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Anambra Govt. Rescues 17-yr-old Girl Locked up by Her Father Without Food
The Anambra State Ministry of Women and Social Welfare has rescued a 17-year-old girl from her father, Sunday Ezeh, who allegedly tied her hands and feet, and locked her up for a month without food.
Mrs Ify Obinabo, Commissioner for the Ministry, told journalists on Tuesday in Awka that the girl, who hailed from Nise in Awka South Local Government Area is a step daughter of the suspect.
Obinabo said she took the girl to Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Amaku, Awka, for medical diagnosis and treatment.
According to her, some indigenes of Nise area gave a tip-off to the Ministry that one Sunday Ezeh, a traditionalist, allegedly maltreated and locked up his step daughter.
“Due to the sensitivity of the case, the Ministry collaborated with the local vigilante to rescue the girl and apprehending the accused before handing him over to the police.
“The girl sustained a lot of injury in all parts of her body and as a result was billed for emergency surgery in the head.
“The surgery was successful and she is recuperating at the paediatrics ward of the teaching hospital, ” she said.
The commissioner said that the state had zero tolerance for any form of crime or abuse against children, adding that offenders would be made to face the wrath of the law.
She said that the case had been transferred to the Anambra State Police Criminal Investigative Department.
Narrating her ordeal, the 17-year-old girl said that her step father tied her hands and feet and locked her up in a room for one month without food.
“I cannot remember what I did wrong but my father told me I messed up the compound with my poo and that beating me and locking me up without food was my punishment.
“He used a Bamboo plank to hit me on the head which was why I had head injury. People around saw the way he was beating me and came to my rescue,” she said.
Meanwhile, Ezeh, the accused, said he was only punishing his daughter for her disobedience and for desecrating his compound with poo.
According to him, such acts were against his traditional belief and practice. (NAN)
The Zamfara Government returned 3,000 rustled animals recovered by security forces to their rightful owners in the state in 15 months. Sheikh Sa’idu Maikwano, the Chairman of the Committee on the Verification of Recovered Rustled Animals, made this known at a meeting with the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Malam Abubakar Nakwada.
The meeting was aimed at strategizing more effective and efficient ways for the success of the committee’s assignment, especially now that the security forces are recording successes courtesy of intensified offensive clearance operations across the state. The returned animals comprised of cows, sheeps and goats among others.The committee chairman commended the SSG for effective supervision of the committee.He also appreciated Gov Dauda Lawal for giving them all the necessary support which led to the success recorded.Sheikh Maikwano also said that the committee recovered N120 million from auctioned overstayed animals.He said the money was remitted into the state Zakkat Board account in line with the established rules and guidelines of the committee.Earlier, the SSG reiterated the government’s commitment to returning all rustled animals recovered by security forces to their rightful owners in the state.He commended the efforts of the committee for discharging its duty effectively.“Your assignment is very special and critical as it strives to give hope to the hopeless victims who lost their wealth to the heartless cattle rustlers, the SSG added.The SSG who supervises the committee, said the meeting was aimed at strategising more effective and efficient ways for the success of the committee’s assignment.He emphasized Gov. Lawal’s administration’s effort aimed at fostering community resilience and promoting social justice for amicable conflict resolution.(NAN)
President Bola Tinubu has written to the Senate seeking the confirmation of the appointments of 19 persons as Chairman, Managing Director/CEO and Members of the Board of the North-Central Development Commission (NCDC).The Senate President Godswill Akpabio, read Tinubu’s letter during Thursday’s plenary.
The letter reads: “In accordance with the provisions of Part I, Section 2(2)(a) of the North-Central Development Commission (Establishment) Act, 2024…“I write to present, for confirmation by the Senate, in consultation with the House of Representatives, the appointments of the under-listed nineteen (19) persons as Chairman, Managing Director/CEO and Members of the Board of the North-Central Development Commission”. “They are Cosmas Akyhir Chairman, Benue, Tsenyil Yiltsen, Managing Director; Plateau, Dauda Kigbu, Member; Nasarawa, Zakari Jikantoro, Member; Niger.Others are Sulaiman Ali, member; Kogi, Rev. Bunmi Olusona, member; Kwara Dr Umar Mantu, member; Plateau, Atotse Abraham, member; Benue.“Solomon Adodo, member; FCT, Abdulkadir Usman, member ;North-West, Habu Mamman, member; North-EastDr Atinuke Owolabi, member; South-West.“Racheal Nse, member; South-South, Boniface Izziogu, member; South-East, James Uloko Executive Director, Benue, Atika Ajanah Executive Director, Projects;Kogi.“Hajiya Bilgis Sanni Executive Director, Kwara, Hajiya Aishatu Ibrahim Executive Director, Nasarawa and Muhammad Bashar Executive Director, Niger.”“While hoping that the request will receive the usual expeditious consideration of the Senate. please accept, Distinguished Senate President, the assurances of my highest consideration.(NAN)
The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, on Thursday, urged Peter Obi, the former Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), to put his house in order and not make unnecessary comments on past leaders of the country.Akpabio stated this during a valedictory session held in honour of the late leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Pa Edwin Clark.
He was also reacting to a comment Obi made at an event saying that the efforts of Nigeria’s past leaders were in vain. “Those who are aspiring as presidential candidates to cause division with their mouths using the social media, tell them to resolve the small party crisis they have before they come to talk about the larger Nigeria.“I am saying this because I understand that just yesterday, one of the presidential aspirants, Peter Obi, said that the labours of our leaders who have passed on were in vain.“They were not in vain. The mere fact that Nigeria is still standing together shows clearly that their labours were not in vain.“Very few countries with the size of Nigeria are still together; today, many have been fragmented.“Edwin Clark lived through the days of the USSR. Nigeria in spite our difficulties, God has kept us together because of the voices of people like Pa Edwin clark. So clearly, his labour and labours were not in vain.“And for those in the social media, Nigeria has an unregulated social media system so let them wallow in it and then take this situation and propagate all sorts of falsehood and all sorts of narratives.“Some of them on social media were not even born when Pa Clark was very active in service and so they couldn’t have known some of the things he did that we are remembering today.“And yet when somebody makes a statement that the labour of our past leaders are in vain, I beg to disagree”.Akpabio added that let Obi show leadership, like Edwin Clark did by resolving first, the crisis in the Labour Party.“He has one of the the smallest parties in Nigeria and you cannot even resolve the crisis in that Labour Party”.(NAN)
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