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Residents Lament Onitsha Robbery Attack

•[b]Advocate Restructure Of Police Formations

By Chukwujekwu Ilozue , Reporter, Onitsha


Christian Iwu, elder, Umuezuo Community, Ahiazu Mbaise, Lagos State branch (right); Nze Christopher Ike and other officials during the launch of the community’s N25 million health centre in Lagos…recently.

An armed robbery attack last weekend in which a 23-year-old man died while three others sustained various degrees of gunshot injuries in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State, has sent jitters down the spines of residents.

The incident took place at Kano Street of the Onitsha Main Market. Since the coming of the Special Police Squad to deal with series of kidnap and armed robbery in the state the people have enjoyed peace and the serenity like in the olden times before the upsurge of the violent crimes that forced Inspector General of Police, Ogbonna Onovo, to send the squad.

According to eyewitnesses, the four-man robbery gang, which operated on two motorbikes, stormed the market around 2.00pm Saturday and attacked a shop that deals on weave-on, belonging to one Mr. John Ogbu, where they carted away about N2 million.

The source disclosed further that while the robbers were robbing the shop a mob was said to have gathered in front of the shop which sent fears of being lynched into the robbers, which resulted in the indiscriminate shootings by one of the robbers.

“In the process” continued the source, “the victim, Okechukwu Onuh, an apprentice was shot on the chest resulting in his death few minutes after, and while three others who were rushed to a nearby hospital sustained various degrees of gunshot injuries.

When contacted, the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Onitsha Central Police Station, Mr. Yusuf Abdul, was evasive to confirm the incident as he said he was in a meeting.

Also, the Police Spokesman in the state, Mr. Emeka Chukwuemeka, said the matter has not been reported to the Command but promised to make enquiries to get the details of the robbery.

Meanwhile, some traders are not happy with the Police in the city who were said to have mounted a road block few meters from the scene of the incident, lamenting that if the Police had challenged the robbers especially after the robbers opened fire on helpless citizens, the robbers would not have escaped.

They therefore want the Police hierarchy to overhaul various police formations in the city to ensure adequate security of lives and property especially during this Yuletide.

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http://www.independentngonline.com/DailyIndependent/Article.aspx?id=4838

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Anambra Records More Road Accidents’

By Chukwujekwu Ilozue , Reporter, Onitsha



[b]Statistics from the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Anambra State command, has shown that there were more road accidents in the state in the first half of this year than last year.

Though the sector Commander, Mr. Ayobami Omiyale, said the entire accident figure for 2009 was not ready, he said that figures in respect of the first half of the year showed an increase in accident cases than last year.

Omiyala said that last year, 168 cars, 168 buses, 110 lorries and 218 motorcycles were involved in 431 crashes. From these accidents, he said, 409 people were injured while 138 persons were killed.

In the first half of this year, he said, 87 cars, 88 buses, 122 motorcycles and 58 lorries were involved in 217 crashes in which 169 persons were injured and 104 people killed.

He said that the Umunya section of the Enugu-Onitsha expressway where 10 vehicles were involved in road accident in which 14 people died last October 10 has remained a death trap.

According to him, just last week another petrol tanker loaded with petrol fell there. The only difference is that this time help came quickly. The driver of the vehicle was not wounded and so he got out and locked the manifold and only little quantity of fuel licked until the next morning when another tanker came for assistance.

Similarly, on Tuesday night another lorry and a passenger bus crashed at the area though not exactly where the inferno occurred but there was no loss of life, he said.

Omiyale advised motorists who journey through Anambra roads to travel patiently and go at slow speed, maintain the speed limit because the entire Federal road, according to him, is a construction area. He described the Federal Highway in Anambra as prone to accident because of how bad they have turned.

‘‘The roads as we have them today in Anambra State are far from safe, but I think the state government is carrying out some palliative measures to ensure that people coming in and passing the state do not only have a safe trip but a smooth drive,” he said.
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http://www.independentngonline.com/DailyIndependent/Article.aspx?id=4837

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Oyo NDLEA confiscates N8.4m Indian hemp
11 December, 2009 01:37:00 DELE OGUNYEMI, Ibadan
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Oyo State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has confiscated a bungalow designated Indian hemp warehouse at Adewolu Village in Egbeda Local Government of the state from where 5.520 tonnes of cannabis neatly packaged in 421 bags have been recovered.

The State Commander of NDLEA, Mr. Suleiman Jadi, who showed the seized indian hemp to journalists in Ibadan on Wednesday said, however, that the suspects were at large while efforts were on to track them down. He gave the current street value of the seized Indian hemp at N8.4million, according to him, a bag now sells at about N20,000. By the rainy season, the cannabis will go for as much as N150,000 per bag, he stated.

Mr. Jadi told newsmen that officers and men of the Oyo NDLEA have been monitoring the Indian hemp warehouuse for more than three weeks until they stormed the place at about 3.00 a.m. on November 20, when the cannabis were eventually seized.

According to the NDLEA Commander, the owners of the Indian hemp warehouse, on noticing unusual movements of security operatives around the isolated building located inside the bush in Adewolu Village, took to their heels and had never returned since.

Meanwhile, the NDLEA officials have sealed the warehouse while all the cannabis stored inside had been removed to the agency’s state headquarters in the metropolis.

Two traffickers, Abraham Akinyemi (34) and Azeez Jelili (27), currently in the NDLEA net, Mr. Jadi said, were nabbed with 15 bags of Indian hemp weighing 114 kilogrammes concealed in a red Golf car with Oyo State registration number AJ608YRE. They were arrested by vigilante group on the 21st of November, 2009 at Olomi area of Ibadan on their way to Mokola and were instantly handed over to the Nigeria Police who later transferred them to the NDLEA. Jadi spoke on the achievements of the Oyo Command of the NDLEA since January this year to date, saying that a total of 176 suspects were arrested for drug related offences while a total seizure of 5.815 tons of cannabis sativa (Indian hemp) and 600 grammes of heroin were effected. Also within the same period, the Command destroyed four Indian hemp farms measuring 3.3 hectares. Only two months ago, one of such farms measuring 1.2 hectares and located at Gambari Forest Reserve in Oluyole Local Government was destroyed

Jadi maintained that his officers and men were up to the task and that they would not rest on their oars until Oyo State is completely rid of illicit drugs

Andre Uweh:
Just rolling up my sleeves to punch any anti- Igbo post from you. Mind you, am a spy on you.
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stop trying so hard,you are Anioma not igbo.all this fake igbo make me sick.

Oboma1:
In[b] as muclike tribalism,h as I dont and will not say this is a good topic, but I will never shy away from the truth, the Hausas are the problem of this country. The south would have been 20 years ahead of other countries, but the backward nature, and the power birth-right tendencies amongst our "POLITCAL DEALERS"will nèver allow a vibrant and a contemporary young politician come to power. We keep recycling these old fools, whose contributions have expired. After Yar'adua, I am sure Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji, will resurface, and later, the religious bigot, Alhaji Abubakar Rimi, will show his ugly face, or even his son may contest. The same old gays!.

Oboma1:
[b]In as much as I dont like tribalism, and will not say this is a good topic, but I will never shy away from the truth, the Hausas are the problem of this country. The south would have been 20 years ahead of other countries, but the backward nature, and the power birth-right tendencies amongst our "POLITCAL DEALERS"will nèver allow a vibrant and a contemporary young politician come to power. We keep recycling these old fools, whose contributions have expired. After Yar'adua, I am sure Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji, will resurface, and later, the religious bigot, Alhaji Abubakar Rimi, will show his ugly face, or even his son may contest. The same old gays!. [/b]

Oboma1:
No two way about it, the igbos own Nairaland!. Shekinah!.

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