THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday arraigned three siblings: Vincent Ayewah, Florence Ayewah and Emmanuel Ayewah, and four others before a Lagos High Court, Ikeja for allegedly defrauding Africa’s richest woman, Mrs. Folorunsho Alakija of N3 million through her Rose of Sharon Foundation.

THE Police in Delta State have turned the heat on kidnappers, robbers, cultists and other criminals in the state, busting kidnap gangs and arresting 22 suspected kidnappers, including a Kaduna-based soldier, Federal Capital Territory, FCT civil servant, abductors of a Divisional Police Officer, DPO, and employees who masterminded their kidnaps, in the last few weeks. Kidnappers of Asaba DPO: Commissioner of Police, Mr. Zanna Ibrahim, who briefed newsmen in Asaba, said in one of the kidnap cases involving the abduction of the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, “C” Division, Asaba, SP Valentine Mbalu, four suspects, Suleiman Ibrahim, Abubakar Mohammed, both from Adamawa State and Auta Mohammed, who hails from Kaduna state have been apprehended.

Men of Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 26-year-old man, Abiodun Joseph, for allegedly impersonating the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, and duped two American-based ladies of N600,000.

USING the newly-deployed closed-circuit television, CCTV, camera, opera-tives of Lagos State Rapid Response Squad, RRS, have arrested a suspected pickpocket, one 18-year old Emmanuel, at Oshodi area.

Sweating profusely, Segun Yusuf wiped his face with a handkerchief while trying, at the same time, to shield his eyes from the rays of sun that came down through the cloudless sky, as he walked along Ago Hausa Street in the densely populated Ajegunle area of Lagos. Time was around midday.