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• Suspects accuse village prince of killing leader

Samson Folarin

The Zone 2 Police Command has arrested three men said to be responsible for several killings in the Ijoko area of Ogun State .

PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspects – Moses Anthony , Kabiru Ajao and Samson Adagun – were arrested by operatives of the Zonal Intervention Squad after a tip -off.

The police said the suspects were responsible for the death of a welder , identified only as Lanre , who was shot dead about a week ago .

The police added that operatives recovered three cut -to -size guns and four live cartridges from the suspects during a search of their hideouts.

However, the men , who admitted to being members of the Eiye Confraternity , said their action followed the killing of their leader , Olakunle Adelabu, aka Callous .

Adelabu was a 400- level student of Animal Science and Livestock Production of the Federal University of Agriculture , Abeokuta.

The suspects noted that they joined some of Adelabu’ s undergraduate friends to unleash mayhem on the community during which the welder , Lanre , was shot dead .

Anthony, a national of Cotonou , Benin Republic , said the crisis in the Ijoko community started after the son of a traditional ruler, Next Turn , who was a member of the Eiye cult decamped to Aiye .
He said the prince accused the Eiye members of betraying his father by taking sides with a rival traditional ruler.

He said , “ Because of that, the prince and his group started killing every Eiye member in the community , and at a point , we fled to Ifo, a neighbouring community, where Callous ( Adelabu) was managing a site .

“ Callous , who was our number one, went to Ijoko on April 19. He was leaving for school the following day when the gang led by the prince broke his skull with stones .

“ After Callous was killed, some of his undergraduate friends joined us in launching a reprisal.

“ Those that joined us to carry out the operation were undergraduates of FUNAAB and they were seven in number. They are Shakur, Sikiru, Sola, Wale , Joshua, Taju and Kehinde. ”

Asked how the gang came about the arms and ammunition, Anthony said they belonged to Adelabu, adding that he didn ’ t know how he got them .

Another suspect , Ajao , who hails from Ede, Osun State , denied following the gang that shot the welder .

“ When they killed our brother ,
Callous , our gang members went to retaliate . Those that killed
Callous were led by a prince . When the police barge into my house while I was asleep , I told them I was a cult member, but I didn ’ t join them for the reprisal, ” he said .

The third suspect , Adagun, a 25-year - old indigene of Kogi State , urged the police to arrest other members of the rival gang, saying without that , there would be no peace in the community.

“ The Aiye members have chased Eiye members from Ijoko because they have the support of the prince . The killings will not end until the police arrest the prince, ” he added .

The Zonal Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos , said the suspects were among many others that the police had declared wanted for cult-related activities and killings in Ogun State .

She explained that the Assistant Inspector- General of Police, Adamu Ibrahim , had ordered that they be smoked out of their hideouts , which led to the operation .
She said , “ We got information that these men and others still at large are members of a killer squad and also members of a secret society . The ZIS operatives moved into the community and three of them were apprehended . During a search of their hideout , three cut -to -size guns were recovered, as well as four cartridges . They confessed that their leader was killed by a rival gang and they went on a revenge mission, during which they killed one Lanre .

They will be arraigned in court for offences bordering on cultism and murder. ”

The Public Relations Officer of FUNAAB, Emi Alawode , promised to get back to our correspondent to react to the story and confirm the studentship of Adelabu.

She had yet to do so as of press time.
However, on the Facebook of the deceased , some of his friends paid tributes to his memories .

One Adokin said , “ My Olakunle ; he was indeed a loving husband and a caring father . I love you so much , but God loves you more. And to FUNAAB students , accept my condolences . ”

One Temitope said , “ I tried your line, but it wasn ’ t going through. You mean Carlos don die like dat ?”

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Prominent Igbo leaders are expected to converge on Enugu on Saturday to deliberate on the agitation for Biafra, among many other issues.

Acting under the aegis of the World Igbo Congress, the Igbo leaders, according to a statement by its chairman, Joe Eto, on Wednesday, said one of the issues that would be discussed included the ‘marginalisation of the Igbo by the Buhari-led administration’.



The statement said previous meetings of the congress had been held in the United States of America, adding that prominent scholars from the South-West zone would participate in the meeting.

Eto said a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof Chukwuma Soludo; Founder, Centre for Values in Leadership, Prof Pat Utomi; Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu; a former governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi; oil magnate, Arthur Eze; Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, were among the personalities expected at the meeting.

The statement said, “The chaotic Buhari government and its visible policy of the non-inclusion of the Igbo in administration is causing unbearable discomfort among the Igbo, particularly the youths who cannot get jobs.

“The time is very ripe for a summit in Nigeria to discuss with the Igbo leadership and the despondent masses in order to chart a way out of the quagmire.”

Eto said, “Biafra is not going to die. Like every other denied agitation for self-determination, Biafra will, at least, remain on the minds of those who seek self-determination.

“Inflicting suppressive and repressive policies on the Igbo in Nigeria will continue to trigger the demand for self-rule. It is really the Nigerian government’s prerogative to have one Nigeria where all components of the nation are treated as equal partners.”

ojun50:
Nigeria police will nt see some1 to arrest only d death body u will see them packing on d floor

British police said on Tuesday they had arrested a 23- year -old man in connection with a terror attack at a pop concert in Manchester which killed 22 people and injured dozens more.

“ With regards to the ongoing investigation into last night’ s horrific attack at the Manchester Arena , we can confirm we have arrested a 23-year- old man in South Manchester, ” police said in a statement .
Screaming fans , many of them teenagers , had fled the venue in panic after the bomb blast at the end of the concert in the northern English city of Manchester on Monday evening as their parents waited in anguish.

“ The arena was scarily still for five or six seconds , which felt like a lot longer, and then everybody just ran everywhere, ” Kennedy Hill, a teenager at the concert , told
AFP

Ambulances and bomb disposal teams rushed to the venue , as family members frantically searched for their loved ones , and residents opened their doors to stranded concert - goers after trains were cancelled .

Joythah:
I thought today will be Nnamdi Kanu's day on front page but Selfish GEJ wont let him shine.

StarBukola:
let me try and get u. R u saying he shouldn't try to secure his farm land and let it some some animal he won't reap off

smartty68:
Exchanging words with you is like trying to teach an animal how to talk... Which ain't possible... Your myopic reason isn't a thing of surprise to me because violence in your blood...

doctimonyeka:
can you imagine Is it not his farm, his land, his crops...? What business does the cattle have to do with his crops??

smartty68:
Zombie spotted... Same breed with Muric Voilent tribe

doctimonyeka:
you need help bro.... Did you read the story

According to a eye witness, the man was killed because he sprays his cassava farm with insecticide which can kill the cows of the Herdsmen if they graze the farmland

God bless the catholic church

izzou:
You want me to check baa?

izzou:

I will never check the names
Never
Don't even force me to

Eniola Akinkuotu , Abuja
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned Dr . Fortunate Fiberesima, the ex -Chief Physician to former President Goodluck Jonathan .

The EFCC said in a statement by its spokesman , Mr . Wilson Uwujaren, that Fiberesima , who is also a former Chief Executive Officer , State House Medical Centre, was arraigned for an alleged fraud of N 258. 9m .

The doctor was arraigned before Justice Peter Affen of the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Maitama , Abuja on six counts bordering on money laundering .

Fiberesima was alleged to have abused his position as the chief physician to the President in 2012 in awarding a contract to a company where he had an interest .

According to the anti - graft agency, the defendant, who also parades himself as Fortunate David and David ThankGod Fiberesima, was initially meant to be arraigned by the EFCC on March 7, but the trial judge observed that , “ all the charges are under the ICPC Act and not that of the EFCC” and consequently ordered that the charge be either amended or transferred to the appropriate authority for prosecution .

At the resumed sitting on Tuesday, the defendant pleaded not guilty to all the charges preferred against him by the EFCC.
One of the charges read , “ That you , Dr . Fortunate Fiberesima ( a. k. a. Fortunate David and David ThankGod Fiberesima) , being the former Chief Executive Officer of the State House Medical Centre, Abuja and Chief Physician to the President , while employed in the public service , sometime in 2012, in Abuja , within the jurisdiction of this honourable court , knowingly and directly held a private interest in the contract for land reclamation at the State House Medical Centre, Abuja in the sum of N 258, 950, 000, which contract was awarded to T . E . & C Limited , a company in which you were a director, and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 12 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act , 2000. ”

Counsel for the defendant, U . B . Eyo, prayed the court to grant his client bail in liberal terms . He said the accused person had no previous criminal record and he would always be available for his trial.
Counsel for the EFCC, Y . Y . Tarfa, did not oppose the bail application
Justice Affen ordered that the defendant should continue on the bail condition earlier granted him but added that he should submit his passport to the court registrar .

The case was , thereafter , adjourned till June 6, 2017 for commencement of trial .