11/08/17

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The Nigerian Army on Wednesday denied forcing the 486  Boko Haram suspects arrested on their way from Jigawa to Port Harcourt on June 15, 2014, in 33 buses to drink urine.
Army witness, Maj. Chudi Aniukwu, stated this on Wednesday in Abuja, when he testified before the Presidential Investigation Panel on Human Right Violation.
Aniukwu, who was cross examined by Mr Abdullahi Achara, counsel to the petitioners, debunked the allegation.
Aniukwu, also a Controller of the Nigerian Army Operation Centre, North East, said none of the arrested suspect was forced to drink urine as reported in the media.
He said that the 486 suspects ate the same food with the soldiers, adding that the suspects were kept for seven days for proper profiling by the DSS.
Aniukwu said that out of the 486 suspects, only one person was identified by the DSS as a Boko Haram suspect, adding that nothing was found on the remaining suspects.
Aniukwu said he got a call at 3a.m. on June 15, 2014, that the Army in Port Harcourt had intercepted Boko Haram suspects, crossing over to other parts of Nigeria, especially the Niger Delta.
” We placed all our checkpoints on maximum alert, and I got a call that they have intercepted 33 buses, carrying only men who had nothing on them.
“We moved all of them to Abia headquarters of the Army base, and we informed the highest authority in the Army and the DSS.’’
He said after serious scrutiny and proper profiling by the DSS, only one person was found to be a member of Boko  Haram.
The Army witness said what aroused suspicion was that such a huge number of movement of people had not been witnessed on a single day, and considering the volatile security situation in the country at the time
He, however, said that the Abia Government provided the needed support for the suspects while in Army custody, adding that all of them were well fed
He said after the investigation by the DSS, the driver of each vehicle was given N22,000 to enable them returned to their destinations.
Mr Suleiman Adamu, a driver of one of the vehicles, who testified, said the passengers were going to Port Harcourt for greener pastures.
Prof Akinseye George, (SAN) counsel to the Military, who cross examined Adamu, said that 17 passengers were in his own bus.
He said that he knew some of the people in the other buses, especially the driver, stating that not all of the passengers were known to him.
According to him, “I am a driver and I used to convey passengers to Port Harcourt, I have been driving the same route for 15 years.’’
He said that as a driver and passengers, they were all looking for greener pasture, stressing that he was held in the Army custody for 12 days, contrary to Army’s claim of seven days.
Chairman of the Panel, Justice Biobele George, discharged the witness after his testimony.
He said that their complaints would be looked into and recommendations submitted to President Muhammedu Buhari for necessary action.(NAN)
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Workers on Wednesday shut down Kaduna to protest the sack of 21, 000 primary school teachers by the Kaduna State Government.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that hundreds of civil servants led by President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Waba marched to the state House of Assembly to register their protest.
The NLC president said the competency test used as excuse to sack the teachers lacked credibility and was unacceptable.
“It was a smokescreen to just sack workers,” he said, adding that legitimate institutions mandated to organise such examinations were ignored by the government.

“Teaching is a profession in Nigeria, we have teacher training institutions and Teachers Registration Council, why are they not the ones conducting the test?
“This is because they have sinister motives; that is why they didn’t use those institutions.
“They are doing this just to sack and reduce workers and we will not accept that,” the NLC president said.
“Any exercise built on faulty ground cannot stand; this is our position,” he stressed.
Waba alleged that the state government also plan to sack 15,000 core civil services and 5,000 local government workers.
“By putting all together and their families, up to one million people will be affected by the sack. We will not accept that.
“Therefore we will stand against this exercise until justice is done,” he said.
The NLC president told workers in the state to unite and confront the situation and save themselves from “this agony.”
Meanwhile, Northern Coordinator, Nigeria Union of Teachers, Bulama Abisu, has also condemned the sack of the teachers.
Abisu who led NUT executive members from the 19 northern states on solidarity visit to the state, called on President Muhammad Buhari to intervene.
“Teachers get the least salary in most states in the north, even the meager salary is not paid as when due with huge number of teachers still being owed by the government.
“The governors are moving from holding salaries to sacking teachers on the claim of incompetency when it is the same government that employed the teachers,” Abisu said.
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Idris Okuneye, a.k.a  Bobrisky

Lifestyle celebrity and only Nigerian Self acclaimed male Barbie doll, Idris Okuneye, a.k.a  Bobrisky, has been arrested in Lagos. Bobrisky was said to be arrested at Lekki yesterday.

The news of Bobrisky’s arrests has set the social media abuzz since yesterday as it was reported that the Nigerian male Barbie doll admitted to being a gay.

While different reasons have been given as to why Bobrisky was allegedly arrested, the two notable ones  are those that said he admitted in a tweet on social media that he is gay.

The second reason given was that Bobrisky’s arrest was linked to a social media war he had with entrepreneur, Toyin Lawani.

But  Toyin Lawani, was quick to deny she has anything to do with Bobrisky’s arrest. She made the denial through her assistant. “please she has nothing to do with that. You peoople should stop linking her to it”.

If it turns out he is guilty, then Bobrisky would be facing an offense for which he would spend 14 years in prison.

Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer (PRO), Famous Cole, was said to have said he is not aware of the arrest but said maybe Bobrisky was invited for questioning.

“I’m not aware of such arrest at the moment. Maybe he was invited for questioning or he went voluntarily to make a complaint’.

Bobrisky had written thus on social media:
“All this house boys and girls coming to drop comment on page are you all stupid? Do you think your hate comments can change me? Why are you trying so hard to get my attention?

F**k off my page, and go and find something meaningful to do with your life. Just this morning I have mad up to 750,000 hustle still continue. You are here wasting your mb on someone else life style.

If all your insult bothered me, I should have stopped posting here. Yes am gay, I will go to hell fire. Thanks. Please what else? Am tired of that same words. I wanna hear something new. Cheers.

“F**k celebrity, f**k fake friends, f**k haters. Live your life to please yourself not anybody. If u like have 1billion followers I careless about that. Micheal Jackson was d top world celebrity den with so much followers.”
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The Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Police Command  in Cross River has rescued a lady (Name unknown) and killed five suspected kidnappers in Ikom Local Government Area.
Spokesperson of the command, ASP Irene Ugbo, disclosed this  in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Calabar.
Irene said the suspected kidnappers  had been under the trail of the police for four-days since the incident occurred.
She explained that men of the SARS unit on gathering intelligence information traced the kidnappers to their hideout in the bush where the shooting occurred.
“Our men today had an encounter with some kidnappers in Ikom local government area while trying to rescue an abducted woman in their captivity.
“During the process of rescuing the victim, the kidnappers engaged our men in an exchange of fire and  we were able to rescue the woman while five of the kidnappers were shot dead.
“We also arrested two of the kidnappers and our men are bringing them down to Calabar as we speak,’’ she said.
The spokesperson urged members of the public to always avail the command with timely and useful information that would help it to respond to emergency cases on time. (NAN)
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, yesterday, cried out over the refusal of the Department of State Service to release its officials implicated in the $2.1 billion arms scandal for interrogation.

The EFCC in a statement in Abuja, signed by its Spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, regretted that all other security agencies, including the Nigerian Army, the Nigerian Air force and the Nigerian Navy have all complied with its request and released officers indicted in the arms probe report except the DSS.

The DSS, it was learnt has warned the EFCC not to dare it by insisting that its officers should appear before the anti-graft agency, warning that it had not right to subject its officials to such scrutiny.

But EFCC said on Tuesday that the arms probe is a national matter that was done without prejudice to any institution, group or individual.

Besides, the EFCC said it has the authority to invite anyone for questioning over any financial and economic crime. The anti-graft agency said, “It is important to state that it is not strange for the EFCC to invite (for questioning) officers of other law enforcement agencies alleged to be complicit in any case being investigated by the Commission.

“But there are protocols in doing this; and part of that protocol is to write to the heads of such agencies, requesting that the officer(s) in question be released to be interviewed.

“In the course of investigating the arms procurement scandal in the Office of the former National Security Adviser, ONSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki, the Commission has had cause to request the release of officers of other security agencies, including the Nigerian Army, the Nigerian Air force, the Nigerian Navy and now the DSS, for questioning. All but the DSS have acceded to this request.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the arms procurement investigation is national in outlook with alleged culprits cutting across the military, security establishments as well as the political class. It is not targeted at any institution.

“Consequently, the insinuation about a revenge-instigated investigation of the DSS by the EFCC over its role in the senate refusal to confirm Ibrahim Magu as substantive chairman of the EFCC is not only specious, but pure mischief contrived for motives that are unclear.”

There has been no love lost between the two vital agencies of the government since the DSS wrote to the Senate to stop the confirmation of the EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu over what it called ‘security report’ which suggested that Magu is tainted, something he has repeatedly denied and claimed that corruption is ‘fighting back’.

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U.S. Democrats won the governorship races in Virginia and New Jersey and the mayoral race in New York on Tuesday, dealing a major blow to President Donald Trump.
             Ralph Northam won in Virginia

In Virginia, Democrat Ralph Northam beat Republican Ed Gillespie, who had adopted some of Trump’s combative tactics and issues.
Northam, the state’s lieutenant governor, overcame a barrage of attack ads by Gillespie that hit the soft-spoken Democrat on divisive issues such as immigration, gang crime and Confederate statues.
Trump, who endorsed Gillespie but did not campaign with him, had taken a break from his Asia trip to send tweets and record messages on Tuesday supporting the former chairman of the Republican National Committee.
But after the outcome, Trump quickly distanced himself from Gillespie.
“Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for,” Trump tweeted. “With the economy doing record numbers, we will continue to win, even bigger than before!”
At his victory party, Northam told supporters the sweeping Democratic win in Virginia sent a message to the country.
“Virginia has told us to end the divisiveness, that we will not condone hatred and bigotry, and to end the politics that have torn this country apart,” Northam said.

               De Blasio won in New York
The Virginia race highlighted a slate of state and local elections that also included a governor’s race in New Jersey, where Democrat Phil Murphy, a former investment banker and ambassador to Germany, defeated Republican Kim Guadagno for the right to succeed Republican Chris Christie.
Murphy had promised to be a check on Trump in Democratic-leaning New Jersey. Guadagno, the lieutenant governor, was hampered by her association with the unpopular Christie.
Murphy’s win and the Northam victory in Virginia, a state Democrat Hillary Clinton won by 5 percentage points in the 2016 presidential election, provided a much-needed boost for national Democrats who were desperate to turn grassroots resistance to Trump into election victories.
Democrats had already lost four special congressional elections earlier this year.
But a strong turnout in the Democratic-leaning northern Virginia suburbs of Washington helped propel Northam, who in the end won relatively easily. With nearly all precincts reporting, he led by a 53 percent to 45 percent margin.
Exit polls in Virginia showed that one-third of the voters went to the polls to oppose Trump, and only 17 percent went to support him.
Democrats also swept the other top statewide Virginia races, winning the offices of lieutenant governor and attorney general, and gained seats in the Virginia House of Delegates. Democrat Danica Roem beat a long-time Republican incumbent to become the first transgender person to win a state legislative race.
“This is a comprehensive political victory from statehouse to courthouse. Thank you Donald Trump!” Democratic U.S. Representative Gerald Connolly of Virginia told Northam’s supporters at a victory party in northern Virginia.
In Virginia, Democrats had worried that if Gillespie won, Republicans would see it as a green light to emphasize divisive cultural issues in their campaigns for next year’s elections, when all 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and 33 of the U.S. Senate’s 100 seats come up for election. Republicans now control both chambers.
Gillespie, speaking to crestfallen supporters in Richmond, Virginia, said he had run a “very policy-focused campaign.”
But voters in Arlington County – a suburban Democratic stronghold bordering Washington – said national politics were important to their votes.
“Trump talks about draining the swamp, but Gillespie kind of is the swamp,” said Nick Peacemaker, who works in marketing and considered himself a Republican until Trump won the party’s presidential nomination.
Peacemaker said Gillespie seemed to shift closer to Trump’s policies after securing the Republican gubernatorial nomination.
In local races across the country, Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio in New York and Marty Walsh in Boston both easily won re-election. Voters were also picking mayors in Detroit, Atlanta, Seattle and Charlotte, North Carolina.
*Reuters
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Officials of Qatar Airways must now admit that there is a lot of truth in the Shakespearean line that ‘hell hath no fury than a woman scorned’ or cheated upon by her man.
This was after the airliner was forced to make emergency landing at India’s Chennai Airport en-route Bali from Doha.
The enraged woman, an Iranian forced the airliner to make the emergency landing after she discovered mid-flight that her husband was apparently cheating on her.
The woman was travelling from Doha to Bali with her husband and child on a Qatar Airways flight QR-962 on Sunday, India’s Hindustan Times reported Tuesday.
As her husband slept, she used his hand to unlock his fingerprint-protected phone, revealing the alleged affair in all its sordid detail.
Angered by the discovery, the woman reportedly started to hit her husband. The cabin crew intervened but were unable to calm the situation.
With the inflight episode spiralling out of control, the pilots decided to make an unscheduled stop in the southern Indian city of Chennai.
The woman, her husband and their child were taken off the plane, which then resumed its journey to Indonesia, an unnamed security official told the paper.
“The family spent the day at Chennai airport and was sent to Kuala Lumpur by a Batik Air flight. No police action was taken,” the official said.
“In respect of passenger privacy we do not comment on individual cases,” a Qatar Airways spokesperson told the Hindustan Times..
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A gang of five children aged between 12 and 14 have been caught at Idofin Elega, Abeokuta, Ogun State, for burglary.

The children allegedly scaled the gate into a shop in the community around 12am on Friday.

They reportedly carted away foodstuffs from the shop, but were caught by members of the Oodua People’s Congress in the area.

The kids were subsequently handed over to the police at the Adatan station.

A video clip of the incident was shared on Facebook by one Bola Alao-Ogbu on November 5.

While being questioned in Yoruba by residents, the children blamed their action on maltreatment and hunger.

None of them reportedly lived with their parents.

One Musa, who identified himself as the leader of the gang, said he fled from an Arabic school, where he lived, due to maltreatment.

He said his friend, Oloyede, brought the idea of the burglary.

Musa said, “Oloyede and I were passing by one day. He pointed at the shop and suggested that we should go at night to steal from the shop. Around 12am when people had slept, we entered the shop.

“My parents live in Ajegunle (a neighbouring community). They took me to an Arabic school in Isage. But my friend, Yinusa, and I were maltreated at the school and we fled. I have never had formal education.”

Oloyede said his mother was late and he lived with his paternal grandmother in the Itoku area of Ogun State.

Another kid, Yinusa, said he started living in the Arabic school after his mother died.

Another child, Tunde, stated that his father lived in Lagos, while his mother resided in Soyoye, Abeokuta.

He, however, said he lived with his grandmother.

The fifth child, Adeola, also said he was not living with his parents.

Social media users, who commented on the post on Facebook, said the children should not be blamed for the crime.

While some took a swipe at their parents, others attributed the misdemeanour to government’s indifference to the welfare of the poor.

One Idris Odunlami, wrote, “…If you listen to the children very well, you will see that none of them has a good parent. Their parents are separated, while some of them are staying with grandmas or alfas who have responsibilities to take care of. People just give birth to children they can’t take good care of.”

Another poster, Abiola Babatunde, also put the blame on the children’s parents, saying the suspects were products of broken homes.

A Facebook user, Yetunde Olanrewaju, said, “This is a result of broken homes and poverty in this country. If you can see these children, they are hungry; no parental care. They are just sleeping anywhere. Nigerian government, please do something to help these kids for better future.”

Adekunle Odebunmi said bad leadership and poverty were responsible for the children’s action, urging the government to channel the country’s resources towards the welfare of indigent children.

Austin Paul added, “They were neither thieves nor armed robbers. They were hungry and when they found that the shop was free to take what to eat, they got in. Unfortunately, they were caught. I blame the government. If every family in Nigeria is living well, no kid will think of taking what doesn’t belong to him or her. At 57 years, we are still hungry in Nigeria; what a shame on our selfish leaders.”

The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the children had been taken to a juvenile centre for rehabilitation.

The PPRO advised parents not to shy away from their responsibilities by leaving their children in the care of others.

He said, “The children stole some packets of noodles in the shop and were brought to the station. But because they were juveniles, we didn’t detain them. They have been taken to a juvenile centre for proper care and counselling.

“Some other steps are also being taken so that the children will be useful to themselves in the future and they will not constitute a nuisance to the society. Parents should know that it is an offence to abandon their children.”
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Two men, one of them an Egyptian and the other a Libyan,have been arrested and charged in Italy as investigators look into the deaths of 26 Nigerian women and girls, who are suspected to have been murdered while attempting to cross the Mediterranean.
The bodies of the women were brought to the southern Italian port of Salerno by the Spanish ship Cantabria on Sunday, and prosecutors opened an investigation over suspicions that the women, some as young as 14, may have been abused and killed.
The bodies were recovered by Cantabria, which works as part of the EU’s Sophia anti-trafficking operation, from two separate shipwrecks – 23 from one and three from the other. Fifty-three people are believed to be missing.

The men arrested have been named as Al Mabrouc Wisam Harar, from Libya, and Egyptian Mohamed Ali Al Bouzid.
The pair are believed to have skippered one of the boats. They were identified by survivors who were among the 375 brought to Salerno by Cantabria.
An autopsy on the bodies should be completed over the next week.
Salerno prefect Salvatore Malfi told the Italian press that the women had been travelling alongside men and when the vessels sank, “unfortunately, the women suffered the worst of it.”
But in response to concerns that the women were being trafficked for the sex trade, he added: “Sex trafficking routes are different, with different dynamics used. Loading women on to a boat is too risky for the traffickers, as they could risk losing all of their ‘goods’ – as they like to call them – in one fell swoop.”
Marco Rotunno, an Italy spokesman for the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), said his colleagues were at the port in Salerno when the bodies were brought in.
“It was a very tough experience,” he said. “One lady from Nigeria lost all her three children.”
He added that 90% of migrant women arrive with bruises and other signs of violence.
“It’s very rare to find a woman who hasn’t been abused, only in exceptional cases, maybe when they are travelling with their husband. But also women travelling alone with their children have been abused.”
Most of the survivors were either Nigerian or from other sub-Saharan countries including Ghana, Sudan and Senegal.
The survivors brought to Tripoli also included Nigerians and Senegalese.
“I wanted to reach Italy. I don’t know what to do now,” said Dora Omoruyi, a 23-year old arts student from Benin, Edo state, known as hub for human traffickers to smuggle women to Italy where they often end up as prostitutes.
“I see no future in Nigeria, there are no jobs,” she said, standing next to a group of weeping Nigerian survivors.
The survivors were among over 2,560 migrants saved over four days. People still continue to attempt the crossing despite a pact between Italy and Libya to stem the flow, which led to a drop in arrivals by almost 70% since the summer, according to figures released last week by Italy’s Interior Ministry.
*Reported by The Guardian
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The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has made clarifications on its post-graduate courses following media reports on the inability of some students to graduate.
NOUN’s Director of Media and Publicity, Ibrahim Sheme, in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, said that institution would not be swayed by such malicious stories.
He said also that NOUN’s Management would not be arm-twisted into issuing questionable degrees that were contrary to the institution’s vision and mission statements.
“The attention of NOUN has been drawn to a statement making the rounds pertaining to the inability of some postgraduate students of NOUN to graduate even after they have taken all their courses.
“ The statement, titled “Call on Open University of Nigeria to suspend the ‘No 3.0 GP No Graduation Policy’ or Face Students Mass Protest”, was issued by one Tony Christian.
“The statement contains several inaccuracies and falsehood couched in wild generalisations with the aim of whipping up public resentiment.
“It is disheartening that some media organisations have already rushed into publishing the allegation without making any effort to observe the minimum journalistic ethic of hearing from the other party, in this case NOUN.’’
Sheme said that for the purpose of clarity, it is the duty of the Senate of a university to  deliberate and make policies on all academic matters which include both admission and graduation requirements.
According to him, NOUN is not an exception as its Senate and University’s academic policies are equally informed by guidelines and pronouncements of the National Universities Commission (NUC).
“In line with NUC’s Benchmark Minimum Academic Standards (BMAS) for Nigerian universities, the minimum pass mark for all postgraduate courses is a “C”, which is a “credit” and carries a grade point of 3 (in clinical/pharmaceutical sciences, it is a “B”).
“In terms of the graduation requirements for most programmes, a student is required to have earned a minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 3.00 and a Total Credit Earned (TCE, meaning the summation of all the courses registered and PASSED) of 30 before they may be pronounced “graduated” by the university.
“For professional programmes like the MBA, the TCE is far higher. In addition to CGPA and TCE, postgraduate students are similarly expected to have fulfilled other academic requirements like passing all the courses registered, particularly the core courses.
“ For example, a postgraduate student must pass the Good Study Guide (GST707/807), which is an introductory course for an Open and Distance Learning (ODL) student among others.’’
He said that a postgraduate student that failed a core course like Research Project, Research Methodology should not expect to be graduated even though he/she had met the minimum TCE and CGPA for the programme.
Sheme said that the Board of the School of Postgraduate Studies was in the process of re-examining the cases in the above category on a case-by-case basis while its final decision would be deliberated on the floor of the University Senate.
He quoted NOUN’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abdalla Adamu, as urging postgraduate students to be mindful of the graduation requirements for their programmes and work hard to meet the requirements rather than resorting to media propaganda.
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Ten suspects on Monday escaped from a cell of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Bayelsa State Police Command in Yenagoa, the state capital.

However, out of the 10 escapees, five were said to have been re-arrested in Yenagoa and Agbura, on the outskirts of the state capital, on Tuesday.

It was learnt that the re-arrest of the five suspects followed an order of a manhunt by the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Asuquo Amba.

It was learnt that some inmates of the SARS detention cell, led by one Touch-Touch, cut the iron protector at the toilet in one of the cells and escaped through the ceiling of the building without being noticed by operatives on duty.

The incident, which was said to have occurred at about 10pm on Monday, was discovered when a security official of the Yenagoa Local Government Area, raised the alarm on noticing strange persons jumping into the council’s premises from the SARS headquarters.

It was learnt that two of the fleeing suspects were arrested at Agbura community, where they were hiding, while three others were arrested in an open field of an unnamed company.

A security guard of the abandoned company was said to have called the emergency number of the police, which led to the arrest of the three fleeing suspects on the company’s premises.

Some legal practitioners in the state blamed the incident on the poor condition of the detention facility located along the Federal Road Safety Corps Road in Yenagoa.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Bayelsa State Police Command, Mr. Asinim Butswat, confirmed the incident.

Butswat, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, said, “At about 2am, November 7, 2017, the Incident Duty Officer of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, while on routine cell check, discovered that 10 suspects escaped through the ceiling of the SARS detention facility.

“Policemen immediately cordoned off the detention facility and re-arrested three out of the 10 suspects that escaped. The profiles of the suspects have been circulated to our intelligence sources and efforts have been intensified to re-arrest the remaining suspects.’’

The spokesman urged members of the public not to panic but volunteer useful information that would assist the police in arresting the fleeing suspects.

He said three of the suspects who were arrested in Yenagoa were one Theophilus, 22; New Year, 21; and Jamilu Buhari, 27.

“The three re-arrested suspects were sleeping at about 10pm on Monday when they heard detainees escaping and they took advantage of the situation,’’ Butswat added.
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