CRIME
Plateau Police Command Parades Killers Of Unijos Lecturer

From Jude Dangwam, Jos
The Commissioner of Police, Plateau State Command, Edward Egbuka has paraded 17 suspected criminals who were arrested in connection with different crimes across the state.
Amongst them are the killers of the University of Jos lecturer, late Dr Nandi Drenkat as well as those who attacked and shot at Rev.
The CP who paraded the suspects on Satursay(30th May,2020) at the Police Headquarters in Jos, the Plateau State capital cautioned hoodlums in the state against criminal actovities.
“Tea party time is over, retrace your steps or relocate” the Commissioner stated pointing that Plateau was a sensitive state in Nigeria and therefore, the Command would continue to clampdown on all forms of crimals.
Egbuka while speaking on the killers of the University of Jos lecturer said “The operatives of DSS in Plateau State were able to track down two other members of this notorious gang of kidnappers, who had escaped the gun battle with the Police with bullet wounds. On interrogation by the DSS operatives, the suspects confessed to being part of the gang that murdered the lecturer and kidnapped his daughter.
“They took the operatives to their hideouts, where two (2) firearms were recovered, an AK 47 rifle with two (2) rounds of ammunition and a baretta pistol with seven (7) rounds of ammunition. Interestingly, this baretta pistol was stolen from late Sergeant Jonathan Danladi ‘m’ of Laranto Division who had an encounter with this same dreaded gang of kidnappers in the early hours of 4th May, 2020 at ECWA base Jos.
“The Police Sergeant, in a bid to rescue an 18- year old female victim of this gang was shot dead and his baretta pistol stolen. The same gang killed a DSS personnel on 30th December 2017, along Dong-miango/Rukuba road in Jos North LGA,”the CP narrated.
The suspects were said to have confessed to several other kidnapping incidents, armed robberies and killings within Jos metropolis and Bassa LGA of the State from 2017 to date.
The Commissioner of Police pointed that the Command in collaboration with other security agencies have launched an aggressive manhunt for other members of the gang still at large.
The Command also paraded four Fulani gunmen who attacked Rev. Bayo James at his residence in Gana Ropp village of Barkin-Ladi on May 5th, 2020.
“You will recall that on the 5th may 2020, at about 2040hrs, hoodlums invaded the residence of one Rev Canon Bayo James Femourune ‘m’ of Agape Mission, Messiah College, Gana Ropp Village in Barkin-Ladi LGA and in their bid to rob the victim and his family, shot him on the head and leg, the wife at her back, their son on the leg and a guest of the family was also shot on his leg.The hoodlums escaped before the arrival of the Police and other security agencies,” he stated.
Egbuka maintained that while acting on a tip off, Police operatives at Barkin-Ladi arrested two of the suspects and even one of the suspects has been identified by the victims as efforts are been intensified to arrest other fleeing members of the gang.
Meanwhile a suspect by name Sylvester Isah ‘m’ alongside his accomplice one Moses Samu were paraded over a transferred case from the OPSH to the Police Command on the ground of culpable homicide. The duo were arrested in connection with the abduction of one Abatcha Luguda ‘m’ of Bauchi Road, Jos, who was reported missing on 17th February 2020.
The Police Commissioner said the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Command were detailed to carry out discreet investigation and has uncovered the leader of the gang, one Uweni Stephen ‘m’ who is at large was said to have sold a land to the victim (Abatcha Luguda), and when the victim went to collect the document of the property, they (suspects) waylaid him and killed him.
He disclosed that “the suspects took Police operatives to the hills along Zaria Road, Jos where the victim was buried in a shallow grave. The decomposed body of the deceased was exhumed and identified by his family.”
The Police Boss narrated how the Command arrested a fake army officer by name John Nanzing Ladong who has been operating in the state as a Captain alongside army Air Force uniforms and other items,
“On 18/05/2020 at about 0800hrs the operatives of sector 6 Operation Safe Havens arrested one John Nanzing Ladong ‘m’ of Gero area in Jos South LGA of Plateau State dressed in full military desert camouflage uniform with a captain rank driving an Army green coloured Peugeot model 206 vehicle who was later transferred to Area Command Bukuru and upon interrogation, it was established that the suspect was not a military personnel.
“Further investigation and search conducted led to the recovery of One forged NAF ID card bearing Flying Officer JJ Nanzing, Two (2) machetes, One jack knife, Six (6) leave pass of Nigeria Army, Twelve (12) pieces of Nigeria Army uniforms, Three (3) pairs of Nigeria Air Force uniforms, One Nigeria Navy trouser, One Nigeria Immigration service camouflage trouser, Two (2) pears of military boots, One Nigeria Army Headquarters stamp, Four (4) passports photograph of senior retired military officers, Fifteen (15) Forcecom sim cards, Four (4) Nigeria Army recruitment application forms and one Nigeria Navy recruitment form bearing different names, Fake Vehicle particulars and other suspicious documents were recovered from him.”
The Commissioner of Police while responding to question from Journalists confirmed the recent killings of five persons in Miango town by gunmen who were said to have come on a motorcycle and fired at five people in a shop including the owner of the shop to dead.
“There was killings in Miango, the incident happened at about 10pm in the night, the hudlooms came and shot at people inside a shop and they all died.”
He also disclosed that the Mobile Police officer attached to the Special Task Force code name “Opration Safe Haven (OPSH) who killed a 20 years old student of University of Jos Mr. Ringji Peter has been handed over to the Command for prosecution as investigation is still ongoing.
CRIME
Sales Rep Docked Over Alleged Stealing Motorcycle Valued N1.2m

The Police on Friday arraigned a 42-year-old sales representative, Surajudeen Lawal in Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court over alleged stealing Bajaj motorcycle valued at N1,200,000.
The defendant whose address is unknown, is charged on a count of stealing, which he pleaded not guilty.
The Prosecution Counsel, Insp.
Ayodele Adeosun told the Court that Lawal committed the offence on May 17, at about 11. 00.a.m, at Clemos Tech. Ltd., Abudu Complex, Oko-Afo, Badagry area of Lagos.Adeosun alleged that the defendant, being a sales representative at the company sold one Bajaj motorcycle valued at N1,200,000, property of one Clement Ogunfododo, the complainant and converted the money to his own use.
“The defendant could not give the account of the money when he was asked to pay the money into company’s account.
“He was arrested and handed over to Police for interrogation and prosecution.
“The offence contravened the provision of Section 287 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The Chief Magistrate, Mr Patrick Adekomaiya granted the defendant bail in the sum of N400,000 with two sureties in like sum.
He said one of the sureties must be gainfully employed.
Adekomaiya adjourned the case until June 11, for mention. (NAN)
CRIME
Music Teacher Bags Life Imprisonment For Defiling 9-year-old Pupil

An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Wednesday sentenced a 35-year-old music teacher and counselor, Anthony Okeh, to life imprisonment for defiling a nine-year-old, JSS 1 pupil name withheld)
That Justice Abiola Soladoye in her judgment held that the prosecution had successfully discharged the burden of proof of the charge of defilement against Okeh.
According to her, Okeh is a pathological liar, soulless man without any iota of shame, and everything a teacher should not be for having unlawful sexual intercourse with his pupil.
Soladoye said the case was a direct evidence as the survivor was in court to narrate her sexual ordeals in the hands of the music teacher; a sexual predator.
She added that the evidence of the survivor was lucid, cogent, unequivocal and compelling and the denial of the convict did not hold waters.
“To the mind of this court, the denial of the convict is a form to distance himself from the crime.
“The convict is a pathological liar whose evidence is an after thought and I do not believe him at all.
“I do not believe the other three defence witnesses as well, because their evidences were devoid of truth and they were tainted witnesses.
“Cases are not won on the number of witnesses presented to testify before the court but on the quality of evidence adduced that are credible, convincing and compelling,” the judge said.
The judge added that the survivor in her testimony had narrated how the convict called her upstairs into the music room, where he showed her different nude pictures, claimed to be a cultist and threatened to kill her if she ever told anyone.
“The survivor recognised the man in the box as her music teacher who defiled her more than two times in the music room.
“The testimony of the Investigative Police Officer (IPO) is corroborated by the testimony of the survivor when she said that the mother of the girl noticed her reluctance to go to school and she later confessed to her mother what the convict had been doing to her.
“The IPO said that the mother of the survivor (nominal complainant) reported the case to the police.
“Statement of the nominal complainant was admitted into evidence,” Soladoye added.
She therefore convicted Okeh of the one-count charge of defilement and consequently sentenced him to life imprisonment.
Soladoye also ordered that the convict’s name be registered in the Lagos State Sexual Offences Register.
She also called on school proprietors and proprietress to recruit teachers with high moral standards to teach in their schools so as to avoid dent on their institutions.
“All stakeholders in the administration of criminal justice must form a strong collaboration in combating sexual violence offences so as to protect the dignity, mental health, physical and psychological trauma of survivors in such cases,” she said.
The State Counsel, Miss Abimbola Abolade presented two witnesses; the survivor and an investigative police officer while the Defence called four witnesses.
Abolade told the court that the convict committed the offence on Sept. 6, 2022 at Lachez O International School, Agege, Lagos.
The prosecution submitted that the convict had unlawful sexual intercourse with the minor by penetrating her vagina with his penis.
According to the prosecution, the offence contravenes Section 137 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015. (NAN)
CRIME
Ilesa Prison Break: NCoS Yet To Brief Us – Osun Police

The Police Command in Osun is yet to receive any official communication on the escape of seven inmates from the the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Ilesa, Osun.
The Police Spokesperson for the command, DSP Abiodun Ojelabi, said that the police state command had not been officially briefed or informed of the incident by the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS).
“We heard also about the escape, but there is no official report made to the police by the NCoS.
“Our Intel revealed to us that actually, there was an escape.
“The cause of the escape is what we don’t know because our men have gone there.
“From the intelligience report we got, there is nothing we can lay hands on that made the inmates escape.
“The NCoS should inform us about what actually happened,” he said
Ojelabi said: “the police is out to protect lives and property and any criminal we see, we will apprehend”.
The NCoS declared seven inmates missing as a result of rain that damaged the security perimeter of the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Ilesa in the early hours of Tuesday.
The heavy rainfall around 2:00 a.m. caused a breach in the facility’s structure, allowing the inmates to escape.
Confirming the development, the Controller-General of Corrections, Sylvester Ndidi Nwakuche, in a statement signed by Umar Abubakar, Deputy Controller of Corrections, Public Relations Officer, on Tuesday, ordered an immediate investigation into the incident and assured the public that efforts were underway to return the escapees to custody.
“The service is working closely with sister security agencies as well as community leaders to recapture the escapees and bring them back to custody,” the NCoS said in the statement.
“However, the Service solicits the cooperation and support of the public in providing information that may lead to the recapture of the fleeing inmates.”
Authorities have since launched a manhunt to recapture the fugitives. (NAN)