Anger as Task Force Police Operatives bloodied old cyclist

Juliana Francis

The brutalised victim

Nigerians have condemned the battering of an aged commercial cyclist by Policemen attached to the Lagos State Police Task Force.

Extortion: IGP urged to make report on corrupt policemen public

Juliana Francis

IGP, Adamu

The Convener of #EndSARS, Mr. Segun Awosanya, has urged the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, to make public the findings of a panel set up to investigate the extortion of a UK based Nigerian, Mr Bankole Oni Ogunnowo by some policemen.

Victim: Policemen checked our phones, collected N300,000 at gunpoint

Juliana Francis

A Nigerian has narrated how some policemen stopped him, brother and mother on the road and compelled them at gunpoint to transfer N300, 000 to them.

Suspect: I entered Nigeria to make money through any means

Taiwo Jimoh

A Republic of Benin National, Kwami Ajana, has told Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Lagos State Police Command, that he became an armed robber because he was determined to become rich and take his family out of poverty.

Raped, blackmailed, 20-year-old lady attempts suicide

Suspect threatens to post rape video on social media

By Juliana Francis

A distraught father, simply identified as Femi, has narrated how his 20-year-old daughter attempted to commit suicide by mixing Hypo and detergent with the intention of drinking it.

According to Femi, family members had unwittingly entered the girl’s room and found out that she was attempting to take her life. When asked the reason for attempting to take her life, she broke down, weeping profusely.

One of her siblings collected her phone, unlocked it and saw a series of threatening messages from a man identified as Arinze, living in the same community at Iba with them. It was discovered from the threats that Arinze had allegedly raped the victim, video-recorded it and then asked her to pay him some money or he would upload it on social media.

It is also believed that Arinze drugged the victim before raping her. Police detectives attached to Iba Police Station, Lagos State, have, however, arrested the 23-year-old Arinze for allegedly raping the victim, video recorded it and tried to use it as a weapon of blackmail.

The victim’s father took the matter to Advocates for Children and Vulnerable Persons Network (ACVPN), demanding justice. Femi said Arinze raped his daughter on July 13.

The distraught father explained that on the fateful day, Arinze brought the girl home under the disguise that he saw her staggering and decided to assist her home.

He said: “The next day I was called from my office that my daughter fainted and was rushed to hospital, where a doctor confirmed she was anaemic and required two pints of blood. I eventually spent N30,000. “But on July 19, after our morning prayer, I heard one of my daughters screaming. We rushed to my daughter’s room and discovered she had mixed Hypo and detergent, attempting to take her life.

We tried to calm her down, but she kept saying she wanted to die. “After much pleading, we opened her phone and saw Arinze’s message demanding a huge amount of money to be transferred into his account or he would post on social media the recorded scene where he was abusing her.

“On the night Arinze brought my daughter home, we observed she had marks of injury all over her body. But she wouldn’t talk to anyone about it until the attempted suicide incident.”

New Telegraph learnt that the matter was reported at Iba Police Station. When the police went to arrest Arinze, they discovered he was not at home. But they met his father, who promised to bring him to the police station. But rather than bring Arinze to the station, the father attempted to settle the matter with the victim’s family. Arinze was eventually arrested.

The Investigating Police Officer (IPO) in charge of the case, while preparing her charge sheet, charged Arinze with blackmail and extortion.

She had to be corrected by members of the ACVPN. It was discovered that the IPO preferred to prepare the charge based on Arinze’s testimony, who claimed he was in a relationship with the victim and that whatever happened, was consensual. The charge sheet was duly amended with the inclusion of the Section 137 of the Lagos State Criminal Code.

The ACVPN Secretary, Mr. Ebenezer Omejalile, said the IPO was asked if a genuine boyfriend would physically abuse his girlfriend, rape and then demand her Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card so that he could withdraw her the entire money from her account. He said: “Eventually, when it was presented before the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), in charge of the division, he instructed that the case be transferred to the Gender Unit of the State Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Panti, Yaba. “Prior to the DPO’s instruction, the perpetrator had been boasting that he would deal decisively with the survivor’s father. It clearly shows the perpetrator doesn’t know the consequences and gravity of his actions.”

I didn’t know kidnappers killed Sports Commissioner, says …farmer who allegedly planned abduction

Juliana Francis

 

An English Education graduate, University of Calabar, Cross River State, Andrew Ogbeche, has been arrested for allegedly orchestrating the murder of his boss, Hon. Egbe Ediagbonya, a former Commissioner for Sports and Local Government Council Chairman in Edo State.

Journalist urges police chief to probe attempted trafficking of child

Stanley Ihedigbo

An Ibadan-based media practitioner, Mr Nurudeen Alimi, urged the Oyo State Commissioner of Police (CP), Joe Nwachukwu Enwowu, to reopen investigation into the alleged trafficking his son.