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  • Guard arrested for ‘killing boss’

    Guard arrested for ‘killing boss’

    The police in Lagos have arrested a 44-year-old guard, Rohis Adamu, for allegedly killing his boss, Mutiu Agbosasa, on Sunday.

    Employed barely eight weeks before the alleged murder, Adamu, the police said, ran to Ijede Police Station around 2:30am on Sunday and said his boss, Agbosasa, asked him to call the police.

    But on getting to the house on Ginti Estate, Ijede in Ikorodu, detectives found Agbosasa burnt beyond recognition inside his vehicle, police spokesman Bala Elkana said in a statement yesterday.

    He said when Adamu was questioned, he said that four people invaded the house around 10:30pm on Saturday when he opened the gate for his boss.

    “But Adamu said he did not inform neighbours or nearby security men to seek help.”

    Elkana said: “Police Commissioner CP Hakeem Odumosu has ordered investigation into the death of Mutiu Agbosasa of Ginti Estate, Ijede, Ikorodu. On December 15, at about 2:30am, Rohis Adamu, a security guard working with Mutiu Agbosasa, reported at Ijede Police Station that his boss sent him to call the police.

    “A team of policemen led by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) rushed to the scene. Police found the body of the victim in his vehicle burnt beyond recognition.

    “The crime scene was cordoned off for forensic examination. Homicide detectives and forensic experts from the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) were deployed in the scene for analysis. The body of the deceased was evacuated to hospital for autopsy.

    “The guard was detained for questioning. In his statement, he said that on December 14, at about 10:30pm, he opened the gate for his boss to drive into the house and while closing the gate, four strange men entered the house through the pedestrian gate.

    “That he heard his boss shouting that he should run and call the police. That it did not occur to him to call neighbouring guards for help. “Investigation is ongoing to unravel the circumstances surrounding his death and identify those behind the gruesome murder. Security has been beefed up in the estate.”

  • Olakunrin: Nigeria, a killing field under Buhari, PDP laments

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the gruesome killing of Mrs Funke Olakunrin, daughter of elder statesman, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, by yet -to- be apprehended, gunmen.
    In a statement Saturday by the spokesman for the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party also lamented what it described as the unpardonable lethargy in apprehending Olakunrin’s killers since she was killed on Friday.
    The PDP said it’s heartrending that under the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, the nation has become a killing field and large funeral palour with insurgents, bandits and assassins having a field day waylaying and killing innocent compatriots, especially those making very useful contributions to the development of the nation.
    The statement said, “Our party is worried that security agencies are rather engaging in debates over the identity of the killers and hurriedly pointing to a case of abduction even before any extensive investigation has been carried out on the horrific and dastardly act.
    “The party bewails that the killing of Funke Olakunrin marks yet another national loss occasioned by the failure of the Buhari administration to secure the nation beyond lip service, a development that has emboldened marauders in our country.
    “The PDP posits that Funke Olakunrin must not die in vain. Our dear nation must not continue to lose her finest and brightest in the hands of bandits. Our party therefore charges the authorities to go beyond condolence messages from Abuja and take concrete steps to apprehend Funke Olakunrin’s killers, as well as ensure security of lives in our nation.
    “The PDP, while condoling Pa Fasoranti, charges the Inspector General of Police, Adamu Mohammed, to take immediate and decisive steps, beyond the lip service of the Buhari administration, to track down the killers without further delay and make them face the full wrath of the law, no matter who they are”.

  • Killer-nurse gets life sentence for killing 85 patients

    Killer-nurse gets life sentence for killing 85 patients

    Serial killer, Niels Hoegel, was on Thursday sentenced to life imprisonment after a German court found him guilty of the murder of 85 patients while working as a hospital nurse.

    Hoegel, 42, had admitted to killing patients with lethal injections and was already serving a life sentence after being found guilty in 2015 of murdering two people.

    It seemed to me that I was death’s bookkeeper,’’ presiding Judge, Sebastian Buehrmann, said as he read out the judgment.

    Hoegel initially selected his victims carefully in hospitals in the cities of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst in north-western Germany, injecting them with medication that led to heart failure or other complications between 2000 and 2005.

    Prosecutors claimed he did this so he could try to resuscitate them, motivated by boredom or a desire to impress his colleagues with his medical skills.

    Noting the seriousness of the case, the court virtually ruled out release from prison after 15 years, as is usual practice in Germany.

    The charge sheet originally listed 100 murders, of which Hoegel admitted 43.

    He was acquitted in 15 cases.

    Referring to these cases, Buehrmann said of the relatives: “we leave you with doubts that are surely painful for you, but we have at this point to disappoint you.’’

    Frank Brinkers lost his father, but is one of those who remained in uncertainty.

    “This is very, very bitter. I’ve been through hell, and it’s difficult to bear.’’

    Brinkers had hoped for final clarity, but “apparently it was not to be,’’ he said after the case was concluded.

    The verdict marked the climax of a seven-month trial that drew global attention, in what is thought to be the worst serial murder case in post-war Germany.

    According to a psychological report submitted to the court in April, Hoegel showed signs of a disturbed personality, including a lack of shame, guilt, regret and empathy.

    “His patients’ condition would suddenly deteriorate; alarms would go off and Hoegel was the first at the bedside to initiate life-saving treatment.

    “And, he was good at it and seemed that he yearned for the acknowledgement of his colleagues,’’ the report said.

    Buehrmann highlighted a case directly after Hoegel’s daughter was born, saying “soon afterwards, the nurse struck again, by manipulating his patient’s medication.’

    “You wanted to hang on to that feeling of happiness, by sending another person to their death,’’ the judge said.

    The killing spree ended in 2005 when another nurse caught him in the act of injecting medication that had not been prescribed into a patient.

    In his final words to the court on Wednesday, Hoegel asked for forgiveness from the relatives of his victims, saying that the trial on his “terrible crimes’’ had brought him much suffering.

    His defence team asked for 55 murders to be considered and 14 attempted murders, calling for acquittal in 31 cases, while prosecutors saw murder proved in 97 cases.

    Three other charges failed on grounds of lack of evidence.

  • Banditry: Zamfara Govt denies knowledge of killing of innocent citizens

    …as NAF commences investigations into alleged killing

    Zamfara State Government has denied official knowledge of innocent citizens allegedly being killed during air strikes on suspected bandits camps by the air component of Operation Sharan Daji.

    The denial was made by the Secretary to the Government, Prof. Abdullahi Shinkafi when he received a high powered investigation team from the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) headquarters in Gusau on Friday.

    “The report making rounds in some media outlets that civilians were killed during air strikes by personnel of the NAF in some parts of the state is not the official position of the state government.

    “l did not receive any official report to this effect, but only got to know about it in the media.

    “Instances of collateral damage are not supposed to go public but should be discussed in order to avoid future occurrence,” he said.

    The SSG said the information was “an observation from the Council of Chiefs which needs to be substantiated.

    “It is an observation by a group of stakeholders that needs to be ascertained,” the SSG maintained.

    He said, “this is not the time to share blames but we must all come together to cooperate with the security agencies to see an end to the problem of armed banditry and other security challenges facing the state.”

    Prof. Shinkafi who said that the bandits now occupied very large portion of the state in the deep forest, also explained that they smartly used their informers to evade arrival of security men at their identified locations.

    He advised communities in the state to stop concealing the bandits but rather give credible information to the security so that they would be stopped from executing mayhem on them.

    He assured that the state government would continue to facilitate all the needs of the security agencies so that they could succeed.

    Earlier, the leader of the delegation, AVM Idi Lubo, said members were in the state to investigate the report that innocent civilians were killed by NAF personnel who were alleged to have been striking the wrong targets in the fight against bandits.

    “l want to make it clear that in the Air Force, especially during armed conflicts, we work under the guidance of certain rules of engagement and precision before moving against suspected targets.

    “We are here to ascertain the veracity of the allegations because when people we are trying to protect rise against us, it is not a good development, especially when we know that these pilots and other personnel put their own lives in the line.

    “The NAF is deploying all latest technology in order to be certain of existing suspicious threats before we strike.

    “We will visit the said attacked communities and sympathize with the people if the allegations are true because as humans we cannot be completely right at all times.”

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the state’s Council of Chiefs, a fortnight ago, alleged that the air component of the on-going Operation Sharan Daji in the state shelled wrong targets and killed innocent people.

  • Police’s killing and brutality in developing Nigeria – Godwin Etakibuebu

    Police’s killing and brutality in developing Nigeria – Godwin Etakibuebu

    By Godwin Etakibuebu

    It was good that the Acting Inspector General of Police [IGP], Mohammed Adamu, was in Lagos yesterday, Monday, April 15, 2019, with a message of condolences to the families of those extra-judiciously killed by policemen and those merely but thoroughly brutalised to overwhelming submission.

    In addition to this humanitarian mission, the IGP also introduced the Lagos State Police Command; the largest next to Abuja [if all things will ever remain equal] to the new direction the Police structure would be taking, under his command. It is called new direction.

    In the latter, he made it clear enough that the Police High Command would never tolerate the situation where innocent citizens would be meeting their untimely death in the hands of drunk-like police officers and men any longer. He even brought in a caveat, to wit: henceforth Area Command, Divisional and Sectional Heads would be vicariously liable for the actions or inactions of men under them.

    To me, this is a clarion call to responsible policing. If only for this alone, one should appreciate the voyage to Lagos of the IGP, if juxtaposed against the action his predecessor in office, the infamous Ibrahim Idris, would have taken under the same circumstances. On behalf of the people of Nigeria, I thank you fervently Mr Inspector General of Police.

    Having done with the preamble, what are the reality of Police and Policing in Nigeria? We need to fervently interrogate this question more deeply in order to find the balancing line between a Peoples’ oriented Police and a Police of perpetual brutalization cum malady.
    For if the truth must be told, what we have in Nigeria today, serving us “meritoriously”, is nothing but a monstrous entity, created, brought up and sustained along the ethos of brutalization and chaotic submission of the citizenry.

    It does not matter therefore how much niceties and decorum Mohammed Adamu [the incumbent IGP] brings into the institution, the horrible foundation of the Police’s creating concept, shall always stand against him. Let us not forget in hurry that there had been some previous good Inspector Generals that performed creditably and touched the professional policing with human face and milk, yet they were doomed by mechanism of “fraught concept”, either while they were in office or out of office. What happened to such good IGPs was the erosion of good character by misfortune of foundational malady.

    Ipso facto, IGP Mohammed Adamu’s good outing; adjudged so far, for nobody knows what he will become tomorrow, can only attract a temporary applause but will [I did not say “may”] never leave a legacy of operational efficiency that shall be divorced of maladies for the Nigeria Police.
    There is a major structural default; a terrible dent, that began the Force in the beginning – talking of its foundation when it was set up. For us to know what the terrible issue with the Nigeria Police Force is, let us turn to the beginning when the Organisation was formed. Let us take a trip back to April 1861.
    Stanhope Freeman, who was the Governor of British Africa Territories, discovered early enough in his assignment that the natives [call them aborigines if you like] were becoming more resistant to the Colonial Adventurists, most particularly the Lagos zone of the territory. The people in the Lagos area were particularly not finding it funny to submit themselves to the issue of tax payment [there is a song for it in Lagos till date on the resistance which says: “eyo o, eyo o, awa koni so owo onibode – odi ile e”].
    This prompted Freeman to request from the Home Office approval to recruit some men for policing this area with the sole objective of “subduing the stubborn people”. This request was granted to him and the Consular Guard [as the police was then called] formed in April of 1861, made up of 30 men. The original concept and purpose of creating the Police was to get “some people from among themselves train and equip them, to be able to bring their people to total submission with absolute brutality”. I call this the concept of creation.

    The new police, created and trained, had its first fire of baptism, so to say, in Epe where it [the Consular Guard] fiercely subdued, with maximum brutality, some people [indigenes] that rebelled against tax payment. The test of loyalty to the State against the people was efficiently proved in the Epe scenario.

    This was what encouraged Captain John Glover R.N; Lieutenant Governor of Lagos, later in writing to the same Home Office for increase of the Consular Guard from 30 to 100 men. The justification pushed forward in that letter, written by Captain John Glover, so that the Home Office could act quickly, was to speak gloriously on the achievement of the 30 men of the Consular Guard in brutalizing the people of Epe.

    And when the request was granted, the 100 men were recruited but all from one tribe in Nigeria [don’t forget that the name Nigeria was not in existence then] and the name was changed from Consular Guard to “Hausa Guard”. You just have to wait till last week if you really want to know the genesis of the Nigeria Police Force, where and how the malady that has trailed it from inception started.
    Hold on till next week when l shall publish the letter on this page for your understanding.
    Godwin Etakibuebu; a veteran Journalist, wrote from Lagos.

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  • Police arrest five officers over killing of girl in Ajegunle, Lagos

    Police arrest five officers over killing of girl in Ajegunle, Lagos

    Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested five Police officers and declared an Inspector, Dania Ojo, wanted, for allegedly shooting dead a girl, Ada Ifeanyi, in the Apapa area of Lagos State.

    One Emmanuel Akomafuwa was said to have sustained life-threatening injuries as a result of the shooting that killed the 20-year-old girl.

    The policemen arrested were identified as: Inspector Adamu Usman, Sergeant Adeyeye Adeoye, Sergeant Kashim Tijani, Sergeant Lucky Akigbe and, Sergeant Paul Adeoye.

    The state’s Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, said the Police officers were already facing internal disciplinary actions at the Command’s headquarters, adding that if found wanting, they would be prosecuted in conventional court for murder.

    Elkana said in a Press statement, “The Commissioner of Police Lagos State, Zubairu Muazu, has ordered the immediate arrest and detention of Police officers suspected to be involved in the shooting of Ada Ifeanyi, 20, of No. 4B, Amusa Lane, Off Ojo Road Ajegunle; and Emmanuel Akomafuwa, 32, of No. 52, Babatunde Street, Olodi Apapa, at Akpiri Street, Olodi Apapa.

    “The incident happened on Saturday, April 13, 2019 around 7am.

    “The victims were rushed to the hospital and Ada Ifeanyi was confirmed dead, while Emmanuel Akomafuwa is currently on admission, receiving treatment from the injury he sustained as a result of the shooting.

    “Members of the team suspected to be involved in the shooting are from Trinity Police Station and are currently facing internal disciplinary proceedings at the Command’s Headquarters, Ikeja.

    “Their rifles have been retrieved for forensic analysis by ballisticians. If found wanting, they will be prosecuted in conventional court for murder.

    “The policemen arrested are: Inspector Adamu Usman, Sergeant Adeyeye Adeoye, Sergeant Kashim Tijani, Sergeant Lucky Akigbe and Sergeant Paul Adeoye; while Inspector Dania Ojo, who escaped immediately after the shooting incident, has been declared wanted by the Command.”

    Elkana, who condemned the rate at which policemen have been involved in the killing of unarmed civilians, said CP Mu’azu had expressed his deepest condolences to the bereaved family, adding that the Command, in its effort to rid the Force off ‘criminal elements,’ subjects any officer found culpable to disciplinary measures, dismissal and prosecution in a convention court.

    The PPRO added, “Lagos State Police Command condemned in total these senseless killings of unarmed civilians by a few ‘bad eggs ‘ in the Command, who are bent on denting the image and reputation of the nation’s Police Force.

    “The Command will not relent in its efforts in ridding the Force of these criminal elements.

    “Those involved in extra-judicial killings and abuse of power are promptly identified, isolated, tried through internal disciplinary proceedings, dismissed from service and prosecuted in conventional Courts.

    “Within the last one month, Lagos State Police Command has dismissed four policemen for abuse of power and awarded various degrees of punishments to 41 others.

    “The four dismissed policemen were charged to court and remanded in prison custody.

    “Our collective resolve in building a more humane, professional, dedicated, courageous and people-oriented Police Force is a task that must be done and together, we can make it a reality.

    “The Commissioner of Police extends the Command’s deepest condolences to the family and friends of Ada Ifeanyi, and promised to foot the medical bills of Emmanuel Akomafuwa.

    “The CP calls for calm, as the Command will leave no stone unturned in ensuring that justice prevails.”

  • Police commence investigation into killing of Okowa’s aide

    The Police Commissioner (CP) in Delta, Yinka Adeleke, has said that the command has commenced full scale investigation into the killing of Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa’s aide, Mr Lawrence Ijei (a.k.a. Ngozi).

    The CP disclosed this in a press statement issued on Monday by the Acting Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, ASP, Chuks Orisewezie, and made available to newsmen in Warri.

    Ijei, Special Assistant to the Governor on Youth Development, was killed by yet-to-be identified gunmen inside his Toyota Camry car with registration number EFR 965 SN in Ekpan, near Warri last Friday.

    Adeleke also appealed to the public to assist the police with useful information that could lead to the apprehension of the culprits.

    “The police have swung into full scale investigation and are prepared to do everything legally possible to bring the perpetrators of this heinous crime to book in no distant time.

    “I am appealing to members of the public to give useful information that could lead to the arrest of the culprits; I assure them of their safety,” he said.

    The CP commiserated with the Gov. Okowa and the family of the deceased over the unfortunate incident.

    He had on Saturday led a team of policemen to the scene of the incident and also held meetings with police authorities within the Warri Area Command and other stakeholders regarding the incident.

    The commissioner also visited Ekpan General Hospital where one of the survivors of the attack was receiving treatment as well as the monarch of Uvwie, Emmanuel Fideso the Ovie of Uvwie Kingdom.

    Adeleke solicited the cooperation of the royal father and other stakeholders to achieve lasting peace and security in the area.

  • 8 killed, 95 houses burnt as attackers invade Plateau communities

    Eight people were killed and 95 houses burnt when attackers invaded Abonong and Zayit communities in Foron District of Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau.

    According to Mr Terna Tyopev, spokesman of the Police Command in the State, the attackers hit the community in the early hours of Wednesday.

    He said that 310 cows were also rustled, while three other persons were severely injured.

    “When we received information that Abonong and Zayit communities were being attacked, we quickly mobilised and rushed to the affected areas.

    “But, when we approached the areas, the attackers sighted us and took to their heels.

    “When we eventually entered the attacked settlements, we found that eight persons were killed, 95 houses burnt, while 310 cows were stolen,” he said.

    Tyopev said that the bandits also stole food stuff and and destroyed properties worth millions of naira.

    “As we speak, security has been beefed up in the areas to forestall further attacks,” he said.

    NAN

  • Police confirm killing of district head by unidentified gunmen

    The Zamfara Police Command, has confirmed that unidentified gunmen killed Alhaji Ibrahim Madawaki, the District Head of Kucheri in Tsafe Local Government Area of the state.

    The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Muhammad Shehu, made the confirmation in a statement in Gusau on Saturday.

    Shehu said some unidentified gunmen invaded Kucheri town at about 9:00 p.m. on Friday and killed the district head in front of his house.

    He said when the police visited the scene of the crime, they discovered that nothing was removed from his house.

    According to him, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Kenneth Ebrimson, has ordered investigation into the incident with a view to apprehending the perpetrators.

    Shehu also called on the public to report the activities of suspected hoodlums promptly, so as to enable the police to effectively tackle the security challenges facing the state.

    NAN

  • Court orders Police to pay N10m compensation for unlawful killing

    The Federal High Court in Ibadan, on Thursday ordered the Nigerian Police Force to pay N10 million as compensation to the family of Alidu Hakeem, a commercial driver shot dead by a policeman at Saki.

    Hakeem was shot to death by a police inspector, Ifeayin Onynbu on March 9, 2016 along Saki-Okere International Market road in Saki.

    Consequently, Hakeem’s son, Afeez, instituted a suit bordering on enforcement of fundamental human right against the police.

    Joined in the suit are the Inspector General of Police, Oyo State Police Commissioner, his Deputy and the Saki Police Divisional Headquarter.

    The plaintiff had prayed the court to award N500 million as compensation for the unlawful killing of his father.

    In the petition, the plaintiff said his father was shot in the head by Onynbu for refusing to give him an additional N100 bribe after he had collected the usual N100 paid by all commercial drivers at the police check point.

    The Judge, Justice Nathaniel Ayo-Emmanuel, in his ruling held that everyone has right to life and that deliberate killing of any individual in the society is against the law.

    The Judge held that Onynbu’s refusal to contradict or challenge any of the arguments and exhibits tendered against him, meant that the court shall accept them as the truth.

    “The applicant in this case has proved beyond reasonable doubt that Insp. Ifeayin Onynbu, the fifth respondent, committed the crime because he did nothing to defend himself despite the fact that he was aware of the case.

    “There is no evidence before the court contradicting the facts presented by the applicant in the matter.

    “I therefore believe same to be the true reflection of what happened before life was sniffed out of the deceased.

    “It is evidence from the record before this court that the applicant’s father had three wives and several children.

    “For this and many other reasons, a sum of N10 million is hereby awarded to the family of the deceased.

    “The Inspector General of Police is therefore directed to investigate this matter and bring the said Onynbu to justice,” ruled the Judge.

    Ayo-Emmanuel also indicted the first to the fourth respondents for complicity.

    He stressed that the Nigeria Police Force, Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Deputy Commissioner of Police and Divisional Police Headquarter at Saki were also responsible for the action of the fifth respondent, Onynbu.

    The Judge noted that the submissions of the first to fourth respondents were discountenanced because they were filed out of time as stipulated by law.

    NAN