Tag: crime

The Inspector-General of Police denied Ibrahim Magu Bail.

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has told suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, that he’s not responsible for his detention.⁣
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Magu was arrested on Monday, July 6, 2020 to answer questions before a Presidential Panel about his stewardship of the anti-graft agency.⁣
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He has been detained ever since at the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), Abuja, while his questioning continues.⁣
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Magu, through his counsel, wrote the IGP last week to grant him bail based on self-recognisance.⁣
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However, in a reply, Adamu told Magu’s counsel he’s not being held by the Police, but by the Presidential Panel.⁣
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He told Magu to redirect his bail request to the chairman of the panel for appropriate action, in the letter dated July 14, 2020.⁣
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Magu, a Commissioner of Police, has denied all allegations against him, and expressed his sadness at being treated like a “common criminal”.⁣
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He faces accusations of misappropriations of funds, and the illegal disposal of assets recovered from corruption cases.⁣
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Magu has been the EFCC’s acting chairman since 2015, with his appointment rejected twice by the Senate due to a damaging report written by the Department of State Services (DSS).⁣
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The DSS report had accused him of sabotage, unauthorised removal of EFCC files, and acts unbecoming of a police officer.⁣

A welder allegedly raped a 19-year-old SS2 girl in Ile-Ife, Osun State.

Korede Adewumi fled his abode after he was accused of raping an SS2 student while she was hawking ‘aadun’ around Olubuse area of Ile-Ife.

The girl began hawking to keep herself busy since schools are closed due to the Coronavirus pandemic. While hawking on Friday, July 3, the welder allegedly pretended he wanted to buy her snacks and lured her to his house where he raped her.

Korede Adewunmi was allegedly sitting in the verandah of his house when he saw her and called her. He went inside, pretending he was going to get her money, then, he came to his door and asked her to come get her money. As soon as she got to him, he allegedly pulled her hands and forcefully dragged her into his house where he allegedly raped her.

The landlord reportedly heard the girl’s screams but by the time he reached out to neighbours for help, Korede was allegedly done with the act.

The victim was taken to a nursing home where some tests were carried out. The case was then reported at Aagun Police station.

“The above-named patient came to my facility with the history of forced sexual intercourse. There is bleeding per vagina as confirmed by the clinician in-charge,” the Jesuloluwa nursing home and maternity wrote in a report referring the victim to the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Premium Times reports.

Both the police and family members of Mr Adewumi said they do not know his whereabouts.

Police operatives have visited Korede Adewunmi’s home multiple times, but they haven’t found him. His aged mother also claims she hasn’t seen him. The police have said they will not give up until they find him.

Magu unable to account for 332 out of the 836 recovered real estate property in March 2018.

The Presidential Committee on Audit of Recovered Assets (PCARA) has released its own report on how Ibrahim Magu headed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before being suspended as the agency’s acting chairman.

Magu who was accused of being unable to account for 332 out of the 836 recovered real estate property in March 2018, was also accused of turning the EFCC into a “glorified police station” for alleged selfish motives.

The panel which was set up by President Buhari to look into the activities of the EFCC under Magu, alleged that he seconded police officers to EFCC officials in spite of the massive recruitment of police officers, carried out by the commission in recent years.

The report partly read “The blatant display of arrogance and acquisition of illicit wealth has turned the EFCC into a glorified police station.

“Despite massive recruitment of officers and men in recent years by the (suspended) acting chairman at the EFCC, he is still seconding police officers to the EFCC because he is comfortable with his fellow officers to carry out his illicit activities.

“He does not have any exit strategy for the police even though the EFCC officers are more experienced in the investigation of economic and financial crimes.”

The properties alleged to have been illegally acquired as well as the bank accounts of those individuals serving as fronts for Magu were also published in the report.

24-year-old Badmus Folarin used hot knife to burn the buttocks of a 10-year- old boy.

24-year-old Badmus Folarin, pictured above, has been arrested by men of the Ogun state police command for using a hot knife to burn the buttocks of a 10-year- old boy, Sunday David, for allegedly licking from a tin of tea at their home situated at Elegushi Street, Owode-Yewa, Yewa South Local Government Area of the state.

In a statement released on Sunday, July 12, the spokesperson of the state Police Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the police at Egbado Division received a distress call from a neighbor of the suspect.

“The suspect was arrested following a distress call received by the DPO Owode Egbado division, Olabisi Elebutte, from a concerned neighbour.

He reported through a telephone call that they could hear a sorrowful cry of a boy at No 12 Elegushi Street, Owode-Yewa, consequent upon which the DPO detailed the patrol team to the scene where the young boy was seen lying down helplessly with serious injuries all over his body.

On enquiry, it was discovered that the suspect put a knife on fire and when the knife was red hot, he applied it to the buttocks of the boy, thereby inflicting second degree injuries on the innocent boy.

During interrogation, the suspect alleged that the victim, who is living with the family, opened a tin of Milo tea belonging to the suspect’s mother and licked from it.”

According to Oyeyemi, David was rushed to a private hospital by the police for medical attention while Folarin was arrested and detained.

Oyeyemi added that the state Commissioner of Police, Kenneth Ebrimson, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Labour Unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and possible prosecution.