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Jude Owuamanam, Jos

What started as a celebration on Valentine’s Day, last Friday ended on a sour note for a 24-year old hair dresser who was found dead four days after the celebration inside her apartment.

The young lady, identified only as Nanchim, was found dead in her room in Nassarawa Gwong area of Jos North local government of Plateau State.

Our correspondent gathered that the hairdresser, who is also a student of the University of Jos, was found dead in her room on Monday February, 15.

Plateau State Police command is currently investigating the circumstances that led to the death of the woman.

Spokesperson for the police in the state, DSP Emmanuel Abuh who confirmed the incident said one person has been arrested in connection with the incident.

“One suspect said to be a boyfriend of the deceased has been arrested and is currently in police custody,” Abuh said.

The deceased’s aunt, who did not want her name in print, said that the boyfriend has a culture of violence.

Nanchim’s corpse has been transferred from Bingham University Teaching Hospital to the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) for autopsy, witnesses said.

But trouble started after the victims pressured the sex workers into having sex with them for a part payment of N2,000 for each round, promising that they will pay the balance after the action

The country may be thrown into a blackout in the near future if the advice by the Senate to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission to reverse the new electricity tariffs is heeded, power distribution companies have said.

This is coming as NERC stated that it had not received any official communication from the National Assembly on the advice to stop the implementation of the revised tariffs.

The Senate had on Tuesday advised the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, NERC and the electricity distribution companies not to go ahead with the about 45 per cent increase in tariffs, but should revert to the former rates.

But the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors stated that the Senate intervention was capable of crumbling the power industry, arguing that the country risked future blackouts if it was forced to go back to the old tariff regime.

The Executive Director, ANED, Mr. Sunday Oduntan, told our correspondent that the Senate’s sentiment was not just against the electricity distribution firms, but the entire power sector.

He said, “There is a value chain in this business and the tariff is not just for the Discos. This increment in tariff is for the generation companies and the gas suppliers. The gas suppliers are not part of the power sector, but they will not supply gas to our power stations if we don’t pay them.

“So, we’ve been talking about appropriate pricing of this product, and now somebody is playing politics with electricity. It is unacceptable and this has a lot of consequences. The first major consequence is darkness. If there’s no way we can sustain the industry, it will collapse. And now, the generator mafias will be happy because their expensive trade will thrive.

“As it is now, I don’t know who the Senate is working for. If they are working for the Nigerian people, they will not be coming up with things that will have adverse consequences on Nigerians. We are not rich; we are not making profits; we are not smiling to the banks. We view their position with a very strong sense of pity for Nigerians who will bear the consequence.”

Oduntan said the Senate itself was highly indebted to the power firms and did not talk about clearing its debt to the companies before saying that tariffs should not be increased.

He added, “People talk of the Discos, but the power sector consists of generation, transmission and distribution companies.

We are just the collection agency and I’m shocked that the Senate is not even referring to the debt owed the Discos.

“Many of them don’t pay their electricity bills. But all they are saying now is that we should go back to the dark ages of PHCN/NEPA and that is what will happen if they insist.”

On the way forward, Oduntan said the power firms were willing to engage the lawmakers, as he stressed that operators in the sector were to meet with the Senate on Monday.

“We are more than willing to educate them on this issue. But we are surprised, shocked and disappointed that even some of those that you have met and showed the figures still go back to their hallowed chamber and then talk as if they are in another country,” he noted.

Senior officials of NERC told our correspondent that the agency had yet to receive any formal communication from the Senate on the reversal to the former tariffs.

While the acting Chief Executive Officer/Head, NERC, Dr. Anthony Akah, stated that the commission heard the news from the media, another top official who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the matter, said, “I can confirm to you that neither the CEO nor the commission have received any official communication on that issue from the Senate.”

``I have not beaten her before, she starved me of sex for one and half years despite the fact that we were living in the same house.

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the complete purge of the Budget Office because of the discrepancies and padding of the 2016 budget, The PUNCH has learnt.

Our correspondent gathered on Wednesday that the President handed down the directive following the embarrassment that the budget discrepancies had attracted to his government.

It will be recalled that Buhari had on Monday sacked Mr. Yahaya Gusau as the Director-General of the Budget Office for the same reason and approved the appointment of Mr. Tijjani Mohammed Abdullahi as his replacement.
But a top government official who pleaded anonymity told The PUNCH on Wednesday that the President was not yet done with the issue.

The source said Buhari had been properly briefed of the activities of government officials in the Budget Office who were described as “budget mafia” and accused of sabotaging the budget process.
He said that a decision had been taken that while many of the identified officials would be sacked, the remaining ones should be posted out of the office.

He added that the Head of Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita, had been directed to implement the presidential directive and communicate the decision to the affected officials.

The source said, “The President is really angry over the discrepancies discovered in the 2016 budget. It has been confirmed that it was a clear case of sabotage. It was said to have been carried out by a budget mafia whose members are strongly enshrined in the office.

“The President’s decision is that the former Director-General should not be the only casualty in this matter.

“He has ordered that the Budget Office should be purged. Many of the officials there will be sacked while others will be transferred to other places other than where they have already constituted themselves to a mafia.”
When asked when the President’s directive would take effect, the source said “it is with immediate effect.”

In sacking Guasu as DG, Budget Office on Monday, Buhari had also approved the appointment of Mr. Ben Akabueze as the Special Adviser on Planning to the Minister of Budget and National Planning.
Sources in the Presidency had, on February 6, alleged that a budget mafia planned to scuttle the innovations introduced by the current administration into the budget by inflating the figures.

A mafia was alleged to have proposed a budget of N9.7tn for capital and overhead spending, excluding personnel cost, as against the Presidency’s initial estimate of about N8tn.
The group was said to have proposed N3tn as overheads alone out of the N9.7tn, a figure the Presidency later slashed to N163bn.

The Ministry of Budget and National planning had also promised to investigate and punish those responsible for the errors and strange figures found in the budget, which was presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari in December, 2015.

The errors had delayed the passage of the budget with the federal legislature, saying the February 25 deadline it set for its approval was no longer feasible.

victorazy:
Ask Buhari

Cyriacus Izuekwe

A jilted housewife, Chinwe Ogbachi, 28, has unleashed her frustration on a policeman’s pregnant wife, Nkechi Onwuzuruike by inflicting injury on her face with razor blade in Ajangbadi area of Lagos State, western Nigeria.

She was arrested and charged before Apapa Magistrates’ court with serious assault and wounding under the Criminal Code.

The incident happened at their home at Bright road in Ajangbadi on the outskirts of Lagos.

Ogbachi, a mother of four kids, allegedly slashed Onwuzuruike’s face during a disagreement Ogbachi had with another neighbor.

The victim suffered her fate after she cautioned Ogbachi against engaging in a fight with their neighbour who is also pregnant.

Angered by Onwuzuruike’s interference, she brought out a razor blade and slashed her face.

Onwuzuruike started bleeding and was rushed to Ilogbo General Hospital in the area where she is receiving treatment.
The matter was reported at Ajangbadi police division and Ogbachi was arrested and detained at the station.

Ogbachi told our reporter that she did not know what came over her when she did it because she had been traumatised since her husband left her.

She also said the victim mocks her because she is a single mother and usually sided with those looking for her trouble in the compound.

Ogbachi added that she was the only person taking care of the four children after her husband abandoned them and relocated to the Northern part of the country.

The police charged Ogbachi on Monday before the court where she pleaded not guilty.

The presiding Magistrate, Mr T. A. Bolarinwa granted her bail in the sum of N100,000 with two sureties in like sum.

The court also ordered that the sureties must show evidence of tax payment and means of livelihood.

Ogbachi was remanded in prison custody at Kirikiri pending when she will perfect her bail.

The matter was adjourned till 9 March, 2016.

A grandmother, Madam Bosede Adebayo, yesterday allegedly used hot pot to torture her eight-year-old grandchild for eating rice. The victim, Tope Oke, who is a primary two pupil of St. James Primary School, Ijeun-Tuntun, Abeokuta, Ogun State was accused by the grandmother of eating part of cooked rice she kept in the kitchen without her consent.

The incident occurred at Baba Olodo House at Ijeun-Tuntun/ Olorombo community in Abeokuta. It was learnt that the girl is now on admission at the State Hospital, Ijaiye, Abeokuta. Adebayo, now in police custody, returned from a party with cooked rice served at the ceremony and kept it in the kitchen.

However, the hungry granddaughter was said to have later eaten a portion of the food which eventually infuriated the suspect. According to a witness, the grandmother first beat the victim mercilessly before using the hot pot to inflict injuries on her body.

The witness said the incident forced neighbours and other residents to alert the police and officials of the state Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development.

The suspect was promptly arrested and taken to the Ibara Police Station, Abeokuta, where arrangements were being made to transfer the case to the Anti- Human Trafficking Department.

When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Olumuyiwa Adejobi, confirmed the incident. Adejobi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, said the suspect would be charged to court upon the conclusion of investigation.

It was gathered that the Special Adviser to the governor on Women Affairs and Social Development, Adenike Osoba, and a Senior Social Welfare Officer, Mrs. Wonuola Kassim, stormed the police station to monitor the case with a view to pursuing it to a logical conclusion. Osoba told journalists that the action of the suspect was crude and inhuman. According to her, the law will take its course on the matter.

She said: “The authority will not fold its arms and condone such illegality or allow anybody to maltreat children or any other person. The victim will also be taken to the ministry’s custody after proper medication.”

lalasticlala

THE planned suspension of the spokesperson for the Senate President Unity Forum, Senator Kabir Marafa, over an interview he granted and published in the last week edition of Sunday PUNCH
heightened tension at the Senate on Tuesday.

Marafa had in the interview declared his support for former President Olusegun Obasanjo over the issues he raised in his recent letter to both chambers of the National Assembly, especially on the need to make their budgets transparent and accessible to Nigerians.

But on the resumption of plenary after a two-week break on Tuesday, the Senator representing Bauchi South Senatorial District, Issa Missau, drew the attention of his colleagues to the publication, which according to him, was offensive.

Coming under matters of personal privilege, Missau, alleged that Marafa, by his comments, had infringed on his rights as well as the rights of others and deserved to receive an instant punishment from the Senate to serve as deterrent to others.

He said, “Senator Kabiru Marafa granted an interview misleading the public telling lies against this institution (Senate). I think I have been called more than 500 times from my constituency in respect of this publication.

“,,,Mr. President (Senate President Olusola Saraki), I think the leadership has to do something about this, the Senate should do something about this. We cannot allow one person to continue to tell lies against the Senate, misleading the public.

“I think it is better we take a decision so that we correct things, not only Marafa, anybody here would not be allowed to be misleading the public. I think it is not okay Mr. President.”

Senator Matthew Urhoghide from Edo South, seconded the motion moved by Missau and called for sanctions against the Zamfara Central senator.

Urhoghide said, “I want to lend my voice to the submission that was made by Senator Misau in respect to the publication in Sunday PUNCH that was granted by Senator Kabiru Marafa.

“I want to say with vehemence and every element of responsibility that publication as contained in Sunday PUNCH, smeared the integrity of this House and has totally put our reputations and of course reputations of other distinguished senators here into disrepute.

Ruling on the motion, Saraki referred the matter to the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions to investigate and report back next week Tuesday.

Marafa welcomed the development and declared his readiness to appear before the panel.

He said, “It is a welcome development. I am even happy that the Ethics Committee will investigate me. I am ready to make myself available because it will give me an opportunity to say more things which space did not permit me in the newspapers.”

However, the All Progressives Congress’ candidate for the Senate President seat in June last year, Senator Ahmad Lawan, cautioned the Senate against any action that could create tension.

Lawan said, “Without prejudice to what the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions will report on the issue, as a Senate, as an institution, we should be more sensitive to the way we discharge our functions and mandates as provided for in the Constitution.

“That is to ensure probity, transparency and accountability in the utilisation of public funds. That we make good laws for the orderliness and good governance of this country, that we support the executive arm of government, that is the Presidency in this regard to ensure that Nigeria move out of its current quagmire that we have found ourselves.”

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The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu yesterday said the agency has recovered billions of stolen funds.
He said the anti-corruption war is “the war of the people.”

He also said that “apart from the fear of God, we have no other fear.”
Magu, who made the submissions in an address to a coalition of Civil Society Groups who marched to EFCC for a solidarity rally, said senior lawyers were frustrating the war against corruption.
He however said the days of impunity are over.

He said: “ We want the Nigerian people to continue to support us, continue to support Mr. President’s war on corruption.
“We have many corruption cases in court. We are getting them every day from everywhere and we are recovering stolen money and taking corrupt people to court.

“ The money we have recovered and the money we are going to get back from them -billions and billions of Naira- is being paid back to government and will be used to do what it was originally meant for -to build hospitals, send our children to school, build roads and railways, create employment and defend our country.

“ We have no other country than Nigeria. This war is the war of the people.
“ Apart from the fear of God, we have no other fear. Apart from the interest of Nigeria, we have no other interest. And apart from the Rule of Law, we have no other rule guiding the work we are doing today. The days of impunity are over.

Victory is certain for the common man! Aluta continua!”
Magu expressed regrets that some senior lawyers had been frustrating the war against corruption.

He added: “One of the big challenges we have in the effective prosecution of the war on corruption, is that of very senior lawyers who Nigeria has been very kind to: They who went to good schools here, when Nigeria was good, many of them, on government scholarship; they who Nigeria has given so much opportunity.

“When we have corruption cases, cases of people who have stolen food from the mouths of our children; when we have cases of people who have stolen money meant to build hospitals and buy drugs; when we have cases of people who have stolen all the money meant to buy guns for our soldiers to fight Boko Haram, when we have all these cases of wicked people who have stolen Nigeria’s money, they run to these same senior lawyers, give them part of the stolen money and mobilise them to fight us, to delay us in court and to deny Nigerians of justice.
“ These are the people who do not want justice for the common man.

“ The other day, 34 Senior Advocates of Nigeria fought against only one small EFCC lawyer in court and he defeated all of them! What we are doing today is not by our power, it is the power of the Nigerian people and the power of God behind us!”
The EFCC chairman debunked insinuations that the EFCC does not follow the rule of law.

He said: “ Corrupt people hire journalists to abuse us every day, they say we are not doing the work according to the law. But, that is not true.

“There is no agency that follows the law more than EFCC. None. Before we arrest you, or seize your property or do anything to you, we check the law, we go to court and get court order. That is why we are winning; that is why we are defeating them everyday.”

lalasticlala

Next week, the chief of the London Metropolitan Police, Bernard Hogan-Howe, will answer questions from UK parliamentarians over claims that Scotland Yard officers investigating former Delta State Governor, James Ibori, were involved in a “deliberate cover-up”, the Daily Mail is reporting.

A UK court was told that the Met and the Crown Prosecution Service concealed documents showing that officers investigating Mr. Ibori took bribe to reveal details of the investigations that could have helped the convicted politician dodge jail.

Ibori was sentenced to a 13-year jail term by the Southwark Crown Court in 2012 after admitting to fraud and money laundering.
According to the revelation, one detective on the team investigating Mr. Ibori made several unexplained cash deposits into his account running into thousands of pounds after disclosing sensitive information.
But the police are accusing the whistle-blower, Bhadresh Gohil, a lawyer who had represented Ibori in the past, of falsifying documents.

Surprisingly, the charges against Mr. Gohil were dropped after the CPS was forced to release papers it originally said did not exist. The papers suggested that Met officers took bribe.

Mr. Gohil had served seven years in prison for admitting to helping Ibori to launder some of his loot. He later claimed he was wrongly advised to do so by his legal team.
“I uncovered serious corruption, but when I tried to expose this, I was victimised.

Astonishingly, the CPS used the might of the state and all its resources to cover up what had happened, and brought trumped-up charges to persecute me. The truth has finally unravelled,” Mr Gohil told the Daily Mail on Saturday.

Mr. Gohil claimed he received an anonymous letter while he was in Wandsworth Prison suggesting police in the case had been paid by a private investigative firm, RISC Management, hired by Mr. Ibori.

Mr. Gohil had planned to use the evidence of police corruption to overturn his convictions but he was later charged with perverting the course of justice and for forgery. His appeal was thrown out by the court.

His counsel, Stephen Kamlish, stated that the police acted in bad faith by failing to investigate who had received cash payments.
The document had revealed that John McDonald, a Met detective involved in the Ibori investigation, met RISC director Clifford Knuckey on September 10, 2007.

It further revealed that Mr. Knuckey claimed £46.75 in expenses for a meal he enjoyed in a pub with a source that day.
Two days later, the document also shows that a ‘meeting with confidential source to hand over source payment for information provided… £5,000.’

Telephone records also revealed that 120 calls were made from RISC to Met officers during the Ibori investigation – including one to Mr. McDonald on the day of the pub meeting.

Another document reveals Mr McDonald made 19 unexplained cash deposits into his bank account, most of around £500, while he was working on the case in 2007.
After the pub meeting, Mr. Knuckey provided a report to Ibori’s lawyers detailing secret information he had been given about the case.

Their records stated: ‘CK [Knuckey] explained that he had met with a senior officer on 10 September 2007’ and that ‘DC McDonald (DCM) has had a serious fall out’ with other officers on the case.
A RISC list of payments reveals that between 2006 and 2007 the firm paid some £360,000 to a network of confidential sources in Ibori’s and other cases, delivered in cash by couriers to the firm’s London offices.

DFID’s Conflict of Interest

The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) who financed the Met investigation of Ibori, ironically invested huge sums in Ibori’s businesses, investigations have revealed.

The conflicting involvement of the DIFD has given rise to claims of conflict of interest which has stalled the process of seizing Mr. Ibori asset.

Last week, it was also claimed that DFID would be paid £25 million from Ibori’s asset when processes of seizing them are complete.
It was discovered that the investment arm of the DFID, Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) had invested hundreds of millions of pounds into banks, including the defunct Oceanic and Intercontinental Banks and other businesses in which Mr. Ibori had huge interests.

But the DFID has denied the allegation of conflict of interest in the matter claiming that thought it funded the investigation into Mr Ibori’s case, it did not influence it.

Paul Iyoghojie

Tragedy occurred on Obalende Bridge on Saturday at about 4pm when a fast moving Kia saloon car with plate number JJJ 537 DP crushed a mechanic, identified simply as Waidi to death and threw him off the bridge.

The victim’s body, it was learnt, landed in a residential area under the bridge with broken head and legs.

When P.M.NEWS correspondent arrived the scene at about 4.25pm huge crowd had gathered on the Obalende bridge trying to catch a glimse of the scene, while the police from the Lion Building Division and the officials of the ambulance section of the Lagos Island General Hospital were also seen evacuating the corpse of the victim into a van with registration number SMK 302 BK to the mortuary.

Officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, were around to control the heavy traffic that had built up on the bridge.

An eyewitness informed our correspondent that the accident occurred when the victim, a resident of Bariga area of Lagos drop off a bus atop the Obalende bridge and dashed across the road to the other side to continue his journey, unknown to him that a fast moving car was approaching.

According to a motorist, Solomon Ikhide, “dropping picking up of passengers by bus drivers has been causing fatal accidents on the bridge daily.

“Though the police at the Lion Building Division led by the DPO in charge, CSP Antonia Tanaruno and the LASTMAastma officials at Olowu have been doing their best to dislodge the drivers, I am now appealing to the Chairman of the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental Sanitation, SP Olubukola Abe to please deploy his men atop the Obalende bride to assist the police stop illegal loading of passengers to prevent accidents and the untimely deaths on the bridge.”

Another eyewitness, Mr Jude Eshiet, said accidents have claimed the lives of more than ten passengers on the bridge this year alone.

“Security officials should henceforth not allow the death toll to continue and any driver arrested there loading or dropping passengers should be charged to court to serve as a deterrent to others,” Eshiet said.

Efforts made to contact the Task Force Chairman for comment was frustrated by the Unit’s PRO.

sholatech:
This is why Emir Sanusi told Buhari he is encouraging corruption by refusing to Devalue the Naira!

The continued acute scarcity, it was learnt, had
been capitalised upon by the commercial banks
who are now selling several millions of dollars
obtained from the CBN on their clients’ names at
huge premiums above the N199 to $1 official rate
approved by the central bank.

According to sources familiar with the situation,
thousands of helpless importers who are in
desperate need of forex to import products
ranging from raw materials to equipment are
milked on weekly basis by the greedy banks.

lalasticlala

P.M.NEWS gathered that the victim suffered his
fate after he met Ibrahim who he alleged had
been sneaking into their house at odd hours

Col. Ojogbane Adegbe, former aide-de-camp to former president Goodluck Jonathan, has warned that another Dasukigate may be imminent if he is forced to reveal what transpired in that administration.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arrested Adegbe on Wednesday in Lagos where he went through rigorous interrogation before he was flown to Abuja yesterday.

It was learnt that interrogation proceedings of the former ADC by the EFCC officials could open up a new can of worms, which “could surpass what is now known as Dasukigate.”

In December 2015, Jonathan’s National Security Adviser, Col.Sambo Dasuki was arrested by the Department of State Security (DSS) and handed over to the EFCC over his role in the $2.1 billion arms purchase scandal.

The money, meant to purchase arms for the military fighting insurgency in the North-East, was said to have been diverted through the office of the NSA and used for 2015 campaign for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The EFCC is hopeful the former ADC may soon give details of all he knows with regards to financial transactions and the dramatic personae involved in the last administration, an insider told the Sun.

Preliminary findings, including recovered documents, were said to have suggested a large-scale of questionable expenditure with funds sourced from and outside the arms purchase deals.

Another source told the newspaper that, “most of the funds were reportedly diverted soon after the election was postponed from the originally scheduled date of February 14, 2015 to March 28, 2015.”

Among the active participants in the alleged loot, was a top official of an agency set up to discourage militancy in the South-South, who is currently outside the country.

At the centre of the interrogation of the former ADC, who has been moved to Abuja, Daily Sun reported, was the “mind-boggling spending” during the two weeks’ extension of the general election, “which runs into several trillions of naira, when converted from foreign currency.”

Sources disclosed further that many top Nigerians, “including some very close persons” to the former president, may likely be called to explain and defend their roles in the handling of the funds, a chunk of which was sourced from the agency.

The ADC who was arrested in Lagos a few days ago, was alleged to be attending a senior officers course when he was picked up for interrogation.

Before him, many serving and retired military officers had been quized in connection with the arms purchase deal during the Jonathan administration.

Former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh (retd) and the former Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Amosu (retd) and other top politicians have been under EFCC investigation.

lalasticlala

A 44-year-old suspected fraudster, Festus Balogun, has told the police in Akure, Ondo State that he usually blackmails men of God to make ends meet.

pretydiva:
Why fight a pregnant woman. Some people r posses

A GWERU woman allegedly stole money after she was given a lift and hid it in her private parts.

Amanda Makusha (PICTURED ABOVE) of 1611 Mkoba 12 in Gweru stole US$40 comprising four $10 notes from Rachel Nyanyiwa of 563 Mkoba 13.

A source close to the investigations told B-Metro that Makusha was given a lift by Nyanyiwa from town to Mkoba when she stole the money.

“Makusha was given a lift by Nyanyiwa from Mkoba to town. On their way, Nyanyiwa was stopped by police and they asked to see her car fire extinguisher.

“She was forced to get out of the car and show police the fire extinguisher which was in the boot,” said the source.

The two proceeded with their journey and on the way, Nyanyiwa detoured to the service station for a fuel top- up.

“On the way Nyanyiwa decided to buy fuel at a service station. She asked Makusha to give her the bag which was next to her as it contained the money she wanted to use. When she got the bag, she found the zip open and the money was nowhere to be found.

She asked Makusha if she had taken the money and she professed ignorance,” added the source.

Nyanyiwa then drove to Mtapa police station together with Makusha and reported the matter stating that Makusha was the key suspect.

“Nyanyiwa did not believe Makusha and she drove straight to the police station and reported the matter.

“Makusha was questioned by the police and she denied stealing the money. She was also searched by the female officers and nothing was recovered. The police then referred Nyanyiwa to hospital for an extensive search by a doctor,” said the source.

Makusha was reportedly stripped, but still no money was found.

Left with nowhere to check, the doctor decided to check her “private pocket” and three rolled $10 notes were recovered.

Makusha was then arrested.

Contacted for comment Midlands police spokesperson Inspector Joel Goko confirmed the incident.

“I can confirm that we are investigating a case where a woman stole money after she was given a lift and hid it in her privates,” said Goko.

atoleybaba:
1. Self defense 2.d dead invaded d suspect's personal space 3. There is something called actus reus(criminal mind) it was not his intention to kill he only acted out of instinct and was not a planned killing. If he is to be locked up self it will be that his lawyer is not capable enuf and will be given minimal jail term

Police on Wednesday accused 17 students of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, of an attempt to rob a branch of Wema Bank in the institution.

At the hearing on Wednesday, the police prosecutor, Mr. Samuel Osobu, informed the court of the intention to file a probable cause of action against the students, other than the six-count earlier slammed on them on Tuesday.

This was after the court had earlier admitted the students to N300,000 bail each and one surety in like sum, who must be either a civil or public servant on the previous charge.

The prosecutor said he had forwarded the case file to the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for legal advice.

Osobu alleged that the students on February 7 unlawfully committed the offence of arson by burning houses belonging to ABUAD University security staff and burglary of a boutique belonging to the wife of the ABUAD founder.

He added that the students also attempted to rob the branch of Wema Bank situated on the campus.

According to him, the alleged offences contravene Section 443(a), 411(2) and 403 of the criminal code, Cap C 16, Laws of Ekiti State of Nigeria, 2016.

The plea of the accused were not taken as their counsel, Mr Peter Ogunkile, Chris Omokhafe and eight others sought for a date of adjournment pending the advice of the DPP office.

Chief Magistrate Adesoji Adegboye consequently ordered that the accused be remanded in prison custody pending the outcome of the DPP advice.

He adjourned the case till February 12 for further hearing.

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The trial of the seven persons accused of complicity in the N24 billion police pension scam resumed Wednesday before Justice Hussein Baba Yusuf of the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja with prosecuting counsel, Rotimi Jacobs, SAN, leading the fourth prosecution witness, Mustapha Gadanya, in evidence.

Gadanya a former staff of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, recalled the evidence he gave in court in December 2014, where he revealed that the Police Pension Office could not provide vouchers to authenticate payments amounting to N9.7billion made to Veronica Onyegbula, the 4th accused person in the case, between 2007 and 2008.

On the first defendant Esai Dangaba, Gadanya told the court that a search warrant executed on his company, AMT Global Concept at Jabi Abuja yielded several incriminating evidence.
The value of some of the recovered documents and financial instrument ran into billions of naira.

These include: copies of cheques drawn from the account of Esai Dangaba, a draft of FCMB issued to AMSAR Int’l, Fixed deposit slips of N198million for AMD Global Concept, Company papers of Damule Nigeria Limited, future Logistics Technology, Marine Logistics and Leisure Integrated Limited, document of one billion naira worth investment from Skye Bank among others. These were tendered by prosecution and admitted in evidence by the Judge as Exhibits P11, P11A to P11J. Exhibit P11E-J, P11F, P11G, P11H, P11I, and P11J.

The witness further testified that a letter was written to FCMB to furnish the team with bank statements and instruments used in crediting and debiting the account and other relevant documents of Damule Nigeria limited. From the bank’s response it was discovered that the directors of the company were no other than the wife and two sons of Esai Dangaba, the first accused, using the names Milly Lamura, Yila Lamura(deceased) and Mela Lamura.

“While reviewing the Drivers License and account mandate card, we discovered that the picture of ‘Mela Lamura’ turned out to be Mela Esai Dangaba; Yila Lamura is actually his late son and Milly Lamura is the first accused’s wife”, Gadanya said.

Meanwhile, the witness disclosed that the Federal Road Safety Commission, in response to a request by the EFCC, replied that the drivers’ license used in opening the accounts were not issued by it.
The license were tendered and admitted in evidence.

The witness also revealed that analysis of Damule account showed a turnover of seven billion, six hundred and ninety one million seven hundred and twenty eight thousand, six hundred and forty one naira thirteen kobo (N7,691,728,641.13k), between March 18, 2009 to February 24, 2010 with most of the inflow occurring Dangabar was director of the police pension office.

He disclosed that the account recorded cash deposit of N233 million on April3,2009 in 40 different tranches between N2 to N2.5million.

“We discovered that between April 1, 2009 to 18 February, 2010 over N971m was fixed into deposit account by the defendant in FCMB…, over N983million was transferred to another account of same Damule in Skye bank,” Gadanya said.

The accused persons Esai Dangabar, Atiku Abubakar Kigo, Ahmed Inuwa Wada, Mrs. Veronica Ulonma Onyegbula, Sani Habila Zira, Uzoma Cyril Attang and Christian Madubuke were all present court.

Justice Baba adjourned the case to February 11, 2016 for continuation of trial

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