President Mohammadu Buhari has appointed Ibrahim Idris as the new Inspector General of Police, IGP.
He replaced Solomon Arase whose tenure officially elapsed on Monday 20th June,2016.
Until his appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari, Idris served as Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of federal operations, Force Headquarters, Abuja.
He understandably hails from Niger State.
An Ado-Ekiti Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, remanded 33-year-old Emmanuel Imole in prison custody for allegedly pouring hot soup on a police officer.
The police prosecutor, Sergeant Bankole Olasunkanmi, told the court that the accused committed the offence on June 13 at about 5.30p.m. at Ilawe Road, Ado-Ekiti.
He said the accused unlawfully poured hot soup on a police officer attached to Iyin Police Station, while performing his lawful duty.
He requested for adjournment to enable him study the case file and assemble his witnesses.
The magistrate, Idowu Ayenimo, remanded the accused in prison custody pending the time his counsel’s written application for bail is filed and adjourned the case till July 7.
Three students of the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic » Owo (RUGIPO), were reportedly shot during a clash between students of the school and the police command at the Owo local government area of Ondo State.
DailyPost reports that the victims were accidentally shot during the clash which began when a private car of a police officer allegedly hit two students in the town.
The police were accused of abandoning the victims after the car crash. The students then embarked on a protest to the Police Station, B Division at Otapete.
During the protest, the police, with the use of tear gas and sporadic shooting, attempted to disperse the students. The victims were reportedly hit by the bullets.
This intensified the protest as students reacted by destroying residents and vandalizing cars parked in the station.
According to eyewitness reports, the students were seen burning tyres at the main gate of the school, Fasawe and white House areas, which are mainly occupied by the students.
The police were eventually able get a hold of the situation after an armored tank was brought in to clear the blocked road.
Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Femi Joseph confirmed the story while alleging that the students attacked the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Mr. Akande and that he was presently on a critical condition.
Joseph added that the students were not truthful when they blamed the police for hitting and abandoning their colleagues.
“ The police vehicle that hit the students was not deliberately done; it was a total lie that the driver abandoned the students, because he immediately took the victims to a hospital and they are currently receiving treatment," he said.
The Polytechnic director of Information Protocol and Public Relations Unit (IPPPR) Mr. Olumide Olugosi, however, said no student died during the protest.
The Adamawa Police Command has arrested six persons for allegedly arresting six persons, who reported an incident of police torture to Punch Newspaper.
Ahmad Aliyu, Nibras Mamman, Muhammed Sulei, Abdulrahman Nasir, Kabir Mubi and Umar Baba , all residents of Jimeta area in Adamawa State were arrested on Tuesday, June 14, 2016, for reporting policemen working at the
Doubeli Police Division , for torturing another resident, Kabiru Ahmed .
According to Punch, the police officers were not impressed by the newspaper’s report on the matter.
Adamu Ibrahim, a resident of the community, narrated the circumstance leading to the reckless arrest.
He also appealed to the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase , and the state commissioner, Ghazzali Mohammed , to intervene.
Ibrahim said, “Around 5pm yesterday (Tuesday), 14 of us went to visit Kabiru (Ahmed) at the hospital. He was able to recognise us but he could not talk.”
“We donated the little amount we contributed to him and left the ward at about 5.30pm.”
“A friend left to visit another patient in the hospital and begged us to wait for him. I was hanging around the premises while the others were at the point where we parked our bus.”
“Then, about 10 policemen in mufti came and asked, ‘Where is Adamu Ibrahim?’ They did not see me, but they arrested the six residents.”
“A friend called the Police Public Relations Officer and informed him of the development, but he said he was not aware. I think it was your (PUNCH’s) report that prompted their action.”
Mallam Ali Mamman, one of the parents of the arrested persons, narrated thated that he was denied access to his son and his friends.
Mamman said, “The policemen did not allow me to have access to my son and refused to tell me the offence he and his friends committed.”
“On Wednesday, the CP called the policemen to bring them. He asked the policemen and the children what happened.”
“The CP asked why the arrest was made but they said they only invited them to the station to gather information.”
“He said what they did was wrong and ordered that they should be released without delay. They have all been released.”
According to Punch, the spokesperson of the Adamawa Police Command, Othman Abubakar, has denied claims that such an incident occurred.
The Ogun State Police Command on Thursday reportedly invaded the Redemption Camp of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, and arrested 236 people inside the auditorium, New Telegraph reports.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, DSP Muyiwa Adejobi, who made this disclosure, said the exercise followed series of reports and intelligence gathering on how people with questionable character use the auditorium as refuge after committing crime.
Adejobi said, “Our men carried out the raid in the early hours of Thursday after a series of report that criminals have taken the RCCG Auditorium at Kilometre 46, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, as hideout.
“As early as 2am, they arrested 236 persons, 165 are males while 71 are females.
“The suspects are currently being screened. Those who have genuine reason to be at the auditorium for prayer would be released while those who cannot identify themselves would be prosecuted,” the PPRO added.
A 33-year-old female member of a popular Pentecostal church, Adefunke Afolayan, on Friday appeared in a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos for alleged theft of her General Overseer’s $5,000.
The accused is facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing.
Prosecutor Godwin Oriabure told the court that the accused committed the offences with some other still at large in December 2015.
Oriabure said the accused used her privilege as a worker in the church to gain access to where the money was kept and stole it.
Afolayan pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Her lawyer, Makolo Anthony, urged the court to grant his client bail in the most liberal terms.
The Magistrate, E.A Johnson, granted bail to the accused bail in the sum of N300,000 with one surety in like sum.
Johnson said the surety must be gainfully employed and adjourned the case till July 1 for mention.
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A 25-year-old man, Kabir Ahmed, has been admitted to the Federal Medical Centre in Yola, Adamawa State, after he was allegedly beaten into a coma by some policemen attached to the Doubeli division.
The policemen, who were said to be in mufti, had on May 16 at about 10am raided Zanranda Street in the Jimeta area of the state to arrest some suspected smokers.
It was learnt that the cops searched the people they met on the street and arrested one of them found with cannabis.
They reportedly wanted to apprehend others when Ahmed, who was in front of his house, cautioned the cops not to arrest “innocent” persons.
When they declined, he allegedly started arguing with them, leading to his arrest.
He was reportedly whisked away in a tricycle to the station, where he was tortured until he became unconscious.
An eyewitness, Awal Aminu, who spoke with our correspondent on the telephone, said Ahmed, a National Diploma holder in crime management, attempted to challenge “the excesses” of the cops.
He said, “The policemen came into the street in a Keke Napep (tricycle).
The policemen confronted us and we asked them what we did. They said they came to search us. We asked them to identify themselves because they were in mufti, which they did. They found hemp on a man and arrested him.
“They wanted to arrest the rest of us saying we were at the place they found an exhibit. We were on it when Kabiru (Ahmed) came from his house and asked the policemen what our offence was. They dragged him into the Keke Napep and took him to the station.”
A resident of the area, Mrs. Afusat Raji, said the policemen, after allegedly beating Ahmed to stupor, called his mother at about 12am that he had been rushed to the FMC.
A human rights activist, Adamu Ibrahim, said Kabiru’s spinal cord was affected and lamented that the police authorities did not show any concern since he was admitted at the hospital.
He called on the Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, to wade into the matter and bring the policemen to book.
However, the Adamawa State Police Command spokesperson, DSP Othman Abubakar, denied that Ahmed was tortured, saying he sustained injuries after falling into a ditch.
The police in Ogun State have arrested a hairdresser, Kudirat Oyediran, for allegedly inflicting injuries on her stepdaughter, Rachael Oyediran.
It was learnt that 32-year-old Kudirat allegedly tortured the five-year-old for bed-wetting and disobedience.
Kudirat and Rachael live in Okeore, Atan Ota, in the Ado-Odo Ota Local Government Area of the state.
The mother of one was apprehended after a neighbour reported the alleged torture to the police at the Onipanu division.
It was gathered that Rachael’s mother died five years ago when she was three months old.
She was said to have been under the care of the suspect, whom her father married a few years after.
The Abeokuta, Ogun State indigene, reportedly told the police that she beat Rachael for being “obstinate”, adding that she only used brooms to beat her.
She said, “She is my stepdaughter and I have been taking good care of her. But she is very stubborn. If I give an instruction, she won’t follow it. She is bed-wetting and I have cautioned her several times. She is also fond of stealing pieces of meat from the pot of stew. I only beat her with brooms; I don’t use any object on her. I promise not to beat her again.”
A police source told our correspondent that the victim had been handed over to her father, Dele, who was made to sign an undertaking that the girl would be properly taken care of thenceforth.
The source said, “On May 30, a Good Samaritan reported at the station that one Kudirat Oyediran of Okeore was in the habit of constantly assaulting her stepdaughter, Rachael. As a result, she sustained serious bruises on her back. The mother of the victim died three months after her birth. Her father married the suspect so she could take care of her. The woman has a six-month-old baby.
“The girl would have been transferred to a motherless home, but her father and some community elders pleaded that she should not be taken there. The father wrote an undertaking to ensure her proper upkeep before she was released to him.”
The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Muyiwa Adejobi, in a text message, confirmed the woman’s arrest, adding that the case would be charged to court.
He said, “The command has no tolerance for inhuman cases of such and will always fish out the culprits.”
The police have arraigned seven suspected cultists before an Ebute Meta Magistrate’s Court for allegedly belonging to an unlawfully society.
The suspects, Riliwan Okegbenro19;Tolulope Omolaja 23;Michael Green,20;Musiliu Lateef,20; Shola Ogundeji,22; Ayuba Sulaimon, 20; Olushola Sikiru,26, were said to be members of Aiye confraternity.
It was said that the defendants conducted themselves in a manner that caused breach of peace.
The defendants were said to have conspired with others at large on May 7 at 5pm at Pasokun Street, Aga – Ikorodu.
The prosecuting police, Corporal Kokoye Olusegun said that the defendants committed an offence punishable under Section 409, 166, 41 and 42 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
The defence counsel, Saka Bello and Imelda Adebambo prayed for the bail of their clients in the most liberal terms.
The presiding magistrate Fowowe Erusiafe granted bail to the defendants in the sum of N50, 000 and two sureties in like sum.
She added that each of the sureties must be blood relation of the accused persons.
The matter was adjourned to July 18.
Family members of an unnamed 4-year-old female pupil of Light Bearers Private School, at Isashi area of Lagos state, have called on the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Solomon Arase and the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP, Owoseni Fatai, to please intervene in the case of defilement of their daughter.
This came after a 27-year-old schoolmistress, Violet Enu, reportedly absconded after she was arrested and granted bail by the police in the state for allegedly defiling the minor and luring her into lesbianism.
Vanguard reports that the suspect defiled the minor last week Thursday and had fled after the case was transferred from Badagry Magistrate’s Court to Apapa Family Court on Tuesday.
According to the report, the suspect was nowhere to be found after the victim’s parents reported at the police station on Wednesday and all attempts to trace him, proved abortive.
Her surety is equally said to be at large.
Speaking on the incident, the victim’s father, simply identified as Chief Martins, said the police allegedly connived with the suspect to escape.
He said, “In a bid to create an avenue for the suspect to escape, the police referred the case to Badagry Magistrate’s Court, when they knew that cases bordering on defilement are usually heard at family court.
“Otherwise how will a division not know that Badagry Magistrate’s Court does not treat defilement cases?
“We came back from Badagry Magistrate’s Court at about 5p.m. on Tuesday, yet the police connived with the suspect to escape.
“Sincerely, I do not understand the police’s interest in the case and why they have been persuading me to settle out of court without actually investigating to find out the motive behind the abuse.
“What if it was for ritual? They are sending different lawyers to plead with me. Why are they attempting to deny my four-year-old girl justice?
“The Police at Isashi Division have not done any investigation on the case,” Martins lamented, adding that “the only thing they followed is the Mirabel report, which proved that my daughter was actually defiled.
“They granted the suspect bail and now she is at large. Her surety is also at large.
“Meanwhile, the victim’s elder brother, who attends the same school, was sent home and prevented from attending the school’s extra-moral classes on Tuesday because of the incident,” the victim’s father decried, calling on the IGP, Solomon Arase and Lagos State CP, Owoseni Fatai, to please intervene in the case of defilement of the daughter.
