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- My Son Has Disappeared From Police Custody Even After I Paid N60k Bail - Mother Cries Out
- I Got Only 198,000 Votes From South-East, Yet They Have 4 Senior Ministers - President Buhari
- Why I Am Not Always In A Hurry To Do Anything - Buhari
| My Son Has Disappeared From Police Custody Even After I Paid N60k Bail - Mother Cries Out Posted: 20 Jan 2018 04:08 AM PST  38-year-old Wuche Ajuru, is always depressed each time she remembers how her 23-year-old son, who was arrested by the police on September 28, 2016, "for being in possession of N49,000", suddenly disappeared from Rumuji police cell in Emohua area of Rivers State. Mrs. Ajuru, an indigene of Ndele community in Emohua LGA, was in tears as she spoke with Punch on the issue. She explained that she was initially optimistic that her innocent son, Happiness Ajuru, would be released when a member of the community, she identified as Okechukwu Eleonu, collected the sum of N60,000 from her, which was paid on her behalf for her son's bail. Eleonu is the same man who reported her son to the police before his arrest. Disclosing that the sum of N5,000 had earlier been paid to the police through Eleonu to fuel their (police) vehicle, the woman, who described herself as a poor farmer, added that Eleonu told her that the N60,000 bail money would be handed over to the then Divisional Police Officer of Rumuji Police Station, whose name could not be ascertained. It was gathered that the said DPO had since been transferred to Edo State allegedly because of the disappearance of the young Ajuru from the Rumuji police cell. The woman has on her own visited many prisons in Rivers and Bayelsa states to look for her son but they were to no avail. Unfortunately, the police have offered her no explanation on what happened to her son. She further said that the Investigating Police Officer, simply identified as Akpante, was at a point arrested and detained for two weeks in connection with her missing son, while the matter was transferred to Zone 6, Calabar in Cross River State. The woman stated that she became more frightened when she saw William, one of the policemen at Rumuji Police Station wearing the pair of slippers her son wore the day he was arrested. "My son's name is Happiness Ajuru and he was arrested at Ogbakri Junction. He had the sum of N49,000 and also his mobile phone with him when he was arrested. Mr. Okechukwu Eleonu, sometime ago, reported my son to the police. My son told me that Eleonu was indebted to him to the tune of N200,000. One of my husband's brothers, Mr. Ohaka, who is a policeman, came with me to know why my son was arrested and he later learnt that my son was innocent. "I was even involved in a road accident while searching for my son. The IPO in charge of my son's matter, Mr. Akpante, was arrested and detained on the orders of the commissioner of police in the state for two weeks when my son could not be found. The matter was later moved to Zone 6, Calabar. "I am a farmer; I borrowed the N60,000 I gave to Okechukwu Eleonu for the release of my son. Okechukwu Eleonu is not a policeman, but he is close to the then DPO of Rumuji Police Station in Emohua. My son is innocent, my son is not a cult member, but I paid N60,000 to bail somebody, who the police had already confirmed innocent. I don't know that in this country, if a person is mistakenly arrested, money will be paid to bail him. My problem is not the N60,000 that I paid to bail my son; I am crying every day because the police cannot even tell me where my son is till now. "I was 15 years old when I gave birth to Happiness. I feel seriously sad that I cannot see my son after I spoke with him at that police station. Another policeman known as William (also attached to Rumuji Police Station) boasted when I met him that they would kill me the way they killed my son. Surprisingly, it is this same William that was wearing my son's slippers, which I bought for him sometime ago. My son was wearing those slippers when he was arrested by the police," Mrs.Ajuru recalled. She, however, called on the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, to prevail on the Rumuji Police Station to tell the world what happened to her son. According to her, "I want the Inspector General of Police to look into this matter. If they have killed my son, let them release his corpse to me or show me where they buried him. The government must consider my plight and look into this matter." Also, a petition to the Rivers State Police Command, signed by Mrs. Ajuru's lawyers. read in part, "On September 30, 2016, one Mr. Okechukwu Eleonu of Ndele met our client and asked her to give him N5,000 to replace the fuel the police used to and fro in the process of arresting our client's son. Therefore, Mr. Okechukwu Eleonu told our client again that the DPO sent him (Eleonu) to collect the sum of N60,000 as the bail sum to release our client's son. "Our client complied and paid the money in instalment to Okechukwu Eleonu. He collected the money under the pretence that the DPO actually sent him. Yet, our client's son was not released. After five days from the date of arrest, our client's son was nowhere to be found, including in the Rumuji police cell. This surprising situation caused our client to petition the DPO through our law office. "In order to evade and avoid the situation, Mr. Okechukwu Eleonu's wife sent messages twice to our client's family, claiming that our client had kidnapped Mr. Eleonu. In fact, it was this period that the DPO was skeptical if our client's petition was not a form of cover-up of the allegation of kidnap of the said Eleonu. The next day, Mr. Okechukwu Eleonu was seen in their village. He would come into the village every night and leaves in the morning. "The DPO was informed of this situation, yet the DPO did nothing to arrest Mr. Eleonu. Our client's son has not been seen up till date and the Rumuji division is not taking any step to arrest Mr. Eleonu, irrespective of our client's petition dated December 1, 2016. We herein urge your good offices to intervene in this strange arrest, detention, disappearance of Mr. Happiness Ajuru." The petition to the state police command was signed by Agi Ubojiekere Esq. of U. Agi Destiny and Co. (Chiweikpe Chambers). When contacted by phone, Eleonu said even though he was given the sum of N60,000 to bail Mr. Happiness Ajuru, he could not accomplish the mission because the police at Rumuji Police Station told him that the 23-year-old man was not with them. He said he had been trying to return the money given to him to bail Happiness Ajuru to no avail. According to him, the family of Happiness Ajuru refused to collect the money from him. "The matter is before the IGP. They actually gave me the money to bail their son. But on getting to the police station, I was told that he was not with them (Rumuji Police Station). I wanted to return the money to her, but she (Mrs. Wuche Ajuru) rejected the money," Eleonu added. But efforts made to reach the Rivers State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Nnamdi Omoni, to speak on the matter was unsuccessful as several calls to his mobile phone were not answered. However, the Police Public Relations Officer of Zone 6 in Calabar, Mr. Abeng Oyom, told Punch that he was not aware of the matter, but promised to call Nnamdi Omoni to furnish him with an update on the case.  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| I Got Only 198,000 Votes From South-East, Yet They Have 4 Senior Ministers - President Buhari Posted: 20 Jan 2018 03:38 AM PST  While speaking on Thursday at a dinner for chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja, President Muhammadu Buhari, again tried to allay fears that he harbours a bias against the south-east, pointing out that he appointed four senior ministers from the zone where he got only 198,000 votes in 2015. The president said he is fully aware of the issues confronting the country. "There is something that hit me very hard and I am happy I hit it back at somebody. Seven states of the north are only represented in my cabinet by junior ministers, ministers of state. "In south-east, I got 198,000 votes but I have four substantive ministers and seven junior ministers from there. "You are closer to the people than myself now that I have been locked up here, don't allow anybody to talk of ethnicity. It is not true." Recall that Buhari scored 198,248 votes in the five south-east states while Jonathan got 2,464,906 in the 2015 presidential election. He said he enjoyed the supports of people of other ethnic groups and religious affiliations while he was struggling to be president from 2003. "There is one thing that disabused my mind in a dispassionate way about ethnicity and religion across the country. You know that tribunal for presidential election started at court of appeal. The president was my classmate. I missed only four of the court sittings," he recalled. "For that first phase, 2003, we were in court for 30 months. My legal leader was Chief Ahamba (SAN), an Igbo man. He asked the panel of judges to direct INEC to produce the voters register to prove that the election was done underground. "When they came to write the judgment, they completely omitted that. Another Igbo man, a Roman Catholic, in the panel of judges, wrote a minority report. "I went to the supreme court. Who was the chief justice? An Hausa Fulani, a Muslim from Zaria. After 27 months, Ahamba presented our case for two hours and 45 minutes. The chief justice got up and said they were going on break and when they returned the following day, they will deliver the judgment. They went away for three months. That was what made it 30 months. And when they came back, they discussed my case within 45 minutes. "In 2007, who was the chief justice? A Muslim from Niger state. The third one (in 2011), who was the chief justice? My neighbour from Jigawa State. The same religion and the same tribe."  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| Why I Am Not Always In A Hurry To Do Anything - Buhari Posted: 19 Jan 2018 11:07 AM PST  While speaking during a meeting with his party leaders and supporters which was covered by Channels TV in Abuja Thursday, Buhari said that his experience as a military dictator is one of the major reasons he is not "in a hurry to do anything." The president said he prefers to seriously reflect on issues placed before him and ensure that his conscience had been satisfied prior to granting approval. He said; "I decided to drop the uniform and come back here (to be President of Nigeria), so I have gone through it over and over again. This is why I am not in a hurry to do anything. I will sit and reflect, and continue to (operate) with my clear conscience. "I had to invite you to let us eat together and I tell you that I am sitting here very much aware of the problem in this country. I will always reflect on historical antecedents," the president added. Recall that President Buhari delayed setting up a cabinet for about six months after he assumed office, an outcome that analysts partly blamed for plunging Nigeria's economy into recession in August 2016. Meanwhile according PT, a political analyst, Eluma Asogwa, said the president's comments were laughable in the face of his activities within the last two years. He said; "A president that promised to hit the ground running took more than six months to set up a cabinet, saying he wanted get the best hands," Asogwa said. "But when he eventually announced his ministers, we discovered that the majority were those that had long polluted our political space in this country." Asogwa said the president's failings emanated largely from his inability to critically analyse issues and take prompt actions in line with the requirements of the modern age. "Nigeria's problems under President Buhari are largely about inactions than actions that were taken in earnest but wrongly," added Asogwa, an Abuja-based legal practitioner. He also cited the national embarrassment over the release of board appointments last month. "He took more than two years to appoint board members only for him to end up with 'dead people,"' the analyst said. "Even to remove the dead people and replace them with those still alive has taken him nearly one month and counting."  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
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