The Nigeria Police Force said it would arraign Ismail Yakubu, 45, in court on Wednesday for giving false information to the police to carry out a search on Chief Edwin Clark’s residence in Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that four policemen on Tuesday illegally carried out a search on the Abuja residence of Clark following information from Yakubu. The force Spokesman, Acting DCP Jimoh Moshood, disclosed this while presenting the informant to newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja. He said that the officer who led the team had been queried while the other three were currently undergoing orderly room trial. The officers are: ASP David Domnic; Insp. Godwin Musa; Insp. Sada Abubakar and Insp. Yabo Paul. Moshood added that any police officer carrying out the execution of search warrant must follow the laid down procedures within the law. “Where such is not followed, such officer must be made to face the consequences of violating the rule of law,”he said. He said that the police had the statutory right to execute a duly obtained search warrant in any premises where it had actionable intelligence. Speaking with newsmen, Yakubu, who is from Waru Village in FCT, said he gave the information to the police based on patriotism as a Nigerian. He said that he was in a taxi along Haile Salesie street , Asokoro, when he was told that a white colour Hilux van loaded with arms was entering the residence of Clark. “I don’t think I have done anything wrong to have reported the matter to the police,”he said. The police had apologised to Clark over the unauthorised raid of his residence. |
APC Bigwig Joins PDP In Akwa Ibom, Blasts Akpabio
POLITICS
A foremost political bigwig in Akwa Ibom State, Distinguished Senator Etang Umoyo Edet, has formally decamped from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He announced his defection on Tuesday in a well attended event held at the Esit Eket Council Secretariat.
While addressing the mammoth crowd he said, “I am not given to dancing around the truth. At a time the Governor (Udom Emmanuel) is seeking a re-election, a right which is consistent with tradition and constitutional provisions, a spanner is thrown into the works by the person who cleared the way for the emergence of the current custodian of our trust and mandate.
The gunmen who killed a businessman, Theo Mbakwe, and abducted his kid sister on Saturday in Amaigbo, Nwangele Local Government Area of Imo State, have released her.
A family source told our correspondent that the girl, who was abducted after the fleeing gunmen killed her elder brother, was freed after a ransom of N600,000 was paid by her family. The source revealed that the kidnap victim was immediately hospitalised after her family members picked her from where her abductors dropped her owing to the shock and trauma she suffered seeing her brother murdered in her presence. The source said, “The young girl has regained her freedom after days in the kidnapers’ den. She was freed on Thursday morning. The sum of N600,000 was paid by her elder brother to secure her freedom. “The girl was immediately hospitalised. She was in a bad state. The shock she suffered seeing her brother murdered in cold blood in her presence and the trauma she went through in the kidnapers’ den aggravated her health condition.” Southern City News had reported that the gunmen had earlier demanded N3m, but settled for N1m after much plea. A source had said, “The family is running around to raise the money and free the lady. They don’t want to lose another member of the household after losing Theo. “The abducted girl is in pains. The kidnappers gave her a mobile phone to speak to her family members and she kept crying. Her condition is bad.” It would be recalled that Mbakwe, popularly known as Chiboy, was shot dead in front of his parents’ house by the gunmen who abducted the lady from the victim’s vehicle on Saturday. Our correspondent gathered that the deceased was the first son of the late Chief T.C. Mbakwe, the first indigenous paint manufacturer in Nigeria. The State Commissioner of Police, Dasuki Galadanchi, had told our correspondent on the telephone that the police would come up with a positive result. |
