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Crime war rages in Nigeria
Nigeria police and robbers battle for the high way
Robbery suspects are often paraded before journalists
By Sam Olukoya in Nigeria

The battle between police and armed robbers for control of Nigerian streets is proving a costly one for both sides.

Flipping through Nigerian newspapers one frequently comes across headlines like: "Police, Robbers in Bloody Gun Duel", "Robbers on Rampage Kill Police Chief" and "Police, Robbers in Midday War - Five robbers Killed."

Lagos violence
Aug 00 - May 01
273 civilians killed
84 police killed
133 police injured
Lagos, the country's commercial capital, is the worst hit.

Police statistics show that between August last year and May this year, criminals killed 273 civilians. Within the same period, they also killed 84 policemen and injured 133 others.

In the past couple of months, criminals have been operating with impunity, snatching cars on the highways, raiding banks and breaking into homes.

Tough nut

The police have been hitting back seeking to curb the crime wave, but in the first week of July, nine policemen were shot dead in Lagos alone.

Burnt necklace victim
Vigilante killings of suspected robbers are a problem
The police are also inflicting serious casualties. There are daily reports of robbery suspects shot dead during gun battles with the police.

Those caught alive are paraded together with their weapons before journalists.

But even though police authorities boast they will win the war against crime, they agree it is a hard nut to crack.

Soldiers

This is partly because thieves often operate in large numbers. Some gangs have as many as 50 men in them.

These gangs also carry sophisticated arms, like AK-47 rifles, and wear bullet proof vests.

The number of robbers is increasing like ants and they take joy in killing the police

Police spokesman Victor Chilaka
It is suspected that some of the gangs that have inflicted the worst casualties on the police have soldiers in their ranks.

This suspicion is borne out by the arrest of some soldiers and the recovery of military rifles.

In an effort to reduce casualties among its men, police authorities have given policemen the authority to shoot robbers on sight.

Shoot to kill

Lagos police spokesman, Victor Chilaka said: "Since the number of robbers is increasing like ants and they take joy in killing police officers, the police has decided to adopt this measure not only to drastically reduce the growing number of robbers but also to save the lives of policemen."

The shoot on sight order is not without its problems for the police.

On one occasion, police shot and killed five people who they thought were criminals.

But the families of four of them said they were victims fleeing from robbers.

For a police force with a reputation for extra judicial killings, this incident was one of several public relations nightmares.

But despite this, Nigerians are becoming more supportive of their law enforcers such is extent of the crime problem.

Vigilantes

This growing crime wave is partly a product of widespread unemployment and a rising cost of living.

For many desperate and unemployed youths, robbery appears the only avenue left open to them to make a living.

The robbers are a common enemy

Muri Adesanya
The situation is worsened by the ready availability of small arms like rifles and pistols.

In some neighbourhoods young men are teaming up with the police to help fight crime.

Muri Adesanya, whose Bariga neighbourhood in Lagos has been subjected to repeated attacks, says: "The robbers are a common enemy."

But in a worrying trend, others are taking the law into their own hands.

Attacks by vigilantes on suspects with stones and sticks are common and some end with the "necklace treatment".

A tyre doused with petrol is put around the neck of the suspect who is subsequently set on fire.

In one instance, five alleged bank robbers were burnt to death that way.

There will be many more battles on Nigeria's streets in the coming months.


Lagos violence

273 civilians killed
84 police killed
133 police injured

ekt_bear:
What even makes me laugh is people are calling this "colonial agenda."

Is it colonial agenda to keep your citizens safe and away from dangerous hot spots?

You may disagree with their judgement about which places are safe or not, but surely they are entitled to offer guidance and protection to their citizens.

Anyway, kudos to Fashola and the people of the SW more generally for maintaining an island of safety and peace in this uncertain and dangerous country and continent.

Your efforts may not be recognized by other Nigerians, but clearly there are bigger fish who have observed and commend you

This is delusion at its best

http://odili.net/news/source/2011/oct/16/504.html

Why I raped housewife –Robbery suspect
By Moshood Adebayo, Abeokuta

Sunday, October 16, 2011

A robbery suspect has explained why he raped a housewife he considered to be old enough to be his sister during a raid in Ibiade Village, Ijebu Waterside Local Government Area of Ogun State. Seyi Lawanson, 20, a bricklayer, who allegedly raped a housewife of 30 years, told Sunday Sun that he was tempted by the beauty of the woman.



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Explaining how he and his gang stormed the victim’s home, Seyi said they were desperately looking for money to buy two motorcycles that would aid their nefarious activities.

His words: “A member of our gang, who had lived in the same house with the woman, led us on the operation. “When we got there, I entered through the window, which was made of plank, and later opened the main door. After I opened the door, one of us who had lived in the house before, led other members of the gang to the room where the husband of the woman I raped was sleeping.

There, the gang member collected N62,000 from him.

“I did not accompany them to the husband’s room, but went straight to his wife’s room, and I met and raped her before their neighbours raised alarm, and I ran out of the building to escape. When I left the house after the raid, I never knew I would later be arrested.” Asked the reaction of the woman he raped, Seyi said: “Initially, she put up a resistance, but I brought out a native knife, which looks like a gun, and she cooperated with me, and I had my way. But let me tell you that I had barely penetrated her when the shout of ‘ole, ole, ole’ in the community forced me to stop.

“I was pushed to do it by the devil and I beg for forgiveness from God and the woman’s husband.” Commissioner of Police, Mr. Nicholas Nkemdem, while reacting to the incident and other armed robberies in the state, lamented that crime had become a profession in the country. According to him, “in Nigeria today, many people, particularly youths, instead of looking for job prefer to be apprentice to criminals and later graduate into criminality.” He adds: “So, as we send people to school to engage in a profession or trade, there are some unscrupulous Nigerians, particularly the youth, who engage in nefarious activities.”

However, the Police Commissioner, who also paraded other robbery and murder suspects, assured that his command would leave no stone unturned to ensure that criminals were brought to book.

One of those paraded was an ex-convict, Tunde Bola, who had earlier escaped from Olokuta Federal Prisons, Akure, Ondo State, before he led a robbery gang to raid a family in Abigi and was subsequently arrested.

He warned against illegal possession of firearms by people, adding that his command would deal with anyone or group of people found with firearms without licence from authorized agencies.

The fact that Akwa Ibom and Imo made that list shows how fake it is

How is Lagos safer than Abia?

I dey laff. People take all crap from the US at face value

Ogun is a den of ritual kidnappers.

Comments from contributors

Apparently, it does not take a Ph.D (not even a BSc) in Engineering to design functional, albeit third class products for a deserving fourth world country such as Nigeria

This is why I always maintain that the problem with Nigerian is Nigerians, not the leadership alone. This is the third or so such thread I have seen in this square showcasing inventions from Aba. Why are we not encouraging these initiatives? Imagine the jobs that would be spurned by giving these local inventors money to upgrade and polish their products. All over the country, some innovators are braving the harsh industrial environment to create useful products. There was a guy in Benin who invented a fueless generator. A progressive country would have investigated the it to determine its validity and commercial potential. But not Nigeria.

We dismiss these products as not being up to standard without considering the standards we are applying. How many products and services used by Nigerians are determined by Nigerian standards? All those Indian movies we used to enjoy that were produced in a foreign language, were they made to Nigerian standards? What about the suits and other fashion items that are ill-suited for the tropics? Are they compatible with African standards?

We will not buy anything made by our people, but will quickly canonize any foreigner selling junk. If the inventors of this tricycle stamped them with "made in China" labels, we would swiftly embrace the products.

These are the individuals government should be spending money on. These are the people we should be pressuring government to spend money on. America, the country that we kill ourselves to imitate, routinely sponsors competitions to extrude technical geniuses from their considerably technically-gifted population. But Nigeria will never copy that aspect of American life. No, it is to include an immunity clause in the constitution so that people can loot and rape our treasury that we know how to do.

Aba would be one of the preeminent industrial hubs of Africa, if not the world by now. Too bad it is located in Nigeria.

First ''made in Nigeria'' Tricycle unveiled in Enyimba (ABA) City

Aba ingenuity
�People�s creativity rebuilds banned okada in Aba to tricycles
By IKENNA EMEWU (ikenna@sunnewsonline.com)

�Goods only
PHOTO: THE SUN PUBLISHING
Living index

In Aba, there is a revolution taking place since the state government banned okada (commercial motorcycle) operations.

The fear and anticipation was that the economy of the commercial centre would crumble after the ban. There were other fears on the rise of crime rate as the okada riders who are in thousands would lose means of livelihood and may try their hands on unlawful options to fix the ends.

At the first strike, Aba was jolted, destabilized, harangued and shaken to the roots because apart from the income commercial motorcycle operation fetches, the city had no alternative mobility means. It was chaos finding way round the city.

But Aba had survived greater hardships and still remained afloat. Eighty years ago, the women of Aba, a vibrant and ebullient city replete and bursting at the seams with talents as vast as the terrain and population staged protest against the colonial masters over tax. That landmark action remains evergreen in the history of class struggle in Nigeria. In the 70s, the central market in Aba � Eke Oha was reduced to ashes. Aba survived it and from that ash raised another market at Ariaria.
Having been familiar with jolts, Aba never allowed the latest to dampen her moral. It was just few weeks before the people came up with a way round the okada clampdown.

The clincher that pulled Aba out of the okada crisis was the simple ingenious mind of a humble welder at No. 98, Ibadan Street off Obohia Road who ekes out a living from joining iron to iron to fabricate materials whenever PHCN permits him.

Joseph Awa Agu, the lanky, skinny welder from Abia State who plies his trade in the big city did some introspection one day after looking at his motorbike and asked himself a question. That single question and the answer he fathomed out of it became a spark that later got kindled to a flame of redemptive creativity. It threw the economy of the city back to life. The idle hands that had lost hope after losing the streets to an okada-free policy all bounced back in a matter of weeks. Once again, the city bubbled with life.

Joseph, the creative man from Ugwueke in Bende LGA of the state may not appear to you as smart, but inside he really could pass for one. His emaciated looks could just be as a result of economic buffeting the hazards of the society subject him to. From his creation that pulled Aba back from the edge of the canyon, his mind is sure far richer than his looks.

He reasoned that he could convert his motorcycle to a tricycle by simply sawing off the back end, essentially the trye and its attachments, attaching a pair of tyres to it through some metal network to organize the two ends into one piece of rough-edged work. He immediately implemented the turmoil in his mind and resolved the crisis in Aba. After the initial welding work, it occurred to him to separate the chain link between the engine at the front end into two parts � each holding the new improvised tyres at the back to the engine. By the time he got his thinking into concrete reality, Joseph drove into town with his new invention. That ignited the thoughts of others on the way round the okada ban palaver. And Aba got kicking once again.

Other bike owners who had discarded and dumped them at home to rot for good pulled them out of the dumpsite and inundated Joseph with requested to have them converted like he did his. They so gave him a run that other welders had to tap into his creation and open their flanks for the same job. It was just a matter of weeks before all grounded okada in Aba lost their rears to have an attached pair of tyres to make them tricycles which the law in the city welcomes with open hands. A little after, the city came back with ample mobility means and jobs for hitherto idle hands. That way Aba survived again another economic onslaught like it ever did in the past.

But Joseph is an unsung hero, still whittling pieces of scrap metals into all manner of tools and equipment on any day the electricity supply people look kindly on his street or any day his weather-beaten and oil-soaked 1960 model of mini Lister generator permits to steam.
Joseph may not have climbed higher on the economic ladder through this invention, but he surely manufactured the ladder that helped Aba to climb.
When Saturday Sun visited his workshop, Joseph still had a tricycle in his mould about to be released to the client for operation.

When the work on the new frame is complete, the tricycle leaves the welders� place and gets to another workshop where it would be draped in yellow tarpaulin cut to shape to cover the roof and sides as shelter from the weather. That way the cycle provides the passengers the comfort shielding them from rain and sun. Another trades man also takes his turn fits the creation with cushiony seats for the passengers� comfort. When all these are done, the bike is ready for the streets and can take as many as four to five passengers per time.

Joseph gave tips into the mechanical advantages of his creation and boasted that if the client so wishes, after fixing the body of the cycle, he can further build it to have reverse gear like a car. He also explained that the bike has mobility advantage over the foreign one commonly called Keke NAPEP because of its higher tyres that enables it to pass through rough terrains with ease.
Regarding cost, the invention is a bigger advantage.

Whereas the NAPEP brand of keke (tricycle) costs between N350,000 and N400,000 to procure, it would take just about N60,000 to buy a motorcycle and another N60,000 to build the body into a functional tricycle ready for use.

Moreso, the local welders are at leisure to convert the bikes into multiple usage. Some are built into passenger buggies while those that use theirs for conveying goods for traders prefer to have theirs with open body to have enough room for loads.

No doubt, the streets of Aba are already brimming with this creation, which finds use in several ways. As you stand by the streets, you see so many of them drive around offering services to people.
So far, Aba has not lost sleep over the okada ban as the creativity has turned the seeming misfortune around for a bumper harvest.

Hope they stop coming for the oil too. Foolish people
Only fools will owe China billions and still give millions in aid to the same country
China must be ROFLTAO for them

Na yam? Lagos state is just 1/36 of Nigeria. It is an unpredictable projection how anyone will fare, moving from being a state Gov to being a president. He has people from other groups to contend with and he has not got the experience to handle cries of marginalization from disparate groups. So this post is a no-brainer.

He may have built one or two physical structures, but what manner of democratic civil society has he helped create when he is known to support imposition of candidates on the voting population. Fashola is a non-starter for the post of a president.

Besides, the SW is taking a back seat from Aso Rock for a long time
Besides, ACN is a tribal party
Besides, Fashola deported fellow Nigerians from Lagos- that is against the constitution of the country- for which he is in the same mold with Theodore Orji
Besides, he is the handbag bearer of THIEF TINUBU- the most hated Nigerian of today

Aregbesola anathema

Tinubu nightmare

Great guy

See the man suit sef
See how madam transformer finish
N a waoh!!!
Money good oh!
Ego di nma
Owo dun
Kudi blah! blah!! blah!!!

This is Delta State Gov, Uduaghan, before and after

Please help populate with photos of other Govs
We want to see ALL the Govs before and after becoming state leaders

I guess only few like Rochas will be fresh because he was already chopping before getting into power

Ekiti Woman Banished For Refusing Ritual Oath- In 21st Century

Ekiti community banishes widow
•For refusing to take traditional oath
By WOLE BALOGUN
Monday, October 17, 2011
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Mrs. Lawrencia Adefemi, an indigene of Emure-Ekiti in Emure Local Government Area of Ekiti State, is a sad woman. And that is quite understandable. She claims to have been banished from her place of birth on the orders of the Emure Council of Chiefs. Her sin? She refused to swear to an oath in the shrine of the community’s traditional gods.

But the town’s monarch and his chiefs have denied the allegation that Lawrencia was banished. They insist, however, that she must swear to the oath if only to prove that she has not been attacking her perceived foes in the town through her diabolical powers.
Trouble started for the woman when she allegedly challenged members of her late husband’s family over what she claimed was the take-over of her husband’s property.

According to her, the man in charge of her husband’s property, one Mr. Isaac Famodimu, the son of the deceased’s elder brother, colluded with the family to rob her and her son of their share of the inheritance. She said since her husband died four years ago, only the first wife, who bore seven children for the deceased, had been enjoying the property with her children.

Lawrencia, who is currently staying somewhere in Akure, Ondo State, told our reporter that when she complained to Famodimu, he assaulted her publicly and also got the police to detain her for days. She said she was hospitalised as a result of the attack.
She said Famodimu later told the town’s Council of Chiefs that she was using diabolical means to attack him and his family. She also said that the council summoned her on the issue and, after hearing her side of the story, demanded that she swear to an oath to convince them that she wasn’t involved in any diabolical mission. But, according to her, she refused, saying such an act was against her Christian faith.

“The council then decided to banish me from the community for failing to take the oath,” she said.
But when the reporter contacted the Elemure of Emure, Oba Emmanuel Adebayo, the monarch said he was not in town when the decision to banish the woman was taken by his chiefs. He asked for time to review the case even as he said the woman could return to the community.

Meanwhile, Lawrencia’s family has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, alleging an infringement on the fundamental human rights of the widow by the Emure council. They are also calling on the appropriate authorities to save her from what they call her undue punishment.


In the petition, copies of which were sent to the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, National Human Rights Commission, Amnesty International, Wife of Ekiti State Governor, Deputy Governor, Ekiti State, Commissioner of Police, Ekiti State and Mr. Femi Falana, they quoted excerpts of Oba Adebayo’s interview published in the Sunday Mirror edition of October 9, 2011. It reads in part: “I am a Christian myself, but I swore before the gods before I ascended the throne.

It is a normal practice here; every traditional chief must swear to an oath before the gods at their installation. The woman in question is very stubborn and lacks discipline. She was confined to her home by the traditional chiefs but failed to observe the order and disobeyed our tradition…. We are not restraining her from the town once she is ready to swear before the gods.”

The reporter visited Akure and Emure-Ekiti where he spoke with the major actors in the unfolding drama. At the palace of the Emure king, a community leader who did not want his name in print admitted that Lawrencia was banished. His words:

“My own position is that when you are in Rome you do like the Romans. When you are in Emure-Ekiti, you behave like the indigenes. She was born and brought up in Emure and the tradition has been there since the days of our forefathers. Taking such an oath has been in practice for many centuries after Emure migrated from Ile-Ife to this place. The Kabiyesi (Oba) is the custodian of our tradition. What is wrong in taking an oath?

The president, governor, etc all take oaths before they are sworn in. Even the Oba takes an oath before he becomes the king. Our practice here is that in a situation where two members of the community are in disagreement and the matter is brought before the Oba, the two parties will be allowed to have their say. And for the Oba to resolve the issue permanently so that peace reigns, he could ask the two parties to take an oath. The essence of that oath is to ensure that after the settlement, none of the parties will commit any evil against the other. If any of the party then commits any evil, such evil will bounce back on him or her.

“Here we believe in our tradition. And if any indigene of the town that has been banished repents, takes the oath and assures the community that he or she would not do any evil to any member of the community, the person will be allowed to return.”

I’m being persecuted unjustly-Lawrencia Adefemi
I was married to my late husband in 1999. I was his second wife. The first wife had seven children for him while I had one for him before he died. Before his death, I was the only one who was taking care of him. The first wife and her children left him when I joined the family. But when he died, the extended family took over his property and appointed his nephew, Mr. Isaac Famodimu, as the caretaker. He is the son of my husband’s elder brother. Since my husband’s death, his family never wanted to see me. They refused to give me and my son our share of my husband’s inheritance. I am just a petty trader and have no money to sponsor my son in school. The family has taken over all the property and if I confront them over it, they would attack me.

Famodimu and the others have been using the proceeds from my husband’s farms to fend for themselves and the children of the first wife. Whenever I confront Famodimu over this issue, he would beat me up and ask the police to lock me up. On one occasion, I was locked up in the police station at Emure for three days. I reported the case to the Emure Council of Chiefs but they did not do anything about it.

Isaac later reported me to the council and said I used diabolic means to attack his family. Then they asked me to take an oath over what I knew nothing about. But I told them I would not do it because I am a Christian and my faith does not permit me to do anything fetish. Then they said I had been banished from the town and gave me an ultimatum of nine days to leave.
When the ultimatum elapsed, I was in the market when the king’s attendant came and ordered me to follow him to the palace. On the way there, an argument ensued and he assaulted me. He then reported me to the police and I was detained there for three days before my people came with a lawyer to secure my release.

I cannot go to Emure now because I believe the leaders of the town do not mean well for me. My life and my son’s life are not safe. I want Nigerians to help me. I want human rights activists and other well-meaning people to come to my aid. They should help me get my share of my husband’s property from his family so that I can sponsor my son in school.

I will review the case - Oba Emmanuel Adebayo
I was in the UK when the Emure Council of Chiefs took the decision of banishment. I have spoken to the chiefs who were there. I don’t know much about the case, but I have sent for the woman to see me. I am going to review the case when I sit in council on October 23. You can also tell the woman to come and see me. I don’t want to make further comments on the matter for now.
The woman is very diabolical - Isaac Famudimu

It’s not true that I’m the caretaker. No, I am very small in the family. I can’t even be saddled with such a responsibility. She said I attacked her severally and that I usually bribe the police to lock her up? Those are big lies. It is true that I am related to her late husband. He was my uncle. But my uncle’s first wife had seven children for him. The last born of that first wife can also say a few things concerning the inheritance left by their father. So she is just telling you lies. She came to se me and told me she wanted me to support her so that she could cheat the children of the first wife but I did not support her. She once asked me to seize her husband’s motorbike used by one of the children of the other wife, Gbenga, but I refused to do so. She even wanted me to arrest Gbenga, but I refused. That is why she has been assaulting and harassing me.

There was a day she confronted me on the street and was insulting me. She said I colluded with the first wife, her children and the family to rob her of her inheritance. She called me a thief. She tore my clothes that day and I had to report her to the police. My clothes that she tore and the case file are still with the IPO at the station. The family of her husband intervened then and asked me to leave her. Eventually, I asked the police to release her.

She said I reported her to the Emure Council? Yes, I did. One day, she met my wife and I and assaulted us. My wife abused her back and they started fighting. That was later settled, but since then, she would fight my wife even in the market even though the tradition of the land forbids a woman from fighting in the market place. The market women and the Emure chiefs can bear witness to this. She started doing that since March this year. But I kept cautioning my wife not to fight her. But the last time they met in the market, I was not there. My wife said she threatened to deal with her, and that my wife would not be able to come to the market again.

My wife reported her to the market women and to the palace. It wasn’t long after that that my wife had her legs swollen. When we took her to one herbalist, he said it was a diabolical attack. I started taking my wife to different places for a spiritual solution. At the end of the day, the herbalist treating my wife went to the farm and met Lawrencia. She told him that he should stop treating my wife, that he should allow my wife to continue to suffer. I wasn’t there, but someone who witnessed the incident told me. Suddenly, the herbalist stopped treating my wife. When I went to beg him, he confirmed what I had been told, that Lawrencia actually said he should stop treating my wife.

A few days later, Lawrencia saw me and assaulted me again. That was when I took her case to the Emure Council. I took my wife there too. She could not even walk. We had to carry her to the palace. And I explained all that had happened to the council. Then they summoned the herbalist to testify. But the first time they wanted all the parties to come to the palace, I had an accident and could not go. I suspect that she must have been attacking me too. But eventually we all met at the council with members of the Emure community and the chiefs. They had confirmed from the herbalist then. So they said that all that had happened was over, but that she should take an oath before all the people that she would do no evil against any of us. But she refused. She wasn’t the only one asked to take the oath. All of us would take it, including my wife and I.

Nobody banished her - Chief Emmanuel Ogundare
I would have conducted the oath taking if she had agreed. Did she say we banished her? That is a lie. She was reported to the council after her late husband’s nephew alleged that she used diabolical means to attack him and his wife. In accordance with our tradition, we wanted to ensure that such would not happen again. We asked each of them to take an oath to assure us that they would no longer do evil to each other. The other party agreed but she refused. But we mean no harm for her.

Banished her? No, she left by herself - Chief Clement Ogunyemi Akinola
I am the Aremo of Emure, and a retired assistant superintendent of police. No one banished Mrs. Lawrencia Adefemi from the town. Members of her family reported her to the Emure Council alleging that she used diabolical means to attack them. They showed us evidence, and after we had listened to both parties; we said for peace to be restored, the parties involved should take an oath that no one would use diabolical means to attack the other again.

That is the custom of the land. The other parties agreed but she refused. But the entire community insisted that she must take the oath. She said instead of taking the oath, she would leave the community. We told her the choice was hers. And she left. She came back later to ask us for a document that would indicate that she had been asked to leave the community but we said we could not give her any paper because we did not banish her. We told her that she had a good case since she was being robbed of her inheritance. But we said before we could go into that matter, we had to be assured that there wouldn’t be any evil in the family any longer. So we asked all the parties to take the oath in accordance with the tradition. We assured her that we would get her inheritance for her once she took the oath.

She said she is a Christian and that she could not do it. Anyway, she can go to court and get a ruling to exempt her from taking the oath. And as a matter of fact, we didn’t restrict her movement in the town. On the allegation that she was assaulted by the palace aide, you know the Elemure is a retired commissioner of police. He knows that he cannot infringe on the fundamental human rights of anyone. She left the town on her own. Her younger brother in the U.S phoned me that they wanted to relocate her from Emure. That was why she left the town. If she said she was beaten by anyone, then that is left for the police to handle. If she’s scared of coming to Emure, you, as a journalist, can even follow her down here. All that was published is all fallacy and cheap blackmail.

No one insulted her. And we did not treat her badly, but she has been disrespecting the entire community. It was her choice to leave the town. The Oba, as the father of everyone in the community, cannot be at peace if anyone here is not at peace. I am a retired police officer and I cannot support any thing that is illegal.

You can’t force her to take an oath – Hon. Boluwade Kehinde
I’m Honourable Boluwade Kehinde, a member of the Ekiti State House of Assembly from Emure. I am very sure my Oba cannot be involved in that. But I have not had time to confirm it from him. I spoke to the younger brother of the woman and he told me that the Oba said he doesn’t know about it. No one can compel anyone to take an oath and then banish the person from the land if she refuses. Emure is not a village where such a thing could be happening. I cannot say much on the issue now because I have not confirmed it. But as for me I cannot take such an oath.

She’s an evil woman - Gbenga Adefemi, Lawrencia’s stepson
Yes, she has a son for my dad. But the last born from my mum is eight years older than her son. So you can see that she came to join us much later. And once she came to our house, she turned our dad against us. There was trouble in the family and our mummy had to leave our dad. The issue was brought before the late Oba of Emure, and we were all asked to take the oath that we would not do evil to anyone. My mum and dad took the oath but she refused then. She left the palace in annoyance. My dad asked us to leave his house because of her but the other people in the family did not know about this then. They thought my mum left on her own. Then our dad became sick and suddenly died.

Just a month after his death, Lawrencia said we should share his inheritance. She started making trouble about it. No one could control her. So when we had a meeting, they told her that she had to be patient. It was then that they put Isaac in charge of the whole thing. In fact, they later began to share out the proceeds from our dad’s inheritance. But she wanted a larger share and was making trouble. Our dad’s elder brother, Baba Gana, did the sharing.

What led to the banishment is that the chiefs asked her to take the oath or leave the town. Now that she has been banished, the only way she could be accepted back into Emure is to take the oath. We are ready to give her her own share of the inheritance but she must take the oath to convince us that she would not do any evil against us. Our mother is sick now and we believe that Lawrencia is behind it.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/oct/17/national-17-10-2011-007.html

Pukkah:
What of M.C.K. Ajuluchukwu?

Okay let me look this up. Thanks.

I was only wondering how he hoped to rule a multi-ethnic Nigeria if he did not reach out beyond his boarders.

You ride a horse to Uni Port, Rivers State and obtain a copy

Andre Uweh:
Awolowo's friend in the east then was Sir Louis Odimegwu-Ojukwu-Nigeria's first multi-millionaire and the father of the defunct Republic of Biafra's C-I-C.

Thanks, but do you have any evidence of this friendship?