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18,748 security personnel deployed in Kano for gov poll
A total of 18,748 security personnel have been deployed in different parts of Kano State ahead of the conduct of the March 18 governorship and House of Assembly elections.
The Commissioner for Police, Mr Mamman Dauda, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Kano.
He said that police and other security agencies would provide water-tight security across the 11,222 polling units in 484 wards across the 44 local government areas of the state.
Dauda said that a comprehensive operational order had since been issued to Area Commanders and Divisional Police Officers for implementation.
He assured that the police and other security agencies were prepared and ready to protect voters and INEC officials during and after the election.
“I am giving 100 percent assurance to all law-abiding residents of the state that they can go about freely to exercise their franchise on March 18 without threat to lives and property,” he said.
The police boss however urged the security personnel to ensure that they abide by the provisions of the Electoral Act and ensure that the election was free, fair, and credible in all parts of the state.
“We are to be civil and respect the rights of citizens. We are to collaborate with other sister security agencies, to enable residents to participate in electing leaders of their choice.”
Dauda assured residents of the state of the safety of their lives before, during, and after the election.
He added that all the areas noted for crisis or where security threats might come from had been taken care of and would be well policed.
Dauda also said that the Inspector-General of Police had ordered for special deployment of 315 mobile personnel with modern working facilities to deal with any form of security threat during and after the election.
The commissioner of police assured the residents that the police would provide a level playing ground for the smooth implementation of the electoral process in the state.
“I assure the good people of Kano state that the Police and state security agencies will provide a peaceful political atmosphere for the conduct of Saturday election in our area of supervision.
“We will not tolerate any act capable of bringing confusion before, during, and after the election, any person or groups found disobeying orders would be arrested and prosecuted,” he warned.
The commissioner also called on parents not to allow their children to be used as political thugs as any person or group of people found wanting would be dealt with accordingly.
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Depressed Delta lady kills self over hardship
Depressed Delta lady kills self over hardship
A 34-year-old lady simply identified as Blessing has committed suicide in Warri, Delta State.
The deceased was said to have taken her own life after consuming sniper, a popular insecticide, and the go-to poisonous chemical substance for suicidal people.
Details of Blessing’s demise is still hazy but her friend simply identified as Ejiro, said the deceased had been battling chronic depression.
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The deceased also was said to have left behind a note, explaining why she took her own life.
In the note, she disclosed that life has been hard and no one has reached out to help her.
According to her: “She bought Sniper and drank it without anyone knowing. Before she drank it, she wrote a letter near her dead body, and she said in the letter that she was depressed. No help from family members and friends.”
At the time of filing this report, the remains of the deceased had been buried by her family members
Depressed Delta lady kills self over hardship
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Many injured as Police teargas Delta protesters
Many injured as Police teargas Delta protesters
One middle-aged woman was shot while many others sustained varied degrees of injury in Ughelli on Monday as operatives of the Delta State Police Command resorted to forceful dispersal of a group of protesting women.
The women from Oteri-Ughelli in the Ughelli North Local Government Area were protesting against alleged incessant harassment and extortion by policemen in the community.
Eyewitnesses said what started as a peaceful protest turned bloody when the aggrieved women, in their hundreds, who had mobilised to the Police Area Command office in Ughelli to register their grievances, were rebuffed by the men and officers of the area command.
The women protesters carried placards with assorted inscriptions such “Oteri-Ughell is a peaceful community with law-abiding citizens, stop making life difficult for us”; “Police are making life difficult for our poor and innocent citizens”; etc.
But security operatives reportedly used heavy teargas against the unarmed women and shot one middle-aged woman in her left leg while others were beaten to stupor.
Two leaders of the protesting women, who volunteered to speak with journalists, Harvest Ugbhwiako and Mrs. Vivian Aphiare, alleged that the police unlawfully arrested and detained their children and wards who were on errands. She said they were made to part with between N150,000 and N200,000 to secure their release on bail.
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Also addressing newsmen at the emergency ward of the General Hospital, Ughelli, where some victims of the police gunshots were admitted, the President General of the community, Efe Peter, berated the police “for using guns with live ammunition against the peaceful protesters”.
He said, “The women from Oteri community were in peaceful protest to the palace of the Ovie (monarch) of Ughelli kingdom and the Area Commander to register their grievances.”
Efe stated that the Area Commander called him to appeal to the protesting women to go home, promising that he would look into their complaints, “but before I looked back, policemen started shooting and teargassing the women, thereby shooting one in the leg and injuring many.”
He lamented that “people of the community had come to notice, with worries, that they could no longer access their community nor come out from the community without experiencing extortion by policemen.”
“Whenever you come out of the community to Ughelli main town, once it is 8 o’clock in the evening, you cannot get motorcycles or tricycles to convey you any longer because of the police extortion.
“Consequently, our mothers and women trek home from Ughelli main market every day as a result of police harassment and extortions of money from motorists.
“Recently the police embarked on incessant arrest and vandalism of houses belonging to youths of the community and carted away their personal belongings, detained them and collected a huge amount of money from them without offence.”
When contacted, the Police Area Commander in Ughelli, ACP Adebayo, told journalists that his office “is looking into the complaints of the community with a view to sanctioning erring police officers and men.”
Many injured as Police teargas Delta protesters
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Six NSCDC officers arrested over N6bn fraud
Six NSCDC officers arrested over N6bn fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested six senior officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps over alleged N6bn fraud.
The senior officers are currently being grilled by EFCC interrogators at the commission’s headquarters, Jabi, Abuja, The PUNCH can confirm.
Though details of the probe are still sketchy, our correspondent gathered that the NSCDC officers were handed over to the EFCC on Monday on the order of the NSCDC Commandant General, Ahmed Audi.
Impeccable sources privy to the development but who were not authorised to speak to the press revealed that the EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, had earlier written a letter to the NSCDC CG, demanding the officers’ release for interrogation.
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A source revealed, “Six senior NSCDC officers are currently in our custody. They’re being grilled by our investigators over alleged fraudulent activities running into over N6bn.”
Confirming the development, another source said, “The EFCC did not arrest the NSCDC CG, neither is he being probed. We only have six senior NSCDC officers in our custody, and they’re being probed over alleged N6bn fraud.
“The EFCC Chairman had earlier written to the NSCSC CG to provide the officers, and the CG did. Now they’re in our custody and are being grilled by EFCC interrogators.”
The spokesperson for the EFCC, Dele Oyewale, could not be reached for comments on Monday as phone calls and text messages to his phone lines were not responded to nor returned.
Meanwhile, when contacted for comments, the spokesperson for the NSCDC, Babawale Afolabi, said he was not aware of the development.
“I’m not aware of this,” Afolabi said in a terse WhatsApp message sent to our correspondent on Monday.
Six NSCDC officers arrested over N6bn fraud
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