Ejide injured!
One of the players in Stephen Keshi’s 30-man
list for Brazil, goalkeeper Austin Ejide, suffered
an injury in Hapoel Beer Sheva’s match in
Israeli league yesterday.
Ejide recently missed one game for Hapoel due
to minor problems, but he has played four
matches until suffering another injury
yesterday. In the 52nd minute of the clash
against Hapoel Tel Aviv, Ejide apparently
injured his hip while trying to collect the ball
and had to be substituted by Shlomi Ben
Hamo.
Vincent Enyeama’s understudy in Super Eagles’
team was almost certain to go to Brazil, being
widely regarded as Nigeria’s second choice
between the posts, but now there’s a question
mark over Ejide’s place in the 23-man World
Cup squad as the extent of his injury is not
known yet.
Ejide was replaced when his team were 1-0 up
in Tel Aviv and Hapoel Beer Sheva eventually
won the game 2-1, clinching runners-up spot
in Israeli league with 2 games to go.
It’s the club’s best season since winning the
domestic title in 1976 – a feat Ejide should be
largely credited for, having conceded just 27
goals in 33 games.
Culled from Vanguard
Monday, 12 May 2014
B’Haram, others received $3m from bin
Laden
The violent sect, Boko Haram and other
groups in northern Nigeria received $3m from
Osama bin Laden in 2002, according to a
report by some United States intelligence
analysts.
Bin Laden was said to have dispatched an
aide to Nigeria to hand out the seed money in
naira to a wide array of Salafist political
organisations that shared al Qaeda’s goal of
imposing Islamic rule.
According to a report in a United States-
based newspaper, The Daily Beast, the Al-
Qaeda founder helped provide Boko Haram’s
seed money.
Boko Haram was founded by Mohammed
Yusuf in 2002. Yusuf was killed in police
custody in 2009.
The Daily Beast reported on Sunday that
officially, the U.S. intelligence community
believed that the sect had only tangential links
to al Qaeda’s North African affiliate, and that
reports of bin Laden backing the Nigerian
outfit were off-base, but many analysts have
believed that the ties between Boko Haram
and al Qaeda global leadership go much
deeper—and are about more than a little seed
money.
“There were channels between bin laden and
Boko Haram leadership,” one senior U.S.
intelligence offical told The Daily Beast, adding
that “He gave some strategic direction at
times.”
A comprehensive report on Boko Haram
published by the International Crisis Group,
also confirmed that Boko Haram’s early
leader, Mohammed Yusuf, received some seed
money from a disciple of Osama bin Laden
named Mohammed Ali in 2002.
The report added that bin Laden got to know
Ali in the 1990s when he was based in Sudan,
adding that after Ali travelled with bin Laden to
Afghanistan, he was provided with $3m in
Nigerian currency in 2002 and sent to the
north of the country to fund a wide array of
Salafist political organisations to help spread
al-Qaeda’s ideology.
Ali then became involved in the Nigeria’s
Muslim insurgency but was eventually killed.
Culled from Punch
Laden
The violent sect, Boko Haram and other
groups in northern Nigeria received $3m from
Osama bin Laden in 2002, according to a
report by some United States intelligence
analysts.
Bin Laden was said to have dispatched an
aide to Nigeria to hand out the seed money in
naira to a wide array of Salafist political
organisations that shared al Qaeda’s goal of
imposing Islamic rule.
According to a report in a United States-
based newspaper, The Daily Beast, the Al-
Qaeda founder helped provide Boko Haram’s
seed money.
Boko Haram was founded by Mohammed
Yusuf in 2002. Yusuf was killed in police
custody in 2009.
The Daily Beast reported on Sunday that
officially, the U.S. intelligence community
believed that the sect had only tangential links
to al Qaeda’s North African affiliate, and that
reports of bin Laden backing the Nigerian
outfit were off-base, but many analysts have
believed that the ties between Boko Haram
and al Qaeda global leadership go much
deeper—and are about more than a little seed
money.
“There were channels between bin laden and
Boko Haram leadership,” one senior U.S.
intelligence offical told The Daily Beast, adding
that “He gave some strategic direction at
times.”
A comprehensive report on Boko Haram
published by the International Crisis Group,
also confirmed that Boko Haram’s early
leader, Mohammed Yusuf, received some seed
money from a disciple of Osama bin Laden
named Mohammed Ali in 2002.
The report added that bin Laden got to know
Ali in the 1990s when he was based in Sudan,
adding that after Ali travelled with bin Laden to
Afghanistan, he was provided with $3m in
Nigerian currency in 2002 and sent to the
north of the country to fund a wide array of
Salafist political organisations to help spread
al-Qaeda’s ideology.
Ali then became involved in the Nigeria’s
Muslim insurgency but was eventually killed.
Culled from Punch
Dora Akunyili to be flown Abroad for health Issue
The former Director-General of the National
Agency for Food and Drug Administration and
Control and ex-Minister of Information, Dora
Akunyili, was to be flown abroad for medical
treatment.
Akunyili, a delegate at the ongoing National
Conference had said she was recovering from
a life-threatening ailment.
Akunyili’s condition had deteriorated and any further delay in getting
medical attention would have been
detrimental.
Confirming the incident, one of her close aides
who pleaded anonymity, told our
correspondent that, “Please pray for her. She
is to be flown abroad tonight for medical
treatment in India.”
Many were surprised when Akunnyili made an
appearance at the confab looking frail.
Responding to comments about her health,
she said, “My attention has been drawn to a
story making the rounds online claiming that I
am seriously sick, currently out of the country
and in need of urgent prayers.
“This story is baseless, unfounded and the
handiwork of mischief makers. It should be
ignored and discarded in its entirety. As every
informed Nigerian knows, I am a delegate to
the National Conference currently holding in
Abuja.
“While it is true that I recently came out of a
major sickness, for which I thank Almighty God
for delivering me, I have since been declared fit
by my doctors and returned to my normal
activities. I shed much weight in the course of
the sickness — which is normal — but I am well
now and only need time to re-grow some
flesh. There is nothing to worry about either
my health or my present stature.”
Jonathan calls for support to end terrorism
President Goodluck Jonathan at the weekend called for collaboration to end the nation’s security challenges.
The President spoke in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, during the 80th birthday
celebration of the Awujale of Ijebu-Ode, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona.
Dignitaries at the celebration hailed the monarch for his purposeful leadership.
They include All Progressives Congress (APC) national leaders Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu; Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun and his Bayelsa State counterpart, Seriake Dickson.
At a luncheon party on the birthday, Dr Jonathan, who spoke through his Chief of Staff, Gen. Jones Arogbofa (rtd), urged Nigerians to support his administration’s
efforts to end Boko Haram activities.
The President expressed displeasure over the spate of killings, especially the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls at Chibok.
Jonathan said his administration would do everything to overcome the security challenges.
He said: “I want to plead with all of us that these are challenges that we are all
faced with. They are challenges that all of us should join hands together to resolve
for the good of our dear country.”
The President said he had been meeting with many people, especially those from
outside Nigeria, on how to tackle the security challenges.
Jonathan described the Awujale as an epitome of peace and unity, not only in
Ijebu land but outside his domain.
He attributed the peace in Ijebu land to the celebrant’s unique leadership style.
Jonathan said: “I deeply appreciate all you have been doing for this land and
indeed for the Yoruba land and even for the entire nation. For the period that you
have been in the saddle as the ruler, extreme peace has existed in Ijebu land. You
have contributed enormously to the development of governments during your
period of service, as attested to by your own son, who is the governor of the
state.”
Culled from The Nation
President Goodluck Jonathan at the weekend called for collaboration to end the nation’s security challenges.
The President spoke in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, during the 80th birthday
celebration of the Awujale of Ijebu-Ode, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona.
Dignitaries at the celebration hailed the monarch for his purposeful leadership.
They include All Progressives Congress (APC) national leaders Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu; Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun and his Bayelsa State counterpart, Seriake Dickson.
At a luncheon party on the birthday, Dr Jonathan, who spoke through his Chief of Staff, Gen. Jones Arogbofa (rtd), urged Nigerians to support his administration’s
efforts to end Boko Haram activities.
The President expressed displeasure over the spate of killings, especially the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls at Chibok.
Jonathan said his administration would do everything to overcome the security challenges.
He said: “I want to plead with all of us that these are challenges that we are all
faced with. They are challenges that all of us should join hands together to resolve
for the good of our dear country.”
The President said he had been meeting with many people, especially those from
outside Nigeria, on how to tackle the security challenges.
Jonathan described the Awujale as an epitome of peace and unity, not only in
Ijebu land but outside his domain.
He attributed the peace in Ijebu land to the celebrant’s unique leadership style.
Jonathan said: “I deeply appreciate all you have been doing for this land and
indeed for the Yoruba land and even for the entire nation. For the period that you
have been in the saddle as the ruler, extreme peace has existed in Ijebu land. You
have contributed enormously to the development of governments during your
period of service, as attested to by your own son, who is the governor of the
state.”
Culled from The Nation
More foreign experts join search for abducted girls
Israeli counter-terrorism experts have joined the search for the Chibok girls,
presidential spokesman Reuben Abati said yesterday in a statement after Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to President Goodluck Jonathan.
Abati said Jonathan was “very optimistic that with the entire international
community deploying its considerable military and intelligence-gathering skills
and assets in support of Nigeria’s efforts to find and rescue the abducted Chibok
girls, success will soon be achieved”.
He said the President accepted the Israeli offer to send a team of counter-
terrorism experts to assist in the ongoing search and rescue operations.
“The President briefed Mr. Netanyahu on actions already being taken by Nigeria’s
armed forces and security agencies to locate and rescue the girls, saying that
Nigeria would be pleased to have Israel’s globally-acknowledged anti-terrorism
expertise deployed to support its ongoing operations.
“Mr. Netanyahu, who expressed Israel’s total condemnation of the mass
abductions, said the team of experts from his country, who will soon arrive in
Nigeria, will work in collaboration with teams from the United States and Britain
who are already in the country and their Nigerian counterparts to intensify the
search for the girls.
“He reaffirmed Israel’s willingness to give the government and people of Nigeria all
possible support and assistance to overcome terrorism and insecurity.”
The United States, Britain, France and China had earlier offered to help. The UK
and the US team are already in Nigeria, working with the military.
Close to 300 youngsters were kidnapped from a boarding school in Chibok, Borno
State on April 15. It is believed that 53 managed to escape, but 273 are still
missing.
One of the teenagers who escaped from the Islamic extremists has said the
kidnapping was “too terrifying for words”, and she is now scared to go back to
school.
Sarah Lawan, a 19-year-old science student, spoke yesterday as Nigerians
prayed for the safety of the 276 students still held captive. Their prayers were
joined by Pope Francis.
Lawan told The Associated Press that more of the girls could have escaped but
that they were frightened by their captors’ threats to shoot them. She spoke in the
Hausa language in a phone interview from Chibok, her home and the site of the
mass abduction.
The failure to rescue those who remain captive four weeks later has attracted
mounting national and international outrage. Last week, Nigeria accepted
international help in the search, after ignoring offers for weeks.
Pope Francis lent his voice to the ongoing social media campaign
#BringBackOurGirls.
The Pope asked Catholic faithful to pray for missing Chibok schoolgirls.
The Pope tweeted:
Let us all join in prayer for the immediate release of the schoolgirls kidnapped in
Nigeria. #BringBackOurGirls
— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) May 10, 2014
Prime Minister David Cameron promised Sunday that Britain “will do what we can”
to help find the girls.
He made the comments as he held a sign bearing the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag
on the BBC’s “Andrew Marr Show.”
Cameron and Pope Francis are the latest high-profile supporters of the social
media campaign. U.S. first lady Michelle Obama tweeted a photo of herself with a
similar poster last week.
#BringBackOurGirls has become the most popular hashtag in Nigeria this year,
with the Twitter trend hitting over a million tweets. The hashtag has gone from a
local trend to receiving international attention in the last seven days.
The hashtag is also very popular on Facebook and Instagram, receiving over
150,000 posts on the latter.
It has been posted by a number of global celebrities and personalities, actress
Angelina Jolie and singer Chris Brown.
The International Criminal Court said the number and intensity of attacks has
risen sharply this year.
It called on Boko Haram to release the girls immediately.
“The troubling phenomenon of targeting females during conflict, this time, in Borno
state, cannot be tolerated and must be stopped,” said prosecutor Fatou
Bensouda. “No stone should be left unturned to bring those responsible for such
atrocious acts to justice, either in Nigeria or at the ICC.”
CIA Director John Brennan told the TV network Fusion that the United States is
doing “everything we can” to determine the girls’ location, a mission President
Barack Obama has made a priority.
Worldwide protest continued yesterday. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, the
Reverend Al Sharpton, and at least 200 local residents, and elected officials, all
representing a cross section of activists and concerned citizens, took part in a
rally in front of the Nigerian Consulate on Saturday afternoon. It was the second
such gathering in front of the Consulate.
The New York Mayor weighing in on the issue is significant for a locally elected
official in the U.S.
Most U.S. mayors and governors avoid speaking out on a global issue not
directly touching their jurisdiction, even one as controversial as the kidnapping of
the 200 plus female students in Nigeria.
That mayor de Blasio spoke out, and marched alongside fellow citizens will likely
change the tenor of the debate in America’s most international of cities. De Blasio,
who addressed the crowd of roughly 200, said the kidnappings in Borno State
“should be denounced around the world”. His wife and daughter at the march that
assembled in front of the consulate joined the mayor.
The Reverend Al Sharpton, and some members of his National Action Network
team in Harlem, took part in the march and rally, bringing further media attention
to the issue. Some Harlemites, like Lesha Sekou, marched the five-mile trek from
uptown to the mid-town Nigerian consulate. Sekou, an anti-gun violence
organiser, led a group of about 50 Harlem residents to the rally. She said that she
was there because the 200 plus Nigerian school girls were abducted at gunpoint.
Some Ghanaian women yesterday marched through the capital Accra, to demand
the release of the schoolgirls.
They presented a petition signed by over 300 people to the Nigerian High
Commissioner to Ghana, saying: “We are just a representative of the swelling
voices of Ghanaians and other people round the world who believe that any extra
second we spend not finding our girls is one second too many.”
They held placards, which read: “Bring back our girls”; “Release the girls now”;
and “We want action now’’.
One of the leaders of the Ghanaian women that marched, Eugenia Techie Menson,
Chief Executive Officer of Young Educators Foundation, said: “Girls have the basic
right to be educated and to be girls; girls have the inalienable right to be girls.”
The Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana, Ademola Oluseyi Onafonoka, after
receiving the petition, said:”… Let me thank you for your out pouring of emotions,
solidarity, for your empathy; I am assuring you as a father that our daughters will
be found and brought back to all of us alive and well.’’
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has intensified
collaboration with the Federal Government to combat cross border terrorist
activities carried out by Boko Haram, ECOWAS Communication Director Sonny
Ugoh said yesterday.
Ugoh says the regional bloc is also working with other neighboring regional
organisations including the Economic Community of Central African States
(ECCAS) to improve security in their member states, following the girls’ abduction.
“There is a collective sense that ECOWAS is willing and determined to support the
Nigerian government to address this menace, because what affects one member
state affects the others; that is the spirit of the ECOWAS Integration project. There
is a sense of solidarity [and] the value for the support of each other,” said Ugoh.
His comments follow a U.N. Security Council demand for an unconditional release
of the girls abducted by Boko Haram militants.
The chairman of the ECOWAS commission, Ghanaian President John Dramani
Mahama, issued a solidarity statement to President Goodluck Jonathan to assure
him of the regional bloc’s support to combat the Boko Haram militants.
“There is recognition, both locally and internationally, that this is an unacceptable
behavior. And in response to that the international community has risen to
support the ECOWAS position,” said Ugoh. “ECOWAS is ready and willing to work
with the Nigerian government to see how this [violence] can be addressed, and
use the opportunity to also make a point about the need for us to now increase
collaboration within West Africa.”
“Some of the terrorism issues that we have to deal with have to do with the
situation in the Sahel. So there is a larger issue of the Sahel impact on [us],” said
Ugoh. “We are actively working to have a holistic response to these and then
working beyond West Africa with our neighbors to see how we can collaborate in
responding to the dynamics and the specifics of this in terms of the various
manifestation of terrorism in West Africa.”
Culled from The Nation
Israeli counter-terrorism experts have joined the search for the Chibok girls,
presidential spokesman Reuben Abati said yesterday in a statement after Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to President Goodluck Jonathan.
Abati said Jonathan was “very optimistic that with the entire international
community deploying its considerable military and intelligence-gathering skills
and assets in support of Nigeria’s efforts to find and rescue the abducted Chibok
girls, success will soon be achieved”.
He said the President accepted the Israeli offer to send a team of counter-
terrorism experts to assist in the ongoing search and rescue operations.
“The President briefed Mr. Netanyahu on actions already being taken by Nigeria’s
armed forces and security agencies to locate and rescue the girls, saying that
Nigeria would be pleased to have Israel’s globally-acknowledged anti-terrorism
expertise deployed to support its ongoing operations.
“Mr. Netanyahu, who expressed Israel’s total condemnation of the mass
abductions, said the team of experts from his country, who will soon arrive in
Nigeria, will work in collaboration with teams from the United States and Britain
who are already in the country and their Nigerian counterparts to intensify the
search for the girls.
“He reaffirmed Israel’s willingness to give the government and people of Nigeria all
possible support and assistance to overcome terrorism and insecurity.”
The United States, Britain, France and China had earlier offered to help. The UK
and the US team are already in Nigeria, working with the military.
Close to 300 youngsters were kidnapped from a boarding school in Chibok, Borno
State on April 15. It is believed that 53 managed to escape, but 273 are still
missing.
One of the teenagers who escaped from the Islamic extremists has said the
kidnapping was “too terrifying for words”, and she is now scared to go back to
school.
Sarah Lawan, a 19-year-old science student, spoke yesterday as Nigerians
prayed for the safety of the 276 students still held captive. Their prayers were
joined by Pope Francis.
Lawan told The Associated Press that more of the girls could have escaped but
that they were frightened by their captors’ threats to shoot them. She spoke in the
Hausa language in a phone interview from Chibok, her home and the site of the
mass abduction.
The failure to rescue those who remain captive four weeks later has attracted
mounting national and international outrage. Last week, Nigeria accepted
international help in the search, after ignoring offers for weeks.
Pope Francis lent his voice to the ongoing social media campaign
#BringBackOurGirls.
The Pope asked Catholic faithful to pray for missing Chibok schoolgirls.
The Pope tweeted:
Let us all join in prayer for the immediate release of the schoolgirls kidnapped in
Nigeria. #BringBackOurGirls
— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) May 10, 2014
Prime Minister David Cameron promised Sunday that Britain “will do what we can”
to help find the girls.
He made the comments as he held a sign bearing the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag
on the BBC’s “Andrew Marr Show.”
Cameron and Pope Francis are the latest high-profile supporters of the social
media campaign. U.S. first lady Michelle Obama tweeted a photo of herself with a
similar poster last week.
#BringBackOurGirls has become the most popular hashtag in Nigeria this year,
with the Twitter trend hitting over a million tweets. The hashtag has gone from a
local trend to receiving international attention in the last seven days.
The hashtag is also very popular on Facebook and Instagram, receiving over
150,000 posts on the latter.
It has been posted by a number of global celebrities and personalities, actress
Angelina Jolie and singer Chris Brown.
The International Criminal Court said the number and intensity of attacks has
risen sharply this year.
It called on Boko Haram to release the girls immediately.
“The troubling phenomenon of targeting females during conflict, this time, in Borno
state, cannot be tolerated and must be stopped,” said prosecutor Fatou
Bensouda. “No stone should be left unturned to bring those responsible for such
atrocious acts to justice, either in Nigeria or at the ICC.”
CIA Director John Brennan told the TV network Fusion that the United States is
doing “everything we can” to determine the girls’ location, a mission President
Barack Obama has made a priority.
Worldwide protest continued yesterday. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, the
Reverend Al Sharpton, and at least 200 local residents, and elected officials, all
representing a cross section of activists and concerned citizens, took part in a
rally in front of the Nigerian Consulate on Saturday afternoon. It was the second
such gathering in front of the Consulate.
The New York Mayor weighing in on the issue is significant for a locally elected
official in the U.S.
Most U.S. mayors and governors avoid speaking out on a global issue not
directly touching their jurisdiction, even one as controversial as the kidnapping of
the 200 plus female students in Nigeria.
That mayor de Blasio spoke out, and marched alongside fellow citizens will likely
change the tenor of the debate in America’s most international of cities. De Blasio,
who addressed the crowd of roughly 200, said the kidnappings in Borno State
“should be denounced around the world”. His wife and daughter at the march that
assembled in front of the consulate joined the mayor.
The Reverend Al Sharpton, and some members of his National Action Network
team in Harlem, took part in the march and rally, bringing further media attention
to the issue. Some Harlemites, like Lesha Sekou, marched the five-mile trek from
uptown to the mid-town Nigerian consulate. Sekou, an anti-gun violence
organiser, led a group of about 50 Harlem residents to the rally. She said that she
was there because the 200 plus Nigerian school girls were abducted at gunpoint.
Some Ghanaian women yesterday marched through the capital Accra, to demand
the release of the schoolgirls.
They presented a petition signed by over 300 people to the Nigerian High
Commissioner to Ghana, saying: “We are just a representative of the swelling
voices of Ghanaians and other people round the world who believe that any extra
second we spend not finding our girls is one second too many.”
They held placards, which read: “Bring back our girls”; “Release the girls now”;
and “We want action now’’.
One of the leaders of the Ghanaian women that marched, Eugenia Techie Menson,
Chief Executive Officer of Young Educators Foundation, said: “Girls have the basic
right to be educated and to be girls; girls have the inalienable right to be girls.”
The Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana, Ademola Oluseyi Onafonoka, after
receiving the petition, said:”… Let me thank you for your out pouring of emotions,
solidarity, for your empathy; I am assuring you as a father that our daughters will
be found and brought back to all of us alive and well.’’
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has intensified
collaboration with the Federal Government to combat cross border terrorist
activities carried out by Boko Haram, ECOWAS Communication Director Sonny
Ugoh said yesterday.
Ugoh says the regional bloc is also working with other neighboring regional
organisations including the Economic Community of Central African States
(ECCAS) to improve security in their member states, following the girls’ abduction.
“There is a collective sense that ECOWAS is willing and determined to support the
Nigerian government to address this menace, because what affects one member
state affects the others; that is the spirit of the ECOWAS Integration project. There
is a sense of solidarity [and] the value for the support of each other,” said Ugoh.
His comments follow a U.N. Security Council demand for an unconditional release
of the girls abducted by Boko Haram militants.
The chairman of the ECOWAS commission, Ghanaian President John Dramani
Mahama, issued a solidarity statement to President Goodluck Jonathan to assure
him of the regional bloc’s support to combat the Boko Haram militants.
“There is recognition, both locally and internationally, that this is an unacceptable
behavior. And in response to that the international community has risen to
support the ECOWAS position,” said Ugoh. “ECOWAS is ready and willing to work
with the Nigerian government to see how this [violence] can be addressed, and
use the opportunity to also make a point about the need for us to now increase
collaboration within West Africa.”
“Some of the terrorism issues that we have to deal with have to do with the
situation in the Sahel. So there is a larger issue of the Sahel impact on [us],” said
Ugoh. “We are actively working to have a holistic response to these and then
working beyond West Africa with our neighbors to see how we can collaborate in
responding to the dynamics and the specifics of this in terms of the various
manifestation of terrorism in West Africa.”
Culled from The Nation
Sunday, 11 May 2014
2 arrested over killing of kidnap
suspects
TWO persons have been arrested by
Police detectives over the killing of suspected
kidnappers in Ondo State.
The state police authorities have also warned
against jungle justice meted out to suspected
kidnappers in the last few weeks across the
state.
Timely intervention of policemen saved three
persons, including a woman, from being set
ablaze by irate youths who mistook them for
kidnappers.
Within a week, two persons have been roasted
alive by irate mob who accused them of
kidnapping.
A woman in Ondo town and a man in Akure
were set ablaze by the mob.
The State Police Commissioner of Police, Mr
Isaac Eke, however, decried the ugly
development.
Eke frowned at the rate by which some people
attacked and mobbed suspected kidnappers in
the recent times in the state.
He said it was wrong for anybody to lynch a
suspected criminal, noting that suspected
criminals should be handed over to the police
instead of members of the public taking laws
into their hands.
He said: “We have arrested two people over the
lynching that occurred in Akure during the week
and we will still arrest more to serve as
deterrent to others that are involved in such
act.”
Meanwhile, Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo
State, yesterday, inaugurated a task force on
the evacuation of illegal immigrants, destitutes
and other social miscreants from the state.
This development is part of the efforts of the
government to enhance public safety and
sanity in the state,
Inaugurating the task force, the governor, who
was represented by the Secretary to the State
Government, Dr Rotimi Adelola, explained that
the task force was put in place to safeguard
lives and ensure that no room is given to
anyone to perpetrate evil in the state.
Mimiko, who noted that the government had
noticed the influx of immigrants and the
worrisome behaviour of some citizens in recent
times, said government needed to strengthen
security for the betterment of all and sundry.
Culled from VANGUARD
suspects
TWO persons have been arrested by
Police detectives over the killing of suspected
kidnappers in Ondo State.
The state police authorities have also warned
against jungle justice meted out to suspected
kidnappers in the last few weeks across the
state.
Timely intervention of policemen saved three
persons, including a woman, from being set
ablaze by irate youths who mistook them for
kidnappers.
Within a week, two persons have been roasted
alive by irate mob who accused them of
kidnapping.
A woman in Ondo town and a man in Akure
were set ablaze by the mob.
The State Police Commissioner of Police, Mr
Isaac Eke, however, decried the ugly
development.
Eke frowned at the rate by which some people
attacked and mobbed suspected kidnappers in
the recent times in the state.
He said it was wrong for anybody to lynch a
suspected criminal, noting that suspected
criminals should be handed over to the police
instead of members of the public taking laws
into their hands.
He said: “We have arrested two people over the
lynching that occurred in Akure during the week
and we will still arrest more to serve as
deterrent to others that are involved in such
act.”
Meanwhile, Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo
State, yesterday, inaugurated a task force on
the evacuation of illegal immigrants, destitutes
and other social miscreants from the state.
This development is part of the efforts of the
government to enhance public safety and
sanity in the state,
Inaugurating the task force, the governor, who
was represented by the Secretary to the State
Government, Dr Rotimi Adelola, explained that
the task force was put in place to safeguard
lives and ensure that no room is given to
anyone to perpetrate evil in the state.
Mimiko, who noted that the government had
noticed the influx of immigrants and the
worrisome behaviour of some citizens in recent
times, said government needed to strengthen
security for the betterment of all and sundry.
Culled from VANGUARD
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