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PAGE 42, SUNDAY VANGUARD, DECEMBER 1, 2019 Zenith Lifestyle Fair in Lagos Life Style Fair organised by Zenith Bank Plc is holding at Eko Atlantic City, Lagos. Faces at the occasion as captured by Bunmi Azeez From left: Adebimpe Adebambo, film producer and moderator, Umisu Eri, Speaker Animator, Henry Dunkun, Speaker Studio owner, and Brian Wilson, Speaker co-founder, at the screening of animation film A scene from the exhibition segment Another scene from the fashion exhibition segment Participants during fashion parade Inside the Gamaes Arena Another scene from the fashion parade segment Cross section of participants A scene from the fashion segment The Managing Director of Klick Konect Networks Group and Convener of IBI GIGA AMBASSADORS, Chief Alex Ajipe (left), receiving the NUJ 2019 Award of Excellence in Corporate Service and Industrialization from Mrs Ifeoluwa Oyedele yesterday in Akure, Ondo State capital. Olojudo rallies Ido-Ekiti natives for development he Olojudo of Ido-Ekiti, TOba Ayorinde Ilori-Faboro, has called on sons and daughters of the ancient community to join hands with him to bring more progress and development to the town. Ilori-Faboro, who made the call yesterday at the this year’s edition of Ajodun Ido Oganganmodu and his 10th Coronation Anniversary, said Ido-Ekiti needed unity now more than any other period in history if the community was to have a pride of place in the fast developing global community. The monarch noted that the past giant strides of the of Ido- Ekiti were made possible as a result of oneness and unity of purpose displayed by her indigenes. Earlier in an address, the Chairman Planning Committee of Ajodun Ido Oganganmodu 2019, Mr Babatunde Akilo, observed that lack of industries in Ido was a challenge that required private-public collaboration and urged Ido Progressive Association to set up an action committee to fashion out a strategy to industrialise the town. This, he said, would not only have a spiral effect on the local economy, but also engage the teeming unemployed youth that were easily recruited into crime to engage their preconscious minds and boundless energies. The intra-city roads, according to Akilo, were an eyesore which made it difficult to believe that Ido is a local government headquarters and pleaded with the state’ ministry of T HE legacy of the pioneer Principal of Anwar-ul-Islam Grammar School, Eleyele, Ibadan, Oyo State, Alhaji Jimoh Gbadamosi, is one that has continued to have farreaching impacts on successive generations of students in the school. The President of Ahmadiyya/ Anwar-ul-Islam Grammar School Old Students works and Ido/Osi Local Government to assist in this regard and made appropriation for it in next year’s budget. The event, chaired by the Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Agency, Dr. Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, attracted other dignitaries like Asiwaju Segun Oni, a former governor of Ekiti State. Ido Progressive Association President, Jomo Olofinlade; Lagos branch IPA chairman, Dr. Rufus Familoni, and Segun Adekuajo, Ido Country Club President. By Nwabueze Okonkwo hief Hyman Udemba is Cone of the cabinet members of the traditional ruler of Obosi in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, Igwe Chidubem Iweka III. In his pre-Iwaji 2019 annual cultural festival press briefing held on Thursday at his compound in Ugamuma village, Obosi, Udemba speaks on his achievements. Excerpts: “My challenges are as enormous as expected because of the fallout of semiurbanization of Obosi community which tilted towards crime and cultism, unemployment of our youths and lack of educational qualifications. When I came on board, I and other cabinet members assisted Eze Iweka, our young and energetic royal father, in fighting these vices and bringing them down to a minimum level. “If you asked me how we did it, I will tell you right away that we, first of all, identified the root of crimes, the criminals themselves, their hideouts and their modus operandi and uprooted them. At a stage, some of them fled the community when we closed-in on them and the atmosphere became inconducive environment for them to operate, while at the same time, we created employment for some youths and that was how we achieved the 30 percent feat that is Emotions as old students celebrate 92-yr-old ex-principal Association (AGSOSA), Captain Tajudeen Alao (retd), stated this last weekend when he led different sets of former students of the school on a visit to Gbadamosi at his Surulere, Lagos residence. Alao said the purpose of the visit was to spend time with the 92-year-old man who laid the foundation of their alma mater and made it a moulder of great minds. Fashion parade participants How we fought crime, cultism in Obosi —Udemba According to him, the accomplishments of the “distinguished” school administrator are legendary and have continued to reverberate within and outside the school from generation to generation. “It is an honour on our part because our source, the root, is this man. He established that school from scratch. We want to sustain his legacy,” he added. prevalent at the moment. “Since I became Ndi Ichie, I saw the performance of Eze Iweka of Obosi as quite challenging. Like I said earlier, Obosi is an urban community and, as such, all those challenges are expected. Before I became Ichie, the challenges were so enormous but, as of today, almost every ugly situation is under control, courtesy of Igwe’s hard work and other cabinet members. “I am celebrating my 5th annual Iwaji cultural festival today. Since I was installed as Akamkposi Obosi in January, 2015, I have been celebrating my Iwaji festival on yearly basis. We celebrate Ifejioku in March every every which is a celebration of appeasing our gods to make our crops yield fruitfully at which time Ndichie will receive yam seedlings from Eze Obosi to go and plant. Each Ndichie will pray in their respective domains for the land to yield. In summary, Ifejioku is celebrated after the first rain in the year to usher in farming season. President of Ahmadiyya/Anwar-ul-Islam Grammar School Old Students Association (AGSOSA), Captain Tajudeen Alao (retd) (second left); the National Public Relations Officer, Alhaji Kamorudeen Aderibigbe (left) and other members of the association with the pioneer principal of Anwar-ul-Islam Grammar School, Eleyele, Ibadan, Oyo State, during their visit to the nonagenarian at his residence in Lagos Also, the first Vice President of AGSOSA, Alhaji Olanrewaju Hussein, said: This visit is very significant because some of us were not born and others were very little when this man was the Principal of our alma mater. “Whatever success I have made of my life today, this school was the basis. Seeing the person who pioneered the school is a fantastic feeling for me. I am grateful to God to be here today.”
SUNDAY VANGUARD, DECEMBER 1, 2019, PAGE 43 FROM CHURCH TO SHRINE ‘My son will be found’ ...mum of boy stolen during service vows after oath-taking at Akure shrine • Church officials also take oath • Police dismiss claim of foot-dragging By Dayo Johnson, Akure It is 21 days since one-year-old Gold Kolawole went missing during a Sunday service at Sotitobire Prayer University in Solagbade area of Osinle Quarters, Oke-Aro, Akure. But the police seem to have lost steam in finding the missing boy while members of the public ponder on the mysterious disappearance of the toddler at the church creche where 14 minders kept watch. Last Thursday, minders and parents of the missing boy, Temitope and Modupe Kolawole, took part in oath-taking at Odoro Shrine within the palace of the Deji of Akure, Oba Adelusi Aladetoyinbo. Palace sources informed Sunday Vanguard that the General Overseer of the church, Prophet Samuel Babatunde Alfa, did not take part in the oath-taking He was said not to have been implicated in the statements made by the parents of the missing boy at the palace. The sources said Ondo State Police Command took over the case after the oathtaking. It was, however, not known what would happen after the oath had been taken by the minders and parents of the missing boy. Confirming that the oath-taking had been done, the Chief Press Secretary to the Deji, Michael Adeyeye, said the exercise took place on Thursday. “The children’s teachers alongside the parents of the missing boy took part in the oath-taking at the palace”, Adeyeye said. On why the General Overseer was left out of the exercise, Adeyeye said he was not indicted by the parents of the missing boy in their statements at the palace. On the next line of action, the spokesperson said, “That is all for now. The police have taken over the matter”. Sunday Vanguard gathered that, traditionally, days after oath-taking in situations like that, perpetrators would be revealed. The sources declined to be specific on when this could happen but “within a number of days the whole truth would be revealed traditionally and the whereabouts of the boy would be known”. One of the sources added, “It would further be revealed Nothing is impossible for God to do. I have absolute faith and still hopeful that I will still see Gold, my dear son. I won’t lose hope no matter what anybody does on this matter if the boy is still alive or dead”. Meanwhile, tongues kept wagging over the protest by half naked women in support of the General Overseer of the church. The old women who wore only bra wrappers stormed the church auditorium and spoke one after the other exonerating their prophet of wrong doing. They vowed to go to any length to ensure that “the Man of God was not rubbished and his ministry’s image rubbed in the mud”. According to them, the enemies were jealous of the growth of the church and wanted to frustrate the good work of the prophet. “We are behind you. You are unmovable and unshakeable. They have failed. We will triumph. It is outright blackmail and mudslinging by agents of darkness”, they said. Critics alleged that some top police officers who are members of the church may have been suppressing investigation into the case of the missing boy hence the nonarrest by police detectives three weeks after the incident. Meanwhile, a human rights group, the Sunshine for Integrity and Justice, has frowned at the way the police were handling the matter. Its coordinator, Odion Matthew, alleged that the police command was lackadaisical in its investigation into the matter. “It would be a thing of shame and ineptitude for Ondo State Police Command not to have taken any serious step on the matter. A whole human being was missing, not an object and the police seem to have kept quiet about it; it is unfortunate”, Matthew said. “For over two weeks now, nobody has been arrested or interrogated among the care givers in the church under whose care the boy was missing. “How could a boy have gone missing among many children at the juvenile section of the church and the police are keeping quiet? “This is not good enough for a country like Nigeria. We believe we are not in a jungle. So the police must act on this matter. “The perceived silence of the police on the matter, and the experience in the past in this country, is luring one to believe that there is an attempt to let the matter suffer a natural death.” He called on the Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu, to order for a full investigation into the matter. Sunday Vanguard reliably gathered the state Police Commissioner, Adie Udie, has ordered that the mobile phones of the General Overseer and the father of the missing boy be seized by police detectives investigating the incident. It was said that the command was desperate to get to the root of the matter hence the seizure of the phones. The police, it was learnt, may have commenced a forensic analysis of the calls received before the kidnap incident and after on the mobile phones of the General Overseer and the father of the missing boy. The police have however denied that they were foot dragging on the case. Police spokesman Femi Joseph said, “lt is not when police arrest people indiscriminately that you know that we are working. “The Commissioner of Police invited all those concerned including the General Overseer of the church, the children’s teachers, ushers and parents of the missing boy. “They were drilled personally by the state Police Commissioner for over three hours. So the allegation that we are not doing anything is far from being true. “The matter has been handed over to the Criminal Investigative Department for proper investigation. “The police are no magician. We are sad about the incident and would unravel those behind the kidnapping of the boy during church service. “We are digging deep into the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the boy and l want to assure you that we will come up with the facts and will make them open to the public”. The General Overseer of the church where the boy went missing, Prophet Alfa, had insisted that his hands were clean on the case. “I was on the altar when the ushers informed me of what happened in the children church. I immediately dispatched my pastors and leaders to attend to the situation”, he had said. “We finished service that Sunday around 5pm and I invited them and after I heard their story I invited the police. This is the first time such incident will happen since we started this church”. The mother of the missing boy, Modupe, while speaking to Sunday Vanguard, said she was still worried that the police were yet to make any arrest. “l am highly disappointed that nobody has been arrested since my son disappeared in that church”, she said. “Our telephones were seized and they just returned them. The police said they have interrogated the children’s teachers but no arrest made since. “But l have faith and hopeful that I will still see my son. The devil will be put to shame at the end of the day”. When told it was going to three weeks, the mother of the missing boy said, “Nothing is impossible for God to do. I have absolute faith and still hopeful that I will still see Gold, my dear son. I won’t lose hope no matter what anybody does on this matter. “Those expected to act are foot-dragging because we are not well connected. But God is still on the throne and would fight for us, the down trodden. “Let them continue to use their power to suppress the matter. The truth will surely prevail”.
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