Juliana Francis Blog: September 2017

Friday, September 29, 2017

'In prison, sex can be arranged' (2)

In this concluding part of the report on plight of pregnant female awaiting trial, JULIANA FRANCIS highlights the challenges of prison authorities in caring for pregnant/nursing mothers and their babies without budgetary provisions

The human rights activist, Pastor Darlington Ajimisetan, noted that in Lagos female prison, before, women and children used to go through a lot of ordeal until the present DCP, Ekpendu, came on board.

Born prisoners: Inmates’ children and stigma

A glance at Rita, in her body hugging, black and white striped gown, leaves one with an impression of a beautiful lady.
Rita is fair in complexion, slim and of average height. Her long hair, falling straight down her back, caresses her shoulders. She is shy and finds it difficult to make eye contact. But her frequent smiles are not easy to forget. The smiles illuminate her face, highlighting her beauty.

The trial of Senator Danjuma Goje, a former governor of Gombe State, on charges bordering on conspiracy and money laundering, continued on September 26, 2017 with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, presenting four more witnesses, who testified as the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th witnesses.

The Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic Crimes Commission, EFCC Friday 29 September, 2017, arraigned four suspected Internet fraudsters; Omosehin Sina, Oladimeji Oladayo, Olowosagba Olamilekan Samson and Afilaka Oluwole Michael before Justice Ayo Emmanuel of the Federal High Court Ibadan , Oyo State on separate charges bordering on possession of documents containing false pretence .

Worried by the persistent influx of cache of arms and ammunition into the country, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, yesterday, said that the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) was ready to partner with the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), in order to check the international syndicate behind the illegal importation of weapons into the country from Turkey.

The Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes commission, EFCC has invited and quizzed the former Chairman of Ifedore Local Government of Ondo State, Hon, Akinsola Adu and three of his Principal officers over an alleged case of stealing and abuse of office.

The Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC is investigating cases of conspiracy and stealing involving the use of Garnishee Orders targeted at High Net worth bank accounts with low or no activities.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has secured the conviction of one Ojotomobor Ovuakponye before Justice Mohammed Yahaya of the Kano State High Court sitting in Gezawa.

The Gombe zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, has arraigned the duo of Ibrahim Muhammed Umar and Sahabo Iya Hamman, both serving and retired staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, respectively, before Justice Nathan Musa of the Adamawa State High Court, Yola on a 3-count charge bordering on conspiracy, corrupt procurement and receipt of monetary benefit.

IGP ORDERS IMMEDIATE DISMANTLING OF ALL ROADBLOCKS NATION WIDE

The Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim k. Idris has ordered the dismantling of all roadblocks nationwide with immediate effect; particularly on the following routes, Lagos-Ibadan, Shagamu-Benin, Benin-Onitsha, Okene-Abuja, Kaduna-Kano, Katsina - Kano, Otukpo - Enugu, Enugu – Port Harcourt Express Ways.

The Nigerian Railway Command Commissioner of Police (CP), Mr. Leye Oyebade, has warned policemen and women, under his watch, that he wouldn’t tolerant any form excuses for killing civilians.

A manager at First Bank of Nigeria, Gabriel Ubong, was alleged to have aided and abetted one Lawrence Efe to swindle a bank customer, Adenike Ogunshua.

A 23-year-old nurse, Folashade Idoko, was arraigned yesterday at the Ebute-Metta Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stabbing her husband, Lawrence, 33, to death.

Financial institutions in Nigeria, especially banks, may soon come under the scrutiny of eagle eyes detectives attached to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), if the statements of the Commission’s chair, Ibrahim Magu, were anything to go by.

Okah-Donli

A Regional Training Academy for the teaching and learning of counter trafficking issues is to be established in Nigeria by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).

Mrs. Florence Popoola, 67, of Araromi Quartres, Ikere Ekiti, Ekiti State, who was abducted and held for four days, yesterday, revealed her ordeal in the hands of a five-man gang of kidnappers.

Oyefeso

A playboy City trader who claimed to be a self-made millionaire has been jailed after he tried to mow down a man he owed money to.

The Inter- Governmental Action against Money Laundering in West Africa has pledged support for efforts by the Economic and Finacial Crimes Commission and the Nigerian Government to ensure the lifting of the suspension of the Nigerain Finacial Intelligence Unit from the Egmont Group in the shortest time possible.

Zoo workers: Gunmen disguised as fun seekers, kill three policemen, abduct MD

A worker at the Ogba Zoo and Nature Park in Oredo Local Government Area, Helen Juchei, has revealed how gunmen stormed the zoo, killed three policemen and abducted the Managing Director, Ogba Zoological Gardens, Dr. Andy Ehanire of the facility.

Do something about cultism on Island, resident begs police

A member of the Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC), residing on Lagos Island, Alhaji Ali Adebayo, has urged the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Imohimi Edgal and the Area A Police Commander, Mr. Olusola Joseph Akinyede, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), to do something fast about the escalating activities of cultists on the Island.

Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), policemen and vigilantes have intercepted a dredger and arrested seven suspects.

The suspects were said to have been arrested for illegal diversion of the dredger along Ifiekporo community River in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State.

Detectives attached to the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigations Department (SCIID), Panti, Yaba, Lagos State, have arrested Mr. Bashiru Ahmed, for allegedly killing a father of five at the Okokomaiko area of the metropolis.

A grieving 24-year-old lady, Chinwe, whose lover, Ifeanyi Onunkwo, was repeatedly stabbed until his intestines started gushing out, has said that she didn’t know why her man was attacked.

Two native doctors have been arrested in Enugu and Delta states for trading and trafficking in death.

One of them, Felix Akor, was arrested for allegedly hiring assassins to kill Onyemaechi Eze in Enugu State, who he suspected used diabolical means to kill his wife’s siblings. Akor was arrested along with one of those he hired to kill Eze.

The Acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu has charged Nigerian youths to take up the gauntlet and become change agents in the fight against corruption in the country.

Operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) Ikeja, Lagos State Police Command have arrested a phone dealer who specialised in buying stolen mobile phones from armed robbers and resell them to unsuspecting members of the public.

A 65-year-old pilot, Captain Charles has been plunged his family into worry and anxiety, following his disappearance over a week ago.

A suspected fraudster, Mr Ibraheem Ahmed Kareem and others still at large, have been arraigned for fleecing Sadiku Adeolu Kazeem of N26, 065,000.

A forty -year old man, God bless (surname withheld)was yesterday convicted by a Yenagoa Magistrate Court and was slammed eight years of imprisonment over a two count charge of having an unlawful carnal knowledge of a five year old girl and unlawful carnal knowledge of a five year old boy.

Julie-Donli (NAPTIP Boss)

The Benin Zone of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) secured six convictions from January to August.

Bothered by the civil disorder of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) in the South-east and South-south regions of the country, security stakeholders met at the weekend in Lagos State to synergise on how to maintain peace.

One Gift Igwe, a nursing mother, has been arrested by policemen from the Igbogbo division, for setting her husband’s brother ablaze at her home at Adenugba Street, Agunfoye, Ikorodu Lagos.

N50, 000 bribe: CP to study panel’s report, make findings public

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Edgar Imohimi, on Tuesday, received the final report from members of the panel that investigated petition of unethical conducts, collection of bribe and sexual harassment as alleged by a nongovernmental organisation, Network on Police Reforms in Nigeria (NOPRIN), against Anti-kidnapping and Anti-Cultism police personnel.

Ibrahim Magu, acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has once again stressed that no one will be “untouchable” as the agency intensifies its anti-corruption crusade.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos zonal office, has arrested a suspected Internet fraudster, Ake Oluseun, for tax fraud, otherwise known as Ijoba in local parlance.

Disguised hoodlums in their hundreds launched an attack on the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP's) of the recent flood disaster, who were taking refuge at the Abagana-Agan camp along Makurdi-Lafia road, carting away 200 bags of rice and other relief materials.

The Cross River State Police Command has arrested Dr Peter Bushing, who claims to be aid to Cross River State Governor Professor Ben Ayade.

Police in Lagos yesterday gave impetus to the war on the ritual killer gang, otherwise called Badoo, ravaging several communities in Ikorodu area of the state.

A drunken police Inspector has been arrested by the Delta State Police Command for killing and injuring guests at a child dedication ceremony.

IGP ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF FORCE ORDER 20, POLICE DUTY SOLICITORS’ SCHEME

I am delighted and indeed privileged to make the presentation of the Nigeria Police Force Order 20 as amended otherwise known as the Police Duty Solicitors’ Scheme (PDSS) to the public.

Family finds missing sergeant through social media

Daniel

When Sergeant Daniel Nwankwo left home on April 21, 2017, his family members didn’t know that would be the last time they would beheld his face.

Thirty-year-old Kabiru Abolarin has expressed regrets for conspiring with some of his partners in crime to access his neighbour’s apartment through the ceiling in order to rob her.

Detectives attached to the Oyo State Police Command are frantically working round the clock, to find out the number of years, 40-year-old Dr. Felix Orimisan, a fake medical practitioner had been posing as a worker with University teaching Hospital, Ibadan (UTH) and defrauding unsuspecting Nigerians.

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested two men, who specialized in using a dog to rob traders at the Ladipo Auto Spare part Market area of the metropolis.

Six people were killed and several injured after two rival gang clashed in Lagos Island.

The Nigerian Railway Commissioner of Police, Mr. Leye Oyebade, yesterday, vowed to do everything within the ambit of the law to stop rooftop train riders.

Lagos Police pose as buyer, recover N37m jeep in Nasarawa

Detectives attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Lagos State Police Command have arrested one Andrew Agofure suspected to have burgled a house at Lekki-Ajah area of the metropolis and carted away a Mercedes Benz G-Wagon Jeep valued at N37million.

Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, have arrested five scrap dealers for allegedly stealing 28 iron ballasts meant for rail lines in some parts of the metropolis.

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Born prisoners: Inmates’ children and stigma

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