09/07/18

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Suspected herdsmen have killed three policemen at Bujum Kasuwa community in Taraba State.

The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, David Misal, disclosed this to reporters on Friday in Jalingo, the state capital.

Mr Misal said the assailants also killed two vigilante officials during the attack on the community in Lau Local Government Area of the state.

He explained that the slain security operatives ran into an ambush on Thursday while responding to a distress call from residents of the community.

The police spokesperson said the remains of the officers have been moved to the mortuary of the Federal Medical Centre, Jalingo.

He also condoled with the families of the slain officers on behalf of the police authorities in the state.

The police officers were killed two months after suspected herdsmen invaded Lau LGA, destroying properties belonging to residents in the area.
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The Inspector General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, has ordered the immediate disbandment of the IGP Special Tactical Squad (IGP-STS).

Force Public Relations Officer, Mr Jimoh Moshood, disclosed this in a statement on Friday.

“Senior officers attached to the erstwhile Special Tactical Squad (STS) who were linked with complicity or played conspiracy role(s) in the unauthorised, illegal and unprofessional misconduct in the search of elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark’s residence in Asokoro, Abuja on the 4th of September, 2018 are now undergoing strict disciplinary procedures,” the statement said.

The dissolution of the squad was with immediate effect.

According to Moshood, the tactical operations and statutory core police duties that the dissolved squad was charged with have been collapsed.

They will be carried out by other operational, investigative and response units of the Force.

The IGP also directed that all the personnel of the squad be redeployed to other departments and formations of the Force.

The disbandment of the IGP squad followed an interview and a statement by Clark who called for a full investigation into the search of his house by an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and three police inspectors.

The IGP had approved the dismissal of the inspectors while the ASP was suspended with the same punishment ‘imminent’.

Clark, however, faulted the police leadership for dismissing the three officers, saying they could not have embarked on the operation on their own.

He wondered why the officers were made “scapegoats” and alleged that the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) in charge of Federal Intelligence was aware of the search of his residence.

The elder statesman asked the police authorities to admit that they made a mistake rather than saying they knew nothing about the operation.
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Elder statesman, Edwin Clark, on Friday faulted the police leadership for dismissing the three inspectors who raided his home.

The Ijaw leader believes the officers led by an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), who has also been suspended, could not have embarked on the operation without the knowledge of the police authorities.

“Why make these boys (the police officers) scapegoats?” Clark questioned when he received Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State at his residence in Abuja.

“For someone to say that they didn’t know, these boys were on their own and, therefore, they should be dismissed; Why deceive Nigerians? If you made a mistake, say you’ve made a mistake,” Clark said.

The elder statesman claimed that the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) in charge of Federal Intelligence instructed the search of his home.

He wondered why the police authorities that should know the masterminds and conspirators of the invasion went after the four junior officers, whom he said were merely carrying out instructions from their superiors.


Clark explained, “While they were here doing the search, Ambassador (Boladei) Igali was here. He phoned an AIG in charge of Intelligence and the man said he wanted to speak to the boys (the policemen).

“He did, and one would have expected that if these boys were on their own he could have asked them to go back, but after that, they went on.”

The Ijaw leader stressed that no one should pretend or deceive Nigerians. He insisted that the police officers who came to his house to carry out the raid did not do it on their own.

He said it was wrong to give the impression that the Force leadership was not aware of the search, adding that the officers could not have gone to the court on their own to secure a search warrant and raid his house the same day.

On Tuesday, the ASP led the three inspectors to raid Clark’s residence in Asokoro, an action which sparked a widespread criticism across the country.

Hours later, the police said they were unaware of the search and described the raid as an “illegal and unauthorised” operation, while a team of top police officers visited the elder statesman to apologise to him.

The three inspectors were later dismissed and the ASP suspended, while the informant involved was charged to a court for giving false information and telling falsehood that misled police action.

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Turkish President, Tayyip Erdogan

A court in Turkey on Friday sentenced a  filmmaker to six years in prison for producing a feature film that portrayed President Tayyip Erdogan having a gun pointed in his head as his family lay dead all around him, the state news agency said.

Ali Avci was arrested in 2017 after the release of a trailer for his film “Awakening”, based on a failed military putsch in 2016 in which more than 250 people were killed.

Ali Avci
The trailer caused public uproar with sequences showing Erdogan’s family, including his son-in-law, Finance Minister Berat Albayrak, shot dead, and an army officer pointing a gun at the back of the president’s head as he prayed.

An Istanbul court sentenced Avci to six years and three months in jail for belonging to the network of U.S.-based cleric, Fethullah Gulen, deemed a terrorist organisation by Turkey.

Gulen denies Turkey’s accusation that he masterminded the coup attempt.

The court said Avci had been carrying out “public perception management in line with the core goals of the terrorist organisation” through his movie.

Avci denied the charges and said Erdogan himself had repeatedly said he was the target of the failed putsch, which included air strikes on the presidential palace in Ankara, although Erdogan was absent at the time.

“If I was trying to make terrorist propaganda, I would have shown Erdogan making plans to flee, instead of the praying scene,” Avci told the court.

More than 50,000 people have been jailed pending trial and 150,000 state workers including teachers, judges and soldiers have been suspended or dismissed after the coup attempt.
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British Airways  was forced to apologise on Friday after the credit card details of hundreds of thousands of its customers were stolen over a two-week period in the worst ever attack on its website and app.

BA Chairman and Chief Executive Alex Cruz said in London the airline discovered on September 5 that bookings made between August 21 and September 5 had been infiltrated in a “very sophisticated, malicious criminal” attack.

Cruz said the airline immediately contacted customers when the extent of the breach became clear.

He said around 380,000 card payments were compromised, with hackers obtaining names, street and email addresses, credit card numbers, expiry dates and security codes – sufficient information to steal from accounts.

The attack came 15 months after the carrier suffered a massive computer system failure at London’s Heathrow airport, which stranded 75,000 customers over a holiday weekend.

Shares in BA’s parent, International Airlines Group, fell 3 per cent in early deals on Friday due to the attack.

Cruz said the carrier was “deeply sorry” for the disruption caused by the sophisticated crime, which was unprecedented in the more than 20 years that BA had operated online.

He said the attackers had not broken the airline’s encryption but did not explain exactly how they had obtained the customer information.

“There were other methods, very sophisticated efforts, by criminals in obtaining the data,” he said.

“It was having access to our systems in an illicit way, it was very sophisticated.”

Cruz said the British Airways informed customers affected by the attack on Thursday and advised them to contact their bank or credit card provider and follow their recommended advice.

It also took out ads in national newspapers on Friday.

Cruz said anyone who lost out financially would be compensated by the airline.

The airline had launched an investigation and notified police and other relevant authorities.
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A light assault rifle with three magazines containing 60 rounds of live ammunition, and a bayonet, belonging to a gang of killers, have been recovered by the police in Enugu State.

Our correspondent learnt that the police retrieved the arms from a forest in Ehamufu, in Isiuzo Local Government Area of Enugu.

The weapons were buried in the ground within the forest.

Spokesman for the Enugu State Police Command, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, who confirmed the development, disclosed that the recovery of the arms followed intelligence information obtained by operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad.

One Chibuike Odo, from Ehamufu, a member of the said killer gang which has its hideout in the forest, was apprehended during an operation by the FSARS operatives.

However, the leader of the gang, simply identified as Emma, is currently at large, having escaped when the FSARS operatives swooped on the hideout.

Amaraizu said the gang has killed a number of persons in the Ehamufu area.

“The two-man gang of gunmen comprises of Chibuike Odo, from Mgbuji, Ehamufu, and Emma, from Amede, Ehamufu, in Isiuzo Local Government Area of Enugu State.

“Emma, the leader of the gang, was recently released from prison custody but he is at large now.

“The notorious gang became a thorn in the flesh to residents of Ehamufu when they started killing people in the forest. They killed one Militus Ede and another person inside Ehamufu forest in June 2018.

“Following a directive by the Enugu State Commissioner of Police, Danmallam Mohammed, one of the suspects, Chibuike Odo, was nabbed through intelligence information by the operatives of the FSARS, Enugu State Police Command, while manhunt has been intensified on the fleeing leader of the gang (Emma),” the police spokesman said.

The arrested suspect, Odo, a primary school dropout, disclosed that he was a tailor before he teamed up with Emma to form the killer gang.

He claimed that he did not know what led him to venture into crime, but blamed the development on ‘Satan’.

Odo added that the recovered weapons all belonged to the said Emma.

Amaraizu said the police had commenced a full-scale investigation into the matter.

The suspect is to be charged to court on the completion of the investigations. LR News
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The Federal Capital Territory has inaugurated its Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Response Team secretariat.

Mrs Agnes Utah-Hart, Director, FCT Gender Department and Coordinator of SGBVRT, who spoke during the inauguration, said that the centre would provide succour to victims of sexual abuse in Abuja and its environs.

“The focus is to establish a centre where victims of gender-based violence can make necessary reports of such abuses,’’she said.

The News Agency of Nigeria, reports that the secretariat was renovated and furnished by Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Programme of the British Council and funded by European Union.

Utah-Hart commended RoLAC for their gesture and urged the secretariat to work assiduously to ensure successful rehabilitation and re-integration of victims of sexual abuses.

“This intervention by RoLAC is very timely because we need to ensure proper coordination and documentation of cases of sexual violence in the city,’’ she said.

Utah-Hart urged residents of FCT not to hesitate to report any case of sexual violence by approaching the secretariat, located at Cyprian Ekwensi Cultural Centre in Area 10, Central Business District or through the hotline 08078111126.

“I want to use this opportunity to tell the residents of FCT that any reported case will be treated with the utmost confidence it requires and within the ambits of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act 2015,’’ she said.

The Director-General of NAPTIP, Mrs Julie Okah-Donli, who spoke, said that the secretariat would serve as a catalyst in the prosecution of offenders.

“It is surely the desire of all here that the secretariat will be critical in the prosecution of offences under the Act and also serve as a tool for apprehending offenders under the Act,’’ Okah-Donli said.

Mr Danladi Plang, National Programme Manager, RoLAC, urged the secretariat to discharge its duties with diligence and ensure the purpose for which it was established was achieved.

According to Plang, “your quality of services will determine if people will find reasons to come and report cases of abuse or not.

“This secretariat is crucial in eliminating and prohibiting all forms of violence against persons in FCT, as well as serving the purpose of providing maximum protection and effective remedies for victims,’’Plang said.

Mrs Hauwa Shekarau, Country Director, Ipas, an international NGO, said Ipas was collaborating with hospitals in the FCT on how to manage victims of all forms of violence.

She, however, pointed out that there was need to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the VAPP Act in the FCT.
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Benue Governor, Samuel Ortom


The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has declared that he would prefer to lose next February governorship election than win it through violence.

He said this as he urged politicians in the state to eschew violence as the 2019 general elections approach.

Ortom said this on Thursday at St Vincent De Paul Quasi Parish, Aliade, near the capital of Makurdi,  during a funeral mass for late Emmanuel Ayargwer, a retired magistrate.

Ortom said violence, that leads to the spilling of blood in order to hold a political office isn’t necessary because power belongs to God,  who gives it to whomever He wills.

He went on to reveal that the people of the state have resolved to implement the Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law of 2017.

Ortom stressed that Benue people are not against any group but are against the destruction of their crops by herders, hence the need for ranching.

Ortom asked for prayers as the 2019 elections approached.

He prayed God to grant the deceased eternal rest and the bereaved family the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.

The Parish Priest of St. Vincent De Paul Quasi Parish Aliade, Rev. Fr Alexander Iorhuna, enjoined Christians to be true Apostles of Christ by living according to His teachings in order to make heaven after death.
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