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Tragedy as police sergeant shoots self, lover in a school premises in Kwara

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March 2, 2023

Kwara State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Okasanmi Ajayi

A Police sergeant, on Thursday, killed his female lover and later shot himself dead in a school premises in Ilorin, Kwara state capital.

The incident, it was gathered, occurred around 8am at premises of the Chapel of Redemption, Agba Dam Housing Estate, Gaa Akanbi, Ilorin, where Redemption Model Nursery and Primary School is located.

The MOPOL sergeant, was identified as Olalere Michael attached to 15 PMF, Ilorin.

Daily Trust gathered that he was also attached to the Kwara state Government House, Ilorin by the police command as one of the security agents.

Residents of the community told our correspondent that the deceased Police officer trailed the lady to the school, where she went to drop off her daughter, before opening fire.

“The officer entered the school premises at about a few minutes before 8:00 in his Toyota Corolla car earlier than his female friend who brought her daughter to the school.

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“He brought out his AK-47 rifle and shot Tosin on the chest three times at close range and she died on the spot. A friend that accompanied her to the school, ran away.

“He thereafter shot himself on the throat which blew off some part of his head,” a resident told our correspondent.

Residents said he had visited the family house of the deceased female friend located at Erin Ile road, Gaa Akanbi, a few days ago where he attacked her with cutlass over an unresolved misunderstanding.

When Daily Trust visited the deceased’s residence, her elder sister who was still sobbing, could not speak.

“I can say anything now please”, she told Daily Trust.

Reacting to the development, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Okasanmi Ajayi, described the incident as “aftermath of love gone sour and that it has nothing to do with police brutality”.

Okasanmi said, “Immediately after the information got to the command, the Commissioner of Police, Paul Odama, dispatched a team of policemen and detectives to the scene, where the corpses were recovered and deposited at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, where the bodies were certified dead

“Meanwhile, investigation of this unfortunate incident is in progress, and the report of the investigation will be made public as soon as it is ready.”

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November 14, 2024

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The federal government has unveiled a proposed budget of N47.9 trillion for the 2025 fiscal year.

Atiku Bagudu, Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, disclosed this to journalists on Thursday following the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting chaired by President Bola Tinubu.

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) told FIJ that they have arrested Timber Wabote, the former executive secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCMB), on the grounds of a failed $35 million Bayelsa refinery project fraud.

Dele Oyewale, the EFCC’s spokesperson, confirmed this to FIJ on Thursday.

“It is true,” Oyewale responded to FIJ’s inquiries.

Wabote is accused of misappropriating public funds for a refinery project that should have improved local energy production.

Vanguard reported that the NCDMB under Wabote paid $35 million to support the development of energy infrastructure in the Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa, yet there was nothing to show for it.

The EFCC picked Wabote up following the arrest of Akintoye Adeoye Akindele, the Managing Director of Atlantic International Refinery and Petrochemical Limited, for alleged misappropriation, money laundering and diversion of $35 million in public funds.

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“NCDMB under the watch of Wabote allegedly paid the $35 million to Akindele to build a 2,000 barrel per day (BPD), refinery, jetty, gas plant, power plant, data centre and tank farm at Brass free trade zone (FTZ), Okpoama Community in Brass LGA of Bayelsa State,” a source with the EFCC had explained.

Since December 2020 when the payments were made, Akindele abandoned the project with little or nothing to show for the huge sum he received.

Preliminary investigations showed that Wabote’s NCDMB financed 17 different projects, including the 2,000 BPD refinery in Brass LGA.

There has been a series of public fund misappropriation cases in the energy sector in recent times.

FIJ earlier reported that members of the House of Representatives summoned three ministers to defend how over $2 billion was spent on renewable energy with not much to show for it.

A recent FIJ report also recently detailed how residents of Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa, have not had power in their homes since July due to the vandalisation of the Ahoada-Yenagoa transmission towers caused by unidentified persons.

The Bayelsa state government told FIJ it was the federal government’s responsibility to provide electricity for residents. The state has no renewable energy options reliable enough to power its capital despite the multi-million-dollar NCMB energy project.

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