16112017 - FG revokes Intels' expatriate permits

8—Vanguard, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2017
In Italy:
Autopsies of
26 migrant
Nigerian girls
say most
drowned
P OST-mortem
examinations on the
bodies of 26 teenage
migrant girls found dead
in the Mediterranean in
early November
confirmed they almost all
drowned at sea, Italian
news agencies reported
yesterday.
The loss of the girls,
believed to be Nigerians
aged 14 to 18, has been
described by the Nigerian
foreign ministry as “a
monumental loss and a
sad moment for our
country.”
According to the postmortems
carried out in
Salerno, southern Italy, 25
of the girls died of
asphyxiation in the water,
most of them when the
inflatable dinghy they
were travelling on sank.
One girl suffered a
wound to her liver and
two of the dead were
pregnant.
The autopsies found no
recent trace of physical or
sexual violence.
The bodies of the victims
were found floating in the
water by a Spanish
military ship and brought
to Italy on November 3
after two separate rescue
operations.
In both cases, dozens of
other migrants— mostly
men but also women—
were also rescued after
they tried to cross to
Europe from Libya.
Family members, who
survived the disaster,
have identified some of
the victims. In other cases,
investigators managed to
contact relatives after
discovering phone
numbers inside the
victims’ clothing.
Burial
Funerals for the 26 girls
will take place Friday in
Salerno, where a day of
mourning has been
declared.
A white rose will be
placed on each coffin,
while smaller roses will be
placed for the two unborn
children.
Nigeria has called for an
international
investigation into the
incident.
According to Italy’s
interior ministry, more
than 111,700 people have
reached the country by
sea in the first 10 months
of 2017, a decrease of 30
percent from the same
period last year.
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Man impersonates Mike Adenuga, makes N1m
•Another makes N4m from Police employment fraud
By Daud Olatunji &
Esther Onyegbula
ABEOKUTA—A 24-year-old
man, Ehioboh Lucky, has
been nabbed by men of Ogun
State Police Command for
allegedly impersonating
billionaire businessman, Dr.
Mike Adenuga Jr.
Also, another suspect,
Emmanuel Ebuzoma, was
arrested by the Zone 2 Police
Command of the Force for
allegedly defrauding
applicants seeking employment
with the Nigeria Police Force.
The Ogun State Police Public
Relations Officer, Abimbola
Oyeyemi, said Ehioboh Lucky
was arrested on November 6,
following a complaint by one
Abiola Ogunseye, who claimed
the suspect defrauded him of
N1,028,770.
Oyeyemi added that the
suspect, who hails from Edo
State, had opened a Facebook
account with the name and
picture of the business mogul,
which he has been using to
defraud unsuspecting
members of the public.
The PPRO said: “One of his
victims, Abiola Olalekan
Ogunseye, came into contact
with him on Facebook, where
he promised to get employment
for him at Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation, NNPC,
and asked him to pay N1.5
million to ‘settle’ some
members of the management of
the corporation, who will
influence his appointment.
“The sum of N1,028,770 has
so far been paid to the suspect
before the victim realised that
he was a fraudster. The victim
lodged a complaint via a
petition to the Ogun State
Commissioner of Police and the
officer in charge of Anti-
Kidnapping and Cultism, CSP
Opeyemi Kujore, was directed
to go after the suspect.
“After weeks of investigation,
the suspect was apprehended
on Monday, November 6.
Recovered from him are one
iPhone 6, a laptop, eight
different SIM cards, five
different ATM cards and one
international passport.”
Oyeyemi, however, said the
suspect will be charged to
court as soon as investigation
is concluded.
Police employment fraud
It was also gathered,
yesterday, that the Zone 2
Police Command arrested a
37-year-old man, Emmanuel
Ebuzoma, for allegedly
defrauding applicants
seeking employment with the
Nigeria Police Force.
The Zone 2 PPRO, SP
Dolapo Badmus, while
parading the suspects, said
the Chairman of Police
Service Commission had, on
November 2, petitioned the
Lucky (above) and the Police employment fraud gang, Emmanuel Ebuzoma and Faith.
Assistant Inspector General Emmanuel Ebuzoma The suspect immediately
in charge of Zone 2, AIG
Adamu Ibrahim, about a
fraudster using his name to
scam unsuspecting members
of the public.
She said on receiving the
petition, AIG Ibrahim referred
the petition to the public
complaint bureau of the Zone.
According to Badmus, “the
detectives swung into action
and the suspect Emmanuel
Ebuzoma, an indigene of
confessed that he obtained
telephone numbers of
members of the Senate,
House of Representative,
including governors, who he
sent bulk text messages to,
informing them of police
recruitment exercise.
“He implored them to send
the names and phone
contacts of four applicants
they wanted to help into the
Nigeria Police Force.
contacted them, demanding
various sums of money for
their registration into the force.
The applicants paid between
N25,000 to N50,000.
“Investigations revealed that
the suspect has been able to
rake in about N4,000,000
through the accounts supplied
by this accomplice, Faith.”
Badmus said the AIG has
directed that the suspects be
charged to court at the
Delta State, and his “Some of the government conclusion of investigation, as
accomplice, Faith Oregbu,
were subsequently arrested.
functionaries sent numbers
of their family members and
she advised job seekers to be
wary of fraudsters demanding
“Upon interrogation, constituents to the suspect. money for employment.
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, and officials of National Union of
Road Transport Workers, NURTW, during a meeting over the decongestion of traffic in in
Oshodi, yesterday.
Strange disease kills 3 in Sokoto
By Abdallah el-Kurebe
A58-year-old father of five,
one Malam Abdullahi
Lawal; 15-year-old secondary
school student, Bello
Zoramawa, and 14-year-old
house help, Nasiru Kamba,
have been confirmed dead
from a strange disease in
Mabera area of Sokoto
metropolis.
It was gathered that the
symptoms of the strange
disease were bleeding from the
eyes and diarrhoea.
The late student’s mother,
who did not disclose her
name, informed Vanguard
that her son fell sick last week
Thursday and was treated for
malaria.
She added: “But by 10p.m.,
his temperature became very
high; he was shivering. We
took him to the hospital,
where he died on Friday.”
Vanguard further gathered
that the house help, Nasiru
Kamba, who stayed with him
at the hospital, also
developed the same symptom
of high temperature,
bleeding eyes and diarrhoea
before she died.
Dr. Adamu Adamu of the
Paediatric Unit of Usmanu
Danfodiyo University Teaching
Hospital, UDUTH, told
newsmen that the symptom was
not known ”because Bello was
not diagnosed of the disease
before he died.”
Also speaking on the death
yesterday, the Deputy Director,
Public Health in the state
Ministry of Health, Alhaji
Abbas Aliyu, who confirmed
the three deaths, noted that
preliminary investigation
conducted by some doctors