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fergie001:
Plaintiff - George Moghalu

Defendants - APC, INEC & Andy Uba

. How is George Moghalu a beneficiary of this case? Did he take part in the primary? An APC member?

fergie001:
Eminent SANs, over to una.....

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vicdom garfield1 ejimatic

How far?

. Thank you Mr Feggie and all contributors on this matter.I however want to ask: Who are the plaintiffs and defendants in this case?

AJEGUNMO:
Circumstantial evidence says it’s murder, sir!
December 19 2021
by Festus Adedayo THE CABLE/TRIBUNE

(A factionalized – fact and fiction – account of murder in a hotel)

Media frenzy over the death of Tim Goke, a 37-year old man whose remains were found in a hotel, had been very huge and unsettling. As Police Detective and Head of its Legal Division, Muhammadu Kura sat on the swivel chair in his office at Kam Salem Police Headquarters this Wednesday afternoon, he reflected on his encounter with the Inspector General of Police about 40 hours back. The media had literally dragged the IG off his fanny to begin to take drastic actions. The social media had already given its own judgment, hanging accused persons on the crucifix. It alleged a cover up in the offing by top echelon of the police, in cahoots with the accused, about seven of them. A section of the media even claimed that the owner of the hotel, one Chief Adetayo Ola, was a political godson of one of the bigwigs in Nigeria’s ruling party. In an apparent move to deflect the arrows being daily shot at the police, the IG had summoned Kura to his office and literally threw the huge file that contained all the investigated details of the death at him.

As Kura wondered what this whole drama was all about, the Inspector General had thundered in a baritone: “The President of the Republic has been inundated with calls about this case. There are allegations that we wanted to cover up evil doers. Pathologists have said that Tim Goke probably died of natural causes and we won’t have a case against the accused in court. Kura, you are a wizard in criminal law, apart from being one of the best detectives police in Nigeria today. I am interested in charging the accused to court. Go through the file and give me your recommendation in 48 hours. Thank you and have a good day.”

Muhammadu Kura was indeed police’s best investigator and lawyer. With a Master’s degree in Criminology from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, the 42-year old Kanuri-born Superintendent of Police was also a lawyer, his turf being Criminal Law. He had spent the last 40 hours literally fasting but smoking like a chimney. He pored through the huge file of documents, acquainting himself with the facts of the case and making notes. As he sat on the swivel chair, beads of sweat stubbornly glided from his bushy head, making a puddle on his table, even as the air conditioner whooshed like a silent accomplice. At a point, Kura stood up, headed for his pack of Marlboro cigarettes, selected one and with an unruly hand, gummed one on his flabby lips and lit it up. He took an urgent drag, puffed a huge pall of smoke out which hit the ceiling as if in a rebellious slap.

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From his jukebox sang Jamaican reggae music idol, Bob Marley’s Small Axe track. Kura intensified his smoking as he listened to the song which seemed to instigate him to want to get to the bottom of the investigation. Marley’s voice, as if specifically ministering to him, wafted into his ears: “Why boasteth thyself, Oh, evil men//Playing smart And not being clever?//Oh no, I said, you’re working iniquity//To achieve vanity//But the goodness of Jah, Jah I-dureth forever//If you are the big tree//We are the small axe//Sharpened to cut you down…Ready to cut you down//These are the words//Of my master, keep on tellin’ me//No weak heart//Shall prosper…//And whosoever diggeth a pit, Lord//Shall fall in it, shall fall in it//Whosoever diggeth a pit//Shall bury in it, shall bury in it…”

The facts of Tim’s death were already in the public domain. A postgraduate student of a university in the town where he was allegedly killed, he had lodged in the hotel named Valley. In a very curious twist, the hotel management had made all attempts to hide the fact of his lodgment with it. It was only when police investigations found this out that the receptionist, the first suspect in the case, and other accomplices, led police officers to a bush where Tim was buried. This led to the arrest of the alleged accomplices and owner of the hotel, Chief Adetayo with huge allegations made that Tim might have been used for rituals. The alibi of the receptionist suspect and other alleged accomplices was that, they had found Tim dead early in the morning of the second day of his lodgment and had spirited his corpse to the outskirts of the city to hide linkage of his death to the hotel.

Kura then brought out a copy of the autopsy report conducted on Tim’s body and began to examine it. Three pathologists and four other medical experts participated in the four-hour autopsy that took place in the Department of Morbid Anatomy of the University Teaching Hospital of the state where the death took place. The report claimed that Tim died of ‘severe trauma’ but that medicine could not ascertain the cause of death because his remains were at advanced stage of decomposition. However, Tim’s internal and external organs were said to be untouched. The reports however said that the femur of the deceased was found to have had a “sub-capital fracture.”

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For almost an hour, the top police officer ruminated on the autopsy report. While medicine doubted the cause of Tim’s death, Kura wondered if law could doubt why he died. The first point of attraction for him was the broken femur of Tim’s body. What could have led to the fracture? Granted that pathologists claimed that the internal and external organs of the deceased were untouched, were they aware that in the occultic world, the blood of the victim was as germane to rituals more than any other part? He remembered he had read about rituals involving blood which have been in existence for many centuries which still lingered into the 21st century. Five hundred years ago, the Aztecs, a Mesoamerican people who flourished in central Mexico during the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521.were involved in blood rituals between 1376 and 1521 AD. They sacrificed blood as offering to the Sun God. To them, death was part of life, just like birth. By spilling blood meant for rituals, they believed that the gods would compensate them by giving them bountiful crop yields, healthy and long lives. In India, it is believed that the individuals receiving shed blood are given more time to live by the gods. Thus, in Africa too, many engage in rituals so that they could have long life, prosperity and wellbeing. With these in mind, Kura wondered why the pathologists failed to see a probable nexus between the broken femur where blood could have been drained and the cause of the killing of Tim.

He instantly remembered a murder case that the police handled in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State in August, 2017. A 73-year-old pensioner, Mrs. Adetutu Ajayi, was killed at her residence, No 10, Moferere, Ajilosun area by unknown assailants. Upon killing her, while they made away with her fingers, her blood was drained and taken away in her own bucket. Ajayi was daughter of a former Accountant General of the Old Western Region, Mr. Samuel Sotoowa.

Still puffing crazily at his cigarette, Kura walked to the bookshelf in his office and brought out one of his text books on Criminal Law. He flipped the pages to a section called Circumstantial Evidence and began to read like one readying for an examination. The case that came to his attention was Adepetu v The State which lawyers always cite in justifying circumstantial evidence. It was the case of one Olusola Adepetu, a renowned herbal traditional practitioner in Oyo State in the 1990s whose herbal enterprise went by the name, Olusola Naturalist Hospital. He was a major precursor of the trade, with high public awareness on the radio arm of the Oyo State Broadcasting Corporation.

Adepetu had been befriending one Miss Ranti Moradeyo and on the night of November 20, 1990, had gone to the lady’s house, picked her to God-knows-where. She was never seen alive thereafter. The next day, her corpse was found in the Sanyo area on the Lagos-Ibadan highway. Whoever placed it there wanted vehicles to have mutilated the body in pieces, so that the fact of severance of her body parts for rituals would be hidden for life. Adepetu was subsequently charged to the Oyo State High Court and the trial judge, piecing together circumstantial evidence, including the doctrine of “the last seen,” had convicted Adepetu according to Section 319(1) of the Criminal Code Cap 30 Laws of Oyo State 1978. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Prosecution had called 19 witnesses. Following an overruling of the defence’s no-case submission, Adepetu gave evidence and called a single witness. The Appellate Court and the Supreme Court affirmed the judgment, leading to Adepetu spending about 25 years in the Kirikiri Prison.

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Circumstantial evidence, from what Kura read, is observed where “no direct evidence of an eyewitness to the commission of an offence is available.” The court then “may infer from the facts proved, the existence of other facts which logically and conclusively establish the guilt of the accused person beyond reasonable doubt. Accordingly, when strong circumstantial evidence is led against an accused in a criminal trial and this gives rise to an inference irresistibly warranted by such evidence, the criminal court will not hesitate to make such inference as long as it is so cogent and compelling as to convince the jury that on no rational hypothesis other than the inference can the facts be accounted for.” Reading further, Kura learnt that the criminal liability of an appellant “was based on the natural consequence of his act or omission. Intent may also be proved positively by proof of the declaration of the accused as to his intent or inferentially.”

With all that Kura had gathered in the last 47 hours, he stood up like a drunk tottering on his drunken feet. He had literally known no sleep within the last two days or so. He momentarily peered into his strapless wrist watch and discovered he had less than an hour to address the Inspector General. In a sprint-like dash, he hopped into the elevator of the Police headquarters and with a fidgety hand, pressed the last floor button that would take him to the zenith of the high rise building.

The IG was expecting him. He sat cupped in a chair by his conference table, his cap removed, showing an acute baldness with shards of grey hairs that looked like icing on a black cake surrounding his head.

Waffling initially but quickly picking himself up, SP Kura began: “Circumstantial evidence says it’s murder, sir and we can sustain the charge. The circumstances are indubitable and they all point at conspiracy to murder and murder. The chain of circumstances is this, sir: Immediately Tim Goke entered Valley Hotel and paid N37,000 to the receptionist, the plot began. Oblivious of the power of technology and fate that made him call his wife as he was entering the hotel, the conspirators assumed that the fact of where he lodged would be concealed from investigators. Unfortunately, his account details revealed the payment. When detectives came to the hotel, the receptionist denied that Tim ever lodged there. It was upon interrogation that she spilled the beans and revealed other suspects.

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“While the suspects’ alibi was that they found his dead body the next morning and shoveled it into the bush to disconnect the hotel from his death, it doesn’t add up and feeds into the line of a perfectly orchestrated conspiracy. If the fear of the dis-advertisement or bad publicity that a dead lodger would give the hotel were to be the major reason for their abstruse action, they should have known that in this modern age, since they purportedly didn’t have a hand in the death, an autopsy would have exonerated the hotel. Going to the length and the risk of taking Tim’s body to the bush is suspiciously incriminating enough and the circumstance pointing at murder and conspiracy. Again, as James Hadley Chase says that criminals always leave traces, no matter how small, these ones buried their victim with the bed sheet of the hotel and like the Ranti Moradeyo lady’s corpse in Adepetu v The State, they apparently believed Tim’s body would never be found.”

Kura picked a bottle of water on the Inspector General’s table and without prompting, poured it into his dry throat.

“I interviewed a pathologist who told me that the “severe trauma” in the pathologists’ report is ambivalent and could as well mean that the deceased was hit with an object leading to his death. According to him, the decomposition of the internal organ could be as a result of a corrosive acid intentionally poured into the deceased’s mouth at death. The mark found by pathologists on his neck cannot be accidental as well. It could mean that he was strangled. If we had the carbon dating technology in Nigeria, it would have been easier to determine whether the wound on the remains’ neck was pre or after death. Tim was healthy, from evidence we gathered and not suffering from any illness. He was said to have attended a meeting in Akure, hale and hearty.

“The disappearance of a major suspect in the alleged crime, said to be Chief Adetayo, the hotel owner’s son and one who allegedly participated in the process of taking Tim’s body into the forest, is a circumstantial thread that may link his father to the committal of the crime. We must ensure we bring him to book. We must get mobile phone service providers to give us Chief Adetayo’s call logs and all Chief’s call and discussions between the time Tim arrived the hotel and the time of the disposal of his corpse. How frequently did he speak with his son or any of the accused? What did they discuss? It is arrant nonsense to say that just because somebody was a typical Nigerian big man who established universities and big hotels, he cannot be steeped in occultic practices. Indeed, more than half of Nigerian big men are ritualists – from politicians, to judges, to you-name-them,” Kura said.

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While rounding off his submission, he said: “Inspector General sir, facts of circumstantial evidence tell me that we have a good case if we charge the hotel owner and the other accused to court for conspiracy and murder. We should not allow the image of the Police Force to be further dented by pussy-footing in walking to the justice chambers.”

As he did this, in a queer manner that suggested his belief in his submission, Kura stood up from his seat, made the traditional police salute in obeisance to the Inspector General, headed for the door and slammed it shut behind him.

. This is the situation as of now!

Circumstantial evidence says it’s murder, sir! -By Festus Adedayo
The facts of Tim’s death were already in the public domain. A postgraduate student of a university in the town where he was allegedly killed, he had lodged in the hotel named Valley. In a very curious twist, the hotel management had made all attempts to hide the fact of his lodgment with it. It was only when police investigations found this out that the receptionist, the first suspect in the case, and other accomplices, led police officers to a bush where Tim was buried.

Published 9 hours ago on December 18, 2021By Opinion Nigeriasenate president lawan withdraws appointment of festus adedayo as media aide 1
(A factionalized – fact and fiction – account of murder in a hotel)

Media frenzy over the death of Tim Goke, a 37-year old man whose remains were found in a hotel, had been very huge and unsettling. As Police Detective and Head of its Legal Division, Muhammadu Kura sat on the swivel chair in his office at Kam Salem Police Headquarters this Wednesday afternoon, he reflected on his encounter with the Inspector General of Police about 40 hours back. The media had literally dragged the IG off his fanny to begin to take drastic actions. The social media had already given its own judgment, hanging accused persons on the crucifix. It alleged a cover up in the offing by top echelon of the police, in cahoots with the accused, about seven of them. A section of the media even claimed that the owner of the hotel, one Chief Adetayo Ola, was a political godson of one of the bigwigs in Nigeria’s ruling party. In an apparent move to deflect the arrows being daily shot at the police, the IG had summoned Kura to his office and literally threw the huge file that contained all the investigated details of the death at him.

As Kura wondered what this whole drama was all about, the Inspector General had thundered in a baritone: “The President of the Republic has been inundated with calls about this case. There are allegations that we wanted to cover up evil doers. Pathologists have said that Tim Goke probably died of natural causes and we won’t have a case against the accused in court. Kura, you are a wizard in criminal law, apart from being one of the best detectives police in Nigeria today. I am interested in charging the accused to court. Go through the file and give me your recommendation in 48 hours. Thank you and have a good day.”

Muhammadu Kura was indeed police’s best investigator and lawyer. With a Master’s degree in Criminology from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, the 42-year old Kanuri-born Superintendent of Police was also a lawyer, his turf being Criminal Law. He had spent the last 40 hours literally fasting but smoking like a chimney. He pored through the huge file of documents, acquainting himself with the facts of the case and making notes. As he sat on the swivel chair, beads of sweat stubbornly glided from his bushy head, making a puddle on his table, even as the air conditioner whooshed like a silent accomplice. At a point, Kura stood up, headed for his pack of Marlboro cigarettes, selected one and with an unruly hand, gummed one on his flabby lips and lit it up. He took an urgent drag, puffed a huge pall of smoke out which hit the ceiling as if in a rebellious slap.

From his jukebox sang Jamaican reggae music idol, Bob Marley’s Small Axe track. Kura intensified his smoking as he listened to the song which seemed to instigate him to want to get to the bottom of the investigation. Marley’s voice, as if specifically ministering to him, wafted into his ears: “Why boasteth thyself, Oh, evil men//Playing smart And not being clever?//Oh no, I said, you’re working iniquity//To achieve vanity//But the goodness of Jah, Jah I-dureth forever//If you are the big tree//We are the small axe//Sharpened to cut you down…Ready to cut you down//These are the words//Of my master, keep on tellin’ me//No weak heart//Shall prosper…//And whosoever diggeth a pit, Lord//Shall fall in it, shall fall in it//Whosoever diggeth a pit//Shall bury in it, shall bury in it…”

The facts of Tim’s death were already in the public domain. A postgraduate student of a university in the town where he was allegedly killed, he had lodged in the hotel named Valley. In a very curious twist, the hotel management had made all attempts to hide the fact of his lodgment with it. It was only when police investigations found this out that the receptionist, the first suspect in the case, and other accomplices, led police officers to a bush where Tim was buried. This led to the arrest of the alleged accomplices and owner of the hotel, Chief Adetayo with huge allegations made that Tim might have been used for rituals. The alibi of the receptionist suspect and other alleged accomplices was that, they had found Tim dead early in the morning of the second day of his lodgment and had spirited his corpse to the outskirts of the city to hide linkage of his death to the hotel.

Kura then brought out a copy of the autopsy report conducted on Tim’s body and began to examine it. Three pathologists and four other medical experts participated in the four-hour autopsy that took place in the Department of Morbid Anatomy of the University Teaching Hospital of the state where the death took place. The report claimed that Tim died of ‘severe trauma’ but that medicine could not ascertain the cause of death because his remains were at advanced stage of decomposition. However, Tim’s internal and external organs were said to be untouched. The reports however said that the femur of the deceased was found to have had a “sub-capital fracture.”

For almost an hour, the top police officer ruminated on the autopsy report. While medicine doubted the cause of Tim’s death, Kura wondered if law could doubt why he died. The first point of attraction for him was the broken femur of Tim’s body. What could have led to the fracture? Granted that pathologists claimed that the internal and external organs of the deceased were untouched, were they aware that in the occultic world, the blood of the victim was as germane to rituals more than any other part? He remembered he had read about rituals involving blood which have been in existence for many centuries which still lingered into the 21st century. Five hundred years ago, the Aztecs, a Mesoamerican people who flourished in central Mexico during the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521.were involved in blood rituals between 1376 and 1521 AD. They sacrificed blood as offering to the Sun God. To them, death was part of life, just like birth. By spilling blood meant for rituals, they believed that the gods would compensate them by giving them bountiful crop yields, healthy and long lives. In India, it is believed that the individuals receiving shed blood are given more time to live by the gods. Thus, in Africa too, many engage in rituals so that they could have long life, prosperity and wellbeing. With these in mind, Kura wondered why the pathologists failed to see a probable nexus between the broken femur where blood could have been drained and the cause of the killing of Tim.

He instantly remembered a murder case that the police handled in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State in August, 2017. A 73-year-old pensioner, Mrs. Adetutu Ajayi, was killed at her residence, No 10, Moferere, Ajilosun area by unknown assailants. Upon killing her, while they made away with her fingers, her blood was drained and taken away in her own bucket. Ajayi was daughter of a former Accountant General of the Old Western Region, Mr. Samuel Sotoowa.

Still puffing crazily at his cigarette, Kura walked to the bookshelf in his office and brought out one of his text books on Criminal Law. He flipped the pages to a section called Circumstantial Evidence and began to read like one readying for an examination. The case that came to his attention was Adepetu v The State which lawyers always cite in justifying circumstantial evidence. It was the case of one Olusola Adepetu, a renowned herbal traditional practitioner in Oyo State in the 1990s whose herbal enterprise went by the name, Olusola Naturalist Hospital. He was a major precursor of the trade, with high public awareness on the radio arm of the Oyo State Broadcasting Corporation.

Adepetu had been befriending one Miss Ranti Moradeyo and on the night of November 20, 1990, had gone to the lady’s house, picked her to God-knows-where. She was never seen alive thereafter. The next day, her corpse was found in the Sanyo area on the Lagos-Ibadan highway. Whoever placed it there wanted vehicles to have mutilated the body in pieces, so that the fact of severance of her body parts for rituals would be hidden for life. Adepetu was subsequently charged to

the Oyo State High Court and the trial judge, piecing together circumstantial evidence, including the doctrine of “the last seen,” had convicted Adepetu according to Section 319(1) of the Criminal Code Cap 30 Laws of Oyo State 1978. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Prosecution had called 19 witnesses. Following an overruling of the defence’s no-case submission, Adepetu gave evidence and called a single witness. The Appellate Court and the Supreme Court affirmed the judgment, leading to Adepetu spending about 25 years in the Kirikiri Prison.

Circumstantial evidence, from what Kura read, is observed where “no direct evidence of an eyewitness to the commission of an offence is available.” The court then “may infer from the facts proved, the existence of other facts which logically and conclusively establish the guilt of the accused person beyond reasonable doubt. Accordingly, when strong circumstantial evidence is led against an accused in a criminal trial and this gives rise to an inference irresistibly warranted by such evidence, the criminal court will not hesitate to make such inference as long as it is so cogent and compelling as to convince the jury that on no rational hypothesis other than the inference can the facts be accounted for.” Reading further, Kura learnt that the criminal liability of an appellant “was based on the natural consequence of his act or omission. Intent may also be proved positively by proof of the declaration of the accused as to his intent or inferentially.”

With all that Kura had gathered in the last 47 hours, he stood up like a drunk tottering on his drunken feet. He had literally known no sleep within the last two days or so. He momentarily peered into his strapless wrist watch and discovered he had less than an hour to address the Inspector General. In a sprint-like dash, he hopped into the elevator of the Police headquarters and with a fidgety hand, pressed the last floor button that would take him to the zenith of the high rise building.

The IG was expecting him. He sat cupped in a chair by his conference table, his cap removed, showing an acute baldness with shards of grey hairs that looked like icing on a black cake surrounding his head.

Waffling initially but quickly picking himself up, SP Kura began: “Circumstantial evidence says it’s murder, sir and we can sustain the charge. The circumstances are indubitable and they all point at conspiracy to murder and murder. The chain of circumstances is this, sir: Immediately Tim Goke entered Valley Hotel and paid N37,000 to the receptionist, the plot began. Oblivious of the power of technology and fate that made him call his wife as he was entering the hotel, the conspirators assumed that the fact of where he lodged would be concealed from investigators. Unfortunately, his account details revealed the payment. When detectives came to the hotel, the receptionist

denied that Tim ever lodged there. It was upon interrogation that she spilled the beans and revealed other suspects.

“While the suspects’ alibi was that they found his dead body the next morning and shoveled it into the bush to disconnect the hotel from his death, it doesn’t add up and feeds into the line of a perfectly orchestrated conspiracy. If the fear of the dis-advertisement or bad publicity that a dead lodger would give the hotel were to be the major reason for their abstruse action, they should have known that in this modern age, since they purportedly didn’t have a hand in the death, an autopsy would have exonerated the hotel. Going to the length and the risk of taking Tim’s body to the bush is suspiciously incriminating enough and the circumstance pointing at murder and conspiracy. Again, as James Hadley Chase says that criminals always leave traces, no matter how small, these ones buried their victim with the bed sheet of the hotel and like the Ranti Moradeyo lady’s corpse in Adepetu v The State, they apparently believed Tim’s body would never be found.”

Kura picked a bottle of water on the Inspector General’s table and without prompting, poured it into his dry throat.

“I interviewed a pathologist who told me that the “severe trauma” in the pathologists’ report is ambivalent and could as well mean that the deceased was hit with an object leading to his death. According to him, the decomposition of the internal organ could be as a result of a corrosive acid intentionally poured into the deceased’s mouth at death. The mark found by pathologists on his neck cannot be accidental as well. It could mean that he was strangled. If we had the carbon dating technology in Nigeria, it would have been easier to determine whether the wound on the remains’ neck was pre or after death. Tim was healthy, from evidence we gathered and not suffering from any illness. He was said to have attended a meeting in Akure, hale and hearty.

“The disappearance of a major suspect in the alleged crime, said to be Chief Adetayo, the hotel owner’s son and one who allegedly participated in the process of taking Tim’s body into the forest, is a circumstantial thread that may link his father to the committal of the crime. We must ensure we bring him to book. We must get mobile phone service providers to give us Chief Adetayo’s call logs and all Chief’s call and discussions between the time Tim arrived the hotel and the time of the disposal of his corpse. How frequently did he speak with his son or any of the accused? What did they discuss? It is arrant nonsense to say that just because somebody was a typical Nigerian big man who established universities and big hotels, he cannot be steeped in occultic practices. Indeed, more than half of Nigerian big men are ritualists – from politicians, to judges, to you-name-them,” Kura said.

While rounding off his submission, he said: “Inspector General sir, facts of circumstantial evidence tell me that we have a good case if we charge the hotel owner and the other accused to court for conspiracy and murder. We should not allow the image of the Police Force to be further dented by pussy-footing in walking to the justice chambers.”

As he did this, in a queer manner that suggested his belief in his submission, Kura stood up from his seat, made the traditional police salute in obeisance to the Inspector General, headed for the door and slammed it shut behind him.

Moblux:
1. There was an attempt to kidnap the elder brother to Timothy
2. The family pathologist had to flee overseas for safety after the postmortem examination
3. Roheem is on the run
4. The mattress he slept in was burnt
5. They removed the CCTV camera from the hotel
6. They denied he slept there the first time the police was there
7. They changed the lodgers list

Ejigbadero did not escape justice for killing Raji Oba in 1970s neither Alaaye of Efon Alaaye for killing that little daughter of Ojo in the 1940s

. Otokoto did not escape for killing a groudnut seller in Oweri in 1995.......... After the submission of the original autopsy report the Adedoyin family wanted to submit another one in Abuja. The Tunde Disu IRS team rejected it. Because of the seriousness of the case the team has got a court injuction to Detain all the suspects until the investigation is completed. Indeed the hearts of a men are wicked.and there will be no peace for the wicked ones

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ogastanlee:
Breaking: All Marriages conducted by the Ikoyi Marriage Registry are illegal and Invalid.

by Stanley Alieke, Esq.

There have been a legal brawl between some Local government Areas of Nigeria against the Federal government simply for the determination of who have the power to operate marriage registries, conduct marriages and issue marriage certificates.

Statutorily, the Local governments are the ones empowered to conduct marriages and issue marriage certificates, for this reason, the LGAs have insisted that their powers to register marriages which is statutorily provided are being usurped by the Federal Government through the Ministry of Interior.

The Eti Osa LOcal Government Area of Lagos state took the Ministry of Interior and Attorney General of the Federation to court in suit no.: FHC/ LS/CS/816/18 between Eti-Osa LGA & 3 others v. Hon. Minister of Interior & 2 others (Federal High Court, Ikoyi Judicial Divaion), where the accused Federal Ministry of Interiors of usurping the Local Governments power to operate marriage registries, conduct marriages and issue marriage certificates.

The prayed the court to declare that the federal government have no business in the conduction of marriages and issuing marriage certificates and order the closure of all marriage registries opened and operated by the federal ministry of interior or through their agents including that of the Ikoyi registry.

The case lingered but recently, the federal High court sitting in Ikoyi held in the favor of the Eti osa local government and granted their prayers.

The court held that conduct of marriages and issue of certificate is statutorily the job of the local governments as provided by the law and only the local governments have the power to do such and the acts of the federal government through the ministry of interior operating marriage registries is clearly beyond their powers.

The court further held that all marriages conducted by federal marriage registries or through their agents are illegal and invalid and the federal high court also ordered for the closure of all federal marriage registries including that of Ikoyi marriage registry with immediate effect.

Stanley Alieke, Esq.
Managing Partner,
Stanley Alieke & Co.
infoitooknow@gmail.com

https://www.arise.tv/all-marriages-conducted-at-ikoyi-registry-illegal-nigeria-court-says/

A report monitored on Channels Tv now indicates that this judgement is FAKE NEWS. This has justified our observation that no court can give an order on the substansive suti on wedding matter which is at the SC since 2018.

just2endowed:
Hmmm yes I remember there was a case before the supreme Court. So I wonder why this high court is entertaining the matter.

In all we should blame our legislature for this confusion in the fraudulent 1999 constitution

. I wonder too sir! The position of the constitution is clear on the matter in 1999 constitution as amended.The FG is given the veto power on the wedding matters in Nigeria

ejimatic:
. I fault this judgement....The constitution empowers the Federal Government to print , issue and contract marriages in Nigeria. The constitution also empowers the Federal government to delegate this authority to local governments. Constitution also empowers the Federal Government to delegate this authority to licensed churches and places of worship. Note that it is a delegated authority enshrined in the constitution. Sadly Local governments in Nigeria are printing their own certificates and usurping the right of the federal government . The federal government instituted a case on the matter and the lower court held that only the federal government should coordinate wedding matters in Nigeria according to the constitution. Dissatisfied the local government appealed the judgement. The appellate court reaffirmed the judgement of the lower Court. Still disatissfied the local governments went to the supreme court. The case is still at the Supreme court since 2018. In my opinion no court has the right to entertain any case that is before the Supreme court. The judgement secured by Eti Osa local government yestrday is just a waste of time and calls for reprimand by the NJC.

. As for customary or traditional marriages the constitution empowers only the Local governments to register it as a way of recording it after the contract of the marriages at home by the parties involved.

ogastanlee:
Breaking: All Marriages conducted by the Ikoyi Marriage Registry are illegal and Invalid.

by Stanley Alieke, Esq.

There have been a legal brawl between some Local government Areas of Nigeria against the Federal government simply for the determination of who have the power to operate marriage registries, conduct marriages and issue marriage certificates.

Statutorily, the Local governments are the ones empowered to conduct marriages and issue marriage certificates, for this reason, the LGAs have insisted that their powers to register marriages which is statutorily provided are being usurped by the Federal Government through the Ministry of Interior.

The Eti Osa LOcal Government Area of Lagos state took the Ministry of Interior and Attorney General of the Federation to court in suit no.: FHC/ LS/CS/816/18 between Eti-Osa LGA & 3 others v. Hon. Minister of Interior & 2 others (Federal High Court, Ikoyi Judicial Divaion), where the accused Federal Ministry of Interiors of usurping the Local Governments power to operate marriage registries, conduct marriages and issue marriage certificates.

The prayed the court to declare that the federal government have no business in the conduction of marriages and issuing marriage certificates and order the closure of all marriage registries opened and operated by the federal ministry of interior or through their agents including that of the Ikoyi registry.

The case lingered but recently, the federal High court sitting in Ikoyi held in the favor of the Eti osa local government and granted their prayers.

The court held that conduct of marriages and issue of certificate is statutorily the job of the local governments as provided by the law and only the local governments have the power to do such and the acts of the federal government through the ministry of interior operating marriage registries is clearly beyond their powers.

The court further held that all marriages conducted by federal marriage registries or through their agents are illegal and invalid and the federal high court also ordered for the closure of all federal marriage registries including that of Ikoyi marriage registry with immediate effect.

Stanley Alieke, Esq.
Managing Partner,
Stanley Alieke & Co.
infoitooknow@gmail.com

https://www.arise.tv/all-marriages-conducted-at-ikoyi-registry-illegal-nigeria-court-says/

. I fault this judgement....The constitution empowers the Federal Government to print , issue and contract marriages in Nigeria. The constitution also empowers the Federal government to delegate this authority to local governments. Constitution also empowers the Federal Government to delegate this authority to licensed churches and places of worship. Note that it is a delegated authority enshrined in the constitution. Sadly Local governments in Nigeria are printing their own certificates and usurping the right of the federal government . The federal government instituted a case on the matter and the lower court held that only the federal government should coordinate wedding matters in Nigeria according to the constitution. Dissatisfied the local government appealed the judgement. The appellate court reaffirmed the judgement of the lower Court. Still disatissfied the local governments went to the supreme court. The case is still at the Supreme court since 2018. In my opinion no court has the right to entertain any case that is before the Supreme court. The judgement secured by Eti Osa local government yestrday is just a waste of time and calls for reprimand by the NJC.

Nemere2020:
OAU Student’s Death: Police Contact Interpol, Immigration Over Runaway Hotel MD, Reject Second Autopsy Result

•Hotelier’s family urges restraint, insists patriarch not ritualist



https://tribuneonlineng.com/oau-students-death-police-contact-interpol-immigration-over-runaway-hotel-md-reject-second-autopsy-result/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

. the police will soon release original autopsy report..The report in circulation is falsified doctored fabricated and sponsored without any source of the Issuance....What a wicked world !

ovieigho:
Hmmm

“A police source who spoke to the Nigerian Tribune under the condition of anonymity said “only the son can reveal the role of the father in the killing and burial of the deceased“

I said it … no runway… anything !
That quote up there will lead to the release of the real culprit in custody….

Raheem will never be found ( it’s a ploy)

. Are there no call logs between the Hotelier and his son and other accomplices?

Nemere2020:
OAU Student’s Death: Police Contact Interpol, Immigration Over Runaway Hotel MD, Reject Second Autopsy Result

•Hotelier’s family urges restraint, insists patriarch not ritualist



https://tribuneonlineng.com/oau-students-death-police-contact-interpol-immigration-over-runaway-hotel-md-reject-second-autopsy-result/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

. The picture of the deceased clearly shows he was murdered His blood was taken by some people.All his body was filled with blood. I heard online today that one Easter ..another staff of the hotel . was the one who burnt the bed on which Timothy was murdered soaked with his blood. People are heartless. All because of wealth and fame

SojWORLDWIDE:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/12/oau-student-adegokes-autopsy-report-out-organs-intact/amp/

. Trauma through beating and forceful taking of his blood for rituals? The story continues!

Rexwalters1:
No wonder he has been able to use good command of the English language to repel all those President Buhari wailing rodents?

. He usually uses linguistic writing styles to deacribe Nigerian situations with innuendoes and allegories.

NwekeUG:
Femi Adesina Receives Distinguished Great Ife Alumnus Award From OAU (Throwback Photo)

President Buhari's spokesperson, Femi Adesina receives Distinguished Great Ife Alumnus Award from his Alma mater, Obafemi Awolowo University as the institution celebrates 60 years of her existence, IgbereTV reports.

Femi Adesina who graduated from the institution 35 years ago is one of the 60 graduates of the institution who have been selected by the institution to be honoured with Distinguished Great Ife Alumnus Award.

Femi Adesina shared the news with his throwback photo on Facebook. He wrote;


https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=444235410397352&id=100044326904709

. He finished from Department of English. He is an Ipetumodu man...

presidency:
LORI IRO: THE EVIL THAT LIE MERCHANTS DO

By FEMI ADESINA

You have probably seen something on social media, which I consider a parody of lie merchants against our country. We will talk about it in a minute.

But let me take an early digression to recall the story of a teacher we didn’t particularly like when we were in secondary school. The man could wield the whip, ehnnnn. And when he decided to give you a knock on the head, you began to swallow your own mucus. Fast fast.

So, the obstreperous boys, who didn’t want any form of control, nicknamed the teacher Aji pogun iro. The person who lies at least 20 times a day.

Boys will be boys. I doubt if we ever caught the teacher at a single lie, but just because we didn’t like him, we nicknamed him Aji pogun iro. We usually had so much fun calling him that name behind him.

Back to our topic. Some people hate their country so much, that they tell a minimum of 20 lies against her daily. And they use the digital media, particularly the variant called social media. There, you have no checks, no balances. An ‘army of anything goes’ operates there.

Now to that parody of lie merchants. A man is seen with a bouquet of flowers, kneeling down before a lady. He says:

“Abeni, please agree to marry me, or I’ll die. You are my joy, my honey, the salt of my life.

“If I don’t see you, I can’t eat. I can’t sleep. And peradventure I sleep, I dream of you like a crazy man.”

As he spins his yarn, a male voice interjects periodically: Lori iro. Lori iro. Meaning, Big, Fat, Lies.

The lady was probably getting convinced, and about to say ‘I will do’ when a heavily pregnant woman appears on the scene, and shouts:

“Who am I looking at? My husband!”

A shocked Abeni exclaims: “So you are already married!” And she gave Aji pogun iro a dirty slap. He saw stars. End of story.

The man with the voice then takes centre stage, chanting lyrically: Iro po, iro po. O ti po repete. Lie lie lover, lie lie lover, meaning, Big Fat Lies, Big Fat Lies, Too Many Lies. Lie lie lover.

And I say, Big Fat Lies, Big Fat Lies against Nigeria, and against a President doing his honest best for the country. And anybody loyal to the President also becomes a butt of lies, undue hatred, odium, misinformation, disinformation, opprobrium.

We were at the 76th Assembly of the United Nations in New York between September 19 and 26, this year. We returned home without any incident, landing in Abuja about 4 am.

Few days later, a perpetually lying online newspaper published that on the trip back home, the presidential jet developed a technical fault, and we made emergency landing at a place called Sable Island, where we were held up for three hours, before resuming the journey.

Holy Moses! I was on that flight! Nothing of such happened. How did a fecund but sick mind conjure that lie? Lori iro. When did journalism become a cocktail of lies? And to what end? Shame, big shame.

I got a number of phone calls from people who wanted to rejoice with me that we escaped what could have been a crash. I let them finish talking, and would say: Lori iro. They would be shocked, then curse the lying blog, and go off the line.

A high rise building unfortunately came down in Lagos recently, killing a large number of people, including the developer. Pronto, that lying online medium published that the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, was a partner with the developer, who was his bosom friend. Lori iro.

The VP, a professor of law, demanded a retraction, or he would go to court. But these liars have no honor, nor any sense of shame. They never correct nor retract their lies. It is second nature to them. No wonder the Good Book says when the Devil lies, “he speaks his natural language. A liar and father of lies.” Lori iro.

There’s another Liars’ Gazette, which makes it a point of duty to tell at least 20 lies against the country daily. Aji pogun iro. The former boss of the suicide journalist behind that online publication once described him to me as “a danger to today and to tomorrow.” When he lies, he speaks his natural language.

Recently, Dr Chike Akunyili, husband to that deceased Nigerian heroine, Dora, was gruesomely killed in the Southeast, apparently by murderous separatists. What did Liars’Gazette say? Dr Akunyili killed by Fulani herdsmen! No shred, not even a scintilla of evidence. They are just bent on throwing the country into a turmoil, and the more heinous the lie, the more it serves their evil purpose.

It was the same Liars’ Gazette that went to town in October last year, during the EndSARS protest, publishing that President Muhammadu Buhari had agreed to scrap the SARS police team early, but his media adviser, Femi Adesina, prevailed on him not to do so. Lori iro.

What the Liars’ Gazette wanted to do was to turn the public against me. It succeeded for a while, going by the volume of vitriol and hate messages I received initially. But it is said that if lie travels for 20 years, truth catches up with it in one day. Soon, the truth came out, and the liar was left standing small and looking stupid.

I was special guest recently at the unveiling of a book, 101 Fake News on EndSARS, written by a young investigative reporter, Dahiru M. Lawal. The book is published by PR Nigeria, and how I wish every citizen of this great country can get a copy. In 203 pages, the author chronicles all the lies that accompanied the EndSARS protests, which began as a laudable outcry against police brutality, till the Devil took over, and things took a murderous turn. Lagos was almost completely burned down, and scores of policemen and other security agents lay dead round the country. The truth of that saga is still being unraveled by probe panels round the country.

Lies are being told daily against the President. He’s Jibril of Sudan, the real Buhari is long dead. A cabal runs the country for him, he can’t even talk again. He’s a tyrant, and tramples on the human rights of Nigerians. He’s not even achieving anything. Blah blah.

And don’t think it’s only inconsequential people who are behind these lies. Even serial election losers join the fray. When an opposition party speaks, just tell yourself; Lori iro. Because it lies daily. It speaks its natural language when it spews untruth. When some pastors, and some imams preach, it is Lori iro. They lie against the President, and against the government he leads. Simply because they hate their country, hate the citizens, and even hate themselves.

But I’ve got news for such people. As God wills, President Buhari would continue to achieve for the country. Infrastructure works would continue, the insecurity war would be won, the economy would continue to revive, and corrupt people would endlessly march straight to jail. And then, by May 29, 2023, the President would land safely. Amen.

Every other thing, as conjured by evil hearts, the Lie Lie Lovers, would be Lori iro.

*Adesina is Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity

. Nigerians are not interested in allegorical tales. All we need is a better Nigeria with cheap food affordable cost of living and security. As of now we are witnessing the opposite.It is true that when you point one finger to a person the remaining four fingers are pointed at you.

onthehill:
What Kids Did When Their Dad Told Them He Didn't Have Money To Buy Them Juice (Photo)

A dad has narrated what his kids did when they wanted their pack of juice but he told them he couldn't afford it, IgbereTV reports.

The business manager took to LinkedIn to share the story.

He explained that when the kids asked for the drink, he informed them that the only money he had with him, was to be used at a car wash where he planned to take his car.

When he came out to drive his car out, he found his kids washing his car.

Sharing photo of his children washing his car, he wrote;



He later bought them the Juice as he revealed in a conversation with one of his LinkedIn connections who had reacted to his post.

See below.

https://igberetvnews.com/1407890/kids-dad-told-didnt-money-buy-juice-photo/

Lalasticlala

. Kid politicians and diplomats ! Before I open my eyes answer them with Happy Hours

Adebeeyi:
REVEALED: What Timothy Adegoke's Body Looked Like When Found | FIJ



https://fij.ng/article/revealed-what-timothy-adegokes-body-looked-like-when-found/

. Yet some idiots claim he died naturally and Osun CP said his body his intact. They have forgotten that their game is up. Yes no peace for the wicked souls

oyatz:
The parents/families of those that died should be compensated.

However the they need to supply the following information for verifications of the deceased;


1) Pictures

Means of identifications of the deceased e.g National I.D card, BVN etc
2) Full names and last contact addresses
3) Names and contacts , including telephone numbers of their next-of-Kins.
4) Schools attended with dates
5) State/LGA and Towns of origin

. I thank God for your wisdom . There should not be hide and seek game on any compensation. Any body that will be compenasated must be fulky recognized. . However as Long as none of us was there on that day the conckusion of the Lagos Panel stands .

EcoBrick:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/12/endsars-report-60-civil-society-orgs-declare-readiness-to-walk-with-sanwo-olu/amp/

Peace Walk or not October to Remember will stay for a long time in Lagos State. Additionally no meaningful Peace Walk until those behind the attack are brought to justice . Nobody is above law in Nigeria

mapet:
1. The same Ms Ibrahim that refused to show up again when she was summoned for cross-examination?
2. Army took corpses away? to where? evidenced by what?
3. Army did not come to the panel? Did you take Ukpuru-miri or something? Gen. Ibrahim Ahmed Taiwo is from the Boys Scout?
4. 100 of casualties treated in various hospitals at Lekki after the shooting and non of the petitioners deemed it fit to get those 100 of hospitals summoned to testify?

You stand by your beer-parlour conjectures you mean..

. I will not respond to your comment because it is characterized by uncouth and unrefined expressions. Ensure that your response has elemnts of civility always. You are however entitled to your opinion.

seunmsg:
?
Bereaved women protested and only the name of a popular pro-PDP lady who did not lost anyone was mentioned. So, who are these bereaved women? What’s the name of their lost loved ones? Why did they refuse to appear before the panel?

Are you aware that 14 petitions of Lekki shooting alone were presented before the panel? Are you aware that Mrs Ibrahim before the Lagos Panel mentioned names of 12 among those that died in massacre? Are you aware aware that the army took some corpses away? Are you aware that the army didi not come to the panel to answer questions on the event? Are you aware that there are hundreds of casualties treated in various hospitals at Lekki after the shooting? I stand with the conclusion of the Lagos Panel

HenryThegreat1:
https://punchng.com/omo-agege-became-deputy-senate-president-as-compensation-says-lasun/

. I disagree with Lasun on his conclusions though he is entitled to his opinion. 1. Osun APC zeroed the candidacy on Oyetola.2 Osun APC had a direct primary and Oyeyola won across the state 3 PDP won the election to the stage it was declared inconclusive with the provision of the electoral law and the party did not disagree at the collation center 4 APC tactically won the rerun with the involvement of Lasun Oyebayo who worked with the party so that APC hooligans would not destroy his multi blionare hotel at Ring Road Osogbo. APC even won in all wards where rerun took place in his constituency. 5. Zoning made Omoagege become DSP. The same zoning made Oyebayo become Deputy Speaker House of Rep...........Lasun can contest again .He has his right to do

Cheapgadget:
Prof. Oludare Ogunlana wrote:

Our boys whom we sent to the Universities to study are now living in hotels doing Yahoo, defrauding people.

They are not studying. They are sorting. Bribing lecturers for pass.

They only come into the campus with convoy once in a while to show off. Guess what?

Some lecturers are even worshipping them.

Our teenage sons are now driving Benz in the university. They are now the latest boys in campus.

The houses our sons are living in the university are now flats and duplexes as against the self-contained we used to know.

Well furnished and more beautiful compare to room of some state governors.

Our sons are all married in the university but single at home.

Girls crawl around them... living with them, cooking for them, doing all sort of things with them...

These girls are our daughters whom we sent to the university to study.

They are in every clubs and hotels....they are in every front cars, fastening seatbelt, snapping and moving their lips like DOGS.

My recent research in Nigerian universities opened my eyes to the recent ugly reality. I wept for the future.

These are teenagers, not even adults.
Guess what?

We still see them as children who know nothing.

I don't want to mention names of hotels in IBADAN, LAGOS, IJEBU ODE, ABEOKUTA, AKURE, EKITI STATE etc you will see your sons and daughters. They have been living there for months.

Nobody is going to school. Who school help? Don't you get it?

Those teenagers— boys and girls are abusing drugs. Not just igbo but cocaine and tramadols.

I have boarded a vehicle with a young girl in AGO IWOYE who had some crack (cocaine) in her purse.

Because she's too beautiful, police that stopped us to search didn't search her but searched us all.

On the way, she brought it out, gently fix some into her nose and threw the little remaining substance through the window.

I remained deaf and dumb until I got to my destination and paused, she paused; both of us paused.

Who will save this generation who painfully are our tomorrow.....

*AND WE SADLY KEEP QUITE!*

*EKUN OLA!*

. I want to conclude that things are becoming worse because we live in the last days.Moral decadence is everywhere and religious leaders in Islam and Christianity as well as parents are not helping the society. Hard work is not a virtue again but instant wealth.That is why In our schools students are in yahoo yahoo deals and pay lecturers to pass exams. Our children dress like thugs and hooligans daily and they have parents at home. If you leave your phone or wallet behind you will never see it again.Yet churches and mosques are increasing daily with crimes all over. A school boy with a big car in school bought from cyber crime deal will go to church or mosque for a Thanksgiving and give pastor or Imam money Everbody is quiet ; nobody is talking.How many parents teach their children again? The world is bleeding , Nigeria is sheddng tears of blood. We are paying for our lack lusture attitude to morality in all our spheres of life: family school churches mosques society and so on

Ndlistic:
https://www.facebook.com/103681802160097/posts/103725558822388/

. The Vangaurd is sponsored by the hotelier.However the DPO and Area Commander at IleIfe have disassciated themselves from the lie spread by the Adedoyin lawyer.Questions: who took his phone? One of the suspectse! Which clothes were used to wrap the corpse? The hotel beddings pls watch the link below. The game is up for the wicked......https://www.facebook.com/107245278440606/videos/569200881084049/.

Omooba77:
https://www.facebook.com/1340173454/posts/10225808466261925/

. Any country or states that cannot admit its mistake is a misfit for the masses.Thank you for your analysis.The white paper has been politicised to satisfy the interest of Layi Mohammed who is fighting for an image that has been battered already by insincerity and untold hardship.Sadly those that were not at the scene of the massacre and never attended the Lagos Panel sittings are now dictating what should be in the White Paper. Any Lagosians that join in window dressed Memorial Walk are not true Lagosians [sub][/sub]

drizslim:
http://saharareporters.com/2021/12/01/breaking-ipob-leader-nnamdi-kanu-scheduled-emergency-hearing-thursday-could-be-released

Second bail for a person who jumped bail? This is interesting as it will set a precedence in our judicial system. Many others will benefit from it too. Let see how it is executed!

ejimatic:
Lagos #EndSARS Panel: Witness faults autopsy report tendered by pathologist
A witness of last year’s #EndSARS protest in Lekki, Sarah Ibrahim, has faulted portions of the autopsy reports tendered by a forensic pathologist to the judicial panel of inquiry on Saturday.

John Obafunwa, a chief pathologist at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), had told the panel investigating the shooting of protesters at the Lekki tollgate in October 2020 that 99 corpses were received at the state morgue between October 20 and 24 last year.

He said that three of the corpses – males – were victims of the October 20 shooting at the Lekki toll gate by soldiers, while the remaining 96 came from other parts of the state, including Surulere Ikorodu, Ajah, Fagba, among others.

The professor then produced the post-mortem examination reports to verify his testimony as ordered by the panel.

Meanwhile, Ms Ibrahim had in April said she witnessed the shooting by soldiers at the Lekki tollgate. She testified before the panel on Saturday. She said at least 10 persons were killed during the October 20 incident.

Cross-examination
While answering questions at the panel last month, Mr Obafunwa had walked back his earlier claim of three corpses being recovered at the Lekki toll gate. He said the bodies were recovered from the Lekki area. Of those three, according to him, two were tagged ‘EndSars’ and were, therefore, from the toll gate.

During cross-examination on Saturday, the Lagos State counsel, Abiodun Owonikoko, compared Ms Ibrahim’s account of the Lekki shooting incident with the autopsies done on three of the 99 bodies picked up
from across the state.

The three corpses were identified as 005, 041, and 062. The autopsy report noted that 062 died from rifle shots at around 9 p.m. on October 21.

But Ms Ibrahim disagreed, saying that 062’s death occurred on October 20, at 1:23 a.m. She also said one of the three bodies, which the autopsy reported blunt force as the cause of death, was shot in the head.

ⓘ
She also identified one of the dead bodies, stating that “his death was confirmed at Reddington hospital” in Lekki, Lagos.

ALSO READ: Autopsy report of woman killed during protest counters police account
When probed further, she said the corpse was brought into the hospital the following day, October 21, from the tollgate around 6 a.m. by two people who wished to be anonymous.

The witness also outlined the names of about 12 persons allegedly shot and killed by security forces that night, including one Victor Sunday, whose body is said to be among those still missing, and one Olamilekan
Ajasa, whose body was retrieved by his mother.


The pathologist’s findings on 041 reveal a skull fracture, sutured scalp laceration, left fifth rib fracture, and hypertension.

But the report also noted that the corpse had been tampered with possibly from the mortician that worked on it, which allegedly hampered an in-depth examination..................

Lagos Panel did a thorough job by looking into the 14 Lekki petitions and inviting Lagos pathologist who presented evidence that he did autopsy for 3 Lekki victims Mrs Ibrahim gave names of 12 victims and informed the panel that some corpses were taken away by the police. The Army denied it and never appeared before the panel for questions. The Panel concluded justfiifialby saying the Lekki Massacre is unparalleled.Yet Lagos doctored and politicised White Paper described it as an ASSUMPTION. Nigerians do you agree? As a person I disagree

Lagos #EndSARS Panel: Witness faults autopsy report tendered by pathologist
A witness of last year’s #EndSARS protest in Lekki, Sarah Ibrahim, has faulted portions of the autopsy reports tendered by a forensic pathologist to the judicial panel of inquiry on Saturday.

John Obafunwa, a chief pathologist at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), had told the panel investigating the shooting of protesters at the Lekki tollgate in October 2020 that 99 corpses were received at the state morgue between October 20 and 24 last year.

He said that three of the corpses – males – were victims of the October 20 shooting at the Lekki toll gate by soldiers, while the remaining 96 came from other parts of the state, including Surulere Ikorodu, Ajah, Fagba, among others.

The professor then produced the post-mortem examination reports to verify his testimony as ordered by the panel.

Meanwhile, Ms Ibrahim had in April said she witnessed the shooting by soldiers at the Lekki tollgate. She testified before the panel on Saturday. She said at least 10 persons were killed during the October 20 incident.

Cross-examination
While answering questions at the panel last month, Mr Obafunwa had walked back his earlier claim of three corpses being recovered at the Lekki toll gate. He said the bodies were recovered from the Lekki area. Of those three, according to him, two were tagged ‘EndSars’ and were, therefore, from the toll gate.

During cross-examination on Saturday, the Lagos State counsel, Abiodun Owonikoko, compared Ms Ibrahim’s account of the Lekki shooting incident with the autopsies done on three of the 99 bodies picked up
from across the state.

The three corpses were identified as 005, 041, and 062. The autopsy report noted that 062 died from rifle shots at around 9 p.m. on October 21.

But Ms Ibrahim disagreed, saying that 062’s death occurred on October 20, at 1:23 a.m. She also said one of the three bodies, which the autopsy reported blunt force as the cause of death, was shot in the head.

ⓘ
She also identified one of the dead bodies, stating that “his death was confirmed at Reddington hospital” in Lekki, Lagos.

ALSO READ: Autopsy report of woman killed during protest counters police account
When probed further, she said the corpse was brought into the hospital the following day, October 21, from the tollgate around 6 a.m. by two people who wished to be anonymous.

The witness also outlined the names of about 12 persons allegedly shot and killed by security forces that night, including one Victor Sunday, whose body is said to be among those still missing, and one Olamilekan
Ajasa, whose body was retrieved by his mother.


The pathologist’s findings on 041 reveal a skull fracture, sutured scalp laceration, left fifth rib fracture, and hypertension.

But the report also noted that the corpse had been tampered with possibly from the mortician that worked on it, which allegedly hampered an in-depth examination..................

UtopiaDream:
It can be downloaded here;

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1chENH9s3G4EdSV_Atmd8dHdpkrC7G8io/view

Lalasticlala

. It will be historical in the history of Lagos that even when 3 corpses
from Lekki were examined and their reports were accepted by the panel without questions from the legal representatios, Mrs Ibrahim claimed those dead were 14 with evidence and claims that the army took some corpses away, and the panel treated 14 Leki petitions, the army denied their killing of imocent souls and never appeared before the panel again for questions on the matter. The Lagos panel concluded that there was unparalleled massacre at Leki with available evidence. Yet Lagos government claimed it is an ASSUMPTION.. I was not at Laki that day like Layi Mohammed. Sanwoolu and others but I stand with the masses and the unedited Lagos panel report. Any government that cannot accept it's mistake is a misfit for the masses.

UtopiaDream:
It can be downloaded here;

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1chENH9s3G4EdSV_Atmd8dHdpkrC7G8io/view

Lalasticlala

Lagos #EndSARS Panel: Witness faults autopsy report tendered by pathologist
A witness of last year’s #EndSARS protest in Lekki, Sarah Ibrahim, has faulted portions of the autopsy reports tendered by a forensic pathologist to the judicial panel of inquiry on Saturday.

John Obafunwa, a chief pathologist at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), had told the panel investigating the shooting of protesters at the Lekki tollgate in October 2020 that 99 corpses were received at the state morgue between October 20 and 24 last year.

He said that three of the corpses – males – were victims of the October 20 shooting at the Lekki toll gate by soldiers, while the remaining 96 came from other parts of the state, including Surulere Ikorodu, Ajah, Fagba, among others.

The professor then produced the post-mortem examination reports to verify his testimony as ordered by the panel.

Meanwhile, Ms Ibrahim had in April said she witnessed the shooting by soldiers at the Lekki tollgate. She testified before the panel on Saturday. She said at least 10 persons were killed during the October 20 incident.

Cross-examination
While answering questions at the panel last month, Mr Obafunwa had walked back his earlier claim of three corpses being recovered at the Lekki toll gate. He said the bodies were recovered from the Lekki area. Of those three, according to him, two were tagged ‘EndSars’ and were, therefore, from the toll gate.

During cross-examination on Saturday, the Lagos State counsel, Abiodun Owonikoko, compared Ms Ibrahim’s account of the Lekki shooting incident with the autopsies done on three of the 99 bodies picked up
from across the state.

The three corpses were identified as 005, 041, and 062. The autopsy report noted that 062 died from rifle shots at around 9 p.m. on October 21.

But Ms Ibrahim disagreed, saying that 062’s death occurred on October 20, at 1:23 a.m. She also said one of the three bodies, which the autopsy reported blunt force as the cause of death, was shot in the head.

ⓘ
She also identified one of the dead bodies, stating that “his death was confirmed at Reddington hospital” in Lekki, Lagos.

ALSO READ: Autopsy report of woman killed during protest counters police account
When probed further, she said the corpse was brought into the hospital the following day, October 21, from the tollgate around 6 a.m. by two people who wished to be anonymous.

The witness also outlined the names of about 12 persons allegedly shot and killed by security forces that night, including one Victor Sunday, whose body is said to be among those still missing, and one Olamilekan
Ajasa, whose body was retrieved by his mother.


The pathologist’s findings on 041 reveal a skull fracture, sutured scalp laceration, left fifth rib fracture, and hypertension.

But the report also noted that the corpse had been tampered with possibly from the mortician that worked on it, which allegedly hampered an in-depth examination.