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POLICE ARREST TWO OVER ALLEGED RAPE OF LADY

Officials of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) early Saturday morning arrested two men for allegedly raping a 21-year old dancer inside a Nissan Almera 2017 model in Alausa Business District, Ikeja.

The suspects, Solomon Barry, 37, and Bright Omega, 36, were caught in the act around 3:45 a.m. on Saturday, September 10, 2022.

The RRS officers, who were on patrol of Alausa Business District stopped to check a parked black Nissan Almera at M.K.O Abiola Gardens Road, Alausa, when they noticed the alleged rape ongoing.

On a closer look, the officers observed that the lady was unconscious and not responding to police instructions. The officers promptly rounded up the suspects and urgently drove the lady to RRS Headquarters for medical attention where she regained consciousness.

Investigation revealed that the lady met the suspects at a club around Ikeja Shopping Mall, Alausa, and then consented to driving around town and lodging in a hotel.

Meanwhile, the Commander RRS, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi acting on the instruction of the Commissioner of Police, CP Abiodun Alabi, fdc has transferred the case to the Police Gender Unit, which is specialized in handling such cases.

SP BENJAMIN HUNDEYIN, anipr, mipra
Police Public Relations Officer,
Lagos State Command,
Ikeja-Lagos.

September 15, 2022.

https://twitter.com/LagosPoliceNG/status/1570437331278270465

Damn!

This topic (functions of local governments) is actually taught to children in primary schools! How can someone say that he doesn't know this?

We inherited it from the British (people pay for radio & TV licenses in the UK and that is what is used to fund the BBC).

Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999)

Fourth Schedule



Functions of a Local Government Council

Functions of a Local Government Council



1. The main functions of a local government council are as follows:

(a) the consideration and the making of recommendations to a State commission on economic planning or any similar body on -

(i) the economic development of the State, particularly in so far as the areas of authority of the council and of the State are affected, and

(ii) proposals made by the said commission or body;

(b) collection of rates, radio and television licences;

(c) establishment and maintenance of cemeteries, burial grounds and homes for the destitute or infirm;

(d) licensing of bicycles, trucks (other than mechanically propelled trucks), canoes, wheel barrows and carts;

(e) establishment, maintenance and regulation of slaughter houses, slaughter slabs, markets, motor parks and public conveniences;

(f) construction and maintenance of roads, streets, street lightings, drains and other public highways, parks, gardens, open spaces, or such public facilities as may be prescribed from time to time by the House of Assembly of a State;

(g) naming of roads and streets and numbering of houses;

(h) provision and maintenance of public conveniences, sewage and refuse disposal;

(i) registration of all births, deaths and marriages;

(j) assessment of privately owned houses or tenements for the purpose of levying such rates as may be prescribed by the House of Assembly of a State; and

(k) control and regulation of -

(i) out-door advertising and hoarding,

(ii) movement and keeping of pets of all description,

(iii) shops and kiosks,

(iv) restaurants, bakeries and other places for sale of food to the public,

(v) laundries, and

(vi) licensing, regulation and control of the sale of liquor.

http://www.nigeria-law.org/ConstitutionOfTheFederalRepublicOfNigeria.htm

That provision ↑ has been in all constitutions since 1960.

Kai! Just look at this thread!

God! You mean people have not even read their constitution? Or is this another part of the Silly Season?