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Car TalkMorocco Becomes First Africa Nation To Receive Tesla Charge Stations by Litmus(op): 12:10am On Oct 03, 2021
PoliticsRe: Panic Hits Lagos Posh Areas, As Bandits Kidnap 6 In 24 Hrs - Tribune by Litmus: 8:34pm On Oct 02, 2021
Jakumo:
It has been said that when the poor no longer find food in garbage dumps, they will proceed to eat rich people.

The stark disparity in standard of living, between the fabulously wealthy and the desperately poor, is much more noticeable in Lagos Nigeria, than in practically any other city on the surface of Planet Earth. Any first-time visitor to Lagos will note with alarm how sprawling ragged shanty towns housing the teeming poor exist just minutes walking distance from the opulent mansions of the mega-rich. Both demographics coexisted in an uneasy peace, until now, evidently.

The roles of predator and prey were subject to change literally in the blink of an eye, once critical mass had been attained, and this scenario is apparently unfolding in Lagos as the year 2021 draws to a close. Buckle up, folks, it is going to be a wild ride. Not for one million greenback dollars paid upfront and in cash, would this unrepentant village boy ever set foot in the war zones of Lagos.
Stop making excuses for the poor and consequently indirectly encouraging criminals. Destroy promising Africa nations like Nigeria this way, eventually, when every African nation collapses similarly, hordes numbering billions will cross the sea to attack and ravage Wealthy Europe that exist in fabulous wealth amidst the desperately poor third world.


Being poor is neither desirable nor undesirable but more a condition of the mind created by the invention of politics. Humans need food, water and shelter not plasma TV.
PoliticsRe: Anti-Buhari Protesters Slap Nigerian Government Official In US (Photos, Video) by Litmus:
At work here is another example of the entitled, immature political brain of too many Nigerians that is without sense or perspective. Misunderstanding international politics and social movements that encompass human rights, this type of annoying Nigerian believes the world is sympatric to his cause, which is in reality not a special cause. I bet he was telling himself before he struck the Nigeria Government Official , ‘this is the West, and not Nigeria, where you people act “Big Man, Big Man”, here in the west I can do you anything and you cant touch me because I’m protected by the law !’. He then proceeded and slapped the Official. What he forgot, however, was that in the West the law is meant to protect everyone. In the West, unlike in Nigeria, the poor or ordinary people are not automatically granted moral authority due to societal guilt at not being able to provide, create jobs or grant security for the so-called poor masses. Government is not frightened by the prospect of you running to complain to the West, you’re already in the West. And in that West, just as the “Big Man” is not above the law by virtue of his wealth, the poor man is not above the law either by virtue of his poverty. For slapping the minister, he can expect arrest, prosecution and penalty, should the Official press charges.
PoliticsRe: Gbenga Olawepo Hashim: Greatness Still Within Reach For Nigeria! by Litmus: 12:20am On Oct 02, 2021
No such thing as greatness within any Nation if greatness means having arrived at perfection. Apart from this, Greatness is subjective; you’ll never arrive at consensus especially in this politics poisoned dispensation. There are just Nations, some more developed than others in relation to what we humans currently ascribe to higher or lower development. All nations are in effect developing Nations.
Foreign AffairsRe: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by Litmus:
Whyem15:
The bitter pill of IPOB recklessly killing and enforcing hardship on civilians in the South East is very difficult to swallow for those who encouraged them when this madness started hence the silence. If it were to be soldiers killed or police station burnt, it would have been trending enormously.
The government would be making a lethal mistake by launching another military operation in that axis any time soon, allow the miscreant to continue with this behavior for some time, it is only a matter of time before the people who originally supported them start mobbing them and giving Intel to law enforcement agencies. They progressed from declaring sit at home once a year to enforcing it twice a week.
Just this morning, someone posted an advisory for people to stop driving or moving around with hilux vehicles as they are now attacking people in such vehicles. It can only get worse from here as most of these supposed freedom fighters are actually criminals recruited after the jailbreak and this is what they live for. Whoever is heading IPOB won't be able to stop them when he realizes the damage that is being done.
They needn’t even be Jail breakers to act as is ongoing, they just have to be ordinary, narrowly informed types; those types you see in every corner of town, at mechanic scrap yards, hanging around kiosks, bothering people at the market, football watching joints; sometimes he is muscular or thuggish looking. The type that group around draft boards placed on lorry tires or blocks, talking loudly and expressing opinions add odds with the reality of the world. This type is an ITK of fustian politics whose opinions are only true by virtue of how loud he shouts them, cowing others. This type, on joining something like ESN or any group promising salvation by dint of the relevant theory and recommended course of action, will be the most enthusiastic. His type will want immediate outcome because he wants to enjoy those benefits in his lifetime not comprehending that no such benefits is in the first place possible. Before now, he somehow confused the gratification he vaguely believes he will enjoy, by hurting those more fortunate in life than him, with the better future his people will enjoy from his violent actions. And in this case since the course of action is independence through bloodshed, he will pursue bloodshed ravenously, desperately. He hasn’t the acumen to understand reality or how his limits are at ones exploited by leadership and separate from leadership by a gulf in class, intelligence and the life chances and opportunity that these afford.
PoliticsRe: Unknown Gunmen Kill Fulani Cows In Nnewi, Anambra State (Pictures) by Litmus: 7:39pm On Oct 01, 2021
Thought some claim Nigerians are starving? Irrespective of threat, true starving people wouldnt leave those cattle laying around for even a second.

Actually, even in London here, Council Chaves would have been away with those prime stake bags for flogging around estates or selling to butchers at the back door.
PoliticsRe: Who Else Is Seeing This Post All Over Whatsapp Status by Litmus: 2:54pm On Oct 01, 2021
kingthreat:
Na he-goat dey insult one Nigeria but still dey spend Naira.
And post on Nairaland .
CrimeRe: Gunmen Burn Ajali Police Station In Anambra, Kill 5 Officers (Video) by Litmus: 1:57pm On Oct 01, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRiisZFK6d4
Police Station



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnFfDTiNYNU
Not A Police Station, it's Donatus’s house.
CrimeRe: Gunmen Burn Ajali Police Station In Anambra, Kill 5 Officers (Video) by Litmus: 1:52pm On Oct 01, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnFfDTiNYNU



Those of us that care for others regardless of where they live in Nigeria (what gods they prey to and in what philosophical context; regardless of their tribe, economic circumstances, job, gender, sexuality, political persuasion, class and so on) would RIP less and not prey as much for the fortitude of their relations to cope with their loses if the Nigerian state, States and institutions would but merely perform in line with even the barest 21st century standards. For instance, I doubt any police officer would have died – if indeed any police officers actually died in the incident depicted in the video – had the police station been a 01/10/2021 standard police station, instead of that pre-colonial post office hovel that 1861 colonial administrators would have in any case annotated for demolition in some native’s black slate ledger. angry

RIP
PoliticsRe: Google Celebrates Nigeria's Independence With A Doodle by Litmus: 12:40pm On Oct 01, 2021
Anaerobi:
Why am I hating this nation?


The more I try to love this country, the more I hates it.
Do yourself and many of us a favour by shutting down your account. Stop posting, leave this Nigerian forum. Individuals with hate problems need to work on their attitudes instead of being so pompous about it they want others to feel same as them.
PoliticsRe: Unknown Gunmen Attack Chris Azubogu In Anambra, Driver Shot Dead by Litmus:
chaloskyx:
sorry to say but in the worlds eyes all Nigerians are bad including you in Nigeria you can still try to make your self look good by rubbishing a particular ethnic tribe for all the ill luck you have as a Nigerian but the actual truth is the government leaders pastors and people of Nigeria are a piece of shit[ Igbo's hate Yoruba's and Hausa's, Yoruba's hate Igbo's and Hausa's, Hausas hate Yoruba's and Igbo's the the latest group the Fulani's who hate all of you your country was built on hate corruption divide and rule ethnic bigotry and blood that's why nothing good can come out of the country,
All Nigerians are bad in your wishes only. If the world views all Nigerians as bad, why are they poaching our Nurses, doctors, Tech people and students for fees in thire Universities? Why do they let "you" and thousands of others dwell in thire countries? Why do they listen to our music, watch our movies, hold our arts, read our literature? Why would they hate Nigeria when Nigeria is perhaps the only useful country in Africa outside some of the Northern nations like Egypt and Algeria?

Without Nigeria and Nigerians, Africa is essentially lame and servile in forign eyes , contributors of nothing to the World except as the spook under the bed to frighten Western kids on what may befall them should they fail to be grateful for being born in the West.

You think if shit fall in Africa in terms of wars, the West would come calling on some of the shitty make belief countries that stain Africa do do something? No, they will instead come to Nigeria to ask Nigeria to do something.
PoliticsRe: Banks In South-East Comply With IPOB Directive, Bring Down Nigerian Flags by Litmus: 10:24pm On Sep 30, 2021
Rexwalters1:
What a life you must be living? My goodness, you must be speaking from a reflection of your life? A person with such a mentality cannot prosper.
Sorry, but I had to laugh, see finishing. I suspect this is funny because one has the impression that there’s a simple truth to the observation. On reading it, I immediately envisioned a guy that primarily lives under an abandoned SUV, crawling out from under the wreck to blink first at the afternoon sun, then to stretch, yawn and scratch at his butt until he is startled backward by the honking of a vehicle that speeds past, ferrying a man that adds value to society to a destination of importance. I could imagine the Ne'er-do-well of fellow resenting life to the top and pining his hope for unwarranted revenge on any group, especially any group of the uncouth, ready to disrupt society they blame for their own shortcomings.
PoliticsRe: IPOB Killed Chike, Akunyili's Husband — Uche Mefor by Litmus: 7:01pm On Sep 30, 2021
The Untold Story of Osisikankwu, The Most Notorious And Dreaded Kidnap Kingpin in Igboland
By Chinachrisikenna (self media writer) | 1 year ago


There are kidnappers and there are kidnappers but the story of Obiọma Nwankwo, popularly known as Osisikankwu will always remain indelible in the history of kidnapping in Nigeria. His was a story of an obdurate fellow who recruited more than 3000 men into the nefarious job of kidnapping that terrorised the whole of Abia State especially Aba and environs, even down to Oyigbo in Rivers State.

If you had lived in Aba circa 2007- 2010, you would understand definitely what I am saying. It got so terrible that at a point that the whole of Aba was sacked as the kidnappings got intensified. People packed their belongings and relocated to their villages, many big cats in Aba and environs left Igboland, Abia State government's officials were not spared. Hundreds were abducted, tortured, killed and made to cough out millions to free themselves from the shackles of captivity. Aba and surrounding Ngwa villages almost became a ghost area as people left in their thousands to escape being the next bird of sacrifice.

In my area then at the periphery of Aba, just near the then new timber market at Uratta, the wives of two fat cows in the area were kidnapped. They were later released after their husbands had paid the agreed ransome. They equally came for the MD of Calif Hospital in my area but the renowned surgeon escaped and fled Aba. It was not a nice experience. There were also ugly stories of rape and murder. My mother and four sisters had to relocate to the village for the time being to avoid being ravaged by those monsters. There were numerous gun battles in broad daylight. Many people lost their lives.

Their Modus operandi


Osisikankwu is from Ogwe area of Ukwa West LGA of Abia State. He succeeded in organising a formidable kidnap gang of about 3000 mean men solely for abduction and killing.

They mainly target the affluent class, expatriates and highly placed government officials of Abia State. The Government of Abia State then under the leadership of Dr Theodore Ahamefula Orji was handicapped. Nothing could be done as hordes of Aba residents were either killed by the rampaging Aba kidnap gang.

The following complied by these reporter from Saharareporters were some documented cases of kidnap operations executed by Osisikankwu and his men in 2010 alone.


1. Three British Nationals and a Columbian contract staff of NetcoDietmann working at Shell's Power Plant in Afam VI, Oyigbo LGA of Rivers State were kidnapped by gunmen on January, 12. They barricaded their vehicle on their way back to Oyigbo at Owaza junction in Ukwa West LGA of Abia State. They were whisked away after shooting to death a mobile police officer escorting them. The white men were identified as John Bennet, Kelvin Gray and Martin Phillip, all Britons with Fabian Sanchez as the only Columbian. NetcoDietmann and Rivers State government paid a huge ransome before they were freed.


2. In April and May of 2010, two German and three Chnese nationals together with Nine Nigerians working for Nigerian Steel Company, Aba, were kidnapped by Osisikankwu's gang. They were later released after the payment of millions of naira.


3. On July 10, one Mrs Victoria Ori, the wife of an rich bull from Ohafia was abducted by a 4-member gang who demanded for a whooping sum of ₦20 million naira. Mrs Ori was released after a reasonable amount was paid.


4. Just a day after the kidnap of Mrs Ori, three Journalists, together with their driver, travelling through Aba after a meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State were whisked away at Umuafuoka junction near Ukpakiri, Obingwa LGA of Abia State by Osisikankwu's men. The kidnapped Journalists include: Wahab Oba, Lagos State Chairman of NUJ, Adolphus Okonkwo, secretary of Zone G of the NUJ, Slyvester Okereke, acting secretary, Lagos, NUJ, Sola Oyeyipo, a Lagos-based journalist and their driver. A reliable source disclosed to Saharareporters that ₦30 million was paid before the men were released from the kidnapper's lair.


5. On Tuesday, August 24, Osisikankwu's gang led by a young thug called 'Okwute' STONE robbed five commercial banks in the Osisioma area of Aba, Killing all policemen and security on guard. The affected banks were closed down till date.


6. On Sunday, September 7, masked gunmen numbering about 15 stormed the 5000 capacity of Jerusalem for All Nations Church at Umuneke Community and bundled away the church's senior pastor, fondly called Christ Junior by his sheeples. A politician, identified as Lambert Nmecha was killed during the operation.


7. On Saturday, September 11, an Indian national working with an electronic company in Aba was killed by a five-man kidnap thugs after he intransigently refused to follow the men in their car. The thugs fled the scene afterwards.


8. A gynaecologist and proprietor of Victory Christian Hospital at Obohia Road, Aba, Dr Stanley Uche was picked up by those monsters on September 17 as he travelled down to Imo State for a family burial with his wife. The wife was later released to go and organise a ₦30 million ransom. She later brought the money only to be given the lidless body of her husband. Aba women's cries rose to high heavens. I believe God heard their wailings and ululation. Dr Uche's hospital was one of the best for child delivery in Aba but he was unfortunately killed by Osisikankwu's men.


9. On Saturday, September 25, two mobile policemen on patrol in their new Hilux were killed in an ambush at Umuafor Ukwu, Obingwa lga of Abia State. After that incident, Abia State Police Command lamented that it has lost 27 of its members to Osisikankwu's gang.


The Last Straw


As if that was not enough, Osisikankwu and his men struck again on Monday, 27th September at Abayi International School, Osisioma, Aba, kidnapping 15 pupils of the school. This was the height of it all, the zenith of all their atrocities.

The kidnappers, patrolling in an ash-coloured Toyota Camry intercepted Abayi International school's van and diverted it to an unknown destination. The school children were later released unscathed but the story has gone viral, even capturing the attention of International media houses who expressed disgust at the kidnap crisis engulfing Aba.

Consequently, he was declared wanted by the Nigeria Army and police.

His Surprising Confession


In what appeared to be an inadvertent confessional statement recorded by Chidi Nkwopara, of Vanguard Newspapers, the correspondent was tricked into granting an unsolicited interview by Osisikankwu himself. Mr Nkwopara was deluded into coming to Aba to collect money for advert placement on Vanguard.

According to Mr Nkwopara, he declined on grounds that Aba was a no-go area but the caller persuaded him to come to a popular place at Osisioma to belie his fears. Mr Nkwopara however, agreed and came down to Aba only to meet the dreaded and most wanted militant leader and kidnapper, Osisikankwu.

Since he had been declared wanted, Osisikankwu wanted to use the medium to ventilate himself on why he decided to pick up arms and resort to theft and kidnap.

In the interview which lasted for 30 minutes, Osisikankwu admitted to be the mastermind behind the kerfuffle engulfing Abia State as a whole. He said he was on mission to liberate Ngwaland, the largest tribe in Abia State.

According to him, Ngwaland has been marginalised despite harbouring the commercial and industrial city of Aba and being the oil producing enclave of Abia State. Since the creation of Abia State, other smaller tribes in the state such as the Igberre, Abriba, Ohafia, Umuahia, Item, Aro etc, have being advantaged.

Only Ukwa-Ngwa, the largest tribe in the state with nine local governments were neglected, relegated to the background. He complained about the grim and ramshackle roads in Aba, the corruption of the T. A Orji kedu Government and the ballooning cases of unemployment among Ukwa-Ngwa youths.

He was happy the world then knew about their activities and was willing to surrender and be granted amnesty and rehabilitation only if the Abia State government was willing to help them.


How Art The Mighty Fallen?


The Igbo people will invariably say that one does not stay in his home and grow hunchback or squash his scrotum. Also, an elder will not sit down silent while the goat suffers the pains of parturition while tethered to a stake. Home is where comfort lies and when an enemy comes to disrupt the peace of a home, such enemy must be chased away.

Following the abduction of Aba School Children which raised dust globally, the Federal Government under the leadership of newly sworn-in Goodluck Ebele Jonathan had to intervene. A troop of Joint Military Task Force was deployed to Abia State on a mission to crack down on the kidnappers.

The Military Task Force worked hard until December 12, when they successfully caught and killed the small shit that ruins the anus: OSISIKANKWU!

According to Lt. Col. Sagir Musa, an Army Spokesman then, the notorious criminal was killed at Ugwuati Evil Forest in Ukwa West LGA of Abia State, after a fierce gun duel between the Joint Military Task Force and Osisikankwu's gang. It was a war of charms, of juju and of the paranormal.

The soldiers after emerging victorious displayed the body of the kidnap kingpin in an open van round Aba to the ecstasy and jubilation of Aba residents. How Art the mighty fallen.

Osisikankwu's girlfriend, Ogochi was also arrested during the operation. Ogochi who was reportedly three months pregnant pointed out the exact locations where Osisikankwu's lair was.

Consequent upon the revelation, a mop of operation was carried out the JTF in the Ugwuati Evil Forest. The operation led to the recovery of the following: 48 empty magazine of AK 47; 3,848 rounds of 7.62mm special ammunition; 538 rounds of 7.62 mm Nato; 41 expended cases of 7.62mm special ammunition; some quantity of dynamite and 3 RPG prima.

In a swift reaction, the Abia State Government, under the Theodore Orji kedu administration, described the killing of Osisikankwu as the 'triumph of light over darkness' and commended the JTF for their dogged fight against the notorious Kidnapper.
Ref: https://ng.opera.news/ng/en/crime/317898aa7bd05ceeb0d9aab5d3cf5703


Ref:
BuddhaPalm:
Thanks for this.

Knew he was notorious back in the day, but didn't know the details.

Found this article: https://ng.opera.news/ng/en/crime/317898aa7bd05ceeb0d9aab5d3cf5703
Interesting History
Car TalkSONO SION, The Cheap Solar-powered Car You May NEVER Need To Charge by Litmus(op): 6:03pm On Sep 30, 2021
Foreign AffairsRe: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by Litmus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvXNtla1am0

A number of nations on the list above aren’t as wealthy as Finland. Does Colombia actually operate 11 submarines shocked In any case, as long as Africa influences Nigeria, Nigeria will always be held back. Africans can sometimes seem desperate for Nigeria not to leave them behind and seem happiest when they can mock Nigeria. Nigeria ideally should at the very least aim to compete with nations of her rank such as Indonesia, Egypt, brazil, India, Pakistan, Norway, Argentina and so on not be dragging pot with the likes of Ghana, Rwanda, Cameroon, Ivory cost and be sitting down after with oil-stained mouth, flanked by fly-assed mongrel dogs.

I'm not a fan of "Nigeria in Africa" - in a manner of speaking.
Car TalkThe First Customer-ready Lucid Air Drives Off The Assembly Line by Litmus(op): 10:12pm On Sep 29, 2021
CrimePower Of CCTV by Litmus(op): 9:39pm On Sep 29, 2021
Chilling moment killer cop seized Sarah Everard: Dashcam video shows Wayne Couzens using Covid laws to make fake arrest of his victim on a London street - before forcing her into car, raping and murdering her

Footage shows Miss Everard on the pavement with depraved Met officer moments before he kidnapped her
Couzens cuffed hands behind her back, leaving her incapable of undoing the seatbelt he strapped around her
Old Bailey heard harrowing details of serving police officer's deceit and Miss Everard's horrific final hours
Marketing executive was raped, murdered and burned in pre-meditated attack that was weeks in planning
Couzens watched with head bowed while victim's family, friends and boyfriend listened from public stalls
Serving police officer has admitted kidnap, rape and murder and will be sentenced after two-day hearing

This is the chilling moment killer cop Wayne Couzens stopped Sarah Everard on the street as he used Covid laws as a ploy to 'arrest' the marketing executive and force her into his rental car.

Footage taken from a passing dashcam shows the 33-year-old stood on a pavement on Poynders Road in Clapham as Couzens, who was wearing handcuffs on his police belt, speaks to her.

Earlier, he had spent two hours driving through central and south London - prowling Kensington, Lavender Hill and Earls Court for a lone young woman to abduct - before stalking Miss Everard and stopping next to her.

The twisted Met Protection Officer can be seen producing his warrant card as he claimed Miss Everard had breached Covid restrictions.

Couzens then cuffed her hands behind her back, leaving her incapable of undoing the seatbelt he strapped around her after ordering her into the back of his rental car.

As the depraved killer watched in the Old Bailey with his head bowed, Miss Everard's family heard in horrific detail how Miss Everard spent her final hours before the serving Metropolitan Police officer raped and murdered her, and then burned her body in a pre-meditated attack that was weeks in the planning.

It coincided with a string of increasingly sick behaviour which saw the married father-of-two flashing two women in McDonald's across two separate incidents.

Witnesses later described how Miss Everard - who had spent the evening at a friend's house sharing a bottle of wine - appeared 'compliant' with her 'head down' as the 'confident-looking' officer made what seemed to be a late-night arrest at the height of lockdown in March.

CCTV footage captured by a passing bus showed Miss Everard in the back seat of Couzens' hire car after she was falsely 'arrested'.

Couzens, who lied to his family about working a night shift that evening, then drove Miss Everard 80 miles to a remote stretch of road in his home county of Kent. It was here that he forcibly moved her into his own Seat vehicle.

Prosecutor Tom Little QC said: 'She must have realised her fate.'

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Footage the 33-year-old stood on the pavement with Couzens moments before he kidnapped her. Miss Everard is beneath the yellow arrow while Couzens' arrow is purple

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The deranged Met Protection Officer, who was wearing his police belt containing handcuffs, can be seen producing his warrant card as he claimed Miss Everard had breached Covid restrictions


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Miss Everard's devastated family listened from the public gallery as the Old Bailey heard harrowing details of how Couzens took her to a rural area and raped her, before later being seen buying Lucozade and other drinks from BP station with her body in boot, after she was believed to have been murdered.

Distressing details of the timeline suggest Miss Everard could have been alive for more than four hours in the back of Couzens' car. She was snatched off the street by 9.30pm and when the killer pulled into the garage at 2.30am, Sarah is thought to have been in his boot, already dead.

The court heard he confessed to a psychiatrist that he had strangled Miss Everard with his belt, and the prosecution said her injuries were consistent with ones that would have been caused by his police belt.

Couzens - who had prepared for the abduction by buying a rental car and a sheet of film from Amazon - hid her body inside a fridge in a patch of rubbish-strewn woodland before torching it.

Footage released by police showed the moment Couzens rented the car he would go on to use to prowl the streets of London for almost two hours before picking up Miss Everard.

The CCTV clip showed Couzens calmly laughing with a female attendant. He joked 'you've put me on the spot' while trying to remember his phone number as she took his details.

He went on to visit a Tesco store in west London to buy a pack of 14 hairbands just an hour before Miss Everard was abducted on March 3, before making further trips to a B&Q two days after Miss Everard is believed to have been killed. He also visited a Homebase in Folkestone on the morning of Monday, March 8.

CCTV footage showed the moment he went on to visit a BP garage in Dover on Friday, March 5 to buy and fill a petrol canister - believed to have been used to burn Miss Everard's body.

Just days after the murder, the father-of-two took his wife and children on a family trip and allowed the youngsters to play near a pond where he had dumped Miss Everard's remains, the prosecution said.

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CCTV footage (pictured) captured by a passing bus showed Miss Everard in the back seat of Couzens' hire car after she was falsely 'arrested'

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/09/29/19/48557853-10041217-image-a-35_1632939801136.jpg
Couzens sat in the drivers' seat of the hire car after buckling up Miss Everard's seatbelt in the back

Quizzed by police, he lied that he had been 'leant on' by an Eastern European gang who threatened to harm his family if he did not agree to pick up a woman and hand her over to the occupants of a van near Maidstone.

Taken to Wandsworth Police Station, he repeatedly tried to self-harm by banging his head on a sink and running into a wall, and was put under constant watch before appearing in court.

Today, Miss Everard's family and friends gave victim impact statements to the Old Bailey. Her father, Jeremy Everard, demanded Couzens look at him while he was giving his testimony.

The Old Bailey heard horrific details of the serving police officer's deceit and Sarah's final hours before she was raped, murdered and burned in a pre-meditated attack that was weeks in the planning:

Prosecution say five words summarise what PC Wayne Couzens did to Sarah Everard: 'Deception, kidnap, rape, strangulation, fire';
Friends in Deal said Couzens was regularly seen wearing his police belt with handcuffs and pepper spray, when not on duty, and he lied that he was an undercover police officer;
In December 2020 he joined Match.com and said he had no wife and children. He also signed up to an escort agency;
In January 2021, Couzens worked on COVID patrols and 'used this knowledge' to kidnap his victim, who he stopped after doing laps of west and south-west London on the night of March 3, 2021;
On February 10 he bought a 'police standard issue handcuff key with double locking pin' from Amazon, which he used on his police-issue cuffs to detain Sarah Everard and force her into his hire car;
On February 28, Couzens booked a hire car online from Enterprise and ordered a 100m roll of carpet protector film from Amazon, used to line the boot where he eventually kept Sarah's body;
He had told his wife that he was working a night shift when he grabbed Sarah - in fact he was off duty and cruising the streets looking for a victim;
A couple driving past witnessed the kidnapping. Couzens using his warrant card and handcuffs to make a false arrest. They believed she had 'done something wrong' so didn't intervene;
A former boyfriend said Sarah was 'extremely intelligent, savvy and streetwise' and would never get into a stranger's vehicle 'unless by force or by manipulation', which is exactly what Couzens did;
Sarah was driven 80 miles to the Kent coast, where she was raped and murdered after a five-hour ordeal;
In 2019 Wayne Couzens bought plot of woodland in Hoads Wood near Ashford. He bragged it was 'perfect for day trips' - but it's where he burned Sarah's body and dumped it in bags in shallow water;
Couzens took his family on a trip to the woods where he burned Miss Everard's body - allowing his children to play near where it was dumped;
Phoned vet to arrange for an appointment to see his dog and handed in his Met Police firearms licence;
Lied about being forced to 'pick up a girl' by an Eastern European gang who threatened his family;
Admits to killing her with his belt - with prosecution saying injuries were consistent with his police belt;
Couzens repeatedly self-harmed in his cell, as police divers found Miss Everard's phone in the River Stour;
Miss Everard's father demanded killer 'look me in the face', mother said she was 'haunted' by murder and sister called Couzens 'a monster';
Court also heard how Couzens was 'attracted to brutal sexual pornography'

Fake arrest 'for breaking lockdown rules' used to kidnap Miss Everard as she walked home from a friend's house

Wayne Couzens accused Sarah Everard of breaking lockdown rules to make a 'fake arrest', the Old Bailey heard today.

The policeman used his handcuffs and warrant card to snatch Miss Everard as she walked home from visiting a friend in Clapham, south London, on the evening of March 3.

The sexual predator, who had clocked off from a 12-hour shift that morning, went on to rape and strangle the 33-year-old marketing executive before setting fire to her body.

A week after she disappeared, Miss Everard's remains were found in a woodland stream in Ashford, Kent, just yards from land owned by Couzens.
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FamilyRe: I Told My Wife Not To Kiss My 6-Month-Old Son On The Mouth: Am I Wrong? by Litmus: 5:27pm On Sep 29, 2021
Op is probably among those that believe the function of women’s breast is for men's gratification. I dread to think what he would do to his wife should he discover her breast feeding the child. undecided
TravelRe: World's Largest And Most Spectacular Royal Palaces (Photos) by Litmus: 5:10pm On Sep 29, 2021
See how you Nigerians and others are enjoying these photos; no one has once mentioned elites and exploitation of the people as you would have done had the post been all about Nigeria’s traditional rulers and their relatively poorly funded palaces. You’re all staring wistfully at the foreign palaces dreaming of visiting such palaces one day and yet when someone like me comes along and suggests that since Nigeria has many monarchs and chiefs etc and that these could be tourists attractions if we but only invested in them, drawing from the past to rapidly progress them to what they might have become had colonialism not interrupted their evolution, you all frown and complain that these our traditional treasures are worthless and all should be scrapped. angry
Science/TechnologySpacex Starships Update by Litmus(op): 4:38pm On Sep 29, 2021
SpaceX Starship 20 – Testing begins!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL2bYJfigTM
PoliticsRe: El-rufai: It’s Foolish To Sit In Lagos Or Port Harcourt And Demand Power Shift by Litmus: 2:53pm On Sep 29, 2021
Nigerians turning into black people gradually grin



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj9Hzs-vBLE
Foreign AffairsRe: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by Litmus: 2:49pm On Sep 29, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsySuYTI26o

I wonder if the early days of Sierra Leone Civil War looked like this. Although, I dare say, war in the area will be far worst since I have little doubt, but no evidence to share, that there are external forces bent on creating a linked war across the middle of Africa, from Mali to Central Africa and, perhaps, to as far as Mozambique.


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Foreign AffairsRe: UK Police Arrest Six Nigerians For Selling Black Market Fuel by Litmus: 10:04am On Sep 29, 2021
Lastmankc:
Shut up,so you just believe every junks thrown to you as news on social media without sources or evidence?You really need a brain transplant.
Lol, but I’m not sure I would be too ashamed though, as a Nigerian, if it were true; that is smart thinking right there, although I wouldn’t personally get up to something similar….
PoliticsRe: Chike Akunyili Is Dead! Dora Akunyili's Husband Killed By Unknown Gunmen by Litmus:
Chigold101:
May God console the family.

Shame on you for concluding that's it's IPOB that killed him even without any investigation from any security agency
Accusations and aspersion castings are weapons in Nigeria because we’re not an evidence seeking society. Someone is fingered for a thief and, chances are, the mob lynches them immediately without questions. During SARS Protests those of us that pleaded that we move forward informed by evidence were often mocked. Another reason Activists often detest Evidence Seeking or are irritated by it is since evidence seeking has the initial effect of cooling tempers during the period spent awaiting the outcome of evidence-seeking and, of course, activists exploit anger because it drives and fuels anarchy. Sure, when you’re driven by a cause - and, accusations and aspersions casting become convenient tools justified on the bases of end results and the self-consolation that you’ll make amends for any past transgressions - you’ll hate those that try to persuade society on the importance of Evidence. It is not until positions reverse or the opposition adopts similar methods that an understanding dawns on why evidence seeking is crucial in any society or circumstance but more so in developing societies such as ours.
Foreign AffairsRe: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by Litmus: 4:38pm On Sep 28, 2021
DubaiLandLord2:
Is just going to a total waste of money and they won't even achieve the objectives of why is been constructed.

Some communities that span between Nigeria and other west African countries will even oppose the construction of fence to divide their communities.
For me, Nigeria needs to worry about Nigeria and make as much demarcations as possible between Nigeria and neighbouring Nations. Nigeria also needs to build these fences and barriers where possible and relevant regardless of America and the efficacy of their walls. Walls may be useless around American schools, colleges or higher institutions but useful incorporations into the design of new schools, collages and places of higher institution in NE Nigeria. Pakistan is happy with their border fences, walls etc as is Israel. The measure of US migrant wall, besides, isn’t preventing increasing number of nations adopting same measure, what makes us smarter than them?
NYSCRe: Corper Explains Why Female Soldier Poured Dirty Water On Her (Video) by Litmus: 1:38pm On Sep 28, 2021
Was it necessary to drag both girls online and place them before the international court of emotional hearing just for, essentially, character building issues of normal life?

Why do Nigerians upload all issues, irrespective of how relatively trivial, jeopardising the future of some of the people exposed?
PoliticsRe: Ohaneze: Northern Governors Planning To Break-up Nigeria by Litmus: 1:26pm On Sep 28, 2021
TUANKU:
You're smart.
They're taking loans in billions and building infrastructure in the north and Niger republic, after the break up the north and Niger republic will become one country. The Chadians didn't buy into the idea.
Lol, what sort of infrastructure do you believe they are building that will be so self-perpetuating they wouldn’t require future equivalent loans to rebuild since even excellent maintenance culture does not solve obsolescence? Industrialisation is the West’s solution.
HealthRe: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by Litmus:
mybiz234:
I'm not.

I, however, know that a good job in the UK is more preferable to the jobs we do in Nigeria
You called him a "deceptive hypocrite!" isn’t that a little excessive just because he was defensive about his country Nigeria? It just seems you were very defensive about the UK, which seems odd now since you’re not even British.
HealthRe: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by Litmus: 12:52pm On Sep 28, 2021
mybiz234:
British Ke? I want steal am?
You seem rather patriotic about the UK
HealthRe: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by Litmus: 12:51pm On Sep 28, 2021
litaninja:
Its simple then, isn't it? Pack up your bags and move back to nigeria.
He has.
HealthRe: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by Litmus: 12:50pm On Sep 28, 2021
mybiz234:
Coming back to Nigeria shouldn't be difficult for you. So, why are you not back to Nigeria yet since Nigeria is better for you?

You deceptive hypocrite!
He has returned to Nigeria, he stated it already. By the way are you British?
NYSCRe: Corper Explains Why Female Soldier Poured Dirty Water On Her (Video) by Litmus: 11:32am On Sep 28, 2021

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