THESE are not the best of times for both the indigenes and those passing through Imo State. Hardly any day passes without anybody hearing ugly tales of the escapades of armed robbers or kidnappers. Gangsters are really having a field day in the state despite repeated assurances by the Rochas Okorocha administration and the police.
Nigeria is in danger of incubating another super terrorist. Until the allegations against him are proved, Mallam Mohammed Ashafa, the man accused of facilitating terrorist exchange programs between the Boko Haram sect in Nigeria and the Al-Qaeda network which specialises on propagating terrorism around the world, remains an innocent man.
WHEN Jairus Ogbu Eluwa saw an advertisement on television that there were vacancies at a hotel on Ikotun Egbe road, he thought the nightmarish trauma of joblessness since he graduated in 2004 from the University of Ado Ekiti was over.
AS part of his reformation policy, the new Acting Inspector-General of Police IGP MD Abubakar pronounced an outright ban on all checkpoints across the country moments after assumption of office. Part of the reasons for the ban was based on public outcry that Police Check points which were ordinarily mounted to monitor and nip the commission of crimes in the bud had literally turned ‘clearing house’.
Despite the inauguration of a security trust fund by Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, some months ago, designed to tackle the high rate of insecurity in the state, armed robbers have not only continued to unleash terror on the people of the state, they also took their operations to the seat of power.
It gives me pleasure to welcome you to this meeting which is one in a series of interactive sessions which I have organised with Senior Officers in the Force since my appointment as the Inspector-General of Police.
The sight of a live python snake inside the apartment of one Alhaji Kuku Jelili’s sitting room, in Ikotun area of Lagos recently, sent fear down the spine of members of the family, including two Muslim clerics otherwise known as alpha .
Call it cruel fate or destiny, but it has left an ugly scar in the minds of many and probably a wound that will take time to heal for those close to him. Such is the story of Joseph James Ashaba, father of two children, until his death last Sunday was a staff of Enterprise Bank in Jos. He was mistaken as one of the suicide bombers that struck at the COCIN Headquarters Compound Church last Sunday and lynched.
GENERAL” Tompolo evoked apprehension in both the militant world and security circle until last two years, 2009, when the former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, along with other ex militatns embraced the Federal Government amnesty programme.
…How PSC scuttled Zakari Biu’s political ambition, why he may go to jail.
His comeuppance has come in a most ignominious manner. Hassan Zakari Biu did not bargain for what has eventually come his way. For a police officer whose commitment to service often verged on zealotry, Zakari Biu’s career came to a halt the day Mallam Kabiru Abubakar DIKKO (a.k.a Kabiru SOKOTO) escaped from police custody.
Zakari Biu was last Wednesday dismissed from the Police Force by the Police Service Commission, PSC, for the commando-styled escape of Kabiru Sokoto, a Boko Haram suspect who is believed to have masterminded the dastardly Christmas Day bombing of the St. Theresa Catholic Church, Madalla, near Abuja, which claimed 44 lives, leaving many others severely injured.
On November 22,2011 when dare devil armed robbers invaded Akure, the Ondo State capital in the early hours of the day, hell was let loose as the bandits unleashed mayhem in the city, leaving five persons dead in an operation that lasted over one hour. Tongues wagged over the security laxity that reigned that fateful day in the state capital as the hoodlums operated unmolested.
