Tag: Assault

Ogun police arrest man for allegedly raping his wife’s 11-year-old cousin for three years.

Ogun State Police Command has arrested one Idowu Shittu, 35, for allegedly raping his wife’s 11-year-old cousin for three years.

Shittu, who lives at Hallelujah Street, Ifo area of Ogun State, was apprehended by the police after his wife reported at Ifo division that Shittu had been forcing the minor to sleep with her for three years.

The Ogun State police spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the wife informed the police that “her cousin, who lives with them informed her that her husband, Idowu Shittu has been forcefully having sex with her for the past three years, and when she can no longer bear it.”

According to Oyeyemi, the cousin, whose mother died when she was a toddler, had told the woman that she had been enduring the sexual molestation because she had no other place to go should she be sent out by the suspect, saying “he used to threatening whenever he wants to have his way with her.”

It was gathered that DPO of Ifo division, CSP Kehinde Kuranga, having been briefed about the case, detailed his detectives to the scene where the suspect was arrested.

“On interrogation, the suspect confessed to the crime, but pleaded for forgiveness from the little girl,” Oyeyemi said on Sunday, adding that the Commissioner of Police in Ogun, Lanre Bankole, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the State CIID for further investigation and prosecution.

March 6, 2022
[Viral video] Police nab 4 suspects over alleged assault on lady in Borno

The Police Command in Borno has arrested four men for allegedly assaulting a 29-year-old lady, Fadila Abdulrahman, in a viral video in Maiduguri metropolis.

The Commissioner of Police, Mr Abdu Umar, confirmed the arrest while parading the suspects on Monday in Maiduguri.

Umar said that four suspects were arrested while efforts had been intensified to apprehend three others at large, including the principal suspect, one Sa’adu Suleiman (Alias) Manu Nakande.

“An incident occurred involving a lady which went viral on social media. It is a case of criminal conspiracy and assault causing hurt.

“A gang of hoodlums who are loyalists to a politician, supposedly named Honourable Satomi Ahmed, a member of House of Representatives representing Jere Federal Constituency, alleged that they were engaged by one Sa’adu Suleiman alias Manu Nakande.

“They invaded Zahura Restaurant in Maiduguri Amusement Park where Fadila Abdulrahman, 29, attacked, beaten and her restaurant destroyed.

“They alleged that she circulated on social media an image and writings undermining the integrity of their master, the member,” he said.

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According to him, the suspects will be charged to court as soon as investigation was completed, adding that: “I assure you that this will not be swept under the carpet.

“We have some peace in Borno, and we will not allow anyone to toy with it.”

In a swift reaction, Satomi who distanced himself from the assault, condemned the action.

Satomi who claimed to had known Fadila as one of his former media aides, urged the police to ensure justice for the victim.

“I am in the forefront of supporting Fadila more than any other person, I supported her in getting the place she is operating her restaurant.

“To me, the whole thing was stage managed to get at me politically.

“I do not support anyone that assaulted her and I will stand by her to get justice,” he said.

January 25, 2022
Ikoyi Club suspends Alakija’s husband for allegedly assaulting fellow member

The popular Ikoyi Club in Lagos has suspended Modupe Alakija, the husband of Folorunsho Alakija, over alleged assault.

Folorunsho is a Nigerian billionaire businesswoman who is known as Africa’s richest woman.

Modupe, who is a lawyer, is the son of Adeyemo Alakija, the famed Nigerian legal practitioner.

In a circular signed by Bamidele Ibironke, the secretary of Ikoyi Club, Modupe was accused of physically assaulting and abusing one of its members.

The notification said the suspension would run from December 2021 to November 2022.

“The above-named member of the club is hereby placed on a one-year suspension for physically assaulting and abusing a fellow member,” it read.

“Conduct injurious to the interest of the club, thereby violating Rule 9(C) of the club’s rule book. This suspension takes effect from December 1, 2021 to November 30th 2022.”

Tunde Orungbeja, the club’s general manager, who also confirmed the incident said the issue is being handled internally.

“[What exactly transpired] is an information that I cannot share with you. Whatever happened in the Ikoyi Club is basically an internal affair. It’s a private member club and it’s managed within the club,” he said.

“If it’s anything that needs to go to the public, the club will duly notify the public about it”, he told The Cable.

December 21, 2021
Assault video: How Onyeama, Envoy to Togo, Adesina saved Nigerian passengers

Nigerians seen being maltreated at the Gnassingbe Eyadema International Airport, Lome on Saturday in a viral video have been successfully evacuated to the country.

It was learnt that both the Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister, Geofrey Onyeama, and the Ambassador to Togo, Debo Adesina, had immediately moved in on Saturday after getting wind of the incident where some of the Nigerian passengers were shown being assaulted by airport security operatives.

It was gathered that the Nigerian passengers aboard the Ethiopian Airline from New York got to Lome only to be informed that their connecting flight to Nigeria through ASky Airline was full.

This infuriated the Nigerian passengers, leading to a protest within the airport and for which some of the Nigerians were shackled and manhandled.

In the viral video, some people were seen with their hands tied to their backs while uniformed men believed to be Togolese airport securitymen were seen assaulting a lady who was on the floor.

A man could be heard screaming “This is bad, this is bad.”

It was gathered that Adesina, who was said to have briefed the minister, personally went to the airport on hearing the news of the development.

It was learnt that he, alongside the boss of the country’s civil aviation company, one Colonel Dokisime Gnama Latta, immediately worked out an arrangement for two flights to evacuate all of the passengers Saturday night.

ASky Airline, which is said to be a strategic partner of the Ethiopian Airline has been facing challenges in the last three weeks due to traffic volume.

It was learnt that the same airline had almost aborted a trip by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, last week when he was on his way to Kenya from The Gambia where he went for election monitoring.

December 19, 2021
Osun APC caretaker committee secretary, ex-commissioners, others arraigned for allegedly assaulting members

The Caretaker Committee Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, Mr. Rasaq Salinsile, ex-APC chairman Elder Adelowo Adebiyi, two former commissioners and two ex-executive council (exco) members in the administration of former governor Rauf Aregbesola were yesterday arraigned at an Osogbo Magistrates’ Court.

Also arraigned were ex-commissioner for Works and Transport Kazeem Salami, former commissioner for Youth, Sports and Special Needs Biyi Odunlade, ex-special adviser to the governor on Taxation Gbenga Akano and two others, namely Alaba Popoola and Azeez Adekunle, on two counts of conspiracy and assault.

Police prosecutor John Idoko told the court that the defendants and others at large, on August 14, about 1:30pm, at Ogo-Oluwa conspired to unlawfully assault Hamzat Babatunde by hitting him with stones on his head, which caused him harm.

He said: “The defendants assaulted Ajetumobi Muideen, male, by hitting him with parts of broken plastic chairs on his head, which caused him harm.”

Idoko said the offences are contrary to and punishable under Section 516 and 355 of the Criminal Code Cap 34 Vol. Il laws of Osun State of Nigeria 2002.

The defendants pleaded not guilty.

Defence counsel Muftau Adediran and Abdulfatai Abdulsalam prayed the court to grant the defendants bail in the most liberal term.

The Magistrate, Dr. Olusegun Ayilara, granted Salinsile, Adebiyi, Salami, Odunlade and Akano bail in the sum of N5millon and self-recognition, while Popoola and Adekunle were granted bail in the sum of N5million and one surety, who must be a civil servant in the state.

He adjourned the case till September 24.

When the Appeal Committee of the APC Ward Congress was sitting on August 14, violence erupted at the party’s secretariat and two people were injured, as loyalists of Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola and those of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola clashed.

August 24, 2021
JUST IN: Indonesia justifies assault on Nigerian diplomat, Abdulrrahman Ibrahim

Indonesian government has justified the assault on Nigerian diplomat, Abdulrahman Ibrahim by immigration officers in the South East Asian Country.

Ibrahim in a viral video was assaulted in a car by some Indonesian immigration officials in Jakarta.

The August 7 incident had sparked a diplomatic row between Nigeria and the Indonesian authorities with the Federal Government recalling the Nigerian High Commissioner to Indonesia, Usman Ogar for consultation, while threatening a review of the bilateral relations between the two nations.

According to emerging reports, the Indonesian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Dr Usra Harahap, who met the Minister of Foreign affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, in Abuja, said that the Nigerian diplomat was the aggressor during his (Ibrahim) encounter with some immigration officers.

Giving an account of the incident, the envoy disclosed that the immigration officers from South Jakarta Immigration Office were carrying out surveillance on foreigners when they asked Ibrahim for identification but the diplomat allegedly refused to identify himself or tender his passport.

He stated “By that time, they met with Mr Ibrahim, and politely requested him to show his travel document. He answered that his passport was in his room.

“Then the officer asked again, ‘Can we see your travel document to check the residence permit and if there are no problems with the document, so you may continue your activities

“Mr Ibrahim was not willing to show his passport and said to the officer, ‘you will know who really I am and be careful on that.

“Instead of showing his identity card, Mr Ibrahim was angry and said, ‘Just arrest me and you will regret to know who really I am.’

“The officer said, ‘We will not detain you further sir, if you can show us your identity card.’ Then Mr Ibrahim said, ‘Where is your car, I’ll come to your office.’

“On the way to the immigration office in South Jakarta, several incidents happened. Mr Ibrahim elbowed the immigration officer, Mr Laode Hauzan Baidi, who was sitting next to him until Mr Laode’s lip was bleeding.

“This led to other officers restraining him from attacking another officer during the trip.”

Explaining that Ibrahim later showed his identity card, Harahap further said, “As of February 22, 2021, there were 180 Nigerian citizens in Indonesian Immigration Detention Centre, who were undergoing process for deportation.”

The envoy further said that the issue was resolved when the Nigerian high commissioner to Indonesia arrived at the South Jakarta Immigration Office around 6:30 pm, together with the staff and his police guard from the Directorate of Security of Vital Objects of Police of the Greater Jakarta Metro Area

He stated that the officer injured by Ibrahim lodged a complaint about the attack on him but did not process it further because the matter had been resolved.

August 12, 2021
Retired Ambassadors condemn assault of Nigerian Diplomat in Indonesia

Retired Ambassadors in Nigeria under the aegis of Association of Retired Career Ambassadors of Nigeria (ARCAN) , on Wednesday condemned in the strongest term, the unprovoked attack by Indonesian Immigration Officials on a Nigerian diplomatic agent.

ARCAN protested that the attack was not only unprovoked and unwarranted, but it was also a glaring abuse of established conventions and international norms and conduct as enshrined in the Vienna Convention (1961), on Diplomatic Relations.

ARCAN in a statement on Wednesday noted with appreciation and support, the interim steps so far taken by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry by summoning the Indonesian Ambassador to Nigeria to protest the actions of the unruly Indonesian Immigration Officials and recalling, for consultation, the Ambassador of Nigeria to Indonesia.

The association acknowledged that the Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, nevertheless, recommended further actions to be taken following the conclusion of the investigation the Government intends to carry out.

“The actions of the Indonesian Officials represent a modern-day display of gangsterism and inhuman behaviour towards a fellow human being, even if he was not a diplomatic agent, and must, therefore, be met with robust response from the
Federal Government of Nigeria through the application of measures that may include a complete reassessment of Nigeria’s diplomatic relations with Indonesia,” the association declared.

ARCAN rejected the statement credited to the Head of the Regional Office of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights of Indonesia which, it said, makes no sense and an obvious attempt to cover up the barbaric action of the Immigration officials, and a clear indication of the unacceptable manner foreigners, legal or illegal, are treated
in the country.

ARCAN expressed that it stands in solidarity with the Nigerian Government and in this regard looks forward to adequate compensatory measures to be dispensed to the traumatized Consular Officer, including appropriate and adequate medical treatment, as well as other measures, to help in his rehabilitation.

ARCAN anticipated that at the end of all this, other rogue officials in Indonesia and elsewhere in the world, would have learnt the necessary lessons and ensure that this type of clear breach and barbaric behaviour never rears its head again.

August 12, 2021
Assault on diplomat: FG rejects erring Indonesian officials’ apology, wants them sanctioned

The Federal Government has threatened to review its relationship with Indonesia if it fails to bring the Indonesian immigration officials that assaulted a Nigerian diplomat to book.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffry Onyeama, stated this at a briefing in Abuja on Tuesday.

Nigeria has also summoned its ambassador to Indonesia to give a detailed account of the assault, which has sparked outrage after a video of it went viral.

Onyeama’s briefing follows Monday’s statement by his Ministry condemning the assault.

In that statement, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said the Indonesian Ambassador to Nigeria has apologised and that the immigration officials involved had also visited the Nigerian Embassy in Indonesia to apologise to the diplomat.

But Onyeama told journalists in Abuja that the Federal Government wanted stronger action to be taken by the Indonesian Government.

The officials must be sanctioned, he said, adding that Indonesia’s failure to do so will have consequences for the relationship between both countries.

TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that a video of the incident which went viral showed at least three men, identified later as immigration officials, in a vehicle assaulting the Nigerian diplomat and ignoring his screams of pain.

While two of the men held his hands and pinned him down in the backseat, another freely assaulted his unprotected head as he cried out in pain.

August 10, 2021
CCT chairman drags senate to court for probing alleged assault case against him

The Senate on Tuesday suspended its investigation into allegation of assault against Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Mr. Danladi Umar, by a security guard, Clement Sargwak.

The Chairman Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, Senator Ayo Akinyelure, said the panel decided to adjourn the investigation sine die following a suit instituted against the Senate by Umar on the matter.

Umar had dragged the Senate, the Senate President, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Ethics, privileges and public petitions to court and urging the judiciary to interpret the powers of the National Assembly to investigate matters whether they included cases of assault.

But lawyer to the petitioner, Timizing Venyir Ramnap, kicked against the decision of the committee.

Ramnap, in his brief submissions before the Committee’s ruling, said the purported originating summons from a Federal High Court, Abuja forwarded to the committee by counsel to the accused, were mere court processes and not declarative orders.

“Courts have procedures of doing things. The present document before this Committee as read out by the Chairman, is not an order from any court but mere court process served on the Senate.

“Were it to be valid order from the court of competent jurisdiction, Senate may back out, but since it is not, the Senate through this Committee still have its constitutional powers on the case and can forge ahead with the investigation.

“We hereby wish to submit that the Senate do look at its position as contained in law by rejecting this temptation,” he said.

But the Committee Chairman quickly responded that it is not a temptation but effort being made by somebody to circumvent it, which will be challenged in the court.

He said: “We have submitted all the originating summons to the leadership of the Senate, Clerk to the National Assembly, Clerk of the Senate and the legal department of the National Assembly.

“All the issues raised by the respondent who has turned himself to a plaintiff now, will be challenged in the court because investigation on the alleged assault started here before the CCT Chairman ran to court.

“Be rest assured that the matter will not die like that but we have to stop investigation for now, pending the outcome of consultations we are seeking for from relevant authorities and in particular the counter offensive being made against the CCT Chairman in the court of law.

“This is a clear case of circumventing the constitutional powers of the Senate after submitting himself to us for investigation and begged for time to study the allegations made against him.

“He appeared at the first sitting, sought for a week to study allegations on assault leveled against him. We gave him three weeks for that.

“There after, at the second, third sessions, he sent representatives that he couldn’t come due to ill health, only for him to inform us through his lawyers at the fourth sitting two weeks ago (July 13, 2021), that he was already in court.

“Here today, neither him nor any of his representatives is here which will make us to stop the entire process for now, because we can’t write report on the investigation by hearing from only one side.

“We hereby step this investigation aside sine die,” he said.

Danladi in the suit with file no FHC/ABJ/ CS/671/2021, challenged Senate’s Constitutional Power to conduct investigation and purpose for which it is exercisable.

Specifically, the CCT Chairman asked the court to interpret the constitutional powers granted the Senate or House Committees on Ethics and Privileges and Public Petitions whether it covers public assault which are part of the constitutional functions of the Police and the Courts of Law.

A copy of the originating summons signed by Sunday Edward (ESQ) from Abuka and Partners on behalf of Umar, listed him as the Plaintiff and the Senate, Senate President, Senate’s Commitee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions and the Attorney-General of the Federation as defendants.

Umar in the originating summons asked the court to interpret the powers of the four defendants to investigate the case of assault in question.

The summons read in part: “Whether the purported case of assault which allegedly took place at Banex Plaza, on 29th March, 2021, forms part of the matters the 1st defendant is constitutionally empowered to investigate.

“Whether the 1st defendant and its Committee, that is, the 3rd defendant, are competent to investigate and/or invite the plaintiff in relation to the investigation of the allegation of assault levelled against him.

“Whether the powers of the 1st defendant to conduct investigation are not by and/or subject to provisions of sections 88 and 89 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and are not exercisable for the purposes of making law and exposing corruption, inefficiency or waste in the execution of administration of laws within its legislative competence and in the disbursement or administration of funds appropriated by the 1st defendant.

“Whether the 1st defendant’s move to conduct investigative hearing on the petition before it is not unconstitutional and does not amount to an unwarranted usurpation of the functions of the Police and of the Courts of competent jurisdiction”.

Umar urged the Senate to discontinue the investigation following his suit against the National Assembly.

“We write to inform you that the case between our client and Clement Sargwak is now before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (suit No: FCT/HC/ CV/1544/2021, Mr Danladi Umar vs Clement Sargwak) and the issue as to whether or not Clement Sargwak had discontinued and/or withdrawn his petition before your Honourable Committee is equally sub judice.

“We trust that Senate, as the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly, will respect due process and refrain from delving into a matter that is before a court of competent jurisdiction,” the letter reads.

The CCT Chairman was alleged to have physically assaulted Clement Sagwak at the Bannex Plaza in Wuse 2, on March 29, 2021.

In seeking redress, Sargwark through his lawyer, petitioned the Senate.

July 27, 2021
TRENDING: Internet abuzz over video of motorist who smashed bottle on police officer’s head

A viral video on Wednesday involving a yet to be identified motorist who smashed bottle on a police officer’s head is presently the talk of the town on the social media.

As seen in the video, the policeman had apparently insisted on impounding what looks like a mini-truck, when the incident happened.

Argument ensued between the policeman and a man holding a bottle at the back of the vehicle, who was trying to force the security man to come down from the truck.

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Onlookers were also heard from the background prodding the man with the bottle, who is apparently the owner of the vehicle, to assault the policeman and the latter brazenly did by hitting the policeman with the bottle on the head.

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A Twitter user APC Support with the handle @APCNigeria, which posted the video, condemned the assault on the policeman.

The group wrote: “As much as we stand against #PoliceBrutality, we must also condemn acts like this in the strangest of terms. We call on @PoliceNG, @PoliceNG_CRU, @rrslagos767 to investigate this video, especially if it’s recent, and prosecute the perpetrator of this evil.”

Recall a similar incident few days ago, when ASP Sunday Erhabor, attached to the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the State Command was assaulted by one Victor Ebhomenyen at Four Point by Sheraton Hotel, Oniru area of Lagos at the weekend.

April 21, 2021