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EFCC Arraigns Dasuki’s Aide, Ashinze, Others for N36.8bn Fraud

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EFCC Arraigns Dasuki’s Aide, Ashinze, Others for N36.8bn Fraud

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned Nicholas Ashinze, a former special assistant to the embattled former National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki, before Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court, Abuja on a 13-count charge of corruption and money laundering to the tune of N36.8 billion.

Ashinze was arraigned alongside an Austrian, Wolfgang Reinl, Edidiong Idiong and Sagir Mohammed, as well as five other companies allegedly involved in diverting the huge sum from the office of the former NSA.

The companies are: Geonel Integrated Services Limited, Unity Continental Nigeria Limited, Helpline Organization, Vibrant Resource LTD and Sologic Integrated Services Limited.

One of the charges read that Ashinze, then a serving officer of the Nigerian Army, and the Austrian, Reinl, “on or about 22nd April, 2014 at Abuja, in the Judicial Division of the Federal High Court did transfer the sum of Five Hundred and Fifty Million Naira (550,000,000.00) to Edidiong Idiong, being a lawyer practicing in the name of Law Partners & Associates, knowing that the said sum forms part of the proceeds of an unlawful act.

According to the EFCC, the offense was “contrary to Section 15 (2) (b) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2011 (as amended) and punishable under Section 15 (3) and (4) of the same Money Laundering (Prohibition), Act 2011 (as amended).”

The defendants pleaded not guilty to all the charges preferred against them.

Following their plea, counsel to EFCC, I. O Uket told the court that the prosecution team was ready for the trial to commence immediately, adding that the witnesses were present in court.

“If the court is ready, we are also ready to produce our first witness as we have our witnesses in court”, he said.

However, counsels to the accused persons urged the court to admit their clients on bail, but the defence counsel opposed the bail applications, insisting that the accused persons had lost their administrative bail the moment their matter was charged to court and their counsels filed applications for their bail.

He said: “We are aware that the defendants are enjoying administrative bail. Their counsels understand that any administrative bail granted ends as soon as the matter is brought to court and bail applications are filed.

“Such bail cannot be extended since the charges have now been preferred to the defendants. We therefore urge the court to deny the bail application”, he submitted.

Justice Kolawole in his ruling held that the charges are all bailable adding that, “since each of the defendants has been on one administrative bail or the other, my sixth judicial sense informs me that I adopt the terms and conditions of the bail granted to the defendants by the EFCC and my learned brothers in the FCT High Courts.”

The judge added that the case would be granted accelerated hearing and urged the prosecution to pick five days in the New Year for trial.

Consequently, the case was adjourned to January 23, February 1 &14, March 7 & 21, 2017.

Farmers/Herdsmen Crisis Looming In Bayelsa State

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Farmers/Herdsmen Crisis Looming In Bayelsa State

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Farmers in Bayelsa State have called on security agencies to be proactive in their actions in order to prevent a looming crisis with herdsmen who they claim have continued to destroy their farmlands.

Bubraye Dakolo, the traditional ruler of Ekpetiama Kingdom, in Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state, made the call on Wednesday, saying that the situation was getting out of hand.

Ekpetiama Kingdom is made up of seven towns situated along the banks of the River Nun and several streams flowing into the River Niger and the Atlantic Ocean.

The towns include Gbarantoru, Tombia, Agudama, Akaibiri, Boumondi, Gbene and Ikibiri.

Residents of the communities usually engage in dry season farming, planting crops such as cassava, water yam, potato and plantain.

However, the locals have complained recently of the threats posed to their farming activities by herdsmen.

Dakolo called on the state government as well as security agencies to look into the plight of his people and address the situation before it degenerates.

He said: “What is happening now is a recipe for disaster. It is very difficult to watch your crops which are doing well being eaten up by cows.

“Imagine your one hectare of land you have managed to till at a great cost in terms of money, sweat and energy is now being devoured by some animals.

“So, you go and plant water yams, cassava and plantain, by the time you realize it, they have been devoured. It could spark some clash someday between farmers and herdsmen.”

One of the farmers in Tombia community, Ibomo Odigi, narrated her sad experience to newsmen, saying that the situation had taken a negative toll on food production.

“These herds of cattle they brought here, they have destroyed all our water yam (and) cassava,” she said.

“Some of the herdsmen are even armed with guns.

“They (government) said everybody should go to farm and that is what we have done but these cattle have eaten everything.

“One woman is lying critically ill at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital with high blood Pressure after her crops were destroyed,” Odigi lamented.

Preye Kala-Okpoya, a farmer from Agudama community, said that the herdsmen invaded her farm last month and destroyed everything.

“Last year, the same thing happened in my farm and when I went to look at it, I saw their guns hidden there,” she said.

An environmental activist, Alagoa Morris, called for timely intervention by relevant authorities in order to avoid breakdown of law and order.

He said: “These incidents might escalate into violence if nothing is done and we don’t want violence.

“The herdsmen are not in total control of their cattle which veer off to eat crops and plants in farmlands rather that feed on grasses.

“The relationship between the farmers and herdsmen is getting to the level where it is no longer healthy.

“We think the government should come in to ensure that anything that would lead to bloodshed is averted. It should be live and let live.”

Appeal Court Re-Instates Jegede AS PDP Candidate In Ondo

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Appeal Court Re-Instates Jegede AS PDP Candidate In Ondo
File: Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State and Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State congratulatibg Jegede after he won the governorship priary organised by the Ahmed Makarfi-led faction of the PDP
File: Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State and Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State congratulating Eyitayo Jegede after he won the governorship primary organised by the Ahmed Makarfi-led faction of the PDP

The court of appeal has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to reinstate Eyitayo Jegede as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the Ondo State governorship election holding on Saturday, November, 26.

The three-man panel of appeal court judges led by Ibrahim Salauwa, struck out all the objections filed by the defendant Biyi Poroye and the Ali Modu-Sheriff faction of the PDP.

Delivering the judgement on Wednesday, Justice Salauwa explained that Poroye and the Modu-Sheriff-led PDP faction had tried to blackmail the panel to no avail.

The appeal court panel unanimously struck out all the objections against Jegede’s appeal, describing them as lacking in substance.

It also set aside the ruling of Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, which ordered INEC to substitute Jegede’s name with that of Ibrahim.

“Having resolved each of the seven issues in favor of Jegede, what else should the court do? So the appeal is most meritorious and it is thereby allowed.

“Justice Abang’s judgment is set aside and N50, 000 cost awarded for appellant and the other respondents,” Justice Salauwa ruled.

A lingering leadership tussle in the PDP between Modu-Sheriff and Ahmed Makarfi had led to the former Borno State governor filing a suit before Justice Okon Abang of the federal high court, Abuja.

Delivering judgement on the case, Justice Abang held that Modu-Sheriff was the authentic chairman of the PDP, directing INEC to deal with Ibrahim as the authentic candidate of the PDP in the Ondo governorship election.

Before then, INEC had already recognized Jegede as the PDP candidate, having monitored the primary election from which he emerged the Party’s flag-bearer. But in obedience to the court ruling, Jegede’s name was removed and Ibrahim was added to the list of candidates that was eventually published by INEC.

Jegede, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, then approached Justice Abang seeking permission to appeal the judgement, but the application was rejected as the high court judge held that Jegede had no locus standi to appeal the judgement as he was not part of the primary from which Ibrahim emerged.

The Makarfi-led PDP faction, then headed for the appeal court to set aside the ruling of the federal high court, however, Biyi Poroye, chairman of the Modu-Sheriff PDP faction in Ondo state, accused the appeal court panel of bias, claiming that chairman of the appeal is an associate of the incumbent Ondo State governor, Olusegun Mimiko; the panel consequently withdrew from the case.

President of the court of Appeal, Zainab Bulkachuwa, then constituted a fresh three-man panel to hear the appeals, but again, Poroye protested the formation of the panel.

When the panel led by Justice Salauwa insisted on hearing the panel, Poroye’s counsel, Ben Nwofor, filed an injunction at the Supreme Court against the appeal court Panel.

This development led the Salauwa panel to adjourn judgement on the case indefinitely pending the determination of the injunction filed at the apex court.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court struck out Poroye’s injuction and awarded the sum of N250,000 to Jegede. The apex court also ordered Nwofor to pay the sum of N1 million each to the three members of the appeal court panel, for trying to bring the appellate court to disrepute.

Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, who delivered the ruling also directed the appeal court to as a matter of urgency deliver judgement on the cases before it as the election date was close.

Court Sentences Man To Life Imprisonment For Murdering UK MP

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Court Sentences Man To Life Imprisonment For Murdering UK MP

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A court in the United Kingdom has found 53-year-old Thomas Mair guilty of the murder of a member of the UK parliament, Jo Cox.

The unemployed gardener was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Mair had shot and stabbed Cox, a mother of two, to death in Birstall, West Yorkshire, on 16 June, a week before the EU referendum vote.

He had refused to enter a plea and chose not to give any evidence during the trial. When the sentence was read, the accused person showed no reaction.

“It is evident from your internet searches that your inspiration is not love of country, it is an admiration for Nazis and similar anti-democratic white supremacist creeds,” the judge said as he read the sentence.

In a statement read out in court, husband of the slain lawmaker, Brendan Cox said that he was not there for “retribution” and felt “nothing but pity for” Mair.

Jo Cox’s parents, Jean and Gordon Leadbeater, and her sister, Kim, were also in court for the verdicts.

The accused person, dressed in a dark suit and blue tie, remained impassive as the verdicts were read out, after one hour of deliberations.

He was also found guilty of having a firearm with intent to cause grievous bodily harm to 78-year-old Bernard Kenny, who tried to help Cox, and having an offensive weapon, namely a dagger.

Cox, who was 41 years old at the time of her murder, was the first sitting MP to be killed since 1990, when Ian Gow was the last in a string of politicians to die at the hands of Northern Irish terror groups.

Eyewitnesses told journalists that they heard her attacker shout “put Britain first” at least twice before shooting her and then proceeding to stab her several times.

Army Declares 46 Soldiers Officially Missing

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Army Declares 46 Soldiers Officially Missing

 

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According to sources in the know, families of the affected soldiers have been asked to forward information of their next of kin to the authorities so that their benefits could be paid to them.

The declaration was contained in a notice sent on November 20, by M. Jimoh, the new Commander of the 145 Task Force Battalion of the Nigerian Army in Damasak, Borno State.

According to a report published by an online newspaper, PREMIUM TIMES, “Jimoh, a lieutenant colonel, sent the signal to the 145 Battalion rear base in Ohafia, Abia State, and copied the Army 7 Division Headquarters in Maiduguri and 82 Division Garrison in Enugu.

“Also copied were 5 Battalion in Kano; 20 Battalion in Serti, Taraba State; 103 Battalion in Enugu and 119 Battalion in Malam Fatori, Borno State.

“Also in receipt of the signal were 143 Infantry Battalion for special forces in Borno State; 144 Battalion in Asa, Abia State; and 146 Battalion in Calabar.”

“Each of the battalions copied in the signal had soldiers that were part of the 83 missing.”

The newspaper also reported that Jimoh, the new commander of the 145 Task Force Battalion, was recently appointed to replace K. Yusuf, a lieutenant colonel who is among the missing soldiers.

There had been reports on how 83 Nigerian soldiers went missing after the boko haram terrorists dislodged them from their positions.

The reports at the time had it that several of the troops were feared drowned in the River Yobe while 22 others were rescued by soldiers of neighbouring Niger republic.

The troops were part of ‘Operation Gama Aiki’ which is aimed at clearing out insurgents lurking around the border areas between Nigeria and Niger and Chad aimed at displacing insurgents hibernating around the Nigerian border with Niger and Chad.

Several days after the attack, spokesman for the Army, Sani Usman, insisted that the report was not true.

Over 28,000 Policemen Deployed For Ondo Governorship Election

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Over 28,000 Policemen Deployed For Ondo Governorship Election

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Ahead of the governorship election scheduled to hold in Ondo State on Saturday, November 26, the Nigerian Police Force has beefed up security in the state with the deployment of more than 28,000 police personnel.

A statement issued on Wednesday by the Force Public Relations Officer, Don Awunah, noted that the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris, had directed that a robust and elaborate security arrangement be implemented in Ondo State to ensure peaceful, credible, free and fair elections.

Awunah stated that “a Deputy Inspector General of Police has been deployed to the State and will be assisted by an Assistant Inspector General of Police and three Commissioners of Police (for each Senatorial district) to coordinate the security operations and supervise the deployment of security personnel.

According to the police spokesman, each polling unit in the state will be manned by five conventional policemen, and there are 3009 polling units, 203 wards and 18 Local Government Areas in Ondo State.

The statement noted that “the IGP has graciously approved deployment of additional twenty six thousand conventional Police personnel (5 Policemen per polling unit); two thousand Mobile Police Force (PMF), ten (10) cells of Counter Terrorism Unit, the Special Protection Unit, the Anti-Bomb Squad (EOD), the Marine Police, Conventional Policemen, the Armament Units, personnel from FCIID and FIIB and the Sniffer dogs section and Mounted Troops.”

Similarly, “Twenty (20) Police Gunboats, three (3) Patrol Surveillance Helicopters, twelve (12) additional Armoured Personnel carriers and three hundred (300) Police patrol vehicles are being deployed throughout the State including the riverine areas and difficult terrains.”

Awunah added that other security and safety agencies who are members of Inter Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security, ICCES, in Ondo State have also been deployed to complement the Police during the elections.

He said that security operatives participating in the election are under strict Instructions to be polite and civil but firm in the discharge of their duties and other responsibilities.

He added: “Security details are warned to desist from escorting their Principals and Politicians to polling booths and collation centres during the election.

“Any deviant security detail will be apprehended and dealt with accordingly.

“They are to provide adequate security for the electorates, INEC Staff, election materials, election observers and other individuals and bodies that have statutory roles in the conduct of the elections, at the Polling booths, Collation Centres and INEC Offices throughout the period of the election.”

The Police spokesman called on political, religious and traditional leaders in the state to prevail on their people not to get involved in activities that could threaten the peaceful conduct of the election exercise, warning that the full weight of the law would be meted out on such individuals or groups.

Awunah also assured Ondo electorates, on behalf of the IGP, of adequate security throughout the election.

He enjoined them to cooperate with the Police personnel in the discharge of their duties.

Twenty eight political parties will be taking part in the election.

CBN Retains Interest Rate At 14% Despite Worsening Recession

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CBN Retains Interest Rate At 14% Despite Worsening Recession
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CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele

The Monetary Policy Committee, MPC, of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has voted to retain interest rates in the country at 14%, despite calls from experts and economic managers, including the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, for a downward review.

Governor of the CBN, Godwin Emefiele, announced the decision of the committee on Tuesday, at the end of a two-day meeting held at the apex bank’s headquarters in Abuja.

He explained that all the 10 members of the committee present at the meeting agreed to maintain the current monetary policy rates.

Apart from the MPR which was retained at 14 percent, the CBN governor added that the committee also voted to retain the Cash Reserves Ratio at 22.5 percent.

The Liquidity Ratio, was also retained at 30 percent while the Asymmetric Window was left at +200 and -500 basis points around the MPR.

Recall that just before the last MPC meeting in September, the minister of finance urged the committee to consider bringing down the interest rate in order to enable more domestic borrowing by the federal government to boost the Economy.

“We need lower interest rates, because when we are borrowing and interest rates go up, it increases our cost of debt service and it reduces the amount of money that is available to spend on capital projects,” the minister said.

Similarly, former minister of agriculture and the current president of the Africa Development Bank, AfDB, Akinwumi Adesina, complained that Nigeria’s interest rates were “way too high.”

He said the AfDB was willing to assist Nigeria in this difficult period in its economy, but that the country needed to adopt more people-friendly monetary policies.

Adesina said: “The African Development Bank will rally strongly around Nigeria to overcome its recession.

“They (Nigeria) have a liquidity problem. We (AfDB) want to make sure Nigeria gets resilient.”

“(But) in our view it would be better to have gradual (customs) tariffs as opposed to (Forex) restrictions.

“Attracting investment was the only way for the central bank to lower its interest rates. The interest rate is way too high.

“You cannot drag the economy out of recession with those interest rates.”

However, after the September MPC meeting, Emefiele announced that the CBN had decided to retain benchmark interest rate at 14% because “monetary policies alone could not totally save the economy.”

He added that cutting rates without appropriate fiscal plans may not help the economy.

Senate Invites Petroleum Minister Over Chinese, Indian Deals

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Senate Invites Petroleum Minister Over Chinese, Indian Deals
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Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu at a meeting with Chinese investors in June

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, has been summoned by the Senate to explain the details of the deals which the minister claimed was entered into between Nigerian and Chinese governments on the one hand, and the Indian government on the other.

Earlier in June, the petroleum minister announced that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, was holding a road show in Beijing China, aimed at attracting Chinese investors into the Nigerian oil and gas sector.

He said that during the road show, Nigeria succeeded in signing Memorandums of Understanding with some Chinese companies worth up to $80 billion.

Kachikwu, told journalists that the MoUs were in the area of “new investments, spanning five years, in the oil and gas industry covering pipelines, refineries, gas and power, facility refurbishments and upstream financing.”

In a related development, a statement issued in October by the Director of Press in the Petroleum Ministry, quoted the petroleum minister as saying that Nigeria was about to sign an agreement with India which would see the country make an advance payment of $15 billion to Nigeria for crude purchases.

However, following a motion moved by Clifford Ordia, the senate agreed that Kachikwu be invited to appear before the senate committees on Petroleum, Gas and Foreign Affairs, to throw more light on the details of the agreements.

Senate President, Bukola Saraki commended the Petroleum minister for his efforts to bring investments into the country, adding, however, that such should be done with utmost transparency.

He said: “It is important that matters like this that have to deal with crude oil processing is brought before National Assembly to ensure transparency.

“We must also appreciate the efforts of the Minister for coming up with it as it will go a long way to boost our economy and technology but again we must ensure that it is transparent by making us understand the roles clearly.”

Navy Cracks Down On Fake Operatives

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Navy Cracks Down On Fake Operatives

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The Nigerian Navy has begun massive crackdown on fake operatives who specialize in using fake naval uniforms and accoutrements to deceive, harass, intimidate and defraud unsuspecting members of the public.

This was revealed by the Director of Naval Information, Cor Ezekobe, in a statement issued on Tuesday, saying that there were many “unauthorized and largely proscribed maritime outfits” who have continued to tarnish the image of the Nigerian Navy.

These outfits according to the Naval spokesman include: “Nigerian Merchant Marine, Nigerian Merchant Navy Corps, Global College of Marine and Technology, Merchant Navy Maritime Academy as well as Nigeria Merchant Navy and Maritime Law Enforcement Agency among others.”

Ezekobe further stated: “In view of the fragile security situation in the country, particularly in the Niger Delta area, the activities of these illegal and proscribed maritime security organisations have posed great danger to the frantic efforts by the Nigerian Navy and sister security services to mitigate the security challenges in the country.

“Consequently, operatives of the Nigerian Navy in conjunction with other security agencies have maintained red alert vigilance to ensure that the naval impostors are promptly apprehended.”

The Naval spokesman said that the efforts to rid the country of fake maritime security agencies paid off on Friday October 18, “when one Mr Allen Benson Edema was arrested dressed in the uniform and accoutrements of a naval commodore, (equivalent to a Brigadier General) within the precinct of the National Assembly Abuja.”

He stated that the fake naval commodore was arrested alongside another suspect also dressed up in naval uniform, and is alleged to be the brain behind a fake maritime security organisation that goes by the name Nigerian Merchant Navy Corps which has also been proscribed.

“In a related development, another 6 persons were arrested by operatives of the Forward Operating Base (FOB) Badagry on 15 November 2016 for impersonating as personnel of the Nigerian Navy,” Ezekobe further stated.

“The suspects who were dressed in naval uniform with rank badges of the Nigerian Navy claimed to be members of another proscribed Maritime security organisation called Nigerian Merchant Marine.

“The suspects were arrested at Dadi Village in Badagry LGA of Lagos State.”

The statement advised the general public to report “any suspicious behaviour of anyone or group of persons who claim to be personnel of the Nigerian Navy or found to be dressed in naval uniform and accoutrement.”

The Naval spokesman reaffirmed the resolve of the Nigerian Navy “to deal decisively with anyone who might be contemplating to test the will of the Service in checkmating activities of criminal gangs and impostors in the maritime domain.”

Police Parades 14 Ex-Personnel For Aiding Criminals

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Police Parades 14 Ex-Personnel For Aiding Criminals

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The Nigerian Police Force has paraded fourteen of its former personnel who were discharged for collaborating with criminals in carrying out their activities.

According to the Force Public Relations Officer, FPRO, Don Awunah, the sting operation that resulted in the arrests of the policemen was in line with the resolve of the Inspector General, Ibrahim Idris, to ensure that the conduct of officers and men of the Force conform to international best practices.

Among the suspects paraded on Tuesday at the Police Headquarters were nine ex-policemen who were arrested for unprofessional conduct, aiding and abetting of serious crimes such as cattle rustling, armed robbery and kidnapping in the North East.

They are: Yuguda Abbah, Habila Sarki, Diphen Nimmyel, Yasan Danda, Abbas Mailalle, Bwanason Tanko, Donan James, Idris Salisu, Zakari Kofi.

According to the FPRO: “In the month of October, 2016, one Alhaji Hodi Adamu, a notorious armed robbery suspect, was arrested by the Police in Adamawa State. The suspect’s confession led to the arrest of two other suspects namely: Rabo Bello ‘M’ and Oliver Honiol ‘M’ whose voluntary confessions led to the arrest of the nine (9) Police personnel mentioned above for various roles they played through their actions and inactions which are considered as disciplinary infractions. The principal suspects and the dismissed police officers will soon be charged to court.”

Awunah added that confessional statements from the arrested police personnel led to the arrest of 19 other suspects from whom assorted weapons were recovered, including: “14 AK 47 rifles with numbers intact; 3 other AK 47 rifles with numbers etched out; 1 Pump Action; 1 locally made pistol; 42 empty magazines; 363 rounds of AK 47 live ammunition; 71 K2 live ammunition and 25 live cartridges.”

Awunah further stated that four police personnel were arrested for “compromising and conspiring with one Zakari Ya’uIsiaka, a notorious armed robber, kidnapper and murderer who has been on the wanted list of the Police in Kogi State.”

They include Musbahu Yahaya; Ugenlo Sylvester; Musa Umar and Omale Edicha.

“5 assorted rifles and different calibers of ammunition were recovered from the suspect and other members of his gang,” the police spokesman said.

Similarly, another Police personnel was arrested for conspiracy to supply explosives to militants in Lagos and Ogun states.

The suspect, “Laibi Opakegba, was intercepted discussing with one Abiodun Amos “alias” SENTI on how to source and supply red dynamite to militants.”

Awunah stated that “the said Abiodun Amos, a 43 year old militant who is a native of Ese-Odo L.G.A of Ondo state was arrested at the bank of Majidun River in Ikorodu area of Lagos State while in possession of two (2) AK-47 rifles.

The FPRO said that the police authority would continue to make sure that its personnel “carry out Police duties and other responsibilities professionally in line with regulations guiding our operations without compromising our integrity and allegiance to the Nation and the Force.”

He assured Nigerians on behalf of the IGP that the Force was working “assiduously to further reduce the rate of crime and criminality across the country, especially kidnap for ransom and other violent crimes.”

Awuna urged Nigerians to always be law abiding and see themselves as stakeholders in making the country safer and secured.

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