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Delta APC
chieftain
petitions IGP
over alleged
threat to life
A
chieftain of All
Progressives
Congress, APC, in Okpe
LGA, Delta State, Kennedy
Eyube, has petitioned the
Inspector General of Police,
Ibrahim Idris, over allege
threat to eliminate him.
The petition, copied
Assistant Inspector
General, Zone 5, Benin,
and Commissioner of
Police, Delta State, dated
May 22, by Igho
Ogedegbe, said: “This is to
bring to your notice high
powered plans to eliminate
Kennedy Eyube by persons
opposed to his rising
political testimonial.
“The plans are in top gear
to assassinate our client
(Kennedy Eyube) under
police cover.
“They intend to carry out
the plot under the guise of
an arrest and he shall be
eliminated on their way to
the supposed police station
in the false claim that our
client upon arrest attempted
to escape from the lawful
custody.”
Woman
escapes
lynching over
kidnap attempt
By Esther
Onyegbula
POLICEMEN attached
to the Ketu Division of
the Lagos State Command,
Tuesday, rescued a woman,
who was on the verge of
being lynched for
attempting to kidnap a twoyear-old
child in Mile 12
area.
The incident, as gathered,
occurred at about 2.30p.m.,
at the popular Mile 12 Yam
Market.
Eyewitnesses said the
rescued child identified as
Hamudatu Matimu,
apparently strayed from her
mother’s shop.
Apprehension set in
when her mother could not
find her and conducted a
search around.
According to the toddler’s
mother, Mrs Bintu
Mazaudu, who lives within
Mile 12: “We were told that
she was seen with an
unidentified woman.
“We saw her and raised
the alarm. Some people
caught up with the stranger
and asked where she was
taking the child to, but she
could not give any good
reason.
“She only gave her name
as Elizabeth Ibezim of 15
Bob Street, Alapere.”
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Another 47 pa
By Ben Agande
KADUNA—ANOTHER 47
persons, mostly travellers,
have been abducted by bandits
on Birning Gwari axis of
Kaduna State between
Tuesday evening and
yesterday.
Chairman of the National
Union of Road Transport
Workers, NURTW, Birning
Gwari branch, Danladi
Duniya, who confirmed the
incident on phone in Kaduna,
said those abducted were
travelling in three vehicles
He said he'll suck my breasts to make them
big, says 18-yr-old girl raped by father for 4 years
By Jane Echewodo
AN 18-year-old girl, yesterday,
told a Special and Sexual
Offences Court, sitting in Ikeja,
Lagos, how her biological father,
Folorunsho Oluwaseun, told her
he will suck her breasts to make
them as big as her mates, and
then ended up having sexual
intercourse with her for four
years.
The victim is the first
prosecution witness in an
ongoing trial involving her father
and Lagos State before Justice
Sybil Nwaka.
Led in evidence by the
prosecuting counsel, Babajide
Boye, she informed the court that
her father started abusing her
sexually right from when she was
12 years old, at their Ikorodu
home in Lagos.
Her story: “My four siblings
(two boys and two girls) and I
were staying with my father in a
room apartment.”
She said the abuse started when
her father called her and said that
her breasts are not as big as that
of her mates and that he would
help her suck them with his mouth
so that they can get bigger like
those of her mates.
According to her, “I was in JSS
3 when he started. He asked me
to sleep with him on the bed and
he began to suck my breasts. The
following day, I told my younger
sister about the incident and she
condemned it.
“The following week, he told me
that I am not as fat as my mates
and that he would pour sperm
inside me so that I can be as fat.
I allowed him have sex with me
and thereafter, he gave me salt
water to drink.”
The victim further told the court
that her mother left her father’s
house in 2012, as they were
always
having
misunderstanding.
She said her father continued
to abuse her sexually and when
she told her younger sister about
the sexual aspect, she said it is a
curse and the bible condemns it.
Sex for food
She claimed that “I said same
to my dad, but he said it is not a
curse because God knows that
he does not have a wife. I
attempted to stop him, but he
denied me and my siblings food
for days until I gave in again.
“He said if he continues to have
sex with me, he will keep getting
money to take care of us. My
mum came but left again after
about a month.
“He stopped when she was
around and started again when
she left. I didn’t tell my mum
because he said I should not tell
her.
“We usually go to the Apostolic
Church camp every year and he
told me that his sister reported
him to his mum and rather than
rebuking him, she told him not
to get me pregnant. I told my
sister and she said my dad’s
family don’t like us at all.
“In 2016, my mother came back
to stay with us and caught us one
night, when my father was trying
to have sex with me. She
screamed and my father
threatened to kill her.”
How the bubble burst
The girl also informed the court
that thereafter her mother took
her and her siblings to Ibadan,
where she was formerly residing.
By Evelyn Usman
MANAGING Director of
Samadores Ltd and Aqua
Rock Real Estate, Mr. Samuel
Koneke and his counterpart at
Iccon Communications Limited,
Ifeanyi Ndigwe, , had their bail
applications rejected yesterday,
by Justice Mojisola Dada of the
Lagos State High Court, Ikeja,
over alleged N120 million land
scam.
The duo and the Managing
Director of Forthright Properties
Ltd, Isaac Akintoye, are standing
trial alongside four firms before
the court on a 16-count charge
of stealing and fraud preferred
against them by the Economic
and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC.
However, Akintoye was
granted bail in the sum of
N500,000 with one surety in the
She continued: “I was
teaching in a small school in
Ibadan and we used to call
him to send us money, but he
will say he won’t until we
come back to Ikorodu and I
didn’t want to go back.
“So I went to the proprietress
of the school where I teach in
Ibadan, asking for salary
increment, that the money was
too small for all of us to live
on. She asked of my dad and
I told her everything I went
through in the hands of my
father.
“She said she knows
someone who can help me at
Justice Development Peace
Commission at Basorun,
Ibadan. I told them all that
happened and they said they
will help me, but that I have
to come to Lagos and they
gave us a number to call at
Alausa, Ikeja.
“I was referred to Mirabel
Centre to run a test. After the
test, we went back to the Police
and we later went to arrest my
father in Ikorodu.”
While being crossexamined
by the defence
counsel, Woreer Oduagbaka,
the victim maintained that she
like sum.
Counsel to the EFCC,
Muhammed Bashir, said that
the offences were committed
in Lagos between November
14, 2005 and August 2014,
alleging that the defendants
received the N120m in
tranches of N68,400,000,
N1,800,000, N5,000,000,
N6,000,000, N10,000,000,
N8,500,000, among others.
While rejecting the bail
application by the defense
counsel, Justice Dada
described the duo of Okeke
and Ndigwe as flight risks.
He said: “The first
defendant’s bail was opposed
by the prosecution on the
ground that he jumped the
administrative bail granted
him at the EFCC office and
evaded arrest until he was
apprehended on May 10. The
was living in a room apartment,
but a room was later added to it,
making a room and parlour.
A mother’s story
The victim’s mother also gave
her evidence before the court,
giving her reasons for leaving her
husband in the first place, saying
he accused her of spiritually
impeding his progress.
She said she had no choice but
to leave his house for Ibadan,
where she began selling food
stuffs and sending her sister to
give her children gifts
occasionally, because their father
would not let her contact them
directly.
She also told the court that she
was unaware of everything that
happened to her daughter as she
never confided in her, until she
caught the father in the act and
left with her kids after he refused
to accept or show any form of
repentance.
The 52-year-old defendant,
Folorunso Oluwaseun, was
arraigned for defiling a minor in
February on a two-count charge
bordering on sexual assault.
Justice Nwaka adjourned the
matter till June 21 for continuation
of trial.
Court denies 2 MDs bail over N120m land scam
applicant’s counsel never replied
to this weighty allegation in all
the documents submitted before
the court. I therefore hold that his
application fails and bail is hereby
denied.”
While also rejecting the third
defendant’s application, the judge
said “…not having a source of
income or a traceable address,
there are indications that he may
not be available for his trial.”
Cultist kills rival, sell
By Daud Olatunji
ABEOKUTA—A 27-year-old
suspected member of Aiye
cult group, Kayode Oreneye, who
allegedly killed one Shakiru, a
member of a rival cult group,
severed his two hands and sold
the palms for N5,000 to a herbalist,
has been arrested.