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Nine members of a notorious kidnap syndicate terrorizing Abeokuta Ayetoro road in recent time were on Sunday April 24th arrested in their hideout at Abule oba, off Ayetoro road Abeokuta by men of Ogun state Police Command, in collaboration with local hunters, so safe corps, OPC, vigilante and men of Amotekun corps.

The suspects identified as Hammed Taiwo, Kehinde Jimoh, Umar Sanda, Sanda Aliu, Ali Morandu, Usman Abubakar, Usman Mohammed, Umaru Ahmadu and Umaru Momodu were arrested, following a credible intelligence gathered by policemen at Sabo/Ilupeju divisional headquarters, that Hammed Taiwo and Kehinde Jimoh who are errand okada riders to the kidnap syndicate were sighted somewhere in Rounder area of Abeokuta North local government.

Upon the information, the DPO Sabo/Ilupeju division, SP Mustapha Opawoye, quickly moblised his men and moved to the area, where the duo of Hammed Taiwo and Kehinde Jimoh were apprehended.

On interrogation, they confessed been part of the syndicate, but their own role is to run errands and watch the environment to prevent law enforcement agents from getting to them unaware.

Their confession led to the discovery of the hideout of group at Abule Oba, off Ayetoro road, where they always met after collecting ransom from their victims.

Having discovered the hideout, the DPO mobilized his men,so safe corps, OPC men, local hunters and men of Amotekun corps and subsequently stormed the place where all the nine members of the syndicate were arrested.

Confirming their arrest, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, spokesperson of the state police command, said preliminary investigation revealed that, the suspects are the group terrorizing Abeokuta/Ayetoro road in recent time. Some of their victims have been able to identified them as their abductors.

Meanwhile, the state commissioner of police, CP Lanre Bankole, has expressed satisfaction about the intelligence-based investigation carried out by his men which led to the arrest of the hoodlums and has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to anti-kidnapping section of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for discreet investigation.

The media offices of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader Bola Tinubu issued separate statements, yesterday, warning the public to beware of plots by unscrupulous persons against their principals.

Osinbajo and Tinubu have both declared their intention to contest the presidency in next year’s general elections. The duo’s aspirations, however, have further stirred political waters, with some of their supporters hurling accusations and counteraccusations.

Titled, ‘Tinubu is the target of blasphemous campaign’, the aspirant’s media office said: “The orchestrated set-up of a poster campaign seeking to use a literary application of the Biblical story of Judas Iscariot’s betrayal of Jesus Christ to rope Asiwaju Tinubu into a storm of blasphemy is the most desperate antics of anti-Tinubu propagandists in recent times.”

It said: “Investigations have revealed that those who created the offensive poster were the same people who created the counter-campaign alleging blasphemy. Their design is used both to provoke anger against the person and aspiration of Asiwaju Tinubu.

“This campaign has failed. This is clearly irresponsible and insensitive political propaganda that seeks to exploit religious sentiments to manipulate public perception against Asiwaju Tinubu, who is ostensibly the most formidable presidential aspirant in this race.”

ON the other hand, the Osinbajo for President Media Council said it “uncovered yet another fraudulent plan to malign the reputation of Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Vice President of Nigeria and a presidential aspirant on the platform of the APC.

“The plot has been traced to a cell of smear campaigners, led by a U.S. based Nigerian, who was formerly a Students Union President at the University of Lagos. The same individual is currently a lecturer at the University of Ohio in the USA.

“The plan is to use fake audio of faceless individuals with fictitious names to cast the Vice President, who is a Christian, as a religious fanatic, who discriminated against the staff of other faith while he was Attorney General (AG) and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State during the tenure of former Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”

The statement continues: “In the fake video, a woman is seen crying and making frantic allegations that she was discriminated against by the then-Attorney General, because she was not allowed to wear the Muslim head cover for women, otherwise known as ‘hijab’, to work.

“As observed by someone who was in the same ministry at the time Osinbajo served as Attorney General, no such incident ever occurred and this is just a malicious and wicked attempt to sully the sterling qualities of Osinbajo because of his presidential aspirations.

“Indeed as Attorney General, Osinbajo’s Secretary, a Muslim, Alhaji Abdul Gafar Bakare, had testified before now that the then Lagos AG ‘did not only encourage me to further my education, even at my relatively old age, he personally sponsored my BSc Accounting Programme.’ He added that the Vice President also sponsored his foreign travel then.

“It would be recalled that a similar smear campaign was unleashed against President Muhammadu Buhari, especially during the 2014-15 presidential campaigns, when it was alleged that he was virulently anti-Christian. The attempt however met with failure.

“Even though a Christian pastor, Osinbajo has always demonstrated himself to be a tolerant Nigerian who believes in inter-faith harmony and freedom of worship, as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution as amended.

“During his career as a university teacher, he taught Muslims and Christians alike in a convivial atmosphere. He also had excellent working and private relationships with Muslim bosses over the decades, including Judge Bola Ajibola, former Governor Tinubu and President Muhammadu Buhari. Osinbajo remains a firm believer in Nigeria’s diversity and an ardent proponent of Nigerian unity.

“For these reasons, the media council feels the need to alert the general public to the odious campaign strategy of Osinbajo’s detractors and urge everyone to ignore same when released to the public.”

PRESSING its argument further, Tinubu’s media office said: “It is widely known that Asiwaju Tinubu is married to not just a Christian but an ordained pastor, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, and has developed a very deep fraternal relationship with Christendom at all levels, a fact acknowledged by many bishops, pastors and parishioners over the years.

“A known Muslim, Asiwaju in words and actions has demonstrated religious tolerance and accommodation. He believes in the cardinal principle of the Nigerian Constitution that no one should suffer discrimination on the basis of creed or opinion.

“Besides, as a former governor of Lagos, a state that is a microcosm of Nigeria in terms of religious diversity, his matured management of religion as a way of life, ensured inter-religious harmony in Nigeria’s most industrialised state.

“It is, therefore, impudent to contemplate that a statesman of Asiwaju Tinubu’s standing will condone Biblical allusions that could denigrate his person or status.

These basic facts were ignored by those desperate to set Muslims against Christians through deliberate disinformation of the general public.

“While we shall continue to appeal to the Nigerian people to ignore such campaigns of calumny, we reiterate our commitment to prioritise our political communication on the exposition of the truth and dissemination of our point of view with decency and regard to the feelings of Nigerians.

“This is an irreducible minimum for us. We urge others to join us in this patriotic mission by shunning desperation and verbal violence in the campaign for the highest office in the land.”

Truthisunique2:
The issue in South East is very simple, give them kanu

I believe Nigerians said this about the founding fathers of Boko Haram and how it was handled

Today the country would literally give anything to north to end agitation but it has gotten beyond that

Why don't the government do same for south east that still have a demand now?

You can release kanu and have him sign agreement with ICC etc that he can be apprehended wherever he is if he renegenes, from their the nation can start citing projects in south east and carrying them along at least to the extent that the other region enjoy

NigerianAngelo:
Let the Ukranian President just give them Donbass which is made up of ethnic Russians and end all of this.

He is also a war criminal.


Crimea opted to join their motherland in 2014 and the Ukrainians are still saying No. No to what exactly?



Besides I have seen videos of Ukranians brutally murdering Russians, or leaving them to die in the cold so they are equally (or more) wicked.
It dawns on me that some of Russia's murders during their retreat might be as a pain for all Ukranians did to them.

10,000 dead soldiers isn't 300 soldiers. That's wicked for people that weren't targeting you (civilians).

rippa:
Ortom is a million times better than Abiodu. Yahaya bello na champion were Abiodun dey. As peaceful as ogun state is, no single project is ongoing since 2019. No road even after producing a president and a vice president for 16years combined. Una nor get shame at all

uthlaw:
it works only on Monday,they will drop at Lagos,then take a bus to Ogun!

DrGoodman:
Abatam nwosu, thank God the Fulani herdsmen in DSS acting as unknown gunmen didn't kill you. They are in control of the army, police and dss for a reason

Between seventeen and eighteen passengers have died in a ghastly auto-crash at Ishara axis of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway in Ogun State.

Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) puts the preliminary figure at 17, while Ogun State Road Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) said 18 died in the accident.

All of them were burnt beyond recognition after their Mazda bus caught fire before Ishara bridge.

The accident which occurred at 5 am on Friday, involved two vehicles, a Mazda Bus marked ZT 728 KLD and an unmarked Dangote tanker.

The state sector commander of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Ahmed Umar in a statement by the command’s spokesperson, superintendent route commander, Florence Okpe, said both vehicles had a head-on-collision, resulting into a fire outbreak.

Umar describes the crash as avoidable, if traffic regulation had been respected.

He directs members of public seeking more details to contact the FRSC unit at Ogere.

Meanwhile, TRACE said that two of the eighteen passengers who died in the crash are females, while the gender of others could not be immediately recognized.

According to TRACE spokesman, commander Babatunde Akinbiyi, the Dangote tanker crossed to the opposite lane and collided with the passenger bus.

According to him, the bus was heading to Lagos.

Landlords and residents of the Royal Garden Community Development Association have accused the Believers Love World, aka Christ Embassy, of encroaching on their land in Aseese, in the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State.

The residents said the church, while claiming ownership of the estate’s land, brought some men to mark buildings on the estate for demolition.

The landlords and residents, who staged a protest on Thursday, said Christ Embassy had no right over their landed property.

Starting around 6am, the protesters were seen carrying placards with different inscriptions including, ‘Pastor Chris, leave our community,’ ‘Christ Embassy can’t invalidate our CofO,’ ‘Do not preach by using caterpillars,’ among others.

During the protest, the Chairman of the CDA, Adekola Abayomi, said the struggle over ownership claim of the landed property had been a lingering issue in the community.

He added that efforts to get the government to administer justice in the matter had proved abortive.

Abayomi said, “We have been in a struggle for the past three years. When they came in 2019, we took them to court, but they didn’t show up. In October 2021, when most of our men were not around, they came with land grabbers to mark our houses.

“So, our lawyer wrote to the Ministry of Urban and Regional Planning in Ogun State, on the claim that representatives of Christ Embassy were saying our land falls under the church’s land, but the ministry failed to respond.

“Sometime in January, the church’s representatives came again with land grabbers to mark houses on the estate. So, we decided to protest because the government refused to respond to our letters and we want its intervention for the matter to be settled.”

PUNCH Metro gathered that during the protest, the Divisional Police Officer, Ibafo, visited the scene of the incident and later invited representatives of the CDA and the church’s Chief Security Officer, Ighodalo Ozazuwa, over the matter.

The immediate past Chairman of the CDA, Akin Olaoye, urged the state Governor, Dapo Abiodun, to a meeting where documents would be presented by members of the estate and representatives of the church.

Olaoye added, “They bought land from the Oloke family and we bought ours from the Aseese family. Christ Embassy came to our community with promises and we were happy to receive them, but they didn’t fulfil their promises.

“When the church’s representatives came again with some government officials to mark buildings and cause pandemonium in the community, most of us had gone to work, but rushed back home.

“Since then, we concluded that we won’t go anywhere because we are afraid that they can come anytime to demolish our property. Some of our landlords have CofOs. The left side is for us and the right side belongs to the church.”

A spokesperson for the church, Chris Ebare, said he held a meeting with members of the community a few days earlier.

He added, “During the meeting, they gave me an appeal letter to give to the pastor. As of 2003 when we went there to buy land, from the major road to where our church is located, only one house owned by one Mr Rasaq was there.

“We bought land from Aseese, Mamba, Oloke, and other families. Late Alhaji Tajudeen Ogooluwa sold 522 acres of land to us. We also got CofO for the entire land. When we wanted to do our road, the government officials came to mark out the boundary of our land and that was when they marked all the property that fell on the road.

“I am the lawyer for the ministry. So, they called me and started appealing for their houses not to be destroyed. About 10 houses encroached on our land and I told them that I would take their pleas to the church authorities.”

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said, “Anybody who has issues relating to land ownership should go to court as it is only the court that can give ownership of land to a particular person.

“So, the invitation by the police was just to caution them to allow peace to reign and not to allow their protest degenerate into a breakdown of law and order.”

Lasunray01:
Good day nairalanders. My first time post in 5yrs.

Will try to summarize the issues and seek sincere advise please.

I’ve been married before but got divorced within a year due to genotype issues(it’s a long story). So I remarried 2yrs after and with a child now, and that’s where my issues started from.

I know I have some bad sides too which I’m trying to change, which is flirting with single ladies, and this has caused multiple fight with my wife.

Whenever we have this fights, not physical, just verbal, but in her anger she breaks virtually anything around, cups, laptop, speakers etc. she can be madly angry. I’ve warned, petted her severally to desist from this act especially infront of our kid...but she won’t. It’s getting worse by the day. Now she reports me with blackmail to her parents and friends making me feel I’m the worst husband in the universe, calling me unprintable names. Calling me weak cos I don’t beat.

Now the advice I seek, we are planning to relocate as a family abroad this year, but I’m really scared. I can actually go alone, but would prefer we all go together since I have the means. But I’m scared if I won’t regret my actions to take her along with this her character. What if I get jailed or lose custody of our child abroad, because she’s a master in blackmail. She can turn simple issue overboard.


Sorry for the long epistle. Just had to pour out my mind. Constructive criticism is welcomed.

Thank you

Houstency:
All these BMC and Tinubu's online misfits can do better than attacking a 23years who has made a name for herself. What do you expect for 2023 Twitter Space and how does it translate to support for candidates, have you simpletons above before engaging in campaign of calumny against her heard she supported Saraki during the session?

2015 styled election gimmicks that brought abysmal failure in Buhari wouldn't work for Tinubu, Nigerians are wiser now! You guys better try something else

ntyce:
Lol

Rinu supported PMB in 2015, children of hate didn't criticize her then...
After seeing Bubu's woeful failure, she switched sides...
They started picking on her..

She's free to support who ever she feels like.

The Ogun State Government has admitted that it parades highest number of internet fraudsters known as yahoo yahoo boys in the country, with declaration that it is determined to stop the menace.

Penpushing reports that, Governor Dapo Abiodun made the disclosure on Friday while speaking at launch of ‘OP-MESA’, a joint security outfit, explaining that the reasons behind the rate was the existence of high number of institutions in the state.

The Governor explained that, in view of this, his administration has concluded arrangements for the establishment of state commission on crimes to complement the roles of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC)

Penpushing further reports that, Abiodun assured that with the set up of the commission, the criminals will be smoked out, and had them handed over to the appropriate authorities for prosecution

‘Ogun state is capital of yahoo yahoo boys. They even did award night in Abeokuta, for best hacker. We can understand reason for this, it is because Ogun state has the highest number of institutions in the country’, Abiodun said.

‘We have decided to set up our own state commission to eliminate the cyber crime, our commission will collaborate with EFCC. We will smoke them out, hand them over to appropriate authorities’,he emphasised

‘As a responsive and responsible Government, we cannot and will not fold our arms and watch as criminals take over our land and become an avoidable jeopardy to our joint and respective development strides’.


Penpushing also reports that, he explained that, the inauguration of OP-MESA was a further confirmation that the government is not taking the security of lives and property for granted in the State.

‘This OP–Mesa Security outfit will therefore complement the existing security outfits that we have already launched such as “the Amotekun”, Joint Security, JSS to further guarantee that we have good ambience in Ogun State and other necessary facilities’, he added.

‘It is part of a holistic approach to tackle insecurity in our State, especially in the face of a new resurgence of kidnappings on our interstate roads in the last couple of weeks.

‘These unscrupulous elements have no place in Ogun State. They are security threats to us. Why should moving from one state to the other become worrisome experience for our people?’ Why would the roads we are constructing and rehabilitating become a nightmare for people going about their legitimate businesses?’

The governor said ‘OP-MESA’ is a joint internal security operational platform comprising officers drawn from the Army, Navy, Air force, Police and the Department of State Security, adding that government on its part is adding the Amotekun, So-Safe and other recognized security outfits recognized by the State laws in the fight against crime, criminals and criminality in Ogun State.