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Hoodlums attack Labour Party members during Peter Obi’s campaign in Lagos, destroy buses

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Some supporters of the Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, have been attacked in the Lekki area of Lagos during the party’s presidential campaign rally in the state.

Several vehicles, including cars and a coastal bus with a banner carrying pictures of Obi and his running mate, Dr Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, were also vandalised on Saturday.

It was learnt that the supporters were on their way to the Tafawa Balewa Square, the venue of the rally in Lagos Island, when they were attacked.

Videos and pictures of the attack were posted online, with the victims blaming the attack on the supporters of the All Progressives Congress.

“On our way to the rally, this is just part of what happened. Can you imagine the attack on our bus; injuring so many obidients (Peter Obi’s supporters),” one of the supporters lamented.

Another supporter said the hoodlums dispossessed them of their valuables, insisting that they would not give up despite the intimidation.

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He said, “We will not give up. We won’t give up. Look at what APC (supporters) did. They attacked us at Jakande Roundabout. They stole everything and two guys were hacked. They are at Jakande Police Station. Look at what they did to this car (pointing at a vandalised Sienna).”

An ‘obedient’ who videoed a vandalised car also lamented, saying “Na democracy be this abi? We dey do rally jeje, dem come with machetes; many of them. Se na democracy be this?”

However, the state APC denied involvement in the attack on LP motorcade and called on the security agencies to wade in.

Spokesperson for APC, Seye Oladejo in a chat with Daily Trust said the allegation that the APC was responsible for the attack was not substantiated.

According to him, the APC’s position has always been for the security agencies to do their job and bring those found culpable in any attack to book.

“We have always called on the security agencies to bring the culprits to book,” he said, those who alleged “must be able to provide evidence and point at suspects and I am sure the police know what to do.”

“We abhor violence as a party. Everybody has the constitutional right to support whichever party they choose, that catches their fancy and I don’t think that should make any kind of violence.”

Oladejo noted that the APC doesn’t see Labour Party as a rival that poses any threat to its dominance.

Asked if Labour Party is a threat to APC, he retorted: “Definitely far from it. Maybe they are are competing with other party, they are very far from us. They are not competing against the ruling party and with the performance of my governor and other people we put in place in the past four years, we have no reason to express concern at whatever level.”

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Cult war rages in Benue community, govt imposes curfew

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May 17, 2024

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Benue State Commissioner of Police Emmanuel Adesina

Cult war rages in Benue community, govt imposes curfew

A dusk-to-dawn curfew has been imposed on Naka town, Gwer-West Headquarters, following an unprecedented rival cult clash that has resulted in the deaths of 2 members.

While justifying his action before announcing the imposition of the curfew on Thursday, May 16, 2024, the chairman of the LGA, Henry Agba, said he was left with no other option but to impose the curfew to thwart further escalation of the bloody war.

“There was a clash between rival cultists in the local government during which two persons from both sides were killed.

“As a result of that, the LGA became tense, so we had to place a night curfew to contain the situation. As of yesterday (Wednesday), movement ceased from 8 pm to 6 am, so at the moment there is a restoration of peace and normalcy,” Agba said.

Confirming the cult clash, an eyewitness who wouldn’t want his name mentioned said the crisis, which started as a minor disagreement between two young men, escalated into a full-blown cult war.

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“In the last three days, the situation became tense, gang members engaged in bloody street fights, killing two persons and injuring several others.”

“They also resorted to moving from house to house in search of members of rival gangs to attack them, despite the intervention of the police in Naka town.

“The development created tension in the town as people, particularly business owners, started feeling very unsafe, and some even locked up their shops for fear of being attacked,” he narrated.

Two rival cult groups, Black Axe and Red, have been engaging themselves in an all-out war for the past four days.

The clash took on a very dangerous dimension on Wednesday as members of the gangs were going about conducting house-to-house searches of rival cult members, resulting in heightened tension and the eventual imposition of a curfew by the council chairman.

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Two Cameroonian, two Nigerians arrested over kidnapping

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May 17, 2024

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Delta Police Command Public Relations Officer, DSP Edafe Bright,

Two Cameroonian, two Nigerians arrested over kidnapping

A stint operation carried out by detectives from Force Headquarters, Abuja, and Operatives of Delta State Police Command has led to the arrest of a Camerounian and two Nigerians over kidnapping.

The three-man gang was known for kidnapping unsuspecting residents in Orerokpe, Sapele and Warri axes of Delta State.

One suspect is Kaduna-based, while the others are from Kogi and Cameroun, respectively.

Intelligence gathered on some kidnapping incidents carried out in the Warri axis pointed accusing fingers at Yakubu Ya’u, 20, a Kaduna resident who often visited Oha and Ughwagba communities in Okpe Local Government Area of the state to kidnap unsuspecting victims for ransom.

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Led by the DPO of Orerokpe Division, DSP Paul Oboware, the detectives trailed the suspect to his hideout in Warri, where he was arrested.

Grilled, the suspect led the police operatives to two other members of the gang, Musa Yakubu, 25, from Kogi State and Abdulahi Mohammed, 38, from Cameroun.

The gang was allegedly responsible for several kidnapping incidents in Orerokpe, Sapele and Warri axes of Delta State.

Some victims of the crime duly identified the suspects who led the detectives to Ughwagba, where two pump action guns, one live cartridge and one knife buried in a bush were recovered by the police.

A statement issued by the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Edafe Bright, said investigation into the matter has commenced with efforts to apprehend other fleeing members of the gang in top gear.

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Police arrest suspected killers of Major-General, others in Imo

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Police arrest suspected killers of Major-General, others in Imo

…Parade 435 suspects, rescue 13 kidnap victims

The Imo state police command has arrested a deadly kidnap syndicate responsible for the abduction and murder of retired Major General Richard Duru, as well as other suspects involved in various criminal activities in the state.

Parading the suspects including 435 others at the command’s headquarters, Owerri on Thursday, May 16, the state commissioner of police, Aboki Danjuma, said the syndicate was busted through intense intelligence gathering and sustained follow-up by the command’s anti-kidnapping unit.

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He said: “The suspects, Chukwunonso Emmanuel, Okoroigwe Goodness, and Innocent Ogu, were arrested in different locations in Imo and Anambra States. They confessed to the crime of kidnapping and murdering Major General Duru, as well as being members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) /Eastern Security Network (ESN).”

Aboki, who was represented by the police spokesman, Henry Okoye, disclosed that the police also recovered 48 different firearms, 552 various calibres of live ammunition, and several stolen vehicles from the suspects.

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