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INSECURITY! SEE List of 7 community Presidents-General k!lled in Anambra in 7 years

Published

8 months ago

February 26, 2024

No fewer than seven Presidents-General of various communities in Anambra State have been assassinated in the past seven years: from 2017 to 2024.

This revelation was according to statistics issued by the Anambra State Association of Town Union (ASATU) during a press conference in Awka weekend.

The murder last Friday of the President General of Umuoji, Chief Silas Onyima, swelled the list of the Presidents-General who faced gruesome death in the hands of faceless assailants.

Others include, Chief Anthony Igboka, the President General of Nimo in Njikoka Local Government Area of the state, who was gruesomely murdered in April 2019.

Mr. Julius Chinwuba, the President General of Orom Etiti in Anambra West Area, was killed November 15, 2017.

Chinwuba was the Secretary of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the area.

He was clubbed to death tied in the hands and legs and thrown into the River Niger and his body reportedly floated on November 17, 2017.

Chief Ike Okolo, the erstwhile President General of Obosi Community in the same Idemili North LGA, was murdered in his car in January 2023.

In October 2021, Chief Paul Chinedu, President General of Nanka Community in Orumba North LGA, was murdered in the presence of his wife and children.

Also in March of 2021, Francis Onwuachi, the President General of Omor Community, was abducted and murdered. Until his death, Onwuachi was the chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Onitsha branch,

Reacting to the development over the weekend, ASATU decried the situation.

ASATU National President, Titus Akpudo, a lawyer, said ASATU would no longer sit back and watch its members being humiliated and killed without any form of provocation, other than they are leaders of their communities.

The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Tochukwu Ikenga, had confirmed the killing of Onyima, saying that investigation was ongoing to uncover the circumstances surrounding the death and the identity of the perpetrators.

Ikenga said: “No arrest had been made, investigation is ongoing and we are working with the locals.

“Our men have been deployed to the area and we are by this medium calling on the people of the community to stay calm as we are on top of the situation.”

Metro

SAD! Many Reportedly k!lled, Hospitalised As Petrol Tanker Explodes

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2 days ago

October 16, 2024

Naijablitznews

By Mario Deepromoter

Jigawa Police command has confirmed the death of 95 people and 50 got diffident degrees of injuries in Majiya village of Taura local government area in Jigawa.

Confirming that accident, the Jigawa state command Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Lawal Shiisu Adams, said, “Today (Wednesday) a Petro Tanker from Porthacourt going to Nguru in Yobe state reached Majiya village of Taura local government area at around 12:30 am the driver lost control at Majiya and it falls”.

The PPRO added; “The content in the Tanker floors and flooded gutters and drainages in the village. Seen that the villagers started fetching the fuel where the petrol going into flame”.

DSP Shiisu disclosed, “As a result, 95 people confirmed died, and 50 have been hospitalised receiving treatment”.

He, therefore, advised the people to distance themselves from a situation of that nature.

Source: ibomfocus

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Police dismiss three over ‘murder’ of poly student in Kwara

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2 days ago

October 16, 2024

Kayode Sanni-Arewa

Kwara State Police Command has dismissed three policemen for alleged murder of a student.

The deceased, Qoyum Abdulyekeen Ishola, a student of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, was on September 4, this year shot dead by trigger-happy policemen at Fate, Ilorin.

In a statement, the command’s spokesperson, Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi said after an investigation and an internal disciplinary trial, the three officers –AP/No 233828 INSPR. Abiodun Kayode, AP/No 287410 INSPR. James Emmanuel, and F/No 497868 SGT. Oni Philip – were found guilty of offences ranging from leaving beat, corrupt practices to unlawful or unnecessary exercise of authority.

“Consequently, they have been dismissed from the Nigeria Police Force, with effect from 4th October, 2024,’’ he added.

They would be arraigned in court soon, he said.

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SAD: Man drowns in Lagos river after taking hard drugs

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4 days ago

October 14, 2024

Kayode Sanni-Arewa

By Francesca Hangeior

A 45-year-old man, simply identified as Kazeem, has drowned in a river at Odo Tente, a boundary community between Lagos and Ogun States.

It was gathered that the incident occurred on Friday around 11 am.

Before the incident, Kazeem was said to have taken a hard drug suspected to be Colorado.

The deceased, who soon started to act under the influence of the drug, reportedly ran uncontrollably and jumped into the river.

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, while confirming the incident in a statement on Sunday, stated that he drowned in the process.

The statement read, “On 11/10/2024 at about 11 am, a complainant reported at Alagbado Division that one Kazeem, ‘M’ aged 45, under the influence of a hard drug suspected to be Colorado, ran uncontrollably and jumped into a river at Odo Tente boundary between Lagos and Ogun State.

Sequel to this, the victim drowned and died.”
Hundeyin further stated that detectives from the Alagbado Division visited the scene and took photographs of the deceased.

The police spokesman added that the father of the deceased, when contacted, directed that the corpse be buried immediately by the riverside according to their tradition.

He, however, noted that the police had commenced an investigation into the incident.