Artisan bags double life jail for defiling daughters

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September 18, 2023

Artisan bags double life jail for defiling daughters

AN Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, on Monday, sentenced a 59-year-old artisan, Eze Chukwuma, to double life imprisonment for defiling his two daughters for nine years.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Abiola Soladoye held that prosecution sufficiently proved the two-count charge bordering on defilement against Chukwuma.

Soladoye said that testimonies of prosecution witnesses were corroborated.

According to her, valid evidence was laced, documented and the admission of the convict to have had canal knowledge of his two daughters during cross-examination was crucial.

She said: “The defendant’s incestuous relationship with his two daughters, following the death of his wife in 2008, is senseless.

“The survivors told this court that their biological father had been having sex with them after their mother died during childbirth.

“The oldest was nine years at the time.

“The children were taken to their village, and even after telling their kinsmen about their father’s acts, nothing was done.

“They returned to Lagos, and the second child reported to the school after her older sister ran away from home as she could no longer endure the assault.”

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The judge said that the school invited Lagos State Ministry of Education and social workers which led to the arrest of the convict, while the survivors were taken to an orphanage.

“The defendant admitted the act and stated that he was sorry.

“This is also in his statement which was admitted and marked Exhibit A.

“He is a dirty father who should be locked up for life as his conduct is disgracing.

“The defendant is found guilty as charged and he is hereby sentenced to life imprisonment on each of the two charges,” she said.

Soladoye also ordered that the convict’s name should be registered in the Sexual Offences Register of Lagos State.

She praised the survivors and their school authorities for speaking up and reporting to the necessary authorities.

NAN reports that Lagos State counsel, Mrs Olufunke Adegoke, presented five witnesses while the convict testified as a sole witness during trial.

Adegoke submitted that the convict committed the offences between 2008 and 2017 at No. 2 Agbeke St. by Iyana-Era Bus Stop, Ijanikin, Lagos.

NAN reports that child defilement violates Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

Artisan bags double life jail for defiling daughters

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The Police Command in Benue on Friday said one Terhemba Tyochivir committed suicide on Thursday in Makurdi, the State Capital.

The State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) SP Sewuese Anene, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) through a text message.

She said before his death, he was a student of Government Secondary School, Gboko.

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Anene said that the details of the incident remained sketchy even though it was reported at the E Division Police Station, Makurdi.

She said that the deceased was rushed to Bishop Murray Hospital Makurdi, where doctors confirmed him dead.

NAN further reports that efforts to talk to the father of the deceased, Mr Kula Tyochivir proved abortive as he insisted on talking at another time.

Pastor arrested for allegedly killing girl in Delta community

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September 22, 2023

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A middle-aged man said to be a pastor has been arrested for matcheting a young girl to death in the early hours of Friday.

The incident according to a report by Punch took place ay Agbarha-Otor community, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State .

It gathered that the remains of the victim were discovered in the pastor’s house in the agrarian community.

Sources claimed that the cleric snuffed the life out of the young girl with a machete.

But details as to why he killed the deceased were still sketchy as of the time of filing this report.

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However, aggrieved youths in the community were said to have stormed the pastor’s house following the gory incident to avenge the death of the young girl.

One of the sources said that the angry youths were on the verge of lynching the cleric in retaliation but for the timely intervention of the security operatives who were called in by concerned leaders.

In a swift reaction, a human rights activist, Comrade Israel Joe has demanded justice for the deceased girl.

Joe called on state Commissioner of Police, CP Wale Abass to immediately investigate the incident and prosecute the accused person in accordance with the laws of the land.

The command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Bright Edafe could not be reached for comments on the incident as of the time of filing this report.

But a senior security source from the command who confirmed the incident said, “The suspect was arrested this morning “.

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Troops rescue 6 abducted Gusau varsity female students

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Operatives of the Joint Task Force, Operation Hadarin-Daji, have rescued six female students of Federal University, Gusau, Zamfara, abducted in the early hours of Friday.

Force Information Officer, Operation Hadarin-Daji, Cpt. Ibrahim Yahaya, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) via telephone on Friday in Gusau.

NAN reports that the rescue operation followed the abduction of an unspecified number of female students from their rented hostels at Sabon-Gida which is few meters away from the university.

Yahaya said that the troops pursued the abductors who took the students, mostly females, to the forest.

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He said that the troops engaged the abductors in a gun duel, supported by the air component of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), and rescued six of the students.

Yahaya further stated that several bandits were neutralised during the rescue effort which, he said, was still ongoing.

“The troops also recovered one AK-47, a magazine, four motorcycles and one communication gadget from the terrorists,” the officer said.

NN reports that the institution’s students had, in June, protested the spate of abductions of their schoolmates residing in Sabon-Gida and Damba communities.

NAN also reports that the two communities are opposite the main campus of the university, which is about 20km from Gusau, the state capital.

Efforts to speak with the school authorities on the incident proved abortive, as the institution’s Spokesperson, Umar Usman, did not respond to several calls put through to him by a NAN correspondent.