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How joint troop rescued abducted corper, six others
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… victims narrate ordeal
Troops of joint military operations of 401 Special Forces Brigade and Sector One Operation Whirl Stroke have rescued a kidnapped youth corps member and six other victims in Tse-Annaka, along Wukari/Zaki-Biam, Torov council ward in Ukum LGA of Benue State.
The corps member was identified as Samuel Muekara, aged 29 and a law graduate.
Other rescued victims who were kidnapped at different dates and times in the same locations include, Mr.
Anaelechi Bob 32, Ayuba Luka, 28, Ibrahim Umar, 30, Rabiu Muhammad 48, Buhari Ahmadu Saleh 17 years old and Blessing Ayuba 47.
A security personnel who spoke under the condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the press, identified the bandits terrorizing the Sankara axis as “Full Fire”, Ayongo, Chen and his group.
He said the bandits belong to the gang of the notorious criminal kingpin in Benue, late Terwase Akwaza also known as Gana”.
“These notorious armed bandits are well known to the people living in those areas and any attempt to get information from them, they claimed not to know, whereas in the real sense they know them.
“The people must understand that security is a collective efforts from all and sundry and therefore, the communities should be able to always volunteer necessary information to security agencies especially our troops to help them fish out the perpetrators of crime among them.
Some of the rescued victims who spoke with our correspondent at the military camp in Zaki – Biam, Ukum local government area where they were taken to, said they were kidnapped and kept hostage for days before the intervention of the military troops.
“Some of us were taken to the neighboring settlement like Chito village, Adamawa village, Atereyange village, Ututu village and Pevkyaa village all of Ukum local government area where these heavily armed bandits are using as their hideouts.
“These armed bandits have made kidnapping in these communities as their major source of income and they do it in a broad day light without fear.
” They are living with their families who usually come to give us food in their hideout. People living around there see them perpetrating these evils but they are helpless to voice it out for the fear of their lives”.
“,One of us(victims) know as Rabiu Muhammad who came to pay ransom for his cousin Ibrahim Umar became a kidnapped victims after he had paid the ransom”, one of the Victims’ said .
Another victim identified as Blessing Ayuba said she was also kidnapped after she came to pay a ransom for her son, Luka Ayuba.
On his part, the youth corps member, Samuel told our Correspondent that after the families of seven jointly raised over N20 million and paid as ransom with other valuables worth millions of naira forcibly taken away, they were still held captive until the military came to their rescue.
We are calling on the Federal Government to immediately give promotions to those military officers who rescued us from the wicked hands of the kidnappers.
“Federal and State governments should intensify security surveillance particularly in Ukum communities along Zaki -Biam, Wukari roads to curtail activities of these armed bandits to protect lives and property of citizens traveling on that routes.
Government must also beam searchlights also on the activities of transport companies operating in the country during odd hours who always fail to report kidnapped cases to the appropriate quarters”, he said.
A top neurosurgeon has been suspended after having sleeping with a vulnerable female patient and prescribing her addictive painkillers.
Dr Chirag Patel, who worked at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, UK, first operated on the woman – referred to as Patient A – to remove the damaged part of a disc in her spine, a tribunal heard.
Dr Patel was last month admitted to a s£xual relationship and sending the patient ‘explicit images’, as well as prescribing the vulnerable patient drugs, including the addictive muscle relaxant Diazepam.
The panel concluded the doctor had shown ‘a reckless disregard for patient safety’, continuing with prescriptions even after she had missed appointments and neglecting to tell her GP or even make a note in her records.
Ms Alabi added that by not breaking the relationship off, the surgeon had ‘put his personal interests – namely securing his career, reputation and family relationships – above Patient A’s proper care’.
Despite being told Dr Patel was the only surgeon in NHS Wales able to carry out certain surgeries for neuropathic pain, the panel handed him an eight-month suspension to ‘protect the public from the risks posed by [his] misconduct’.
Chair Mrs Alabi said the surgeon claimed he was ‘going through some marital difficulties’ at the time his relationship with the patient began.
The doctor said: ‘When I persisted in telling her that the relationship had to end, Patient A threatened to reveal our relationship to others, such as my employer and colleagues.
‘I was afraid if she did so, I could lose the job I so loved and had worked so hard to obtain. Given my speciality, this would have a knock-on effect on other patients if I was unable to work.
‘With the benefit of hindsight, I know I should nonetheless have ended the relationship and been honest with my employer. However, at the time I felt panicked and unable to break it off – a decision I now bitterly regret.’
The surgeon prescribed Patient A an opioid painkiller known as MST until January 2023, along with Diazepam.
He operated on her a third time the same year when he inserted a spinal cord stimulator, four years after the two initial surgeries.
The panel concluded the patient was ‘vulnerable’ and her repeated requests for painkillers may have been the result of addiction.
A voicemail left for the surgeon by the patient was played to the tribunal, demanding she ‘have that prescription’ and threatening to report him to police.
She went on: ‘Chirag, you had one chance, two chance, three chances, and more chances. You’re in the country doing your job, I don’t want to f* you over but my spine is f*ed, right?
‘I’ve given you chance after chance after chance. Do you know what? I could just write a book on you, okay?
‘You going to man up and meet me, or are you going to be a cowardly c***, like I think you are? You’re no God, love.’
In his evidence, Dr Patel claimed: ‘I would only see her under the threat of blackmail and to appease her.
‘Any romantic or friendly relationship had completely ended at this point, and our ongoing relationship was based purely on hostility and blackmail by her towards me.’
He went on: ‘Patient A had asked for £11,000 previously, which I did not have, so I instead offered to give her £5,000 from my savings.’
Dr Patel claimed to be ‘deeply remorseful’ for prescribing the medication while in the ‘personal relationship’.
He said: ‘It is no excuse that I did this under the threat of blackmail and exposure.’
The tribunal was told the complaint against Dr Patel arose when the patient was in ‘a period of psychosis’.
General Medical Council barrister Robin Kitching argued the surgeon should be struck off due to a risk of him repeating his behaviour.
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APC chairman, Yilwatda gives Wike clean bill of health says Fubara was not forced to withdraw from Rivers primary
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Prof Nentawe Yilwatda, has insisted that Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State withdrew from the party’s governorship primaries voluntarily.
Speaking during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, Yilwatda noted that Fubara was neither disqualified nor forced out of the race.
According to him, Fubara duly purchased the party’s nomination forms, appeared before the screening committee and was cleared to contest before later deciding to step down ahead of the primaries, adding that the governor’s withdrawal was entirely a personal decision.
“He pulled out; he stepped down. It is personal to him. He bought the forms, came for screening, passed the screening, and we were waiting for the primaries before he opted to step down,” Yilwatda stated.
He equally debunked claims that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, influenced the process or played any role in Fubara’s withdrawal from the race.
Yilwatda maintained that the former Rivers governor was not even a member of the ruling party.
“Wike is not in our party. He is in the PDP,” he said.
The Senator representing Taraba Central Senatorial District has saluted Muslims in Taraba and across Nigeria as they celebrate this year’s Eid-el-Kabir, calling for special prayers to elevate Nigeria.
The immediate past Deputy Governor of Taraba State called for renewed alms giving to one another, especially the poor, the needy, and the less privileged in the society. This, he said, is a major tenet of Islam.
He urged Nigerians to remain selfless and sacrifice their lives, time, and resources to the worship of Allah (SWT) and humanity.
Senator Manu also advocated for peaceful coexistence across different religions during the festivities across Taraba and Nigeria.
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