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6 — Vanguard, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2020 Court remands twin brothers, one other over alleged kidnapping, cult membership By Shina Abubakar O SOGBO—A magistrate's court sitting in Osogbo, yesterday, remanded twin brothers, Taiwo Lateef, 20, Kehinde Lateef, 20, and Ajani Olalekan, 20, over alleged kidnapping of one Ayodeji Olatomide. They were also said to be members of an unlawful society, known as Aye Confraternity secret cult. According to the charge sheet, “they did conspire to wit: kidnapping and unlawfully being members of a secret court, did kidnaped one Ayodeji Olatomide.” The prosecutor, Kayode, said the offence was committed on January 6, 2020 at about 4:55pm at Ikirun in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Osun State. The offences, according to the charge sheet, contravened sections 516, 364(2) and 64(a) of the Criminal Code cap 34 vol ll laws of Osun State of Nigeria, 2002. The three defendants pleaded not guilty to the three counts bordering on conspiracy, kidnapping and unlawful membership of a secret cult levelled against them. Defence counsel, S.P Ogundari, in his oral bail application, charged the court to admit the accused to bail in the most liberal terms. However, the prosecutor opposed the application on the ground that the accused cannot provide credible, reliable sureties and may jump bail if granted. He added that they should be made to serve as deterrent to others, as cases of cultism has become rampant in the society nowadays. The Presiding Magistrate, Adijat Oloyade, ordered the counsel to file a formal bail application, saying the three defendants should be remanded in prison pending the application. She then adjourned the case till March 26, 2020. NABBED: Acting Area Controller, Nigeria Customs Services, NCS, Seme Command, Chedi Wadda (3rd left) with other senior officers inspecting intercepted kegs of petroleum products to be smuggled out of the country at Seme in Lagos, yesterday. Photo: NAN. Katsina killings, act of dark civilisation — Masari By Bashir Bello K ATSINA—GOVERNOR Aminu Masari of Katsina State has described last Friday attack in which 30 persons were killed in Batsari Local Government Area of the state as an act of dark civilisation. Masari, who was on a sympathy visit to the affected areas, yesterday, noted with dismay that the people of the villages were killed and not kidnapped just as food items were not carted away but burnt to ashes. The governor told the people that he was saddened by the occurrence of the calamities because he as a governor, will be the first to be questioned on the day of judgment. He told them that he was not folding his arms and hoped that they will bear with the ugly incidence. Masari, however, assured the residents that relief materials were underway for the affected persons. He announced that ox carts would be provided to the people for fetching water while two to three boreholes will be drilled in the village and their road given attention in the projects designed by the World Bank to open up rural agrarian communities. Earlier while in Tsauwa, Mai Unguwa Ibrahim Zangina and Liman Bello Tsauwa told Masari that 21 people were killed in the attacks. They narrated that 180 motorcycles carrying two to three bandits entered the village while residents were saying their Magrib prayers and shot sporadically, stressing that some were shot dead while performing ablution. They told a gory tales of how infants were being evicted from their mother’s lap and thrown 5 killed in Edo road crash By Gabriel Enogholase BENIN CITY —NO fewer than five leaders of Udeni community in Uhunmwode Local Government Area of Edo State, weekend, lost their lives in a motor accident, which occurred at Egba junction along the Benin-Auchi dual carriage way. The victims were said to be returning to the community after attending a funeral ceremony of an in-law to one of the community leaders in in to fire. They informed Governor Masari that food materials were set ablaze by the bandits adding that animals used by the people in fetching water from Yau Yau and Dankar villages were also killed by the Benin City, the state capital. Four of the occupants were reportedly burnt to death while another victim simply identified as Jerry died at the hospital on Sunday. A survivor of the crash, who simply identified himself as Best, said: “We were heading home along Egba junction when a saloon car crossed the path of our 18-seater Hiace bus. “In an attempt to avoid hitting the vehicle, our driver lost control and hit the median bandits. They dispelled the information that the attacks was a reprisal as they have no previous record of fighting with any group or bandits. on the road and in the process our bus fell and burst into flame. “ Some other victims with varying degrees of injuries are said to be receiving medical attention at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) hospital. The sector commander of Edo State Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr. Henry Benamaisia, confirmed the incident. He, however, insisted that the command recorded three deaths while others were rushed to the hospital. 70-yr-old grandma killed by ritualists in Ondo, sensitive body parts removed By Dayo Johnson AKURE—A 70-year-old grandmother, Sidikat Jimoh, has been murdered by suspected ritualists in Ogbagi Akoko in Akoko North West council area of Ondo State. Her body parts were reportedly removed by her killers when her remains were discovered at her Ayetoro Street residents, in Ogbagi Akoko by neighbours in the early hours of yesterday. Reports had it that her assailants forgot some of the victim’s already removed body parts. Vanguard gathered that her killers attempted to set the body ablaze to make her death looks like she was burnt to death as a result of fire outbreak. Neighbours of the deceased described her as a devout Muslim. She was said to have attended the weekly Asalatu prayers, Sunday, before she was murdered for rituals that night. One of her neighbours said: “She went for the Asalatu prayers yesterday (Sunday) at the Ansar Ud Deen Society of Nigeria Central Mosque with enthusiasm not knowing that she will be killed by undesirable elements at night. “We met her in a pool of her blood with parts of her body removed by the killers. Some of the removed body parts were even left in the room by the killers, who might have fled the scene in hurry. It was shocking and a sorry sight." Contacted, the Police Area Commander for Ikare, Assistant Commissioner of Police Razak Rauf and the Divisional Police Officer for Ogbagi, Chief Superintendent of Police, Kunle Fabuluje, confirmed the incident. They said full scale investigation had commenced by detectives to fish out the killers. Her corpse, according to the police officers, has been deposited at state specialist hospital Ikare mortuary for autopsy.
Vanguard, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2020 —7 Police shoot man protesting takeover of property By Onozure Dania & Gafar Shittu THE Police, yesterday, shot a youth in Isheri Oke, Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos State, who was protesting the takeover of the community by one Prince Michael. The incident occurred at about 1 pm, while youths in the area attempted to prevent some policemen and a court sheriff from placing an order allegedly from a Lagos High Court. In the process, son of the head of the market (Iya Loja) in the area, simply identified as Seun, was shot in his left hand. The court sheriff had, yesterday, placed a public notice in the area, notifying residents that possession of the land in Isheri Oke and environs, near Olowora, had been taken over. The notification, which was sequel to a judgment in suit No Gunmen kidnap professor, Chronicle staff in Calabar By Ike Uchechukwu CALABAR —AN Associate Professor with Institute of Public Policy & Administration,IPPA,University of Calabar ,UNICAL,David Ugwu, and a staff of Cross River Newspaper Corporation, Mr Maurice Archibong, were, weekend, kidnapped in Calabar. Vanguard learned that Prof. Ugwu was picked up by gunmen at his residence, Second Transformer, in Atimbo while trying to water flowers in the evening. The gunmen shot Seun, victim of gunshot. ID/1352/2001, between Prince Michael Bakare and two others, against O. Asafa and eight others was delivered by Justice Candide Johnson of the Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja on May 3, 2016. Justice Johnson had in the judgment granted an enrolment order for the consequential relief sporadically into the air to scare residents of the area before whisking away their victim. An eyewitness, Mrs Iquo Etim, said the prof was watering his flower in the evening when the gunmen arrived, shooting sporadically before they took him away. “They took him through the water. It is like they have been monitoring him for a while because they came in swiftly like they knew the area,” she said. A source close to Archibong,who works with Cross River State Newspaper Corporation, publishers of Nigerian and Weekend Chronicle, told Vanguard that of possession of all the parcel of land situated at Isheri Oke and environs, near Olowora. The public notice said "all persons who are on the land through unauthorised families or entities are warned that their actions and or continued stay on the land was illegal, unlawful and malafide. However, residents alleged that the police and the court sheriff came with some thugs, thereby, prompting youths in the area to resist the move An eye witness, Mrs Temitope Shittu, said: “When the court sheriff and policemen with the thugs were trying to paste the notice, youths in the area tried to stop them and in the process, they(youths) hauled stones and bottles at the police. “Some shots were fired by the Police and a bullet hit Seun, who was rushed to Mayflower Hospital. But he was rejected there and was taken to another hospital: Tomade hospital in Ojodu Berger where he is at the moment.” he was picked on his way home from an outing near Shanahan by Ballantine in Calabar South Local Government Area on Saturday evening . Vanguard also gathered that nothing has been heard from their abductors. Contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Irene Ugbo, who confirmed the incident. said she was informed about the kidnapping. “I am aware of the matter,we are working round the clock to make sure they are reunited with their families as soon as possible.We are doing everything possible to make that happen,” she said. Police arraign 3 Celestial Church leaders over alleged N85.9m fraud By Onozure Dania LAGOS—THREE Celestial Church of Christ, CCC, Leaders, John Omotosho a.k.a Jorotom, Boye Olaniyan and Folashade Ogundipe, were yesterday, arraigned before a Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, over allegation of obtaining N85,914,500 million. The defendants alongside a limited liability company, Folafunmi Integrated Limited, belonging to the second defendant, Folashade, are facing a four-count charge of conspiracy, obtaining under false pretence and fraud preferred against them by the police. The trio and the company, who were arraigned before Justice Ayokunle Faji’s court by the men of Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department (Force CIID), Annex, Alagbon, Ikoyi, were accused of defrauding the church’s headquarters at Imeko, Ogun State, of N85,914,500, under false pretence of using the money for the church’s development. The prosecutor, Mr C. J. Ijeoma, a Chief Superintendent of Police, told Justice Faji that the defendants issued several Zenith Bank Plc cheques, which they used in withdrawing the money from the church’s development project account with the bank. According to him, the offences are contrary to Sections 8 (a),1(1) (a) and 1(1) (a) and (b)of the Advanced Fee Fraud and other fraud related offences Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2010 and punishable under section 1(3) of the same Act. Counsel to the defendants, Mr Olawale Okenile, told the court after the defendants had taken their plea, that the charges were served on them recently and that he had filed their bail applications and had served the prosecution. They, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge. Following their not guilty plea, CSP Ijeoma asked the court for a date for trial and also urged the court to remand the defendants. Consequently, Justice Faji asked the three members of the church to file an undertaking affidavit of means and to produce bond of N350,000 for each, before the defendants can be allowed to go home, failing which they will be remanded. Justice Faji held: “These members of the church, Adeosun Israel Oladipo, Assistant Shepherd, CCC, Jerusalem Cathedral, Shasha; Afolabi Tolorunloju and Surakatu John, workers at CCC, Jerusalem Cathedral, Shasha, shall file an undertaking to produce the defendants at the next adjourned date. “In view of the issue, church and personalities in the matter, they shall be handed over to the three church members, who will also produce bond of N350,000 each and a means of identification.” Justice Faji, adjourned the matter to March 6, for a hearing of the defendants’ bail applications. ... with Emma'nKen (08163121378) Attend Sunday School, it's is only God that accepts our shortcomings Results'll soon roll in Table shaker, who called you here?
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