Greatihex: Owerri-portharcourt road has bn completed, nt ongoing.

sleeky007: YOU ARE DELUDED @OP......IF ALL THIS ARE CRITERIA FOR MEASURING DEVELOPMENT THEN, ABACHA DID FAR BETTER....HABA...THINK WELL NAH, OR DO YOU NEED THE FACTORY SETTINGS OF YOUR BRAIN TO BE RESET

slimghost:

What is development then kid? Agreeing to become OBJ's puppet? Handing power over to the North? What exactly is development son?.

sleeky007:


YOU DEFINITELY LACK AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT DEVELOPMENT IS.......SHOULD I CALL YOU "PAPA".....FACE THE ISSUE ON THE THREAD MISTER...."PAPA"

tobillionaire: Lagos badagry expressway is a shame to d nation,, d road DAT connects Nigeria to all other west African countries .... dis man nids to help B.R.F. Nd make dis road make sense like ajah epe expressway

slimghost:

Provision of good roads and structures/buildings/Amenities/Facilities could also be termed as infrastructural development!. OLODO!

Love_Decay: @OP, you foolish boss says he inherited problems when he came into power and should not be blamed for his inability to fix these problems since his predecessors could not fix them either.

But, your foolish master is inserting the good projects his predecessors started but where unable to complete, into his C.V...

OP... All this things GeJ claims he did had already started either on paper or on site before the olodo was made president with the political clout of the north and blessing of Baba Sege and others.

........
Shame on you GeJ ...shame shame shame shame ..woo woo wooo,shame on you ...

Shame woooo. Woooo .. GeJ .. Shame wooo shame.....

5. Second Niger Bridge – Ongoing with Sure-P funds

Niger bridge makes me cry –Kalu

Few weeks to Yuletide, former Abia State governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu is disturbed that respite may yet come as travellers continue to use the lone Niger Bridge in Onitsha. Kalu said: “I am really emotional about this. I feel the pains of millions of Nigerians from the South-East to the North-Central,f rom Ikot Ekpene to Opobo. Going home in December is worse than spending 48 hours in Kirikiri Maximum Prisons.”

The former governor, who plied that route in 2012 bewailed the slow take-off facing the second bridge while condemning past administrations for using it as part of the ‘dividends’ of the Civil War.

“Yes, we are now talking of the Second Bridge 43 years after the war. In the American State of Maryland, there is a city called Sandy Point with the William Lane Jnr. Memorial Bridge. The first one was built in 1952. When congestion set in, a second Bridge came up in 1973. That is government in action.

Work on the Niger Bridge began in 1964 by French contractors Dumez. It took five million pounds to complete it in December 1965. The same year as Bendorf Bridge on the Rhine, Germany and the same month as Oosterscheldebrug that links Flushing to Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

“The Second Bridge will not cost as much as Istanbul’s Bosporus, the link between Europe and Asia. It cannot be as long as Europe’s longest, the 19,822 feet Oland Island Bridge in Sweden. I just pray this job gets started in 2014 as promised,” Kalu stated.

The former governor called on the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) to deploy a deputy corps marshal to the Asaba end of the Bridge beginning from December 10.

“I overheard one family talking of travelling by rail through the North to avoid the bedlam. Another is considering the road route through Okene-Lokoja from Lagos. And these are families who live in Ijesha-tedo. The kids cannot understand why there are three long bridges between Lagos Island and the Mainland while their parents do Christmas arithmetic with the Niger Bridge,” Kalu said.

SECOND NIGER BRIDGE OF POLITICAL LIES

03/09/2012 01:20:00 THEWILL

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Reuben Abati, the once fiery columnist with The Guardian newspaper is the current Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria on Media and Publicity. Recently, he published a widely criticized article titled "The Jonathan they don't know".

In this piece, Abati who has a doctorate Degree in performing arts and therefore respected as one of the firebrand articulate writers of his generation by virtue of his once prodigious and extensive outpouring of rich articles whilst he served as the Chairman of the editorial board of The Guardian [the flagship of Nigerian press media], rather deviated from the kernel of the said article and instead dwelt extensively on what I may call 'the kitchen etiquette' of President Jonathan and his official house hold in the formidably fortified Presidential mansion in Abuja, the Nigerian political capital city.

In this treatise on the 'kitchen etiquette' of the Nigerian President by Dr. Abati, a man who has worked in the Presidential mansion for the last fourteen months, Nigerians were inundated and unnecessarily embarassed with the claims by Dr. Reuben Abati that President Jonathan, contrary to the widely held belief that as a man born in the riverine community, that he [Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, the husband of Patience] may be deeply interested in consuming daily, some good measures of original whisky or what is called 'kainkain [SAPELE WATER]. But Abati, who was my boss while I worked in The Guardian stated uneqivocally that President Jonathan nevertheless is a great fan of fresh fish pepper soup but that he [Jonathan] does not drink hard wine.

The Presidential spokesman wrote in that piece thus; "...Okay, he drinks coffee. And yet there are people out there who keep claiming that there is a feast in the Villa every day. They say at every meal, the table is decorated with roasted turkey, and every delicacy under the sun. Lies. Lies. ThisPresident is not a glutton. We have a disciplined, hardworking President who enjoys his privacy, and the company of intelligent people...."

Well, few days after this controversial write up hit the news stands all across the country, President Jonathan paid a one day Presidential visit to Anambra State to among other engagements, to commission the first ever crude oil refinery East of the Niger since Nigeria discovered Crude Oil in huge commercial quantities over half a century ago.

The occasion also marked the berth/emergence of Anambra State into the exclusive class of States in the Federation that are now Crude oil producing and therefore entitled to receive the constitutionally approved thirteen percent derivation from the Federation Account of Nigeria.

During that event, the Nigerian President who is said not to be in the company of unintelligent persons nor is he a glutton, however made a statement that questioned the credibility of the kitchen etiquette of Mr. President regarding consumption of alcoholic wines as affirmed by Dr. Reuben Abati. There were also an unrestrained outpouring of unintelligent statements by some politicians at that consultation forum with Mr. President staged by the Anambra state Government in which virtually all those puritanical kitchen etiquette claimed by the Presidential spokesperson collapsed like a pack of cards.

There is little doubt in the minds of independent observers that President Jonathan was impressed by the half-baked praises showered on him by some political contractors including an unintelliegent counsel by one of the speakers at that exclusive meeting which goes to say that the Igbo race should forego their political aspiration of vying to become Pesident of Nigeria in 2015 but should allow Jonathan to vie in 2015 to complete his constitutionally guaranteed two terms of four years each after which the North should have a go at it for another eight years before the South East can dream of assuming the mantle of political leadership of the federal republic of Nigeria.

In his own remarks, President Jonathan vigourously attempted to over perform the deceitful feats of his predecessors who had lied to the people of the South East that if they voted in the Peoples Democratic Party's Presidential Candidates right from 1999, that a second Bridge would be built to compliment the collapsing first Niger Bridge built for five million pounds in December 1965. Three successive civilian Presidents under the current democratic dispensation since 1999 have come and gone without fulfilling this solemn pledge to the people of the Igbo speaking South Eastern States.

Jonathan indeed surpassed the flowery and sugar- coated language used by both Olusegun Obasanjo and the late Umaru Musa Yaradua who had promised but failed to deliver the second Niger Bridge when he told his select audience made up of contractors and politicians that he [Goodluck Jonathan] of Bayelsa State would go on exile if his administration fails to complete the second Niger Bridge before 2015 when his tenure in office would terminate.

His words; "If I don't deliver second Niger Bridge at the end of my tenure, I will leave this country and go and live elsewhere because the failure cannot be defended".

President Jonathan in this statement has indeed set a World record even far above one gentleman, a retired military General who made several billions from crude oil well licence who said prior to the 1998 Presidential election that if Chief Olusegun Obasanjo did not win the Presidential election that he would go into exile.

But the South East political elite who are so largely selfish have not learnt from these torrents of politcal lies about this second Niger Bridge concocted by ambitious politicians who seek national office and who are indeed aware that the votes of the people of the South Eastern Nigeria were necessary if they will ever become elected as President of Nigeria. Even some supposed elder statesmen who ought to querry the commitment of this Government to equitably provide amenities and facilities with enduring quality to the South Eastern zone, have all but compromised and are already going about with what may pass as 'idiotic adoption' of President jonathan for 2015 election when it is very clear that the Igbo people have suffered several deaths in the hands of Islamic rebels in the North under this Government of Goodluck Jonathan more than any other ethnic nationality.

Many Igbo traders and investors who have life investments and assets in the far Northern Nigerian States of Yobe, Borno, Adamawa, Taraba, Gombe and Bauchi States, have lost them to the atrocious terror-related activities of these armed Islamic insurgents under the very watch of this Government but yet some persons with selective memory are already beating the political drum in support of the imaginary political ambition of President Jonathan in the 2015 Presidential election. What a big shame?

Have the Igbo speaking people forgotten so soon that the South Eastern States have suffered systemic neglect since after the fratricidal civil war in which children, women and young men totalling three million by some estimates were massacred by the might of the Federal force alongside foreign fighters from some of the Western World and that the South East is one place in the whole wide World where war has happened that did not get facelift and reconstruction of the destroyed infrastructure?

In Afghanistan, Irag and much of Kuwait and Libya which suffered series of wars, there have been concerted effort on the part of the parties especially the developed western World that constituted the allied forces [NATO], to bring about enduring reconstruction of the war ravaged infrastructure of those communities that suffered monumental damage similar to what the former Eastern Nigeria faced during the thirty months civil war and yet some political contractors with enormous wealth that can not be defended have already started betraying their people on the alter of huge contracts. Have these contractors forgotten so soon how hundreds of thousands of children of Igbo origin were left to starve to their untimely and cruel deaths by the policy introduced by the then Finance minister under General Gowon- Obafemi Awolowo which embargoed food assistance from abroad into the then Eastern Nigeria? The ghosts of these murdered martyrs are crying out for justice and fairness in the running of affairs in the federation of Nigeria.

These persons who are now campaigning for jonathan for 2015, shameless as they are, should please cover their faces in shame and demand equity and justice from this federal administration for the South Eastern Nigeria which has become the den of armed kidnappers that are scaring away willing investors and thereby complicating the massive youth joblessness and restiveness.

The South Eastern states are shamelessly known as the place where there are more hotels than there are manufactring firms because the federal Government of successive administrations have never come under consistent and intense pressure by the elite to do the needful by providing infrastructure to the South East geo-political zone. The only Federal presence seen today in much of South East are military, police barracks and derelict prison facilities. Our Federal Roads have all but collapsed under the heavy weight of poor maintenance even as erosion and heavy traffic is threatening the integrity of the fifty year old Niger Bridge.

How come that the South East is the only political zone in the whole country with less number of States even when the law of demography have shown that there are more actual populations of human beings in this zone that is richly blessed with rain forests? Do we now have more populations of human beings in the deserts much more than in the richly blessed rain forest belts of South East Nigeria?

Recently, the Federal Government claimed that N325 million contract has been approved for what the Federal Government under Jonathan called trasactional advisory design of the second Niger Bridge and that this project awarded to an unknown company called Roughton international limited would be completed in 16 months after which what the Government minister of works Mr Mike Onolememen called groundbreaking of the project would be done by the Federal Government in the third quarter of the coming year.

Government at the Federal level is interested only in telling the people lies regarding the actual completion date of the actual second Niger Bridge. Government of Jonathan should be told in black and white that the people are not interested in knowing when the drawing/design of the second Niger Bridge would be completed but the people want to know when the actual second Niger Bridge will be completed in the World of reality and not in the World of political fantasy and dreams.

This Government will never learn to start telling the people the whole truth and nothing but the truth and I am not too sure that they are aware of the saying in the Holy Bible that knowing and saying the truth shall set us all free as Nigerians.

In their usual political lies, the Federal Government has started dancing around with self praises over the award of contract for the design of the second Niger Bridge when the same Governmen has not told Nigerians the simple truth about when the second Niger Bridge would be completed practically.

The Works minister has already praised the President to high Heavens. His words; " The Government is desirous of taking immediate action to construct the second Niger Bridge that will provide a smooth movement of traffic that will link South West and South East".

He also confirmed that the project would be carried out under what is called Public Private partnership [PPP].

In 2008, Governor Peter Obi told Journalists that the second Niger Bridge would be constructed under the Public Private Partnership agreement meaning that Anambra and Delta States would contribute 20 per cent of the cost at 10 per cent each while the Federal Government contributes 20 percent and the contractor would borrow 50 per cent of the total contract sum.

The question on the lips of most South Easterners is why do this project under the so-called public private partnership [PPP] when other bridges are constructed fully by the Federal Government and why does the Federal Government intend to impose this hardship on the people of the zone assuming the job is completed and the operators start taxing users prohibitive amount of service charges?

Written By Emmanuel Onwubiko

17. Police reforms ongoing. No more harassment by police in police stations across the country

How cop killed ABU graduate in Kaduna
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A Police corporal, Alex Okpe, has come under heat for allegedly shooting to death, Moses Aminu, a 30 –year old graduate for daring to intervene in a scuffle between him and his girl at a party in Barnawa,in Kaduna metropolis.

The dreams and high expectations of the family of Malam Mohammed Jimoh Aminu on their son, Moses Murtala Aminu, a graduate of the Ahmadu Bello University, (ABU) Zaria suddenly crashed, last Sunday night.
A police corporal, Alex Okpe allegedly shot and killed the 30-year old Moses, a second class Upper Division graduate of Economics for daring to prevent him from assaulting a girl at a party.
Weekly Trust gathered that the incident which ended the life of the 2007 graduate occurred on Sunday night, September 29, 2013 at Barnawa, an area in Kaduna south.
It was also gathered that the accused police officer perpetrated the act, while garbed in his mufti. Further information at the disposal of Weekly Trust also suggested that Corporal Okpe is currently serving at the Kakuri Police Division, but shot and killed Moses at a birthday gig in Barnawa, a place, very remote from his area of jurisdiction.
The elder sister to the deceased, Mrs. Aliyu Sherifat in her narration said her husband received a call on Monday morning from a younger sister, who broke the sad news of Moses’ death.
“Later on, I learnt that the Policeman who killed my brother was beating a girl at the venue of a birthday party in Barnawa. And my younger brother, who was in company of his friends, went there to make peace and to settle them. The policeman insulted the guys in return and one of the guys tapped the policeman on the back asking him why he was insulting their parents? The policeman just turned and fired a gun. The bullet hit my brother on his chest and he died instantly,” she sobbed.
“My brother has been struggling to become a responsible man since he graduated. Presently, he works with a company that supplies beverages. After work he has a joint called Grill Masters where he does Shawarma, grills chicken and fish. That is how he has been supporting our parents, because he is the only one staying with our aged parents,” she added.
The aged father of late Moses, Malam Mohammed Jimoh who has been blind for 14 years now cried out that the breadwinner and sustainer of his family has been killed.
While leaving judgment to God, Aminu and Moses’ elder sister, appealed to the police to release his corpse for burial to allow his soul rest in peace.
The legal representative of the deceased family, Ehizogie F. Imadojemu said the incident has been communicated to the Commissioner of Police and other superior authorities.
“So far, no body from the police has come to condole the family, but the Police Commissioner assured us that they are going to look into the incident but the corpse has not been released to the family for burial,” the counsel said.
He said investigations revealed that the deceased was on Keffi Road in Barnawa attending a birthday party when the corporal was assaulting a girl outside the venue of the party and that the deceased and his friends intervened.
“The late Moses and his friends tried to intervene by asking him to stop, not knowing that he was a policeman because he was in mufti. The policeman, angry perhaps, because of his powers and that some civilians will be telling him what he didn’t want to hear, took out his gun and shot him close to his heart and the bullet came out from the other side of his body. He died almost immediately but up till now, his corpse has not been released by the police. The father of the deceased is a Muslim and he desires to bury his son according to Muslim rites. In fact, the burial arrangement is scheduled for Saturday (today)”, he added.
“We gathered that the said corporal is used to cruel attitude and fond of brutalizing civilians. So, we are surprised that the authority knowing this still armed him with and allows him to go around with the pistol. Only God knows how many people he has killed,” he said.
He, however, said the family might be forced to take legal action, if the corpse of the deceased is not released for burial.
The late Moses was the third born but second son of his family. He was the youth leader in Narayi High-Cost and also the youth leader of Holy Family Catholic Church.
The Deputy Youth Leader, Engineer Kunle Adesanmi said the entire youths of the community want justice done.
According to him, the late Moses was able for the first time in history to gather the youths of the community together last year for a peace carnival, noting that the memory of the carnival still lingers.
“This is really unfair, we feel cheated, we want the suspected culprit to face the full wrath of the law,” he said. He was flanked by other youths, all dressed in black, as they echoed ‘we want justice.’
Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, Olufemi Adenaike confirmed the incident, saying “it is true that there was a very bad thing that happened between the police and Moses, which ended up in the Moses being shot and he died.”
He said the police officer has been arrested and that they have sent a signal to the police headquarters on the incident and that investigation has commenced. “Immediately, we find him guilty, we are going to try him after which he will be dismissed from the force, then taken to court,” he assured.
Commenting on the release of the corpse, he said he has asked the family to apply for the release of the corpse.

"Policemen make us Pregnant in Detention"

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Hakeem Babalola

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Oroburuku t'oun t'erin… One should better laugh off these things unless one is ready for early grave. The title says it all. But I must have been living a deceitful life if I had thought something of this nature was not going on in the Nigeria Police Force. Whilst I welcome and support Inspector General Mike Okiro's prompt "full scale" investigation into the allegations that policemen impregnated some female prisoners in detention, I am sceptical about the outcome. This is largely due to the fact that similar past allegations had yielded no result.

Dr. Okiro tries to find loophole in the Vanguard story saying, "the newspapers publication was unsubstantiated as it failed to indicate if there was a formal complain by the victims or their representatives, let alone time and date of incident". I don't know the police boss aim by his attempt to hogwash this profoundly disturbed story. But it would be sheer naivety for Nigerians to believe that our police officers will behave otherwise in a nation where leaders behave like dealers and, or thieves.

According to the Vanguard, "members of the Nigerian police force secretly abuse, rape and forcefully have sex with inmates of Nigerian detention facilities". The paper continues, "To this end, many children born by the inmates are largely unclaimed". Vanguard discovered the horror during its visit to the nation's No 1 prison at Apapa, the Kirikiri Maximum Prisons in Lagos State.

Do you expect anything different in a nation where another Force Officer stripped a woman naked, watched as his men dragged and beat the hapless woman? Do you expect anything different in a nation where children are constantly abused in the name of Christian teaching as in the case of Akwa Ibom Horror?

I had opined somewhere else that Thank God Nigeria was not a jungle to which another commentator replied, "hmmm, but is Nigeria not a jungle/ how else to describe it?" The fact that men who supposed to be decent due to the nature of their job are shockingly cruel and inhumane is a testimony of our woeful plight like homeless people. How do we explain all these things? Policemen having sex with women in detention! And some of them have HIV/AIDS virus!

Thank God Nigeria is not a jungle. Is there any law in Nigeria? Do our men in uniform have adequate training at all? Do they know the meaning of wearing uniform they are constantly abusing? Are they medically fit to be honoured to wear Nigerian uniform? What is actually wrong with our uniform men?

Although I am no more surprised at their uncouth behaviour, I can't stop asking these questions. What evil often torments our law enforcement officers to behave in such a bestial nature? The other time it was women dressing "indecently" that gave the police such unmitigated effrontery to harass, detain and molest these innocent women - most of them married.

For goodness sake, what does dressing indecently mean? And look at who is talking about indecency! The Nigeria police and the Nigeria government talking about impropriety! It sounds awkward to me. This is because both arms of government have done more harm to our psych than women "indecent" dressing. I prefer such indecent dressing to the police indecent demeanour or the government indecent exercise of authority.

Of course men and women commit crimes everywhere, but the problem in Nigeria is that chief criminals often go scot-free. The system usually glorifies big thieves whilst petty thieves are hanged. And unless "Mr. President" intervenes, issues of this nature are often swept under the carpet. I hope Yar'Adua would step in so as to punish the real culprits.

Wardresses and female prisoners, says the Vanguard, confirmed that policemen are fathers of more than 80 percent of pregnancies at the prison. How did it happen and how could it happen - in a country that has kings and chiefs? Yes, how did it happen since the police "are not authorised to have access to prison inmates to the extent of having sexual relationship with them"?

"The prison harbours about 10 nursing mothers, over 15 expectant mothers and over 10 inmates living with HIV/AIDS virus in the female section of the Kirikiri Prisons". There was a case in which the inmate wanted to kill the child after putting to bed. The authorities had to detail people to watch and monitor her movement.

So what is going to happen to these children who may not know their fathers? Who is going to take care of them since their mothers who have been obviously corrupted by prison experience may not have the capacity to nurture their development?

Hmmm, is this the way to build a nation? The future of our children is in danger. In fact it has been in danger right from the moment education ceased to be the priority of Nigerian governments. If we had a responsible government, policemen would know their roles in the society; they would understand the calamity of fathering inmates in their care.

Agreed or not, the blame is still at the door step of Nigerian leaders (or is it dealers). If they had not built the structure where one man can steal a horse while another must not look at its halter, our law enforcement officers will not lack manners being displaced every day.

There is no other way to encourage police brutality or indecency than to use him as a thug to disrupt elections. What do Nigerians expect from officers who are being used by politicians to steal! Our law enforcement officers are also victims of our society. They use them and dump them. As a result, these policemen unleash their anger and frustration on the masses.

A policeman who is being treated like a hoodlum would definitely behave likewise. He is dented and damaged. He has lost hope and do not believe in himself. He sees himself as a forgotten creature the Nigerian society dislikes intensely or feels aversion towards. In turn, he simply hates the society that has made him a mad fellow in uniform. He is certainly on the mission to inflict serious injury or even kill the inhabitants of the society that loathes him so much.

The society has a duty. We need to remove the uniform from him before it is too late. This man is incorrigible, vicious, even sadist. He is a monster gradually nurtured by its owner - the Nigerian government. Now that he has fathered more than 80% of female prisoners, I sincerely hope these innocent kids would not be like him.

How murder of youngster ignited riot in Zaria
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The murder of a 25-year-old resident of Daurawa Sabon Gari, Zaria by some police officers led to the burning of a police station. One week after, the incident is still haunting the mother of the deceased.

Muhammad Murtala, alias Bala, did not anticipate death when he set out of his family home to a nearby shop. Unknown to him, the inevitable was lurking by the corner. Murtala had collected some money from his mother to buy torchlight. He left his mother at about 8pm of Sunday, September 29, 2013.
On his way to the shop, Murtala met some friends and he decided to hang out with them to while away time. Murtala and his friends continued chatting until some police officers who were on patrol dispersed them about 10pm. On sighting the police, they took to their heels to avoid being arrested. Murtala found his way to a neighbour’s house.
After about 30 minutes, believing that the policemen had gone, he came out of his hiding to go home. Unfortunately for Murtala, the policemen had also hid in a nearby corner waiting for his emergence.
“When he emerged from the house, the policemen bounced on him with clubs. They first started hurling abuses at him, saying ‘dan ubanka, ka dauka mun tafi ne? yau zaka ci ubanka’; literally translated from Hausa, ‘you idiot, you thought we have gone? Today, we are going to teach you a bitter lesson,” Hafsat Shehu, Murtala’s mother, told Weekly Trust.
Hafsat said indeed the police had taught her son an irreparable lesson because they have succeeded in killing him in cold blood.
“Well, I cannot tell why they killed my son, but they clubbed him to death,” Hafsat said, and continued unfolding the episode. “My son has been sleeping throughout that faithful Sunday, as he was resting following his trip to Warri, Delta State with his father. They had just returned from the journey on Friday, September 27. My son was a driver before his murder. He is not somebody who is jobless or someone who involves in any notorious activity.
“He woke up from his sleep at about 6:30pm. Later in the night at about 8pm, he came to me asking for money to buy candle, because he has given me some money to keep for him. I advised him to buy torchlight instead of candle, because it is safer. That was how he left only for his elder brother to come at about 11pm to wake me up from my sleep, telling me that his younger brother was brutalised by the police.”
Immediately after receiving the bad news, Hafsat and other members of the family rushed to the scene where Murtala was writhing in pool of his own blood.
“His elder brother and other youths of the area assisted in evacuating Murtala from the scene. When they brought him into our house, he was already bleeding profusely from the nose and other parts of his body. All attempts to resuscitate him failed and he died while writhing in pool of his blood some moments later,” Hafsat said.
Having seen that, Murtala’s family went to register their complaint with the District Head of Muchia and the police. The District Head tried to console the family, Hafsat said, promising to do everything within his power to ensure that justice is done.
With that assurance from the District Head, the Muslims funeral rites were arranged for the following day Monday, September 30, according to Hafsat.
However, immediately after the funeral prayer, the youths of the area, having heard the circumstance that led to the Murtala’s death, mobilised to the Muchia Police Outpost to protest the killing of their friend.
The protest, however, took a new dimension when the police officers on ground failed to convince the youths on how and why Murtala lost his life, eyewitnesses told Weekly Trust. The explanation that the officers who killed Murtala acted recklessly failed into deaf ears, as that did not pacify the angry youths. They pounced on the police outpost and set it ablaze, according to eyewitness account.
Some neighbours of Murtala’s family house and other residents of the area attested that he was an easy going youth who always struggles to be independent.
“This is why he joined his father in driving a J5 bus. We don’t know anything negative about this boy. Even if this boy had committed any offence, I don’t think the police have right to club him to death. They were on patrol at that early hour of the night. I think the right thing to do was to arrest any person they were suspecting, but not to kill. We hope the government would ensure that justice is done in this case. Doing that would serve as a lesson for other police officers,” a resident, who doesn’t want his name in print, said.
The Kaduna State Police Command’s Public relations Officer, DSP Aminu Lawal, told journalists through a text message that the command is investigating the incident.
However, a police source in Zaria said those who killed Murtala “are police constables who are not well trained. We have commenced investigation, because even if they are full-pledged police officers, they can’t escape the wrath of the law if they are found guilty.”
Residents of Daurawa and Zaria told Weekly Trust that they are keeping their fingers crossed waiting for the outcome of the police investigation, hoping that the case, like similar ones in other parts of the country, would not be swept under the carpet.

sleeky007: YOU ARE DELUDED @OP......IF ALL THIS ARE CRITERIA FOR MEASURING DEVELOPMENT THEN, ABACHA DID FAR BETTER....HABA...THINK WELL NAH, OR DO YOU NEED THE FACTORY SETTINGS OF YOUR BRAIN TO BE RESET

nwajoshua: which kind of human being be dis one, comparing Abacha wit GEJ, are u dat decieved? Allow us to have non stop power supply pls. GEJ till 20nineteen.