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A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti has sentenced one Ali Haruna to two years imprisonment for taking his cows for grazing in a farmland in Ado-Ekiti and destroying crops.
The Magistrate, Idowu Ayenimo, in his judgement, said the accused was arraigned in his court on Jan 22, 2016 over a two-count charge of willful and unlawful damage of farm crops at Ago Aduloju in Ado-Ekiti.
The 18-year-old Haruna was confirmed by the four prosecuting witnesses to have been caught in the midnight grazing his cow in the farm belonging to Abdulahi Yaho and Bello Mohammed.
The cash crops said to have destroyed by the cows in the farm included cassava, maize, okro and pepper, all valued at N3 million.
In his defence, the defendant had told the court that the owner of the cows lived in Ilorin, Kwara.
The magistrate said that the court did not believe Haruna’s defence as it was not credible.
He held that the Police prosecutor, Mr Olasunkanmi Bankole, had proved his case beyond reasonable doubt.
He thereby convicted the defendant as charged without option of fine.
The magistrate ordered that sentence should run concurrently, explaining that the term was minimal because the offence was committed before the Grazing Law was promulgated in the state.
The defence counsel, Mr Chris Omokhafe, had prayed the court to be liberal in the dispensation of justice, saying that he was a first offender.
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The immediate-past governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, has said that the exit of the former President Olusegun Obasanjo from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was reponsible for the ongoing crisis besieging the party.
Daniel, who advised the warring Ali Modu-Sheriff and Ahmed Makarfi to close rank and work together in order to ensure victory of party at the polls in 2019, said Obasanjo’s exit left the party with no more father figure to refer to in terms of crisis resolution.
The former governor spoke on a radio personality programme on a private station, Sweet FM, Abeokuta on Thursday tagged ‘Podium’.
Daniel, who noted that it was not only the PDP that had crisis, added that the All Progressives Congress, APC, was also engulfed in internal crisis but has been able to manage it well.

He said, “While I was the governor of Ogun State, Makarfi was a governor, also while I was still the governor, Ali Modu-Sheriff was also a governor. So the two of them are close to me. The two sides must work together, because the road to victory has no room for divisionism.

“It is not only the PDP that has crisis, the APC also has its own share of crisis. The only difference is that while, we in the PDP have not been able to manage our own, the APC has been able to manage their own.”
Speaking further, he said “If it were the time President Olusegun Obasanjo was still in the party, we would have gone to him and one way or the other, he would have resolved the crisis. Currently, there are many local champions in the party. The party does no longer have a spirit.”

A certain Jehu Kwasu, has narrated how he impersonated the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah and defrauded prominent Nigerians of money running into millions of naira.
Kwasu, a graduate of Political Science said his victims included Bishop David Oyedepo of Living Faith Church Worldwide, who he claimed gave him N500,000; the Chairman, Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko, N1m; Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu, N500,000; businessman, Alhaji Aminu Dantata, N2m.
He allegedly collected the sums for Internally Displaced Persons.
He said, “I collected N500,000 from Otudeko, CEO, Honeywell: From Admiral Kanu, I got N500,000. I also got N500,000 from Bishop Oyedepo and N2m from Dantata. I also got money from Gen. Wushishi and others.”
“I opened a Guaranty Trust Bank account in Bishop Kukah’s name. I registered a SIM card in my name, but used Bishop Kukah’s picture on my True Caller account, so that when I call, his picture would appear (on the recipient’s phone).
“I also obtained a passport in Bishop Kukah’s name which I used to open an account with GTB. The money I realised was paid into the account and I used an Automated Teller Machine card to withdraw it.”
The convict recalled that the bubble burst when David Mark said he should come for some money.
“I sent my girlfriend. But she was arrested and I was taken to court and sentenced to two months imprisonment or N9,000 fine,” Kwasu stated.
Kwasu, who is currently serving a two-month sentence in the Keffi Prison, admitted on Friday in Abuja that he realised over N5.7m.
According to Police sources, only N1.7m was found in his bank account, adding that the suspect spent most of the money he made on girls and hard drugs.
Kwasu, the son of late Anglican Bishop, James Kwasu, also exploited his father’s name, to extort money from the Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, when the latter was the Speaker, House of Representatives.
The 25-year old explained that he defrauded his victims by soliciting money on phone to cater to IDPs in the country.
Punch reports that Kukah was alerted to the scam by some people close to him.
The cleric was said to have petitioned the police, which asked the bank to place a “no debit order” on the account.
The Federal Capital Territory Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Mustafa, stated that Kwasu was arrested by the men of his command, after Kukah complained about his activities.
The CP said, “We received a petition from Bishop Kukah alleging that the boy had been impersonating him and extorting money from prominent people.”
“So, my men went to work and were able to track the suspect and arrest him. He is a habitual criminal and I would like to advise the public against responding to emails or phone calls from unknown persons requesting financial support for one cause or the other.”
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Borno State governor Kashim Shettima said that with the gradual return of peace to the state, his administration would unfold a developmental plan in a few months time.

“By the grace of God, we are poised for a great change. Believe me, in the next couple of months you will see changes in the fortunes of the people of the state,” the governor said.

He said that the recent successes recorded by the military against Boko Haram terrorists had made the state capital a safe haven for all Nigerians.

“Maiduguri is more secure than even Lagos or Abuja. There are 2 million people living in Maiduguri. We celebrated Sallah without any incident,” Shettima said.

He said that the government would take advantage of the Boko Haram crisis to ensure better welfare for the people.

“This crisis has accorded us the opportunity to merge small settlements and provide better infrastructure to uplift the living standard of the people.
“This is more especially for those living in remote communities,” Shettima said.

The governor also disclosed that he abandoned the use of bullet proof cars as an act of sympathy with the suffering masses who have no means of self protection from terrorists.

Shettima stated this on Sunday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri.
He said that the action was also aimed at showing that the terrorists had no supernatural powers.

“We have to dare the terrorists. I have bullet proof cars, but I do not use them. I want to be exposed to the elements as the ordinary people do,” Shettima said.

He said the bullet proof cars were only kept for the use of visitors who might be afraid to use ordinary cars.

“We have so many bullet proof cars but we only use them for our guests.
“Sometimes I drive myself round the town to see things for myself,” Shettima said.

Brother to incarcerated leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, Prince Kanu, has insisted that the embattled Director of Radio Biafra is critically ill in Kuje prison.
Recall that IPOB had recently raised the alarmover Kanu’s health but a splinter group, The Re-branded Indigenous People of Biafra, TRIPOB, had dismissed the report saying the embattled Director of Radio Biafra was hail and hearty.
However, Prince Kanu, in a chat with DAILY POST, on Sunday, maintained that Kanu’s health was seriously deteriorating and should be examined by foreign doctors.
According Prince Kanu, “The leader of IPOB, Kanu is my brother and is having a severe abdominal pain and ocassional tightening in the chest resulting in cough.
“My brother needs urgent medical attention and we demand that a foreign doctors be allowed to examine him because we believe more in their diagnosis after all even the President travels abroad for treatment.”
Accusing the Department of State Services, DSS, of abandoning Kanu to his faith, Prince said, “DSS is aware as the report is everywhere and nothing has been done.”
Commenting on the the crises currently rocking IPOB, Kanu said, “There is no such thing as splinter groups, its only in the media and was orchestrated by the Federal Government.
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The Nigerian Army on Sunday called on commercial banks to deploy Automated Teller Machines (ATM) to the military barracks in Maiduguri for the use of front line soldiers involved in the ongoing counter-insurgency operation in Borno.
Brig.Gen. Victor Ezugwu, the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 7 Division, made the call while speaking at a Civil-Military Forum organised by the Nigerian Army in Maiduguri.
Ezugwu was reacting to criticisms by residents that soldiers often refused to join queues at the ATM points in the town.
He said that the army had written several letters to the banks for the deployment of ATM machines to the barracks without much success.
“We have been battling with the issue of lack of ATM in the barracks for the use of soldiers in the front line zone.
“I wrote letters to the banks over seven months ago for them to deploy the ATM at the Maimalari Cantonment for soldiers use, but there is no response yet,” he said.
Ezugwu said that the military was concerned about the development and urged the residents to intervene.
“I want to urge everybody here, especially traditional rulers, to help put pressure on the banks so that they can give us ATM at the barracks and allow you to use the ones in town.
“We are aware of the fact that everybody needs the ATM at one point or another,” he said.
“ A soldier carrying 12 ATM cards at a time must have brought his colleagues’ cards from the frontline to take money and send to their families all over Nigeria.
“We have areas where there is no network, it is only through the ATM that the soldiers can send money home to their families’ he said.
Ezugwu appealed for more understanding from the residents pending when the ATM would be provided by the banks at the barracks.

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The Traditional Prime Minister of Ndigbo (Onowu Ndigbo) Chief Michael Ozua Okoye has advised the splinter groups from Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) to unite in order for them to actualize the dream of the birth of Biafra.
According to him, there was no need for any pro-Biafra group to come up and claim to have sacked the leader of IPOB Mr. Nnamdi Kanu who has been in detention for committing no crime even after two courts had granted him bail, saying that it was a betrayal of the struggle.
Speaking with news during the weekend, Okoye said, “It is greed that caused the splinter groups of IPOB or MASSOB. The new groups want to get rich quick; they are saboteurs who betrayed their brothers due to money. How can another group come out to say that they have sacked Nnamdi Kanu who has been in detention for some time now, when all the Igbo people are calling for his release after courts granted him bail?
“It happened during the war, some people betrayed Biafra because of greed. We lost the civil war due to saboteurs in our camp. These people were hired to cause disaffection among the groups. I want to caution Igbos on the quest for money and that they should take it easy to achieve our aims, we should be happy with what we have, than to look for more, it is greed,” he fumed.
On the herdsmen menace in the South-east, Chief Okoye said: “Buhari should help us to talk to the cattle rearers. They are killing our people for no just cause. There was rearing of cows during Jonathan, Obasanjo and even during military administrations, but it was not like this. Why should the herdsmen be above the law? They are carrying Ak47 openly and nothing happens, and Buhari should look into it and caution them.”
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•N10,000 fine for ‘illegal entry’
•NDLEA, DSS, military raid plantation

The destruction of 68 acres of cannabis sativa farm in Gambari forest, Ibadan, Oyo State, was like a war front. A combined team of armed soldiers, Civil Defence, Department of State Security Service (DSS), National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and forest management officials, operating under the aegis of Operation Burst, trooped into the forest to destroy a plantation harbouring cannabis sativa commonly known as Indian hemp or marijuana. The plantation is located within Olounde village, Ogunmakin.

The armed team drove for hours through ldi- Ayunre village to lki-Oke Alayo to access the forest.
The destruction of the weed itself lasted several hours as the farm appeared to have no end.
Forest management officers cleared the weed with cutlasses, NDLEA officials went round to spray chemicals on it while the soldiers surrounded the farm for protection.

After so much work, the security operatives appeared like local farmers with stains all over them. The discolouration was so conspicuous on their uniform.
The NDLEA Director of Operations and General Investigation, Mr. Mabo Olugbenga, who came from Lagos headquarters, had led the way into the forest. Gaining access into the place was a big challenge, as the team drove from Ibadan through several villages. They passed through lki- Oke Alayo village, ldi Ayunre, among other communities, before getting to the forest.
After passing Iki-Oke Alayo village, everyone had to trek into the forest for hours as the farm location had no roads.

The bush paths were rough with streams and swampy areas making movement difficult.
On getting to the farm, the marijuana plants looked fresh. Each acre of the plantation had a hut with food items and plates inside it. Standing on the farmland was a written code of conduct, stating that, lateness to work attracts a fine of N2,000, fighting attracts six strokes, entry into the farm without permission N10,000 fine and making noise N1,000.
Other rules include attending meeting in the farm every first Sunday of the month, even as every worker is expected to be at the camp by 5pm each day after work.

In a chat withSunday Vanguard, Olugbenga described the place as evil forest, explaining that the marijuana farm was worth millions of naira and was discovered through intelligence. He said, “This is not the first time we are carrying out this type of operation and we would not relent in doing our best to sanitise the system. We thank the governor of Oyo State for giving us tremendous support. Last year, we destroyed over nine tons of hard drug plantations”.

He went on, “The current management of NDLEA has zero tolerance for hard drug business and is doing everything possible to curb the menace. Criminals are those involved in this nefarious business. They take advantage of the economic situation in the country to recruit many people to work for them at such plantations.

The victims of this illegal business are our youths who consume the end product of the plants. I implore parents and the entire public to give useful information to appropriate security agencies in the fight against hard drug business in the country”.
The representative of the Special Adviser on Security to Oyo State governor, Dr. Olatundun Sunday, who also made the trip to the forest, frowned at marijuana cultivation in the State, stressing that his principal will continue to support NDLEA in its effort to tackle such criminality.
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Patience Jonathan Sues EFCC For Placing ‘No Debit Order’ On $31.4m Account

Former First Lady, Patience Jonathan has filed a N200m fundamental rights enforcement suit against Skye Bank Plc, following the freezing of four bank accounts, which she claims the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has used to inconvenience and embarrass her.

The four accounts, lodged with Skye Bank Plc, are in the name of four companies which is said to have a balance of $31.4m

The four companies are Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited; Seagate Property Development & Investment Co. Limited; Trans Ocean Property and Investment Company Limited and Development Company Limited and Globus Integrated Service Limited.

In an affidavit filed before the court and deposed to by one Sammie Somiari, a legal practitioner on behalf of Patience Jonathan, the deponents claims that the EFCC placed a No Debit Order on the four accounts in July in the course of probing one Waripamo Dudafa, a former Special Adviser on Domestic Affairs to former President Goodluck Jonathan.

After its investigations, the EFCC went ahead to file an amended 17-count against Dudafa and seven others, including the four companies, with the defendants being accused of conspiring to conceal the monies which the EFCC claimed they ought to have known formed parts of the proceeds of an unlawful act.

In the affidavit however, Sammie Somiari claims that it was Dudafa who helped Mrs Patience Jonathan to open the four bank accounts which the EFCC froze.

According to him, Dudafa had on March 22, 2010 brought two Skye Bank officers, Demola Bolodeoku and Dipo Oshodi, to meet the former first lady at home to open five accounts.

He, however, claimed that after the five accounts were opened, Mrs Patience Jonathan later discovered that Dudafa opened only one of the accounts in her name while the other four were opened in the names of companies belonging to Dudafa.

Somiari added “that Mrs Jonathan complained about this to Honourable Dudafa, who at her prompting and instance promised to effect the change of the said accounts to the applicant’s name; and to effect this change, Honourable Dudafa brought the said bank manager, Mr. Dipo Oshodi, who claimed to have effected the changes. This was about April 2014.

“The bank official, Mr. Dipo Oshodi, as it would appear did not effect or reflect the instruction of the applicant to change the said accounts to her name(s) despite repeated requests.

The deponent also claims that Mrs Patience Jonathan who is said to be away for an urgent medical treatment abroad, is the sole signatory to the accounts as the money belongs to her.

The affidavit also said that the ATM credit cards bearing the said companies’ names were brought to Mrs Jonathan by the bank manager who promised to replace them once the cards bearing the changed names were available, but he never did.

“However, since 2010 up until 2014 and thereafter, Mrs Jonathan had been using the cards on the said accounts and operating the said accounts without let or hindrance. Even in May, June and July 2016, the former First Lady traveled overseas for medical treatment and was using the said credit cards abroad up until July 7, 2016 or thereabouts when the cards stopped functioning.”

In her fundamental rights action before the court, the wife of the former President is asking the court to compel the EFCC to immediately vacate the “No Debit Order” placed on her accounts.

She also says the action of the EFCC without a court order or prior notice to her is illegal, overbearing and constitutes a breach of her fundamental rights as enshrined in Section 33, 34, 35 & 36 of the 1999 Constitution.

She wants the court to order Skye Bank to pay her damages in the sum of N200m for what she termed a violation of her right to own personal property under Section 44 of the Constitution.

The EFCC on its part is set to arraign the former Presdent’s aide, Dudafa and his alleged accomplices for money laundering before a Federal High Court in Lagos.



The case will be heard on Thursday, Sept 15.