ASP, said the suspects were arrested with their operational lorries and large pieces of the vandalized items.
He said the breakthrough was in pursuant to the operational strategies, including collaborative security operations, devised by the Commissioner of Police, Enugu State Command, CP Mohammed Ndatsu Aliyu, psc*, to actualize mandates of Operation Restore Peace in the State.
Those arrested include one Chukwuma Okoye aged 56 and Oluchukwu Igboke aged 25, both of Anambra State, who were intercepted and arrested on 02/07/2021 by a Joint Security patrol team, headed by the Officer-in-Charge of the Command’s Anti-Kidnapping Squad, at Emene Enugu, along Enugu/Abakaliki highway.
The 2 Mercedes trucks with registration numbers: AWK 296 YX and UWN 471 ZX, which they were respectively driving were searched as operatives uncovered large pieces of vandalized railway tracks and slippers.
The statement said both suspects confessed to be transporting from Ezza-Nkwubor, Emene to Anambra State.
The 2 lorries and the vandalized items were recovered.
Also, the Police Operatives attached to the Command’s CP Monitoring Unit on 10/06/2021, arrested one Boniface Eze aged 37, of Anambra State and recovered a Mercedes 911 lorry with registration number: XC 360 UWN loaded with vandalized railway tracks and slippers at Ezza-Nkwubor, Emene, Enugu.
His arrest police said is due to the Operatives swift response to credible information, alleging that some persons vandalized the said railway tracks and slippers, loaded and were about to transport same to an unknown location.
The suspect and driver of the said lorry are said to have also confessed to be transporting the vandalized items to Anambra State.
The police statement said efforts have been intensified to arrest accomplices to the crime, with the view to charging them to court once investigation is concluded.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police while frowning at the act of criminal vandalism of critical national infrastructures, such as railways, that are meant for public good, has warned unrepentant criminal elements to steer clear of such critical public assets in the State or be ready to face the full weight of the law.
He therefore, called on resident of the State to remain law abiding, vigilant and promptly report criminals and their acts of vandalism to the nearest Police Station or by calling the Command’s emergency hotlines on: *08032003702, 08075390883, 08086671202 or 080988880172*. They can also send e-mails to: *contact042ppro@gmail.com.*
The Kaduna State Government has ordered the immediate closure of 13 schools located in areas that have been identified as vulnerable to attacks by bandits. This followed Monday’s bandits’ attack on Bethel Baptist school in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, where an unspecified number of students were kidnapped.
The directive which was issued by the Director-General of Quality Assurance Authority in the state Ministry of Education, Umma Ahmed to proprietors of private schools, said the closure is with immediate effect.
“You are hereby advised to adhere to the contents of this letter as appropriate sanctions shall be meted out to schools that are found wanting for non-compliance, please,” she said.
Ahmed listed the names of the affected schools to include Faith Academy, along Kachia Road adjacent to Jakaranda, Deeper Life Academy, Maraban Rido, ECWA Secondary school, Ungwar Maje and Bethel Baptist High School, Damishi.
Others are St. Peters Minor Seminary, Katari, Prelude Secondary School, Kujama, Ibiso Secondary School, Tashar Iche, Tulip International (Boys) School and Tulip international (Girls) School.
Also on the list are, Goodnews Secondary School, St. Augustine, Kujama, Comprehensive Development Institution (CDI), Tudun Mare and Adventist College, Kujama.
Kaduna has been experiencing series of attacks by bandits, with educational institutions considered as soft targets.
FRSC official, rice farmer in hospital after being brutalized by EFFC operatives Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have allegedly brutalised the Executive Director, Divine Rice Producers, and an official of the Federal Road Safety Corps in Enugu during a midnight raid on their residences.
The victims, Divine Nwonye, whose company is based in Taraba State; and Sunday Odo, a newly transferred FRSC official, told The PUNCH on Sunday on their hospital beds that the incident happened on Thursday, July 1, 2021.
While describing the attack on their families as ‘wicked and unprofessional,’ they stated that till date, they had not been told their offences or why their apartments were raided and the doors and windows destroyed.
Nwonye had bruises on his back and a swollen shoulder, while Odo had neck fracture and bruises on his back and face.
Nwonye said, “I was sleeping around 3am on Thursday when I heard bangs on the gate. I woke up and because I am living on the third floor of a three-storey building at the New Haven Extension, Enugu, I peeped through the window and saw two commuter Hiace buses outside the gate and saw people scaling the perimeter fence.
“I was so terrified and there was no light. I was confused and I peeped through the window again; they had opened the gate and some were climbing with a ladder to the first floor and started breaking windows and doors.
“They were moving from one apartment to another. I was confused and I woke my children, my wife and my brother, who works with the FRSC, and we started praying.”
He added, “We thought they were armed robbers, because they were not in uniform. We were praying until they got to my apartment, broke the iron doors and came in.
“They ransacked the apartment. While we were lying face down, they started hitting me and my eight-year-old son with the iron pipes they were carrying.”
He stated that when they got down, they saw some people in mobile police uniform wielding AK-47 rifles, adding that before they broke into his apartment, he had called the New Haven Police Division, but policemen did not come until they had been dragged into the attackers’ vehicle.
“They did not tell us who they were until we found ourselves at the Enugu zonal office of the EFCC. When we disembarked from the bus, they took my phone and started pressing it and after a while, it was returned to me and they asked me to go. They seized my farm implement,” he added.
Odo said, “The EFCC operatives said they beat us because we didn’t open the door.”
When the spokesperson for the Enugu zonal office of the EFCC, Mrs. Bethel Ude, was contacted on the telephone, she said she had no such information.
“Sorry my dear, I don’t have such information,” she stated.
The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘C’ Owerri has intercepted tramadol, Indian hemp and other contraband goods with a duty paid value (DPV) of Ninety Nine Million, Eight Hundred and Twenty Thousand Naira, only (N99,820,000,00) from April-June 2021.
In a statement made available to our correspondent in Enugu through the public relations officer, Jerry Attah, the Controller FOU Zone ‘C’, Comptroller Yusuf Lawal disclosed that the seizures followed the strengthening of the service’s anti-smuggling operations within the zone comprising southeast and southsouth.
According to the controller, in the months under review, five suspects were arrested in connection to the seizures which include: 45 rolls containing 4,500 sachets of 225mg of royal brand of tramadol, 210 bags of 50kg foreign parboiled rice and 18 parcels of Indian Hemp.
Others are 19, 725 sachets of dizapam tablet, 98 bales of used clothing, 220 cartons of foreign tomatoes paste, 12 cartons of foreign Johnson soap, 240 pieces of used tyres, 668 pairs of used shoes, among others mostly intercepted along Okada-Benin/Lagos Expressway.
Comptroller Lawal, who reiterated that even though smuggling is a global phenomenon that cannot be eradicated entirely, invited all hands to be on deck so that it could be reduced to its barest minimum.
He commended the resilience and doggedness of his officers and men that brought about this result noting that only God knows what would have happened if the tramadol got to the wrong hand at this trying moment as the negative consequences could not be over-emphasized.
The comptroller opined that the feat could not have been possible without the logistics support of the Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (Rtd) and the entire management, as well as the media for your partnership in sensitizing and educating the general public on the evil of smuggling to the nations economy which has led to drastic reduction of smuggling within the zone.
He further thanked sister agencies that were always on ground to give them the necessary operational support, most especially the Nigeria Army, Police, DSS among others and look forward to sustaining such relationship that would yield better performance in the remaining half of the year.
Comptroller Lawal while urging his officers/men to always ensure professionalism and be diligent in performing their statutory responsibilities, charged them to sustain the anti-smuggling operations by making sure all revenue leakages were blocked and encouraged them to keep thwarting the antics of those dare devil smugglers who used different methods of concealment for smuggling.
Masked armed robbers Monday evening stormed and robbed a Super Market in the Onu Asata area of Ogui New Layout Enugu.
The armed robbers who shot sporadically into the air arrived the Super Market in three Hilux Vans.
The gunshots scared away passersby as the robbers went down to business; carting away valuables including bags of rice, cartons of indomie, gas cylinders among others.
The robbers had a field day as none interrupted while the robbery which took place about 6:30 Pm lasted.
The attack is coming barely 24 hours after gunmen shot and killed the Managing Director of Auto Ease, a Vehicle body repairs outfit in the Enugu capital City.
Mr. Ifeanyi Okeke, Managing Director of Auto Ease, a vehicle body repair outlet based in Enugu has been assassinated.
He was shot and killed Sunday night along his street where he reportedly went to have a hair cut in the company of his 7-year-old child.
Confirming the incident Enugu Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Daniel Ndukwe, ASP, noted that Mr. Okeke was shot severally by his assailants and died later in hospital.
He noted that the Police got information received on 04/07/2021 at about 8:30 pm, that hoodlums were operating at Bricks Estate, Independence Layout, Enugu.
“Police Operatives attached to the Layout’s Police Division, immediately raced to the scene. On sighting the Operatives, the criminal elements fled, while their male victim, later identified as Ifeanyi Okeke, whom they shot severally, was rushed to the nearest hospital, where he was confirmed dead by Doctors on duty.”
Meanwhile, the State Commissioner of Police, CP Mohammed Ndatsu Aliyu, psc*, has ordered the State CID to launch a full-scale investigation and manhunt of the criminal elements in view of bringing them to book.
He has also called on members of the public with useful information that will lead to the arrest of the criminals, to volunteer same at the nearest Police Station or by calling the Command’s emergency hotlines on: 08032003702, 08075390883, 08086671202 or 08098880172. They can also send e-mails to contact042ppro@gmail.com*,
The Police Command in Kaduna State on Sunday confirmed the kidnap of eight person at the National Centre for Tuberculosis and Leprosy Quarters, in Zaria town of the state.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Muhammed Jalige confirmed the incident in a statement issued on Sunday in Kaduna.
Jalige said, in the early hours of Sunday at about 1.30 am, suspected bandits in large number attacked a Divisional Police Headquarters, in Saye area of Zaria .
“In an attempt to overrun the officers on duty, they met a stiff resistance as there was heavy exchange of fire between the bandits and the police personnel on duty.
“Unfortunately as at the same period, some groups of bandits were attacking the National Centre for Tuberculosis and Leprosy Quarters at same Saye, of which eight persons were kidnapped and taken to an unknown destination,” he said.
He disclosed that 23 empty shells and three live GPMG ammunitions, as well as 34 empty shells of 7.62x39mm ammunitions, were recovered from the scene.
He said efforts had been intensified to rescue the abducted persons. (NAN)(www.nannews,ng).
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Edo Command on Saturday arrested seven farmers suspected to be cannabis farmers in Ughieudu, near Ehor, Uhumwonde Local Government Area of the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the suspects were arrested in their suspected cannabis farms during an operation by personnel of the agency which lasted several hours.
Mr Kennedy Obedeke, the Principal Staff Officer (PSO) Operations, Edo command, who led the operations told newsmen shortly before the destruction of the farms that they were discovered through intelligence.
Obedeke also said that the farms which were three in numbers, and measuring about 22.216411 hectares , had cannabis plants with market value running into several millions of naira.
He disclosed that the operation had been ongoing since Wednesday, adding that in spite of the challenges faced by the command, it would not relent in the war against illicit drugs in the state.
He noted that Edo was a cannabis sativa producing state, but stressed that the command was doing its best to ensure that the substance did not get to the end users.
He noted that the command was working assiduously to keep the state free of illicit drugs.
He added that with the motivation and encouragement from the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer of the agency, Brig.- Gen. Buba Marwa (Rtd.) the command was more committed to the renewed war against illicit drug and substance abuse in the state.
Meanwhile, one of the suspects who claimed to be the manager of the farm told newsmen that he was being paid N120,000 annually by the owner of the farms.
He, however, said he was aware of the implications of his crime, while also disclosing that the owner of the farms was at present on the run. (NAN)
A commander of the Eastern Security Network, the paramilitary arm of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Emeoyiri Benjamin, has stated his roles in some bloody attacks allegedly carried out by the group in Imo State.
The 28-year-old suspect dubbed Onye Army also explained how he and his gang members fortified themselves with charms prepared with heads of 10 young girls abducted in the state.
Benjamin was apprehended recently by operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team deployed in Imo.
Narrating his criminal escapades, Benjamin said that he joined ESN in 2020 and was trained in a camp for two weeks.
He said that he participated in the attacks on Owerri Correctional Centre, Imo Police Command headquarters, Orlu Police Station and the country home of the state Governor, Hope Uzodimma.
Several inmates escaped during the prison break, while a policeman was killed in the governor’s residence in Omuma, Oru East Local Government Area of the state, and vehicles vandalised.
He said the group attacked Uzodimma’s house to avenge the killing of one Ikonso, who he described as a top ESN commander.
Benjamin stated, “I am from Izombe town in Uguta, Imo State. I was in the village in 2019 when one John approached me. He knew I had been looking for a military job without success so he advised me to join IPOB. I was attending IPOB meetings in Orlu every Sunday. I attended the meeting until November 2020 when Mazi Nnamdi Kanu formed the ESN.
“I volunteered to join the ESN and I was trained with many others from different parts of the country in a camp close to the Niger Bridge. Before I went to the camp, I was living in a church in Orlu owned by Nwachukwu. While at the camp, we were given military training and our phones were seized from us.
“After our training we were given boots and uniforms and asked to go back to our various state commanders. My state commander was the late Ikonso. We were not given any money. When I got back to Imo State, I reported back to the church which served as one of our camps at that time. Then, we got an order that there shouldn’t be any police or military checkpoints in the South-East. All the ESN state commanders asked their fighters to comply with the order. I also obeyed the order because I have taken an oath.”
Benjamin said they first attacked a police checkpoint in Orlu during which a policeman and two of his members were killed in a gun battle.
He explained that policemen busted their camp in Orlu and they relocated to Anambra State, where they continued attacks on police stations and checkpoints.
He added, “Ikonso, one Engineer Mike and Temple organised the attack on the Owerri Prison and Imo State Police Command headquarters. We stole 50 police rifles. We were over 100 fighters who went for the operation but on our way back, some soldiers attacked us and many of our fighters were killed.
“We carried out a few other attacks on security formations in Imo and Anambra states before Ikonso was killed in his residence. After his death, we burnt the governor’s house and killed a security man.”
The suspect said they had killed 30 persons so far in vengeance of Ikonso’s killing and attacked Orlu Police Division to free their members detained at the station.
He said, “We went in 10 vehicles. We tied white and red clothes on our bodies for protection against bullets. We prepared the charms with the heads of 10 young girls.
“Temple and Mike came up with the suggestion to use the girls for the charms and we abducted them in Imo State. Unfortunately, before we got to the Orlu Police Station, a police armoured vehicle attacked us and killed 12 of our fighters and injured four others.”
