Crime
Buhari directs 7 North-West governors to end banditry and Insecurity
President Muhammadu Buhari has mandated the seven Governors of North-Western Nigeria to end banditry in the Zone.
Kebbi State Governor, Senator Abubakar Atiku has disclosed this, in Birnin Kebbi, at the continuation of Fulani stakeholders’ peace, security, and unity meeting, said that the directive by Buhari was to ensure the urgent restoration of normalcy, to achieve peace and security in the region.
While appealing to all Nigerians to be less apprehensive in confronting the enemies of peace and unity, Bagudu said,” they are a negligible few and we should all brace the odds. The issue of ensuring security in the nation is a collective responsibility, as such, all hands must be on deck in this direction”.
Bagudu also reiterated his earlier pledge to lead the rescue efforts of the abducted students and staff of the FGC Birnin Yauri.
He said:” We were not elected only to stay in the office, but to do anything to safeguard lives and properties of all law-abiding citizens. We have to do everything to guarantee peace, unity, and security, even to the extent of sacrificing our lives as ordained by Religious Scriptures.”
According to Bagudu, the Fulani stakeholders meeting was aimed at reviewing the progress made, as well as tackle the challenges, to proffer plausible solutions.
He said his government had set up a steering committee to look into grazing reserves, cattle routes, as well as resolve, lingering contentious issues between farmers and Fulani herdsmen to lasting, achieve peace and security in the state.
” Government is fully aware of issues raised, just as it has already started implementing some of the recommendations raised by the committee.
” No matter the efforts put in by the Government, there has to be the understanding and acceptance of those concerned to have a positive effect on their lives,” he said.
Also speaking, the immediate past Governor of the Kebbi State, Alhaji Saidu Usman Nasamu Dakingari, who is also the Chairman of the Fulani Elites Steering Committee suggested that plausible solutions to the issues unravelled should be proffered during the forthcoming third tranche of the meeting and suggested that the discussions should go beyond just enumerating myriad of problems and challenges faced by the Fulanis, but proffering practical solutions.
The Anambra State Police Command has foiled a cult initiation ceremony in Nawfia, Njikoka Local Government Area of the state.
Spokesperson for the Command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement issued on Tuesday in Awka.
According to Ikenga, the operation was carried out by police operatives around 9:30am on June 15, leading to the arrest of six suspects at the scene.
Recovered during the raid were one Jojef pump action gun, two cartridges, and a golden-coloured Lexus SUV with registration number ATN 202 AE. Other items found include two cutlasses, two scissors, a cap bearing the inscription of the Supreme Vikings Confraternity, charms, and substances suspected to be hard drugs.
“They are currently undergoing police interrogation to get more insight into their modus operandi, after which the case will be charged to court on the conclusion of the investigations,” Ikenga stated.
The police spokesperson reassured residents of the command’s unwavering commitment to fighting cultism and other related crimes across the state.
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on Wednesday, remanded two persons, Olaitan Fasasi and Kehinde Tobiloba in a correctional facility over alleged attempted murder.
Fasasi, 40, and Tobiloba, 26, whose addresses were not provided, are being charged with conspiracy, attempted murder and membership of a secret society.
The Magistrate, Mr L.A Owolabi, did not take the plea of the defendants for want of jurisdiction.
Owolabi directed the police to forward the case file to the Director of Public Prosecution for legal advice.
He thereafter adjourned the case until May 31 for mention.
The Prosecutor, Josephine Ikhayere, told the court that the defendants committed the offences at about 5.02p.m on Feb. 15, at Mushin, Lagos.
She said that Fasasi, Tobiloba and others now at large, attempted to commit murder by shooting at a resident, Alfred Ademola.
“They armed themselves with a locally made gun. They belong to Eiye Confraternity, a group proscribed by law,”, she said.
Ikhayere said that the offences contravened Sections 230(1) and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2012.
He said that the actions of the defendants also contravened Section 2(3)(a)(b)(c)(d) of the unlawful societies and Cultism Law of Lagos State Law.
An Area Court in Jos, on Tuesday, sentenced one Jeptha John, to three months imprisonment for stealing a Redmi mobile phone valued at N165, 000.
The judge, Shawomi Bokkos, sentenced the John after he pleaded guilty to the offence.
The judge, however, gave the convict an option to pay N20, 000 fine and N50, 000 restitution to the complainant.
Bokkos said that if the convict defaulted in paying the restitution, three months should be added to his sentence to make it six months imprisonment.
Earlier, the police prosecutor, Insp Monday Dabit, told the court that the case was reported at the B Division Police Station, Jos, on Dec. 1, 2024, by Ms Nerat Danjuma.
He said that the complainant alleged that the defendant trespassed into her house and stole her mobile phone valued at N165, 000.
The prosecutor further told the court that the offence contravened the Plateau State Penal Code, Law of Northern Nigeria.
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