PentiumPro:

So they ran from Alaba to Cele, a distance of about 15 kilometers or more just now?
You are a foolish liar trying to stir up conflict.

M.U.M.U there is Cele bus top here in OJO

Most stupid analysis so far ! How can you be defending a clear case of a government that is not prepared for governance

We secede successfully this time because we are now backed by the zionist movement and you know you don't joke with Isreal , let's us pursue our referendum peacefully for now

One to undergo surgery in Germany, jaws of the other fractured

■ They are suspected cultists –Varsity PRO
■ Other students live in fear and under threat of expulsion

FROM ALOYSIUS ATTAH, ONITSHA attahcomrade@yahoo.com

Two students of Madon­na University, Akpugo Campus, Enugu State, have told the horrifying story of torture they suffered in the hands of key officials of the tertiary institution.

The duo, Stanley Okoye, 23, a final year Civil Engineering student and Ga-Lim Aondofa Lord, escaped death by the whiskers after they were allegedly abducted from their rooms February 3, 2015, in the dead of the night, in commando fashion, by the Chief Security Officer of the university, Okey Ogbonna and the Dean of Student Affairs, Rev. Fr. Isaac Nginga, a Catholic priest, in company of others and taken to a secluded area on the campus, where they were tortured, brutalized, dehu­manised and left to die, but through divine intervention, they lived to tell the story.

Though they survived the ordeal, they are still undergoing treatment for the almost fatal injuries they received in the hands of their tormentors. For instance, Stanley still needs to undergo special surgery in Germany on the spine to repair a major damage inflicted on him while the torture lasted. Aondofa suffered a dislocated jaw that required having his jaws held together with special dental wire to allow the injury heal. The duo would for the rest of their lives bear the burden of the deep psychological scars imprinted on their minds by the experience.

Meanwhile, they are still battling to get the results of their degree examinations released. Accompanied by their parents, the victims who visited The Sun office in Onitsha gave a chilling account of what they passed through in the campus, and revealed the alleged moves by the university management to cover up the truth.

In the heartbreaking and graphic account of what happened that fateful night they were abducted, Stanley Okoye recounted that he was woken up from sleep around midnight by one Mr. Kingsley, the school’s Sub- Dean, Mr. Ola, their hall representa­tives, Mr. Wisdom, Mr. Somtoo and Ogbonna Okey, who is the university chief security officer (CSO), all of whom were accompanied by the Dean of Students Affairs, Rev. Fr. Isaac Nginga. He was then bundled into a Toyota 4runner SUV and taken to a bushy end of the campus where their ordeal began.

Continuing, Stanley said: “These people were accompanied that night by an armed soldier, who is among our security guards in school. First, they asked for the room number of my friend and classmate, Lord Ga-Lim and I told them. They picked him up from his hostel and forced both of us into the vehicle. They first drove us to the administrative building and we alighted. Without any question, they descended on us after commanding us to lie down on the gravel. It was Rev. Father Isaac who hit us first with his belt, and the others then joined. They beat us with military belts, planks, batons, iron, stones and other dangerous weapons they could lay their hands on; they dealt mercilessly with us.

“All the while they were treading on us as we lay on the sharp, rough gravel. Not even our plea for mercy or cries for help could melt their hearts. Fr. Isaac even commanded the military officer to shoot us if we attempted to run away. In fact, the soldier fired the shot but narrowly missed me. I was coughing out blood and bleeding profusely but Ogbonna, the CSO hit me with his elbow and I fell down again.

“In that state, I was forced into the trunk of the Lexus SUV of Fr. Isaac; I memorized the registration number ENU 525 CP. My friend was forced into a Toyota 4Runner SUV driven by Rev. Fr. Mamah. With us in the trunk, they moved with crazy speed and even drove past the university security post without stopping. The road was very bad. Even though I was almost slipping into unconsciousness, I still heard the shrill voices of security men at the gate and flashing of lights at them telling them to stop. I later realized that the people were policemen on patrol who suspected the manner of the vehicular movement. That night, our tormentors took us to Agbani police station.

“A police officer on duty at the station asked them whether we were involved in accident but they didn’t answer. In that state, I told the police that we were attacked by the same people, who brought us to the station and the police told them to take us to a specialist hospital or else we would die but they just took us back to the campus and dumped us in the campus clinic. I was in pains and we were struggling to hang on to life. They only gave us painkillers and sleep inducing drugs. It was one of the nurses who saw our condi­tion that night that I whispered my mother’s number into her ears and she used her phone, after hiding the number, to notify my parents about our plight.

“While we were in the hospital, they confiscated our phones, laptops and all our friends and roommates’ phones and communication gadgets to ensure that information about us did not leak to the outside commu­nity. We were dying in installments. On February 5, I was woken up by the CSO, who told me that my father was at the gate and wanted to see me. My dad was shocked when he saw my condition. When he tried to take a picture of me, they seized his camera and smashed it on the ground. After heated argument between my dad and the people at the gate, they immediately bundled my friend and myself to the Elele campus of the university in Rivers State, in the dead of the night without the knowledge of my father. We were in the hospital at Elele for about seven weeks shut out from the people and still under police watch even on our hospital bed. We underwent several surgeries because the doctor confirmed that my zygo­matic bone close to the spine was fractured. My friend had fractures on the lower and upper jaws.

I fainted when I saw my son –Okoye

Narrating how he heard about his son’s ordeal and the frustrations he encountered in the course of seeking justice for the victimized students, Chief Okoye told Sunday Sun that he was in Lagos when his wife called him from their Abuja home.

His words: “My wife informed me that she received a distress call. Only God can describe the trauma we passed through that night before daybreak. I left Lagos for Enugu with first flight, abandoning all I came to do in Lagos, but I never knew that I was in for the greatest shock of my life. On getting to the school gate, I was denied entry by the security peo­ple and left stranded for four hours. When I noticed that the matter was no more a small issue not to talk of the uncertainty surrounding my son’s life, knowing that his phone was already permanently switched off, I sought for external help through the military. It was the high command at the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Enugu that assisted me before they could allow me to enter and stay by the side of the gate while they went to fetch my son. When they brought him, I fainted, upon seeing his condition.

“After regaining composure a bit, I asked him who did that to him and he pointed out the CSO, the Rev Father and some others. I wanted to take his picture in that state for practical evidence but to my surprise, another Catholic priest named Fr. Francis, who came in from Elele, Rivers State with two police escorts ordered the security men to smash my camera which is worth N300,000 to pieces, and they did. They also threatened to shoot me if I didn’t tread with cau­tion. After all arguments, we agreed that the children should be taken to either Enugu State University Teaching Hospital (ESUTH) or Uni­versity of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Ituku Ozalla, Enugu State, but to my surprise again, as soon as I left, they bundled the children in that state to their headquarters at Elele, Rivers State.

“The children were kept in­communicado and detained in the hospital too. It was through military assistance that I was able to gain access to see them in the hospital but they refused to release them to us for proper medical care.”

Federal High Court to the rescue

Unable to endure the continued detention of the students at the Elele campus of the university and the uncertainty and anxiety surrounding their health status, Okoye through his lawyer, G. E. Ezeuko, SAN approached the Federal High Court, Enugu, for the enforcement of the fundamental human rights of the students. He also slammed a civil suit against the Governing Council of Madonna University and eight other respondents, demanding N1billion compensation for special and general damages and for gross violation of fundamental human rights guaran­teed under the Constitution of Nige­ria and African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights.

In the Suit No FHC/ EN/M/58/2015, the applicants, If­eanyi Stanley Okoye, Lord Aondofa Ga-Lim and Samuel Okoye prayed the court for a declaration that: “The acts of the respondents on the 3rd and 5th of February, 2015 which resulted in serious bodily injury, torture, intimidation and detention of the applicants amounts to infraction of their fundamental right guaranteed under sections 33, 34, 35 and 36 of the Constitution of Nigeria 1999 and under the Africa Charter on Human and Peoples Right.

Through the granted reliefs sought by the applicants, the management of Madonna University later released the wounded students from the hospi­tal though there are other pending matters in the suit. The case was adjourned till October 29, 2015.

Catholic priest, CSO remanded in prison custody, granted mysterious bail

On their release from the hospital in Elele, Stanley and Aondofa sought private treatment in other different hospitals. Stanley was admitted at Olabisi Onabanjo Teaching Hospital, Ogun State while Aondofa also went for corrective surgeries on his broken jaw. It was at the teaching hospital that the doctor revealed that Stanley would still require a corrective surgery abroad for his cervical region to avoid total and irreversible damage to the spinal cord as a result of the injuries sustained from the torture.

Incensed that the university man­agement showed no concern or even bothered to reach out to the aggrieved families of the brutalized students, who are solely bearing the spiraling cost of the victims’ medical bills, while the perpetrators of the acts have been walking about scot-free, Okoye petitioned the Commissioner of Po­lice seeking for criminal prosecution of the alleged culprits.

The petition signed by Barrister A.C Arinze of the chambers of G. E Ezeuko (SAN) and addressed to the Enugu State Commissioner of Police, copy of which was obtained by the Sunday Sun, was entitled: “Petition Against Torture, Maltreatment, De­humanization, Unlawful Detention and Battering meted against Ifeanyi Stanley Okoye and Lord Aondofa Galim by staff and officials of Ma­donna University, Akpugo Campus, Enugu State.”

Acting on the contents of the petition, and particularly moved by the pictures of the tortured state of the victims, the Commissioner of Police, after interviewing both parties and expressing serious dismay over the inhuman treatment of the students, ordered the detention of the duo of Fr. Nginga and Ogbonna Okey while others connected to the alleged crime were declared wanted.

Then on Tuesday, July 14, 2015, Nginga and Ogbonna were arraigned in an Enugu Magistrate court presid­ed over by Nkemdilim Anibueze on a two-count charge of conspiracy and felony.

When the court registrar read the first charge against the defendants, an argument ensued between the police prosecutor, Anichima Boniface and the defence counsel from the chambers of Tony Muogbo, SAN, who argued that the first count charge preferred against the defendants was incompetent, arguing that the court lacked jurisdiction to try the case.

After arguments, the magistrate ordered that the defendants be remanded in prison till the next adjourned date (July 21, 2015) for her to rule on whether the first count charge should subsist and on the issue of jurisdiction.

When the case was called on the resumed hearing, which was wit­nessed by Sunday Sun reporter and other journalists, a mild drama played out when the magistrate expressly granted all the prayers of the defence counsel and disallowed any objection from the police prosecutor or the counsel to the victimised students.

The magistrate, after ruling that the court did what it was supposed to do by remanding the suspects in prison custody when issues of competency of the court, charges or jurisdiction arose, later gave room for the counsel to argue their points.

The defence counsel, Tony Muogbo, SAN represented by Mrs V.C. Okoye told the court that the defendants had applied for and were granted bail by Agbani High Court, presided over by Justice Anidi, stressing that they had met the bail conditions. She explained that Friday and Monday, being November 17 and 20 respectively, were public holidays, therefore the defendants could not pay the necessary fees to obtain the certified true copies of the bail application.

The police prosecutor, Anichima, while addressing the court said that the argument by the defence counsel was a novelty to him because he had never heard that a defendant standing trial in a magistrate court could go to another court to seek and obtain bail when the magistrate hearing the case had not dispensed with it. The presiding magistrate in her ruling admitted the files as Exhibits A, A2, A3, A4 and E, which were enclosed in a big envelope. She stated that the case had been bonded over with the sum of N200,000 while the matter was adjourned sine-die pending when the Attorney General of Enugu State through the Director of Public Prosecution would give his opinion.

Before the magistrate could finish her remarks, the cleric and the CSO jumped out of the dock and in a jiffy, rushed to the door, followed immediately by other priests from Madonna University, who came to court in solidarity. Before the two lawyers could step out of the court, the defendants had already boarded a vehicle waiting within the premises and the driver zoomed off.

In a chat with Sunday Sun within the court premises, counsel to the brutalized students, Fidelis Mba­dugha expressed dismay over what transpired in the court, saying that there were indications that something transpired in secret before the court sitting. He said the proper thing the magistrate ought to have done was to first of all decline jurisdiction. He said the high court had no jurisdiction to grant bail when the matter was still pending in a magistrate court.

His words: “It is after a magis­trate court must have concluded and transmitted the case file to the DPP, and the DPP had prepared his opinion that the defendants could then apply for bail at the high court. The high court would then see the proceedings and records at the lower court before granting the bail. This kind of procedure has not happened in our justice system and we will study the situation and know the next step to take.”

They wanted to eliminate my son –Mrs Lim

Mother of Ga-Lim Aondofa Lord, Mrs. Yemi Lim, who spoke to Sunday Sun from Benue State, where she lives, expressed sadness and dismay over the whole situation, alleging that the university authorities were eager to cover the truth.

“I’m not happy over the whole sit­uation. My son was tortured, assault­ed, locked up and would have died in that school but till today, nobody from the institution has communi­cated to us what actually happened. They performed surgery on my son without my signing any consent form. I was at the Elele hospital from February 17 to March 26, at my own expense but all I see is conspiracy of silence. I asked Fr. Mike at Elele to tell me the offence my son commit­ted but he said nothing. It is very dis­appointing and I say that this barbaric action must stop in that school. In 2013, two students were (allegedly) set ablaze at the Okija campus of the university. That matter was also swept under the carpet. I want justice to be done,” she said.

Another student brutalized for making noise

In the course of investigating this case, Sunday Sun also encoun­tered another student at the Akpugo campus of the university, who was allegedly brutalized for making noise during a church service in the campus. Sunday Sun learnt that the incident also involved the CSO and the cleric in charge of student affairs. He said they used military belt to beat him, and inflicted serious injuries on him. The scars of the injuries were still visible on his face since November 2014 when the incident happened.

Stanley and Aondofa when asked by the reporter if they knew why they became targets of their torturers, they said that it was their courage to speak out against the ill-treatment of students in the institution that made them targets of threats and physical attack.

“In our school, student leaders appointed by the management take delight in maltreating other students. We are treated as second-class citizens in the university. They don’t allow us to use camera phones while our parents are barred from seeing our hostels. During accreditation by the National Universities Commis­sion, the school management often hires qualified lecturers and profes­sors for presentation but they leave soon after the accreditation process. In some of the cases of students maltreating their fellow students, we have risen in some instances to condemn such acts. This was what made us objects of attack by the dean and CSO. Before we were physically attacked, the dean, Father Isaac had often threatened us, saying that we would not graduate from the univer­sity,” one of the duo said.

Two other students from the university who spoke on strict anonymity corroborated Stanley and Ga-Lim’s positions, saying that they live in fear of the threat of expulsion everyday on the campus.
http://sunnewsonline.com/new/our-torture-story-madonna-varsity-students-narrate-ordeal-in-hands-of-institutions-officials/

One to undergo surgery in Germany, jaws of the other fractured

■ They are suspected cultists –Varsity PRO
■ Other students live in fear and under threat of expulsion

FROM ALOYSIUS ATTAH, ONITSHA attahcomrade@yahoo.com

Two students of Madon­na University, Akpugo Campus, Enugu State, have told the horrifying story of torture they suffered in the hands of key officials of the tertiary institution.

The duo, Stanley Okoye, 23, a final year Civil Engineering student and Ga-Lim Aondofa Lord, escaped death by the whiskers after they were allegedly abducted from their rooms February 3, 2015, in the dead of the night, in commando fashion, by the Chief Security Officer of the university, Okey Ogbonna and the Dean of Student Affairs, Rev. Fr. Isaac Nginga, a Catholic priest, in company of others and taken to a secluded area on the campus, where they were tortured, brutalized, dehu­manised and left to die, but through divine intervention, they lived to tell the story.

Though they survived the ordeal, they are still undergoing treatment for the almost fatal injuries they received in the hands of their tormentors. For instance, Stanley still needs to undergo special surgery in Germany on the spine to repair a major damage inflicted on him while the torture lasted. Aondofa suffered a dislocated jaw that required having his jaws held together with special dental wire to allow the injury heal. The duo would for the rest of their lives bear the burden of the deep psychological scars imprinted on their minds by the experience.

Meanwhile, they are still battling to get the results of their degree examinations released. Accompanied by their parents, the victims who visited The Sun office in Onitsha gave a chilling account of what they passed through in the campus, and revealed the alleged moves by the university management to cover up the truth.

In the heartbreaking and graphic account of what happened that fateful night they were abducted, Stanley Okoye recounted that he was woken up from sleep around midnight by one Mr. Kingsley, the school’s Sub- Dean, Mr. Ola, their hall representa­tives, Mr. Wisdom, Mr. Somtoo and Ogbonna Okey, who is the university chief security officer (CSO), all of whom were accompanied by the Dean of Students Affairs, Rev. Fr. Isaac Nginga. He was then bundled into a Toyota 4runner SUV and taken to a bushy end of the campus where their ordeal began.

Continuing, Stanley said: “These people were accompanied that night by an armed soldier, who is among our security guards in school. First, they asked for the room number of my friend and classmate, Lord Ga-Lim and I told them. They picked him up from his hostel and forced both of us into the vehicle. They first drove us to the administrative building and we alighted. Without any question, they descended on us after commanding us to lie down on the gravel. It was Rev. Father Isaac who hit us first with his belt, and the others then joined. They beat us with military belts, planks, batons, iron, stones and other dangerous weapons they could lay their hands on; they dealt mercilessly with us.

“All the while they were treading on us as we lay on the sharp, rough gravel. Not even our plea for mercy or cries for help could melt their hearts. Fr. Isaac even commanded the military officer to shoot us if we attempted to run away. In fact, the soldier fired the shot but narrowly missed me. I was coughing out blood and bleeding profusely but Ogbonna, the CSO hit me with his elbow and I fell down again.

“In that state, I was forced into the trunk of the Lexus SUV of Fr. Isaac; I memorized the registration number ENU 525 CP. My friend was forced into a Toyota 4Runner SUV driven by Rev. Fr. Mamah. With us in the trunk, they moved with crazy speed and even drove past the university security post without stopping. The road was very bad. Even though I was almost slipping into unconsciousness, I still heard the shrill voices of security men at the gate and flashing of lights at them telling them to stop. I later realized that the people were policemen on patrol who suspected the manner of the vehicular movement. That night, our tormentors took us to Agbani police station.

“A police officer on duty at the station asked them whether we were involved in accident but they didn’t answer. In that state, I told the police that we were attacked by the same people, who brought us to the station and the police told them to take us to a specialist hospital or else we would die but they just took us back to the campus and dumped us in the campus clinic. I was in pains and we were struggling to hang on to life. They only gave us painkillers and sleep inducing drugs. It was one of the nurses who saw our condi­tion that night that I whispered my mother’s number into her ears and she used her phone, after hiding the number, to notify my parents about our plight.

“While we were in the hospital, they confiscated our phones, laptops and all our friends and roommates’ phones and communication gadgets to ensure that information about us did not leak to the outside commu­nity. We were dying in installments. On February 5, I was woken up by the CSO, who told me that my father was at the gate and wanted to see me. My dad was shocked when he saw my condition. When he tried to take a picture of me, they seized his camera and smashed it on the ground. After heated argument between my dad and the people at the gate, they immediately bundled my friend and myself to the Elele campus of the university in Rivers State, in the dead of the night without the knowledge of my father. We were in the hospital at Elele for about seven weeks shut out from the people and still under police watch even on our hospital bed. We underwent several surgeries because the doctor confirmed that my zygo­matic bone close to the spine was fractured. My friend had fractures on the lower and upper jaws.

I fainted when I saw my son –Okoye

Narrating how he heard about his son’s ordeal and the frustrations he encountered in the course of seeking justice for the victimized students, Chief Okoye told Sunday Sun that he was in Lagos when his wife called him from their Abuja home.

His words: “My wife informed me that she received a distress call. Only God can describe the trauma we passed through that night before daybreak. I left Lagos for Enugu with first flight, abandoning all I came to do in Lagos, but I never knew that I was in for the greatest shock of my life. On getting to the school gate, I was denied entry by the security peo­ple and left stranded for four hours. When I noticed that the matter was no more a small issue not to talk of the uncertainty surrounding my son’s life, knowing that his phone was already permanently switched off, I sought for external help through the military. It was the high command at the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Enugu that assisted me before they could allow me to enter and stay by the side of the gate while they went to fetch my son. When they brought him, I fainted, upon seeing his condition.

“After regaining composure a bit, I asked him who did that to him and he pointed out the CSO, the Rev Father and some others. I wanted to take his picture in that state for practical evidence but to my surprise, another Catholic priest named Fr. Francis, who came in from Elele, Rivers State with two police escorts ordered the security men to smash my camera which is worth N300,000 to pieces, and they did. They also threatened to shoot me if I didn’t tread with cau­tion. After all arguments, we agreed that the children should be taken to either Enugu State University Teaching Hospital (ESUTH) or Uni­versity of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Ituku Ozalla, Enugu State, but to my surprise again, as soon as I left, they bundled the children in that state to their headquarters at Elele, Rivers State.

“The children were kept in­communicado and detained in the hospital too. It was through military assistance that I was able to gain access to see them in the hospital but they refused to release them to us for proper medical care.”

Federal High Court to the rescue

Unable to endure the continued detention of the students at the Elele campus of the university and the uncertainty and anxiety surrounding their health status, Okoye through his lawyer, G. E. Ezeuko, SAN approached the Federal High Court, Enugu, for the enforcement of the fundamental human rights of the students. He also slammed a civil suit against the Governing Council of Madonna University and eight other respondents, demanding N1billion compensation for special and general damages and for gross violation of fundamental human rights guaran­teed under the Constitution of Nige­ria and African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights.

In the Suit No FHC/ EN/M/58/2015, the applicants, If­eanyi Stanley Okoye, Lord Aondofa Ga-Lim and Samuel Okoye prayed the court for a declaration that: “The acts of the respondents on the 3rd and 5th of February, 2015 which resulted in serious bodily injury, torture, intimidation and detention of the applicants amounts to infraction of their fundamental right guaranteed under sections 33, 34, 35 and 36 of the Constitution of Nigeria 1999 and under the Africa Charter on Human and Peoples Right.

Through the granted reliefs sought by the applicants, the management of Madonna University later released the wounded students from the hospi­tal though there are other pending matters in the suit. The case was adjourned till October 29, 2015.

Catholic priest, CSO remanded in prison custody, granted mysterious bail

On their release from the hospital in Elele, Stanley and Aondofa sought private treatment in other different hospitals. Stanley was admitted at Olabisi Onabanjo Teaching Hospital, Ogun State while Aondofa also went for corrective surgeries on his broken jaw. It was at the teaching hospital that the doctor revealed that Stanley would still require a corrective surgery abroad for his cervical region to avoid total and irreversible damage to the spinal cord as a result of the injuries sustained from the torture.

Incensed that the university man­agement showed no concern or even bothered to reach out to the aggrieved families of the brutalized students, who are solely bearing the spiraling cost of the victims’ medical bills, while the perpetrators of the acts have been walking about scot-free, Okoye petitioned the Commissioner of Po­lice seeking for criminal prosecution of the alleged culprits.

The petition signed by Barrister A.C Arinze of the chambers of G. E Ezeuko (SAN) and addressed to the Enugu State Commissioner of Police, copy of which was obtained by the Sunday Sun, was entitled: “Petition Against Torture, Maltreatment, De­humanization, Unlawful Detention and Battering meted against Ifeanyi Stanley Okoye and Lord Aondofa Galim by staff and officials of Ma­donna University, Akpugo Campus, Enugu State.”

Acting on the contents of the petition, and particularly moved by the pictures of the tortured state of the victims, the Commissioner of Police, after interviewing both parties and expressing serious dismay over the inhuman treatment of the students, ordered the detention of the duo of Fr. Nginga and Ogbonna Okey while others connected to the alleged crime were declared wanted.

Then on Tuesday, July 14, 2015, Nginga and Ogbonna were arraigned in an Enugu Magistrate court presid­ed over by Nkemdilim Anibueze on a two-count charge of conspiracy and felony.

When the court registrar read the first charge against the defendants, an argument ensued between the police prosecutor, Anichima Boniface and the defence counsel from the chambers of Tony Muogbo, SAN, who argued that the first count charge preferred against the defendants was incompetent, arguing that the court lacked jurisdiction to try the case.

After arguments, the magistrate ordered that the defendants be remanded in prison till the next adjourned date (July 21, 2015) for her to rule on whether the first count charge should subsist and on the issue of jurisdiction.

When the case was called on the resumed hearing, which was wit­nessed by Sunday Sun reporter and other journalists, a mild drama played out when the magistrate expressly granted all the prayers of the defence counsel and disallowed any objection from the police prosecutor or the counsel to the victimised students.

The magistrate, after ruling that the court did what it was supposed to do by remanding the suspects in prison custody when issues of competency of the court, charges or jurisdiction arose, later gave room for the counsel to argue their points.

The defence counsel, Tony Muogbo, SAN represented by Mrs V.C. Okoye told the court that the defendants had applied for and were granted bail by Agbani High Court, presided over by Justice Anidi, stressing that they had met the bail conditions. She explained that Friday and Monday, being November 17 and 20 respectively, were public holidays, therefore the defendants could not pay the necessary fees to obtain the certified true copies of the bail application.

The police prosecutor, Anichima, while addressing the court said that the argument by the defence counsel was a novelty to him because he had never heard that a defendant standing trial in a magistrate court could go to another court to seek and obtain bail when the magistrate hearing the case had not dispensed with it. The presiding magistrate in her ruling admitted the files as Exhibits A, A2, A3, A4 and E, which were enclosed in a big envelope. She stated that the case had been bonded over with the sum of N200,000 while the matter was adjourned sine-die pending when the Attorney General of Enugu State through the Director of Public Prosecution would give his opinion.

Before the magistrate could finish her remarks, the cleric and the CSO jumped out of the dock and in a jiffy, rushed to the door, followed immediately by other priests from Madonna University, who came to court in solidarity. Before the two lawyers could step out of the court, the defendants had already boarded a vehicle waiting within the premises and the driver zoomed off.

In a chat with Sunday Sun within the court premises, counsel to the brutalized students, Fidelis Mba­dugha expressed dismay over what transpired in the court, saying that there were indications that something transpired in secret before the court sitting. He said the proper thing the magistrate ought to have done was to first of all decline jurisdiction. He said the high court had no jurisdiction to grant bail when the matter was still pending in a magistrate court.

His words: “It is after a magis­trate court must have concluded and transmitted the case file to the DPP, and the DPP had prepared his opinion that the defendants could then apply for bail at the high court. The high court would then see the proceedings and records at the lower court before granting the bail. This kind of procedure has not happened in our justice system and we will study the situation and know the next step to take.”

They wanted to eliminate my son –Mrs Lim

Mother of Ga-Lim Aondofa Lord, Mrs. Yemi Lim, who spoke to Sunday Sun from Benue State, where she lives, expressed sadness and dismay over the whole situation, alleging that the university authorities were eager to cover the truth.

“I’m not happy over the whole sit­uation. My son was tortured, assault­ed, locked up and would have died in that school but till today, nobody from the institution has communi­cated to us what actually happened. They performed surgery on my son without my signing any consent form. I was at the Elele hospital from February 17 to March 26, at my own expense but all I see is conspiracy of silence. I asked Fr. Mike at Elele to tell me the offence my son commit­ted but he said nothing. It is very dis­appointing and I say that this barbaric action must stop in that school. In 2013, two students were (allegedly) set ablaze at the Okija campus of the university. That matter was also swept under the carpet. I want justice to be done,” she said.

Another student brutalized for making noise

In the course of investigating this case, Sunday Sun also encoun­tered another student at the Akpugo campus of the university, who was allegedly brutalized for making noise during a church service in the campus. Sunday Sun learnt that the incident also involved the CSO and the cleric in charge of student affairs. He said they used military belt to beat him, and inflicted serious injuries on him. The scars of the injuries were still visible on his face since November 2014 when the incident happened.

Stanley and Aondofa when asked by the reporter if they knew why they became targets of their torturers, they said that it was their courage to speak out against the ill-treatment of students in the institution that made them targets of threats and physical attack.

“In our school, student leaders appointed by the management take delight in maltreating other students. We are treated as second-class citizens in the university. They don’t allow us to use camera phones while our parents are barred from seeing our hostels. During accreditation by the National Universities Commis­sion, the school management often hires qualified lecturers and profes­sors for presentation but they leave soon after the accreditation process. In some of the cases of students maltreating their fellow students, we have risen in some instances to condemn such acts. This was what made us objects of attack by the dean and CSO. Before we were physically attacked, the dean, Father Isaac had often threatened us, saying that we would not graduate from the univer­sity,” one of the duo said.

Two other students from the university who spoke on strict anonymity corroborated Stanley and Ga-Lim’s positions, saying that they live in fear of the threat of expulsion everyday on the campus.

shanira:
Childish thread started by a virgin who has no idea that most of his research is hypothesis and hereby false! The virgin poster of this thread also has no idea that he won't be a virgin for very long and also believes that all non-virgins are bad girls. This little boy who is probably still in school is trying to make himself feel good for being chaste and has no idea that his chastity does not make him morally superior to everybody who has lost their virginal chastity one way or the other. All commenters of this thread who believe his hypothesis are equally young virgins seeking fellow virgins who are as holy as they are but yet to find them as they are a species endangered! Their belief that a tissue is what separates good , holy females from the spoilt is equally laughable as there are female "virgins" who have done it all including anal sex without hymenal breakage.

All ye school boys in this thread, kindly grow up! Your virginity is beautiful, keep it but don't walk with your heads in the clouds, creating illusions around females who have lost theirs. Pls grow up! Being a virgin does not mean you have to remain immature. Read widely, broaden your knowledge that you may understand and see things as they really are without being trapped in a temporary paradise of false aasumptions on women. You boys really are very naive! Grow up babies! Grow up!

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shanira:
Childish thread started by a virgin who has no idea that most of his research is hypothesis and hereby false! The virgin poster of this thread also has no idea that he won't be a virgin for very long and also believes that all non-virgins are bad girls. This little boy who is probably still in school is trying to make himself feel good for being chaste and has no idea that his chastity does not make him morally superior to everybody who has lost their virginal chastity one way or the other. All commenters of this thread who believe his hypothesis are equally young virgins seeking fellow virgins who are as holy as they are but yet to find them as they are a species endangered! Their belief that a tissue is what separates good , holy females from the spoilt is equally laughable as there are female "virgins" who have done it all including anal sex without hymenal breakage.

All ye school boys in this thread, kindly grow up! Your virginity is beautiful, keep it but don't walk with your heads in the clouds, creating illusions around females who have lost theirs. Pls grow up! Being a virgin does not mean you have to remain immature. Read widely, broaden your knowledge that you may understand and see things as they really are without being trapped in a temporary paradise of false aasumptions on women. You boys really are very naive! Grow up babies! Grow up!

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shanira:
Childish thread started by a virgin who has no idea that most of his research is hypothesis and hereby false! The virgin poster of this thread also has no idea that he won't be a virgin for very long and also believes that all non-virgins are bad girls. This little boy who is probably still in school is trying to make himself feel good for being chaste and has no idea that his chastity does not make him morally superior to everybody who has lost their virginal chastity one way or the other. All commenters of this thread who believe his hypothesis are equally young virgins seeking fellow virgins who are as holy as they are but yet to find them as they are a species endangered! Their belief that a tissue is what separates good , holy females from the spoilt is equally laughable as there are female "virgins" who have done it all including anal sex without hymenal breakage.

All ye school boys in this thread, kindly grow up! Your virginity is beautiful, keep it but don't walk with your heads in the clouds, creating illusions around females who have lost theirs. Pls grow up! Being a virgin does not mean you have to remain immature. Read widely, broaden your knowledge that you may understand and see things as they really are without being trapped in a temporary paradise of false aasumptions on women. You boys really are very naive! Grow up babies! Grow up!

LAMENTATIONS
Scribbles Meant for gremlins

Sappyman:
Buhuri has already won the elections. He will deliver all what he has promised. He is a man of his words. Let us vote out this corrupt and careless Government of Jonathan. I even heard that he is has lost in his ward in Bayelsa and two wards in Aso Rock. What that implies is that we don't need him again. Jonathan must go back to Otuke now he had shoes.

what did he promise?

irishCream:
What of that woman's party k.w.o.a or something

I smell rigging

lol

Symphony007:
when you finish spouting your idiotic and imbecility talking point, bare in mind that nobody cares especially pres. Obama, one of the greatest leaders in world history.

you must be dumb , what makes him great, is it because he is black?

Sundaydare1:
So what do you want Aregbesola does while FG withheld the state allocation or slash down the allocation, people think before you talk. Country people wise up, Jonathan is a failure to this nation.

are You not clueless ?, did they slash it or they withheld it , which is it? FG said last week that they don't owe any state , so your point is?

Alcatraz001:
Since I heard the news of Koro's Confirmation,I have been unhappy and ill to my stomach.I think we APC members from the South have just been Shouting Change for Notjing and there is Nothing we can do because non of us will come out to Confront Soldiers on the 29th of March when Badluck Jonathan will be Declared as President Elect because we went to Schools which have not added any Value to us.

I think the fight should be left to the Hausas and Muslims in Nigeria because they have really suffered under Badluck Jonathan and I implore them to Carry their burden because I as a Christian would not fight for you.The best Christians can do is to rant online because we are privileged to have that education and all.

What I want the ibos to know is that you have won the battle for the Presidency (if the Hausas relent and don't fight) but PLS take note that Lagos will be too hot for you ibos if you think you can rig Lagos.

I know Goodluck Jonathan will not be that Stupid to want to Rig Lagos for Jimi Agbaje who we all knw is an Ibo Candidate.I am really depressed at the thought of Another 4 years Under Jonathan and I am Considering Moving to a better Nation for the Sake of my Sanity.

In Conclusion, Goodluck Jonathan and his Ibo minions should know that his 2nd term will be practically Crisis filled because the fuse of the Masses' temper will be very short because they know that the Government does not enjoy the Popular Support of the People. In all I see a very turbulent Four Years for Nigeria, Ndi igbo and Goodluck Jonathan.

The only people that can salvage the Situation now are the Hausas because they are the only tribe in Nigeria who have the resolve to fight because they have a whole lot of Uneducated Almajiris. We southerners are too scared to fight Oppression and tyranny.

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Alcatraz001:
Since I heard the news of Koro's Confirmation,I have been unhappy and ill to my stomach.I think we APC members from the South have just been Shouting Change for Notjing and there is Nothing we can do because non of us will come out to Confront Soldiers on the 29th of March when Badluck Jonathan will be Declared as President Elect because we went to Schools which have not added any Value to us.

I think the fight should be left to the Hausas and Muslims in Nigeria because they have really suffered under Badluck Jonathan and I implore them to Carry their burden because I as a Christian would not fight for you.The best Christians can do is to rant online because we are privileged to have that education and all.

What I want the ibos to know is that you have won the battle for the Presidency (if the Hausas relent and don't fight) but PLS take note that Lagos will be too hot for you ibos if you think you can rig Lagos.

I know Goodluck Jonathan will not be that Stupid to want to Rig Lagos for Jimi Agbaje who we all knw is an Ibo Candidate.I am really depressed at the thought of Another 4 years Under Jonathan and I am Considering Moving to a better Nation for the Sake of my Sanity.

In Conclusion, Goodluck Jonathan and his Ibo minions should know that his 2nd term will be practically Crisis filled because the fuse of the Masses' temper will be very short because they know that the Government does not enjoy the Popular Support of the People. In all I see a very turbulent Four Years for Nigeria, Ndi igbo and Goodluck Jonathan.

The only people that can salvage the Situation now are the Hausas because they are the only tribe in Nigeria who have the resolve to fight because they have a whole lot of Uneducated Almajiris. We southerners are too scared to fight Oppression and tyranny.

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Alcatraz001:
Since I heard the news of Koro's Confirmation,I have been unhappy and ill to my stomach.I think we APC members from the South have just been Shouting Change for Notjing and there is Nothing we can do because non of us will come out to Confront Soldiers on the 29th of March when Badluck Jonathan will be Declared as President Elect because we went to Schools which have not added any Value to us.

I think the fight should be left to the Hausas and Muslims in Nigeria because they have really suffered under Badluck Jonathan and I implore them to Carry their burden because I as a Christian would not fight for you.The best Christians can do is to rant online because we are privileged to have that education and all.

What I want the ibos to know is that you have won the battle for the Presidency (if the Hausas relent and don't fight) but PLS take note that Lagos will be too hot for you ibos if you think you can rig Lagos.

I know Goodluck Jonathan will not be that Stupid to want to Rig Lagos for Jimi Agbaje who we all knw is an Ibo Candidate.I am really depressed at the thought of Another 4 years Under Jonathan and I am Considering Moving to a better Nation for the Sake of my Sanity.

In Conclusion, Goodluck Jonathan and his Ibo minions should know that his 2nd term will be practically Crisis filled because the fuse of the Masses' temper will be very short because they know that the Government does not enjoy the Popular Support of the People. In all I see a very turbulent Four Years for Nigeria, Ndi igbo and Goodluck Jonathan.

The only people that can salvage the Situation now are the Hausas because they are the only tribe in Nigeria who have the resolve to fight because they have a whole lot of Uneducated Almajiris. We southerners are too scared to fight Oppression and tyranny.

TRASH

ratchetwrench:
Being a very diplomatic country they are, America will never come out to tell you that they can't deploy troops against boko haram because they don't like the present nigerian government. The handwriting on the wall is legible enough. Since GEJ has gotten to power Nigeria relationship with other foreign countries has been soiled tremendously. His relationship with Obama is bad likewise with David Cameron. Nobody wants to associate with this man. But they are all watching keenly nigeria election. If Jonathan wins genuinely they are going to leave nigerians to their fate for another 4 years. But if Buhari wins, they will observe him for months and see if he's someone they can associate with. And if GEJ rigs the election he should be expected to be ousted out like Gbagbo by the world power

YOU ARE VERY MUCH INSANE , SO HE SHOULD BE A PUPPET ?LIKE YOUR BUHARI HAS GONE TO LONDON TO SELL HIS SOUL , ONLY SCRAPING THE ANTI-GAY LAW WILL REPAIR THAT RELATIONSHIP , WE ARE FINE WITH RUSsIA AND CHINA ,THEY GAVE US WEAPONS, THEY ARE NOT ASKING US TO BECOME HOMOS ,

CityNG:


I wasn't sure before but this press release has convinced me to vote for Buhari and I will ask any forward thinking Nigerian to do the same.

We need to repeal the unjust and divisive anti gay law that was unfortunately signed into law by the current regime.

THUNDER FIRE YOU THERE ,

Yomboy4ever:



We will get nowhere with GEJ. Govt. & u Knw dat.

He has laid foundations for diversification of our economy , Buhari was there before in Government what did he do , he ruled , he served under OBJ and Abacha , what did he achieve ? And all of a sudden he is now the messiah ,
He is part of the old nigeria , the old corrupt quota system that rewarded tribe instead of qualified individuals , all those rubbish landed us in this mess ,
The past is always important , if you want to move forward , never again should we experience such backwardness

ceejayluv:
Let him blast fashola for negotiating for used old Canadian trains while at it.... Hypocrite.

I said this Lagbaja is a tribal bigot , I thank God not all Yorubas are that stupid , if not we will have crisis in this country ,

Nigeria had Independence when GEJ came , I believe this lagbaja is tribal bigot , what ve we had , before now ?, You can not see progress once you are a tribal bigot , little by little we will get there ,

THE MONORITY TRIBES IN THE NORTH AND NORTHERN CHRISTIANS WILL BE BUHARI'S DOWN FALL IN THIS ELECTION , THE SW DOES NOT HOLD ALL THE CARDS IN THIS ELECTION, BUHARI WILL WIN ONLY OSUN STATE , IT WILL BE A REPLAY OF 2011 ELECTIONS

LordMecuzy:
There would be no crises sir as u said... This election isn't going to be a closely fought contest... 4zones supporting GMB with high population and two least populated zones supporting GEJ. (Aside Edo n some part of Rivers) we don't need a prophetic revelation to know who would be victorious in this election na....

GMB Choi na u biko....
If there's anything I've learnt from you sir, it is never to give up in my aspirations....

God Bless You my incoming Presido. Ka Chineke Gozie gi

From The Nigerian Medical Association

MUMU , are u basing this on party strength or tribal jingoism , you are a confirmed Bigot

Lerumo:


I pity you 'cause you have sold your soul for money. That's why you never see anything wrong with this govt. If you can make your choice of who to support why can't others make theirs. What makes you better than them. Always spewing thrash.

AND NOTHING IS WRONG WITH APC'S GOVERNORS , YOU MY FRIEND IS DELUDED

Smartresult:
Sai buhari' sabuhari, say no tn interim, say no to another poll shift , gej must Go

typical APC , you lots are so Dumb that you believe your own lies

Kingsleyinfo:
Can someone please explain what exactly the president is saying, because I don't understand all this nonsense defence. If this guy has been a lawyer, even charge and bail sef nor go fit am. Dull responses all because he has sold his conscience. That's if he has one in the first place

How can you understand someone you hate

bokohalal:

I have also written same in many of my posts that PDP will win in the South East and South South with 9 out of 11 states. Two of the nine will have close results.
Now, the rest of the country is Buhari's to lose. Simple. Is it North West, Central, East or the Middle Belt? Is it in the SouthWest? Where is PDP going to get its numbers from to overcome Buhari? Anything contrary to this forecast is an invitation to nationwide anarchy. Hope PDP Nigeria military wing is ready.

Are You basing this based on Tribe affinity or Party strength, omo U mumu ooo

Truth is , its only online I see yorubas shouting sai buhari , most of them are undecided , I stay in lagos , you hardly see people talking about voting buhari ,
And if Buhari was igbo , Lord have mercy , he would be disqualified by now , that's how bleeped up this zoo called nigeria is ,
We are not compatible ,

If u think you know what women want you must be deluded ,
They don't even know what they want
Straight up trash , if I may say

abatically:


You can't blame USA for not selling us weapons. They know our military is porous and they don't want to risk sophisticated weapons getting into the hands of terrorists. China and Russia on the other hands are in for busoness, they don't care if we use the weapons to kill ourselves, they are just doing business.


Now to the bitter part. Have u ever thought for a minute that GEJ I'd procuring these weapons to prepare his men for civil war should he lose the election? Why wait till now? He knows we are desperate to defeat boko haram with elections looming. Perfect time to procure all the weapons and hide under the pretence that he is using them to fight boko haram. So what if he is secretely arming his soukdiers in the Niger delta? You people should think twice, I am not in support of any party, but may God not allow us witness anotyer civil war. Trust me by then u will beg america but they won't answr

SHUT UP, YOU KNOW NOTHING , ARE TALKING ABOUT THE SAME AMERICA THAT ARMED SYRIAN REBELS THAT TURNED TO ISIS OR THE AMERICA THAT ARMED LIBYAN REBELS , BEFORE YOU TYPE USE YOUR BRAIN

APC and their sadistic followers are not happy , we are destroying their only tool for campaigning ,
Why APC and Obj are hobnobbing with Western Media and US to frustrate the Nigerian Government is beyond me ,this is just like the libya scenario, Boko haram and many other groups like it are CIA MOSSAD covet operations to install puppet leaders in Africa and the Arab world,
Russia and China's alliance is a big threat to their total domination, we thank them for this aid ,

APC members. Are unpatriotic and the destroyers of this country , They only delight in bad news that maligns our country , because of their self centred beliefs
MAY GOD DELIVER US FROM THESE ANIMALS

LastProphet:


Its hitting them already, am waiting to see which ibo shop owner can re-stock their shop now once their current stock of foreign goods is exhausted, and even if they do, nobody will buy. The ibos from their nature have very poor political judgement because ibos have never understood the concept of long-term goals, anything that cant give an ibo man gratification in the next 5mins isnt worth it to him. And if there is adnybody here that thiks ibos bother about the future of their very own children then u better think again. Personally i dont care anymore if gej wins because i need him to cluelessly finish the ibo man's business finally

OPEN DISPLAY OF NAIVITY , THE RUSSIAN CURRENCY LOST 44% of its value , ITS a World wide thing , THAT WILL NOT STOP US FROM VOTING GEJ , THE IGBO'S DONT HATE BUHARI FOR NOTHING , THERE IS A REASON , We Live amongst these Born to rule people and we Know their animalistic tendencies , No amount of Media hype can repair History , We have memories sad thing is that you don't have , There are Many intelligent Yorubas who will vote GEJ too , so stop your Useless Hate against the Igbos , And Mind You our Business can never fail , You think we got to where we are in business by Government assistance like hausa and yorubas?

bendike:
I really think a lot of people shouting Sai buhari might be very naive. The reason i say that is because most of them were probably very young or not born during the years of mis rule by the northern oligachy after obasanjo handed over in 1979. See, southern nigerians became 2nd class citizens. To visit eg nigerian port authority office ie npa, you had to be able to speak hausa before you could near the building how much more to enter it! When you eventually do, you will see malams not better than your mai guard at home praying on mats in the lobby. This same malams will collect contracts worth millions and the sell to ordinary people less 10%. Cant you people remember those days when you had a good result from the university and for you to get a civil service job you had to change your name to either a muslim or hausa name? Meanwhile one young Northerner will manage to graduate with a pass and get instant employment as head of department in same ministry? Or the quota system in education that exist till date where my son scored 161 in common entrance examination of which he choose kings colledge but was refused admission becouse of his state of origin but rather a student from nothern states that scored 2,3,4,5 were rather admitted and when i complained was told that its just quota system and if not for it, people such as sultan lamido wount have had the opportunity of attending KC! The VP Actually told me that. Nigerians forget so soon. Cant people remember the brutality and lawlessness of the hausa lead regimes starting from buharis time till obasanjo too over in 1999. where you will have a quarel with Northerner and next thing he calls his army brother to deal with you?See, one good thing obasanjo did was to make power libral by diluting both the army, civil service etc with both northerners and people from the south. This has to continue for the next few years before it goes back to the north so the mentality of born to rule by some people ends.To those saying this election is not about buharis religion or that he comes from the core north, i laugh. The muslims in the south are very different from those in the south. Any southerner who has lived there will tell you same. Southern muslims are looked at as infidels. My wife a yoruba did her first year of secondary school in one of the federal schools in the north and had to be removed from there by her father after a riot by the muslim school mates over a trival issue of the food they wanted to break their fast with. The muslim students went to town to mobilize almajeries to come kill all of them! The southerners had to be evacuated with the aid of the army. My youruba friend in you Uk also told me how his brother had to end his nysc in the north because after the failed contest of buhari against obasanjo, southerners were being attacked and so he and he fellow coppers got into a bus to get out of the state but unfortunately the got stopped at a checkpoint mounted by almajeris and were told to get down and recite the quran. As they couldnt they had their throats slit. He was the last one to get out of the bus to be killed of which he came out running. They chased him slashing his back until he was saved by nigerian army officers driving past. He had just relocated his brother to the uk and actually called him over to come show me the scars on this back.It is evident that people have a bias towards SAI buhari which is normal but please think well because muslim fundamentalist are all the same world wide. Your neighbour who you feel is your best friend when the wahala starts will be the one holding the knife to your neck shouting al akbar!

Thank you my brother , Buhari will never win , I still believe these SAI buharists are just paid goons , some deep down know that Buhari has nothing to offer , even southerners supporting Buhari are afraid of travelling to the North during these times , yet , they shout SAI buhari like a Typical MUMU