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Ogun-East senator-elect, Buruji Kashamu, has said that he got wind of the plot to abduct and take him to the United States to face charges of illicit drugs through a friend of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke (SAN).

He said this in a petition dated April 15, 2015, to the National Human Rights Commission, seeking the commission’s intervention.

Buruji said in the petition that the plot to forcibly extradite him to the US was leaked to his lawyer, Ajibola Oluyede, by another lawyer (name withheld) who was Adoke’s friend while on a flight from Lagos to Abuja.

According to Oluyede, who authored the petition on behalf of Kashamu, the friend of Adoke witnessed an occasion when former President Olusegun Obasanjo was mounting pressure on the minister to extradite the senator-elect to the US.

The petition read in part, “On a flight to the Federal Capital, Abuja, from Lagos sometime in October 2014, a colleague and friend of our principal partner, R. A. Oluyede, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria who is also very close to the AGF, informed Mr. Oluyede of the tremendous pressure that Chief (Olusegun) Obasanjo was bringing upon the AGF for the extradition of Prince Kashamu and that, in one discussion between the AGF and Chief Obasanjo, witnessed by him (the SAN), Chief Obasanjo had boasted that he was making arrangements with some US officials in the region to have Prince Kashamu abducted and flown in a private plane to the US.

“He advised that Mr. Oluyede tells Prince Kashamu, known widely to be his client, to be very careful. Prince Kashamu’s enquiry about this information revealed that indeed, there had been moves made by US officials within the region to secure the assistance of the Head of the INTERPOL division in Nigeria, Mr. Solomon Arase, a Deputy Inspector General of Police, (now acting Inspector General of Police) for the arrest and delivery to the US officials of Kashamu for transport to the US without following the due process required by the Nigeria Extradition Act.”

Kashamu had since sued the Chairman, National Drug Laws Enforcement Agency and 11 others to court over the alleged plot to extradite him to the US.

In a fundamental rights enforcement action he filed before a Federal High Court in Lagos, the senator-elect is seeking a declaration that the move to abduct and forcibly transport him to the US amounted to a violation of his right to liberty, freedom of association and freedom of movement as protected by sections 35, 40 and 41 of the Constitution

But Adoke, in an exclusive interview with one of our correspondents, said the alleged extradition move only existed in Kashamu’s imagination. Adoke said the PDP chief was only being pre-emptive in his approach to the matter because there was no extradition request concerning him currently before the Federal Government.

The minister also explained that if and when such a request was received, the government would only send such to the court for a decision to be taken.

He said, “Kashamu is only being pre-emptive by his claims. His claims are based on imagination. As of now, there is no extradition request on his case before the Federal Government. Even when such request is received, it is not the Federal Government that will take a decision on it. Such request is usually forwarded to the court for a decision to be taken"

By Demola Akinyemi
ILORIN—It was drama in Ilorin, yesterday, as Kwara State Police Command arrested a 70-year-old woman (names withheld) for allegedly kidnapping a three-year-old girl (names withheld).
Speaking in an interview with journalists, a relative of the girl’s mother, Mrs. Maryam Abdulganiyu, said the girl was found in a worship place, popularly called Ori-Oke at Basin area of Ilorin, being used by the suspect for begging.
She added that the suspect had claimed that she used the proceeds from the alms begging to feed and clothe the girl.
Vanguard gathered that the girl was declared missing on March 25 by her parents, who reside at Old Shao Garage, Ilorin.
Father of the girl was said to have approached a cleric at Ori-Oke. While the search for the girl was on, her grandfather, Mallam Isa, went to the same Ori-Oke to worship and saw the septuagenarian with the missing girl.
He was said to have alerted the man of God in charge of the centre that he had seen his missing grandchild with an unknown person.
They accosted the woman, who claimed the child was her grandchild. An argument followed and t he matter was reported to the police at Basin Divisional Police Station, Ilorin.
Police reportedly detained the two persons laying claim to the child and another suspect, while investigation into the matter was still ongoing.
However, relations of the victim requested the police to probe the suspect thoroughly, saying the girl appeared to be psychologically imbalanced and could hardly remember her name.
Contacted, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ajayi Okasanmi, who confirmed the arrest, said the victim had been released to her parents.

Okupe made this known on his Facebook post, Sunday after the Thanksgiving and Farewell service in honour of President Jonathan and the First Lady, at the Church of the Advent, Abuja.

Thanksgiving & Farewell service in honour of President Jonathan & First Lady, Church of the Advent, Abuja
His post reads
“A thanksgiving service was held in honour of President Jonathan and his wife. It was a lovely event though quite an emotional one too. I saw eminent men and women dabbed their eyes. I struggled with mine.
This is part of the disengaging ceremonies.
In a few days President Jonathan will bow out of office gracefully and graciously.
President Jonathan has done well and served his country well.
He exits office as a great President. Perhaps Nigeria’s greatest President for all time. Greater than the best before him. He excelled in achievement, in humility, tranquility and simplicity.
Nigerians misunderstood meekness for weakness, Restraint for lack of strength, reticence for inaction and calmness for indecisiveness.
But History will judge differently. He will be remembered as a great man, a good man, humble and humane, purposeful and focused.
A great African Hero who fought against all manners of evil and conspiracies Religious, ethnic, national and international, and lost the war.
But ultimately triumphed be cause of the inherent goodness that God Almighty deposited in Him. For he said
” My ambition is not worth the life of any Nigerian’
Alas!! He meant what he said and stood by what he said even to his detriment and millions who believed in him.
Nigerians don’t weep for Jonathan.
Rather weep and pray that our Nation will remain United and stable, that it’s people will prosper and that God will guide our in coming leaders Right and endow them with the competency of His Wisdom to lead us aright.
We bow out with malice to no man and goodwill to all.
Personally I thank God for another opportunity to serve a second Nigerian President. I have no regrets only joy and peace.
I stood for Jonathan. I still stand by him and he will always be my President weather winning whether losing, in victory and in defeat..
Glory be to God.
May God BLESS NIGERIA.”

bukatyne:
With all the waters that passed under the bridge?

1stCitizen:
She is only interested in the man's house. Once he divorces her, she knows she might need to move.

bukatyne:
Why does the wife still want the marriage?

The respondent, however, begged the court not to grant her husband’s wish for the dissolution of
their marriage, saying that she was still in love
with her husband.

The pastor said that Mary was also fond of instigating his children against him, especially
his only son to disrespect him.
“Anytime my wife and I are fighting, she will call
my son and order him to beat me up in her
presence.
“There was a day my son threatened to kill me,
he brought out a knife with which he attempted
to stab me in the stomach.

My husband has a wire which he always uses to
flog me and the children; he always fights with
his friends, tenants and church members also.
“These always lead us to the police station for
settlement,’’ she said Mary said that Vincent was
an ingrate who had forgot that her mother and
uncle sponsored the education of their children up
to the university level.
Then, my husband was always complaining that
he did not have money to sponsor our children’s
education, she said.

Investigations indicated that trouble started between James and Rita at their White House road residence, Agudama- Epie, when James was caught sucking the bosom of Rita’s sister, Juliet.

Fourteen-year-old Jane (not real name) stared at her feet as she recounted her four-year ordeal in the hands of a neighbour, Felix Emmanuel, an Edo State indigene, who took advantage of her innocence.

At 14, she explained that if she knew that the threats that had kept her quiet from disclosing what she was going through were mere lies, she would have told her mother about what was happening to her before it went on for too long.

Fair-complexioned with sadness clearly showing in her eyes, there was no doubt that Jane had suffered, in silence, as her single mother was none the wiser about the regular sexual abuse her daughter was being subjected to.

“He (Emmanuel) first raped me in 2011 when I was 10 years old. He brought out a calabash with cowries in it and told me that if I told anybody, I would die within 24 hours,” she told our correspondent, sobbing.

Her mother comforted her and urged her on.

Jane has lost her father but care for the family fell on her struggling mother, Margaret, who also regretted that she did not notice the abuse her daughter was subjected to over the last four years.

Jane, a senior secondary year one student, lives in the same compound with Emmanuel, a 28-year-old unemployed secondary school drop-out, in Egbeda area of Lagos.

The girl told Saturday PUNCH, “The first time he raped me, my mother sent me on errand. I was passing by his room on my way back when he called me.

“I did not know what he wanted from me, but I answered him. But as soon as I stepped in the door, he covered my mouth and dragged me to an unoccupied room in the building.

“I noticed that there was another person inside the room – Jerome – who I knew as a friend to Emmanuel.

“Jerome pinned me down and covered my mouth and Emmanuel raped me in the room. When he was done, he gave me a handkerchief to clean up the blood that was coming out from my body.

“He demanded for the handkerchief but I did not give it back to him because I did not know what he wanted it for. When I was about to leave the room, that was when he brought out the calabash, threatened and warned me not to ever tell anybody what happened.”

But unknown to Jane, that was just the beginning of a series of sexual abuses in the hand of Emmanuel, an act that would later escalate to the point where he started to invite his friends over to partake in the orgy.

Over the next two years, Jane had changed a lot and she became erratic in the house.

Margaret said, “When I noticed the way she changed, I asked if anybody was molesting her, but she said no. I thought maybe she needed a change of environment, so, I sent her to live with my sister in Ghana in November 2013.

“But when she got to Ghana, she started to misbehave again. My sister was curious and one day asked if she was still a virgin. She (Jane) refused to answer. But she later took her for a test and confirmed that she had been sexually active.

“When my sister asked her who defiled her, she told her it was our neighbour but I could not confront him even though I saw him everyday. I simply did not know what to do because I thought if I made it a police issue, I might not be able to afford the cost that may come with that.”

Saturday PUNCH learnt that Jane was later returned to Nigeria in October 2014 but as soon as she got back, she caught the eyes of Emmanuel and her cohorts again.

Jane said, “When I got back to Nigeria, I decided to stay clear of Emmanuel, I was afraid and tried to avoid him. But one day, I was sent on errand and he told me to help drop some tubers of yam for his mother along the way, while I waited outside to collect the yam, he dragged me into his room.

“That day, Emmanuel and three friends of his – Ayo, Felix, Mugambo – took turns to rape me. Some days after that, he also took me to his room, he raped me six times. When I fainted, he splashed water on me to revive me. Sometimes, he used condom, sometimes, he did not. I just want him to go to jail for what he did to me.”

Jane said Emmanuel always referred to the calabash in his room anytime she protested.

Jane’s mother who said she did not understand that there may be a connection with the sexual abuse her daughter had suffered and her erratic behaviour, always beat the girl until the Esther Child Rights Foundation was notified.

Executive Director of the foundation, Esther Ogwu, said she was notified about the abuse of the child but only learnt of the series of sexual abuses the girl had been subjected to over the years when she interviewed her.

Ogwu said, “The girl has suffered so much. But the mother did not see this, she only saw a girl that was misbehaving. It is absolutely wrong to beat a child that has suffered sexual abuses because that is not the solution.

“The first step we took was to take the girl to the hospital for test. The doctors confirmed that the girl had been sexually assaulted on multiple cases. The scary part was that she had contracted so much infections that we had to ensure that was treated urgently.

“We later got the police involved and we are happy that action was taken on the issue.”

Emmanuel was arrested and transferred to the Department of Criminal Investigation, Yaba Lagos.

He has since been arraigned at the Family Court 6, Ikeja, Lagos on charges of defilement and sexual abuse. He was granted N200,000 bail.

Ogwu said Jane’s mother has a share in the blame of what her daughter went through.

“Any mother who is close to her daughter and is observant should be able to tell if she is being abused over such a long period of time. Many parents are simply not doing enough to secure their female children against sexual predators,” she said.

A Nigerian father, Martin Ogazi, 39, has been accused of beating up a rival coach while cheering on his son’s junior football team, Old Bailey court heard today.

The beating allegedly left coach Stewart Collins, nursing a broken nose and two black eyes in a touchline brawl over aggressive tackling.

According to UK Daily Mail: Ogazi said he was set upon by Mr Collins, his wife Claire, and his sister Tracey. He claimed he only threw punches to defend himself.

The alleged attack happened on the touchline of a match between rival under-nine sides Eversley United and Danson Sports FC.

When Ogazi’s son, an Eversley player, committed a foul, Ogazi is said to have shouted ‘give him more of that’ across the pitch.
Mr Collins, the Danson Sports manager, objected and went over to Ogazi to tell him to stop encouraging his son to hurt the opposition.

Mr Collins said he was polite and courteous, but was met with a barrage of punches from the defendant.


Ogazi, who regularly cheers on his son from the sidelines, told the court: ‘At all points in this incident from the approach of Mr Collins to the end, I was acting in self defence.’

He said Collins, who was jabbing his finger at him, was the aggressor, and reacted angrily to him pushing his hand away.

Ogazi said he was then attacked from behind by Collins’ wife and sister, was grabbed round the waist and started swinging his arms to get free.

He said: ‘I was being punched and kicked, and I mostly punched my way out.’

Ogazi is accused of assaulting the two women during the incident, on March 23 last year, as well as attacking another team manager, Steve Ristow, as he tried to break up the fight.

The Ogun State Police Command has uncovered another suspected ritual killers’ den in Unity and Peace Estate along Itele-Lafenwa Road, Ota in the Ado Odo-Ota Local Government Area.

The latest discovery was made possible by the escape of a 28-year-old lady, who had been kept in an uncompleted building in the estate, bound hands and feet.

The lady was said to have been abducted, blindfolded, gagged and dumped in the den. She was reportedly told by her captors that they would come for her in the night on Wednesday.

But she was said to have struggled to free herself and rolled towards the entrance of the building.

It was learnt that some passersby in the area saw her and came to her rescue.

Policemen from the Itele Police Station, who were later invited to the scene, were said to have cordoned off the area.

When the policemen combed the surroundings of the uncompleted building, decomposing bodies of two female victims were said to have been found.

Suspected bones of other victims also littered the place.

The lady told PUNCH Metro that she had met one of her captors two weeks before the incident, and they started a relationship.

She explained that the man called her on Monday that he had secured a contract of N1.5m for her at a site in the estate. She added that the man told her that she would supply bags of cement worth that amount.

The victim said on getting to the site, the lover, was joined by another person, who abducted her.

She said, “I met one of the ritual killers about two weeks ago and we started a relationship. The guy told me that he was a contractor and promised to link me up with people who would give me juicy contracts.

“The man called me two days ago and told me about a contract worth about N1.5m, but I could not meet him because I was sick. The man later came to my residence in Lagos and still persuaded me to come for the deal.

“On getting to the Unity and Peace Estate, we headed for an uncompleted building. One other person joined us. When we got to the building, I saw that the house had been plastered and the floor had been cemented.

“But both of them pounced on me, beat me up and attempted to rape me. I was having my monthly flow and that dissuaded them.

“They then tied my hands and legs, blindfolded and gagged me. They promised to come back at night to complete their assignment. It was a miracle that passers-by rescued me.”

Some residents of the community, who spoke with journalists, said they were startled at the discovery.

Some of them claimed that they always smelt some unpleasant odour from the area, but believed it emanated from a poultry farm nearby.

It was gathered that the policemen had arrested the owner of the building, while the suspected ritual killers had fled.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, confirmed the incident.

He said two decomposing bodies and some human skeletons were recovered from the scene.

He said, “The command has taken over the building and our men will take some samples from the scene for forensic analysis to assist in investigation.”

Sophyrocks:
Since the police is now involved, more details will be revealed.

smsdigito:
GMB has made good sense on this.

Sophyrocks:
We are just onlookers who dnt know the true story. Why will a woman wake up one to pack ALL the things in the home? There is more to it so i cant judge. I have read a story in a blog of a man who complained of his wife colliding with her sister against him. He was of the opinion that he wanted to sell off their house. But when his wife came to share her side of the story, claiming full ownership of that house and how her husband was planning to kick her out, get the house and marry another woman, i didnt blame her for her actions at all. she was even advised to divorce this man else he would get her killed. So i cnt judge yet until i hear the woman's side.

fm4real2k6:
[s]Yeeeboooos and Yorubas, see your life outside. Na una too dey cause katakata for this country.

No wonder Lord Luggard and co tried to leave thencountry in the hands of Fulanis, cuz of their laid back, simple life attitude.

What can we call this shit now?

Btwn:: Abusively quote me, and die in the carnal.[/s]

Sophyrocks:
Too bad. If we dig deep, i am sure we would find out that the husband's ways are not clean. So i am not gonna judge just yet.

President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) has told the governorship candidate of APC in Taraba State, Senator Aisha Alhassan not to allow the outcome of the just concluded election in the state weigh her down.

According to Buhari, he was able to win the presidency after three unsuccessful attempts.

The president-elect gave this advise when he hosted a delegation from Taraba State.

He further assured that by the end of his tenure in 2019, Nigerians would be confident of a society where elections would be free, fair and credible.

The former Head of State was reacting to lamentations from the governorship candidate of APC in Taraba State, Senator Aisha Alhassan, who claimed she was robbed of victory at the last gubernatorial election in the state.

Addressing Alhasan, Buhari said: “It is a battle well fought and I am very pleased that you have taken the honourable way out. According to the Nigerian constitution, you may go to court. I was there three times and ended up in the Supreme Court.

“Sometimes, people wonder why I tried so hard. I tried so hard because it is a system I believe in. I believe that multi party democratic system is the best form of governance with a big caveat that election must be free and fair.

“Really, this is why I am in it. I was in APP, I joined partisan politics in April 2002 and on that date, at my ward, those who knew me, and have been following my career antecedent in the military, would not believe it that I will participate in partisan politics and I will not also believe it. But I found myself in it and I never turned back.

“Within one year, APP gave me the ticket. There were governors, senators and much older people than me, but all the same, I got the ticket. I lost, I was in court for 30 months. In 2007, we tried to have a limited merger and became ANPP and again, I participated and was told I lost.

“I went to court for 20 months up to the Supreme Court and I felt that my party was not fair to me. While I was in court, the leadership of the party proceeded and took two marginal ministries in late Yar’Adua’s cabinet and an Adviser. For that disgraceful behaviour by the party leadership, I left the party and we floated the CPC.

“Again, I attempted in 2011 and lost and again and I was in court for about eight months. I contested now for the fourth time under APC having successfully gone through with the merger of the three legacy parties.

“So, Aisha, don’t give up. You are younger and this is your first attempt. I contested three times and this is my fourth attempt. I hope that you succeed in court. I am impressed by the quality of Taraba people you brought here,” he added.

“They are only trying to cover-up for their god-fathers and where did they want the incoming administration to the money to support them? Are they saying the federal government should take over the payment of their salaries?

By Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja
The Labour Party (LP) has asked the president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), not to give any bailout to governors to pay salaries when he assumes the leadership of the country from May 29.

The National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Abdukadir Abdulsalam, who spoke with journalists Wednesday in Abuja, said the party was opposed to the federal government giving any special allowances to pay salaries because the states failed in their responsibility to pay the salaries due to mismanagement and corruption on the parts of the governors.

Some governors and governors-elect of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had on Tuesday met Buhari in Abuja, complaining about the economic downtown and difficulties paying the salaries of workers and requested for an intervention measure to enable the states to offset salary obligations.

“President-elect should not give any kobo in the name of special bailout or intervention to states to pay salaries when he takes over. It is unfortunate and uncalled for that governors most of whom operate in their states flamboyantly and mismanage their states resources to say they cannot pay salaries and shamelessly the President-elect to bail them out. Is it the same people calling for change that are asking to be helped to pay salaries?

“They are only trying to cover-up for their god-fathers and where did they want the incoming administration to the money to support them? Are they saying the federal government should take over the payment of their salaries? Buhari should not agree to their subtle threat or request. If they don’t want to be prudent on their state resources, they should be made to stop the mismanagement of the resources and allocations given to them by the federal government,” Abdulsalam said.

The party chairman also advised Buhari to prioritise getting the states to work out legal means of getting internally generated revenues and to explore the natural resources in their states.

By Ifeanyi Okolie
LAGOS—Operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at Akanu Ibiam International Airport, AIIA, Enugu, have arrested a Lagos pastor over drug trafficking.
The suspect, Daniel Lanre Akintola, 43, was caught with 1.978kg of heroin concealed in the false bottom of his luggage.

This is coming just a few weeks after a Lagos-based pastor was arrested for smuggling narcotics to South Africa at the Lagos Airport.

Vanguard gathered that another suspect, Onwueg-busi Tochukwu Victor, 48, was also arrested with 51.5kg of ephedrine found inside his luggage.
NDLEA commander at the Enugu Airport, Mr. Nsikak-Abasi Udoh, disclosed that the 43-year-old pastor wanted to abandon his luggage at the arrival hall for fear of arrest.

He said: “Mr. Daniel Lanre Akintola unlawfully possessed 1.978kg of heroin, while returning from Entebbe, a major town in Central Uganda.
“He wanted to abandon the luggage, but we detected his intention. The drug was carefully concealed in a false bottom of his luggage

“The second suspect is a businessman who had parcels of ephedrine weighing 51.5kg, which he wanted to smuggle to Ma-puto, Mozambique.
They are being investigated.”

Akintola, who claimed ownership of the bag containing heroin, said he was returning from a pastor’s conference.

He said: “I am a pastor with one of the pentecostal churches, at Ipaja, Lagos. I attended a minister’s conference in Uganda.
“This bag, where heroin was found, is my bag but I am a pastor and not a drug trafficker.”

The suspect, who hails from Oyo State but lives in Lagos, could not produce evidence that he actually attended a minister’s conference in Uganda.

Besides, he also did not give any reason for leaving Entebbe, Uganda, en-route Addis Ababa, to Enugu.

chymystique:
[size=13pt]First and foremost thing PDP should do is to dissolve that kitchen cabinet commitee that called themselVes NWC of the party starting Mr.Muazu!. They are the main reason for the crises. #traitors[/size]