Police Officer Led Kaduna Killer Gang, Emir Says
16 October, 2012
Local

A senior police officer was among the robbers who went on a shooting spree and killed 23 people in Dogon Dawa village of Kaduna State on Sunday, Emir of Birnin Gwari Alhaji Zubairu Jibril Mai Gwari said yesterday.
The robbers launched a pre-dawn attack on the village apparently to free their four detained colleagues arrested by vigilante days earlier. They killed the village head, one of his sons, some neighbours as well as nine worshippers coming out of a mosque.
Mai Gwari spoke yesterday when he received visiting Governor Patrick Yakowa, General Officer Commanding (GOC), 1 Mechanised Division, the state Police Commissioner and the Director of State Security Service (SSS).
He said the police officer in question led the team of armed robbers to Dogon Dawa, and urged authorities to prosecute him.
Later last night, Mai Gwari also spoke to Daily Trust, vowing to ensure the police officer faced justice.
“Since I made my statement in public and before the governor and other security chiefs, I know what I am saying. The police officer who my people and the armed robbers call OC led the gang to massacre my people,” the emir said.
“He has also attempted to stop the arrest of the four suspected armed robbers when the Dogon Dawa vigilante went to arrest them. After the Dogon Dawa vigilante had arrested the four suspects, the same OC followed them in a car and attempted to rescue the four suspects.
“In the same vein, when the gang of the armed men came to Dogon Dawa, the same OC directed the gang. He showed them the places to attack. Some of my people heard the members of the gang calling his name, OC, but he cautioned them to stop calling him with his popular name, OC.
“This is why I would personally ensure that the man is investigated and prosecuted for massacre because what happened at Dogon Dawa was massacre. The issue is not an issue of transferring the officer, it is an issue of taking the officer to court and (having him) prosecuted, which I would personally ensure.”
Daily Trust learnt yesterday that the Zaria Area Command of the Police Force ordered the arrest and detention of the police officer in question.
However, the emir of Birnin Gwari said that the officer is nowhere to be found, “and nobody can sweep this case under the carpet.”
Hours after the killings on Sunday, a survivor and son of the killed village head told Daily Trust he heard the voice of a police officer among the robbers who attacked the village.
“We are suspecting that (a police officer) might have accompanied the gunmen because I heard his voice. Another reason that makes us to suspect him was that when our men went to arrest the four suspected armed robbers, (he) told them that they would see the consequences of their action,” Abdulrahman Ahmad said.
Attempts last night to get the Kaduna State Police Commissioner Olufemi Adenaike or the command’s spokesman DSP Aminu Lawal to respond to the Birnin Gwari emir’s allegation were not successful. Their phone lines were not connecting and they did not reply to text messages sent to them.
Mr. Adenaike was present when the emir made the allegation.
Earlier in the afternoon, DSP Lawal told Daily Trust that investigation into the killings had begun and that security had been beefed up in the area.
Governor Yakowa yesterday told residents of Dogon Dawa that his government has taken the necessary steps to protect their lives and properties. He said he had to cancel his foreign trip because of the seriousness of the attack, which he added would be discussed in today’s state security council meeting.
When the governor visited the injured persons at the hospital, he promised that the state government would pay their medical bills.
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Source: Daily Trust

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Dame Patience isn't the first Afirican or Nigerian first lady to embark on such trips. Well meaning Nigerians ought to be concerned when the news about her health was aired. Now that it has turned out to be false, we should only thank God and stop bothering ourselves about expenses. Haba!

The solution to Nigeria's problem doesn't lie in secession or regionalization of the country. People must come together and champion national ideals, support agenda that is people-oriented and stop prioritizing their region.

These old men don't want to see young and independent minded leaders chant their own course. They want to remain perpetuallyy as dictators, forgetting that Democracy has come to stay. I pity them

He deserves a second term. He is working assiduously to reposition the Nation. But the move is a little to early

Having Regional anthem, flag and regional police doesn't reflect the essential definition of true federalism. They should think of more fundamental features that characterize federal states.

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Good job. Culprits should be prosecuted.

These people again. TINUBU must be behind this. He wants to control the West, sorry for him

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His job is to avert it. Politicians should be sensitize, or they should recall their children from Abroad to come and fight

GEJ should rescue power sector from their hands o! If they are allowed to get away with it, we might be forced to go back to 1000mw.

Ehnnnn, now you are talking. The era of oil importation will soon be over. Subsidy will soon be a thing of the Past. May it never be like other contracts, Amen

Americans are proud of their own, let's be proud of ours too. What does it take to be loyal to a state that u belong to? I'm proudly Nigeria

MASSOB preparing for their November showdown. Hmmmmm. They must be resisted.

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Mr Integrity is back. Welcome alhaji, I'm sure that Farouk having fasted , prayed for forgiveness and gone to Saudi to see his Aboki people, the case will just die. They have given him okuru, against all corruption charges, that is why he was looking so calm. Corruption Sabi humble person o! See Farouk see humility! Mtschewwwww

Is his age not enough for him to resign? BOT position isn't a lifetime seat hello.

Demdem:

All these madness display because i believe u dont know the meaning of boss (i still dont think u kno sha even in this context). Anyway, it seems as if u have no issues with my other comments.
Lets get back to topic and if Buhari is guilty of anything, let the Retardeen put him in jail, simple he is just lamenting unnecessarily

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Two warlords at war. Make them fight, maybe naija go better na them be our wahala.

So IBB has threatened to expose him abi? Good for him. He remains the worst we have ever produced. No wonder Elrufai once said he is perpetually unelectable

Some of us are still hopeful. Gej carry go. My people say between two farm land, the most fertile is always known at harvest Season. We shall see

Some of us are still hopeful. Gej carry go. My people say between. Two farm land, the most fertile is always known at harvest Season. We shall see

Now you are talking. Let's see if there won't change

The Police have recovered the Blackberry phone of Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde, the slain Principal Secretary of Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole.
He was murdered in May.
The phone was recovered in Yobe State. The suspect, in whose possession the phone was found, is being detained at the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) in Abuja.
It was gathered yesterday that the 16 suspects arrested in connection with the murder by the police and the State Security Service (SSS) have admitted to the FCID that they sell items stolen during robbery operations to the same group of people.
A source said: “After Oyerinde was murdered, the items stolen, including a Blackberry phone, were given to a receiver in Benin, who later disposed of it.
“But the police traced the phone to the receiver and a buyer in Yobe State. We have arrested the buyer for questioning and he is still in custody. Receivers of stolen goods dispose of the items in places far away from the vicinity of the crime.”
The source said the police have uncovered more leads into the muder since the SSS handed over the six suspects in its custody to the police on Thursday.
The source said: “All the suspects have admitted that they are notorious armed robbers operating in the Benin axis. They have also admitted that they have common buyers of the loot from their operations. So, they have a meeting point.
“Although they confessed that Oyerinde was killed during a robbery, we are still probing the murder allegation.”
An environmentalist, who is a friend to the late Oyerinde, Rev. David Ugolor, is still being detained by the police in relation to the murder.
On why Ugolor is still in custody, the source said: “We are looking into some circumstantial evidence, including the call logs of the late Oyerinde and how the two friends parted ways on May 4, the day the incident occurred.
“In a sensitive case like this, Ugolor can only be let off the hook after investigation has proved beyond reasonable doubt that he had nothing to do with the murder. We are not just out to punish Ugolor; we have nothing to gain by doing so.
“But the fact that he was the last person the victim met with before going home makes him a prime suspect. As a matter of fact, we discovered that the late Oyerinde dropped Ugolor off at his (Ugolor’s) home before retiring to his (Oyerinde’s) home in GRA, Benin.
“We need to interact with him on his last moment with Oyerinde, analyse his call logs before and after the murder and engage in some forensic analysis. If he is innocent, we will release him immediately.
“You should understand our dilemma. Some of the suspects handed over to us by the SSS have recanted the statements they made to the police. This bend has left us with one or two gaps to fill. That is why a murder case is an open-ended thing. But we will surely crack this case.”

Recently, the media reported that people have not been objective in their assessment of GEJ'S administration. This view divided common sense along party lines. But objectively, in all fairness, has president Gooluck Jonathan really performed badly just after one year in office? Opposition parties are wont to believe that he has failed. They argue that he is not keeping faith with his electoral promises, as well as not tackling the persisting security challenges. But wait a minute, can we say he has outrightly failed? How about the improved power supply which has reached an all time record of over 4427mw, electoral reform that now allows only popular candidates to win in an election, FOI bill that guarantees access to any information(remember other presidents refused to sign it in to law), exposure of corrupt figures, alimajiri schools in the north, massive women engagement in Govt among others. Now the question is, having spent just one year in office, has GEJ really failed? Won't he do more in the remaining years to come? Your honest opinion please.

GEJ pls be firm on this one, these guys are milking us dry

Them wan give GEJ okuru make him tie for body. The man has to be careful sha, those bad guys are eyeing that seat badly