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Saturday, 9 May 2015
Meet Mirabel Omoabu NIGERIA NOLLYWOOD ACTRESS
Acting IGP Threatens to Arrest CPs, DPOs over Road Blocks
Arase said a task-force has been put in place specifically for that purpose.
Speaking shortly after he attended the graduation ceremony of Batch one, Tactical Intelligence and Command Management Course at the Police Intelligence School, Enugu, the IGP said he would not tolerate any stories in that regard.
He also warned police officers against corruption as he had zero
tolerance for corruption, adding that he would not like people to be
kept in detention unnecessarily.
“I don’t like keeping people in detention unnecessarily. Before you arrest somebody, you should have gathered sufficient evidence, so it should not take you more than 48 hours to decide on what next to do.
“The idea of arresting people before you go and start gathering evidence will no longer be tolerated”, he stated
The Acting Inspector General of Police restated that the ban on road-block was still in force, noting that in the place of road-block, which he said damaged the image of the force, highway patrol teams should be made efficient to instil confidence on road users.
Earlier at the Police Intelligence School, Arase had recalled that the
institution was opened in 2012 upon the realisation “that in over one
hundred years of its existence, the Nigeria Police had no institution
dedicated to the training of intelligence operatives.
“This gap, by my professional judgement, was a fundamental factor in the inability of the Force to cope with the dynamics of crime in Nigeria and within the West African sub-region”.
The Acting IGP said even though some successes were recorded at the
take-off of the institution, “Sadly, however, the success slowed down
following the suspension of training activities for the past one year
due largely to budgetary challenges”.
Military: Let’s Not Encourage Illegality in the Name of Militia
The military authorities have admonished Nigerians to ensure that
illegality is not encouraged in the name of militia, noting that “we
have enough experience across the board that when it starts the end is
often what even those who started it can no longer control.”
Director of Military Information, Major General Chris Olukolade, who noted this during an interaction with journalists at the secretariat of the Nigerian Union of Journalist (NUJ), Jos, was clearing the air on the mixed information that trailed the recent killing in parts of Wase local government area of Plateau State.
He said, “What has been happening in the area, to the extent that some people that constitute themselves into militia have the effrontery (or let me say, the courage) to organise an ambush against troops on patrol, in fact, not just ambush, but ambushed and killed soldiers on patrol and abduct them, to the extent that soldiers are found killed and their bodies mutilated, is most unfortunate.
“In the North-East, we found groups who have volunteered to provide support for soldiers, but they are under control. But where a militia group decides to constitute a threat to the security of all; we should not encourage it.
“It is not correct, as seen in some syndicated stories, that it was a
revenge mission. But the military will not tolerate the abuse of the
right of Nigerians anywhere. It is not true that there’s an orchestrated
plan to eliminate anybody. The military and other security agents are
created to protect Nigerians; and that is what we do. But if anything is
done against the norms of the profession it will not be condoned; it
will be duly dealt it.”
The Continuing Human Tragedy in the Middle Belt
It is a tragedy that the incidents reported in parts of Plateau and
Taraba states last week can still take place in a modern society
governed under laws. According to the reports, about 100 people were
killed in the two states in separate clashes between penultimate
Saturday and Monday.
Seventy of the deaths were said to have occurred in Karim Lamido and
Takum local government areas of Taraba State, while 30 people were
killed in two villages – Vat and Zakupang – in Barkin Ladi Local
Government Area of Plateau State. Fulani herdsmen, reportedly, invaded
Vat and Zakupang, and killed a pastor, Luka Gwom of the Church of Christ
in Nation, and 29 others in the early hours of Monday.
Just before the Monday incidents, three Taroh communities in Plateau
State were invaded on Saturday by soldiers believed to be on a reprisal
mission following the alleged killing of their colleagues by unknown
attackers. The soldiers, reports said, arrived Kadarko, Kurmi and Wadata
in about 40 vehicles after news of the alleged killing of six of their
colleagues at Angwan Nanmi in Karim Lamido Local Government Area of
Taraba State broke. Locals said about 40 people were killed in the
attack, but the military put the figure at 28.
Spokesman for the military Special Task Force in Plateau State, Ikedichi Iweha, confirmed the incidents.
Iweha said in Jos that Fulani herdsmen had launched the bloody attacks on Barkin Ladi following an alleged theft of about 400 of their cows, more than 300 of which were later found and returned to their owners. The cows, according to him, had been stolen in Jos East Local Government Area and taken to Barakin Ladi.
Iweha said in Jos that Fulani herdsmen had launched the bloody attacks on Barkin Ladi following an alleged theft of about 400 of their cows, more than 300 of which were later found and returned to their owners. The cows, according to him, had been stolen in Jos East Local Government Area and taken to Barakin Ladi.
On the incident in the Taroh communities, Iweha said 28 people were
killed, but the traditional ruler of Kadarko, Lot Nde, said it was 39
dead. The STF spokesman said soldiers from the 3 Armoured Division and
STF launched an operation to flush out militias who had been terrorising
people along the Plateau -Taraba border. He stressed that an armoury
used by the militiamen was destroyed in Kadarko.
If the military operation had focused on neutralising the murderous
militia stronghold, it certainly would have attracted commendation from
the communities in the area, who equally live under the constant fear of
groups like the one that attacked and killed six soldiers. The outrage
the operation by the military has caused is a clear indication that the
soldiers did not go to defend the communities and flush out the
criminals, but they went to take vengeance on innocent communities. It
appears the soldiers who went to Kadarko, Kurmi and Wadata were given
orders to shoot as soon as they saw somebody.
Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Human Rights,
Beni Lar, condemned the military invasion of the Taroh communities,
calling it a crime against humanity. The Nigerian military and the
police have become notorious for such bloody reprisals.
The killings by the military in Plateau State are a chilling reminder
of the Zaki Biam carnage in Benue State in October 2001 in which more
than 100 people were killed. It also reminds the country of the Odi
massacre in Bayelsa State on November 20, 1999 in which nearly 2, 500
people were killed, according to the executive director of Environmental
Rights Action, Nnimmo Bassey. It reminds Nigerians of the Umechem
massacre in Rivers State on October 31, 1990 in which nearly 100 people
died. In Zaki Biam, the soldiers had attacked to avenge the alleged
killing of 19 of their colleagues by some unknown locals, while the
death of 12 policemen at the hands of some local militia had triggered
the Odi incident. In Umuechem, men of the Police Mobile Force, who
launched the bloody attack on the community, were said to have been
enraged by the killing of three of their colleagues.
In all the above incidents, innocent locals who never had a hand in the
actions being so callously avenged, and who in fact were equally
victims of the same groups that allegedly killed the security agents,
bore the brunt of the vengeance missions. The Nigerian military and the
police acted like an occupation force against the very citizens they
were paid to defend and protect. This is sad.
It is even sadder when considered against the backdrop of the virtually
unchallenged attacks by gunmen on communities supposedly being defended
by the military. If the military had pursued the bandits that have been
perpetrating all manners of bloody crimes in Plateau, Benue, Nasarawa,
and Taraba states all these years with the same ferocity with which they
attacked Kadarko, Kurmi and Wadata in the alleged search for persons
who killed six soldiers, certainly, criminalities like the Fulani
herdsmen massacre in Vat and Zakupang on the flimsy excuse of cow theft
would not be a daily affair.
The federal government must act fast to bring soldiers who killed the
innocent natives in Plateau State to justice. The government must
demonstrate capacity to protect lives and property. The rising incidence
of fratricidal violence and bloody military vengeance against
communities have the dangerous repercussion of encouraging self-help.
The ultimate end result is a society akin to the Hobbesian state of
nature, where life is nasty, brutish, and short.
Mayweather: I’ll beat Pacquiao 100 times
An always confident Mayweather says it doesn’t matter how many times he faces seven-weight world title holder, Pacquiao, through his career – as the outcome between the pair will always be the same. “There’s a difference between a great fighter and TBE (The Best Ever),” Mayweather told Showtime’s Jim Gray. “I won. I know I won. I know I’m the better fighter. If we fight ten times, I win ten times. If we fight twenty times, I win twenty times. If we fight a hundred times, I’m going to win a hundred times. “Manny Pacquiao is not a better fighter than me. Nowhere around the board,” added the pound for pound champion.
Human trafficking: Police rescue 2 Nigerian ladies from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia
The Commissioner of Police in the Oyo State, Mr. Mohammed Katsina, disclosed this while parading the duo before newsmen in Ibadan at the weekend.
Besides, the police have arrested the 39-year-old managing director of the travel agency, Victor (surname withheld by us), who arranged the journey for the duo.
The two ladies were brought back to Nigeria on Thursday and were received by men of the command at the Murtala International Airport in Lagos, before they were taken to Ibadan.
Narrating her ordeal, 28-year-old Biola (surname withheld) rescued from Kuwait, said she has Diploma in Industrial Labour Relations and she travelled for greener pastures. She noted that she was told she would be employed to work as a teacher, nurse or with a travel agency before she left Nigeria for Kuwait.
According to her, the travel agent charged her N150,000 for the journey. But she only paid N80,000 and the agent allowed her to go with the hope that she would pay the remaining N70,000 after working for two months.
But what she met in Kuwait was not what she expected. She was asked to work as housemaid for certain period to get resident permit. But the work, she said, was too much for her.
According to her, she told the travel agent that received her in Kuwait, Ibrahim, believed to be an Ethiopian that she wanted to return to Nigeria. The agent was furious and demanded that she must pay him N350,000, the amount he claimed to have paid to buy her with before she would be allowed to go. Thereafter, he allegedly denied Biola her freedom.
Biola further stated that she was advised to either continue to work as housemaid or take to prostitution to pay back the money. She rejected the two offers.
She managed to call somebody in Nigeria few days later and the information got to the police.
Also, the same fate befell the second victim, 29-year-old Taiwo (surname withheld), a single mother rescued from Saudi Arabia. She holds a Higher National Diploma (HND) certificate in Accounting. She said the managing director of the travel agency did not collect any money from her before she travelled, adding that he’s a pastor in her church.
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