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  • Jarigbe Agom Accuses Police, APC In Cross River Of Blackmail, Calls On IG TO Prosecute Alphonsus Eba

    Culled From Punch 

    Senator Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe of the Peoples Democratic Party has challenged the Police in Cross River State to be professional in their conduct by not colluding in anyway with members of the All Progressives Congress in their cheap blackmail against him .

    Jarigbe, who defeated governor Ben Ayade of the APC to win the Cross River North senatorial seat, said despite the crushing defeat suffered by APC in Cross River North , members of the party were still all out to tarnish his image and reputation .

    Addressing the press in his office on Monday , the senator asked the Inspector General of Police , Usman Baba Alkali to put a stop to the show of shame going on in Cross River state where losers of election are hell bent on disparaging the winner .

    He specifically called for the arrest of the chairman of APC in the state , Alphonsus Eba. He further demanded a thorough investigation of alleged nefarious activities by DCP Francis Idu and the state’s Police Public Relations Officer , CSP Irene Ugbo .

    He said, “The Independent National Electoral Commission declared my party, the Peoples Democratic Party, and my humble self, winner of the Cross River North Senatorial District Elections held on the 25th of February, 2023.

    “We emerged victorious in that election with 76, 145 votes; while the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, the sitting governor of Cross River state, H. E. Benedict Ayade, came second with 56, 595 votes. A clear difference of 19,550 votes. Our people made it abundantly clear that I was their choice.

    “But surprisingly , one DCP Francis Idu, in the Cross River State Police Headquarters, who is under the patronage of the state government and their lackeys is abusing his office by indulging Alphonsus Eba in his psychotic odyssey of writing frivolous petitions against me and other respected indigenes of Cross river North.”

    The lawmaker declared that it is a wonder of the criminal world for a man who was caught on camera disrupting collation of results at an Independent National Electoral Commission collation centre to turn around and start writing frivolous petitions against us, when he should be facing charges for electoral offences.

    According to him, “The height of this shameless alliance with Alphonsus Eba and these shameless elements in the Police, is a video my attention was drawn to, where some persons were paraded by the police in Cross River state for allegedly perpetrating electoral violence in the just concluded presidential and National Assembly elections held on the 25th of February, 2023.”

  • Court Awards N7.5m Against The Police, Joseph Agaji & Anthony Elor

     

    The Cross River State High Court, Calabar Division, in Suit No: HC/22F/22, filed by our client, Benjamin Seshe, against the Inspector General of Police, Nigeria Police Force, Commissioner Of Police, Cross River State, CP Joseph Agaji, Rtd & Anthony Elor, has ordered the Police to pay our client the sum of Five Million Naira (N5, 000, 000); while Joseph Agaji and Anthony Elor were ordered to pay our client the sum of Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N2, 500, 000), jointly and severally, as damages for infringing on the fundamental human rights of our client.

    The Court agreed with our argument and held that Joseph Agaji used his influence as a retired commissioner of police to procure the police to arrest and lock up our client for over a month.

    Our client in celebrating this court decision said that Joseph Agaji is their son and they are ready to make peace with him and put to rest the ugly crisis that emanated from a chieftaincy tussle in Ebung Community, Bansara, Ogoja.

    However, he said that the entire community has vowed that for every member of the community CP Agaji got arrested, or will get arrested in future, they will approach the court to seek redress.

    Other members of the community who were locked up for several months by the police at the instance of Agaji are still in court seeking redress.

    – FBI LEGAL

  • Seeds Of Violence: Ogoja/Yala Bye-election BY First BABA ISA

    SEEDS OF VIOLENCE – OGOJA/YALA BY-ELECTION

    The police is right now preventing the PDP from holding a rally on a private property. Read that again: I say, private property.

    The police has no powers to do this. The police don’t even have the powers to grant or refuse approval to hold rallies. People who keep applying to the police to get this approval keep sustaining the illegal impression that the police has such powers. They don’t.

    Yesterday, a purported APC over N200m-budget for the Ogoja/Yala Federal Constituency By-election hit social media. I didn’t comment on that because as a lawyer, I love direct and incontrovertible evidence but there is something also known as circumstantial evidence.

    Millions were budgeted to bribe the police in that budget and today the police has been deployed to carry out a grossly illegal assignment. Are you thinking what I am thinking? It takes a lot, including money, to deploy the police like that. If that budget is real, then the owners of that budget truly has the money to fund illegality. Can the police be used against those who has such election budgetary provisions for them? If no, then who is using the police right now? There is something known as circumstantial evidence.

    Now, to the crux of the matter.

    Whoever or whatever is making the police act this way should be called to order immediately. By this act, the very institution saddled with the responsibility to tame violence is being used by politicians to sow seeds of violence; and when these seeds are allowed to blossom, Cross River State will be the worst for it. This is a state that is yet to recover from the #EndSARS protests that later snowballed into Covid19 palliatives looting.

    It’s like the Governor has forgotten the tears he shed for peace to return. We all wept with him. We don’t want a repeat. The Governor is the Choirmaster of politics with ethics and the humanity mantra. It’s time for him to walk his talk.

    We can do this politics and hold elections without harassment, intimidation and violence. No one has the right to tell a political party where to hold their rally or flag off their campaign.

    Some APC members say it is foolishness to flag off the PDP campaign for Ogoja/Yala By-election in Calabar. Then why are you worried? Why are you afraid? Why not allow them to do their “foolishness” and then bank on it to win the by-elections? Why are you using the police to prevent a “foolishness” that is not illegal?

    Stop supporting this, and just dismissing it with “it’s politics”. These seeds of violence you are sowing or encouraging in the name of politics, will swallow you up tomorrow.

    – By First Baba Isa (FBI)

     

  • C’River Police Command Arrests Colleague Who Sells Guns To Criminals In Calabar

    By Admin

    The Cross police command has arrested and paraded its colleague, Inspector Nathaniel Manasseh for allegedly selling guns to criminals within Cross River State and outside of the state.

    The suspect who was paraded on Tuesday, June 22 in Calabar at the Cross River State Command of the Nigeria Police Force alongside other criminals, also sells guns to criminals in Imo State.

    Confessing, Inspector Manasseh, whom the Police said has not been able to account for some pieces of hardware including two AK-47s, said he lost some rifles while claiming that he was charmed and dispossessed of some AK-47s, including a vehicle.

    His words “I was charmed, I can’t really explain what happened and how they dispossessed me of the riffles. I am not a gun runner”.

    The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Sikiru  Akande, while parading the suspects disclosed that since the resumption of the new Commander of Anti Kidnapping and Cultism Squad (AKCTS), it has been a harvest of criminals.

    Akande averred that  “Cross River is regaining her lost glory in the area of security and as a matter of fact, we remained the most peaceful state in Nigeria and nothing can break out resolve.

    “For Police to function efficiently in any society, its requires citizens’ participation, partnership and willingness of the community to constantly equip the police with actionable information to forestall unpleasant occurrences.

    “Our achievement today is not unconnected with the cooperation of the public – security is everybody’s business, we must encourage Community Policing in our communities”.

    Akande however revealed that Inspector Manasseh is amongst those who usually give out their rifles on “rent” to notorious criminals and a member of a gun-running syndicate.

    A total of 24 persons were arrested: 3 for murder, 9 for armed robbery, 6 for Cultism, 3 others were arrested for gun-running including Inspector Manasseh as well as one person for car snatching and another for arson.

     

  • UNICAL Law Student On The Run For Raping A Minor, Beware Of Fraudulent Job Adverts – CP

    By Archibong Jeremiah – CrossRiverWatch

    The Cross River State Commissioner of Police, CP Sikiru Akande warned that Cross Riverians and dwellers should be aware of fraudulent job advertisement.

    CP Sikiru Akande gave the admonition following the defilement of a minor by a final year Law student of the University of Calabar, UNICAL, who is currently on the run.

    The alleged rapist, Mr. Emmanuel Friday Udofah committed the crime in a hotel he manages, Specs Investment Limited, State Housing Estate, Calabar Municipality.

    He had placed a vacancy notice in front of the hotel and the victim whose name is not mentioned in print unsuspectingly applied. In what was supposed to be an interview, she was pushed into one of the rooms and repeatedly raped.

    Speaking to this reporter, the State Chairperson of Child Protection Network, CPN, Barrister James Ibor disclosed that, “the victim which he knowingly defiled is still in critical condition, we are tracking him and will bring him to justice.”

    Barrister James Ibor who is the Principal Counsel, Basic Rights Counsel Initiative, BRCI, condemned the act and urged all and sundry to support the fight against child abuse.

  • Pastor Kills One Year Old Boy For Ritual In Calabar

     

    A man identified as Obo- Ekpenyong, a pastor in Calabar was arrested alongside six of his accomplices for killing a baby for Ritual.

    Obo- Ekpenyog the suspect is reported to be the pastor of Royal God’ s Commandment Ministry, Calabar.

    Parading the suspect at the police headquarters, the spokesperson of the command, ASP Irene Ugbo, said that the suspect was arrested alongside six others based on intelligence reports given to the police.

    The police PRO said that they were arrested when the parents of the baby raised alarm that their child had been abducted by some masked men who stormed their house in the night.

    She maintained that “immediately some police men were immediately deployed to search the church and its surroundings, and they found some incriminating items and arrested the pastor and six others”

    The man who was identified to be a pastor was taken to the police headquarters for serious interrogations.

    During the interrogation, the man accepted his charge and beg for forgiveness, he confessed to the numerous crimes he has been committing hiding under the pretense of being a pastor.

    The pastor confessed and told the police how he kills people’s children and use them for rituals. He said he has been killing little babies every end of the month just to renew his powers and wealth. The men that were arrested with him were so shock to hear the confession and the were so disappointed at the pastor.

    The police commissioner who confirmed the arrest said the suspects were arrested with so many incriminating items with them, the police boss displayed the items.

    The police commissioner gave kudos to his men for always delivering when necessary, he told the entire public that the police is doing everything possible to make sure crime is reduced in cross river state.

  • Police Arrests Vice Principal For Impregnating 12 Years Old Student

    Culled from FADTv

    The police in Katsina state has arrested the vice principal of community secondary school in Rimi Local Government Area of the state, Mr. Ibrahim Tukur, for raping his 12-year-old student.

    The suspect is said to have raped the teenager serially before impregnating her, an act which led to her delivering through a Caesarean section.

    Tukur was paraded alongside other suspects who were arrested between January 9 and 14.

    The state police spokesperson, Mr. Gambo Isah addressing newsmen maintained that “Ibrahim Tukur is a Vice Principal of a Community School in Rimi Local Government Area. He lured this young girl of about 12 years old and serially had unlawful carnal knowledge of her without the knowledge of the parents.

    “He even impregnated her. Right now, this young girl has been delivered of a baby out of a caesarian section at the General Hospital.”

     

  • Just In: Communal Skirmishes Between Abankang And Alok Claims Two Lives

    By Elijah Ugani

    Two persons are said to have lost their lives to a communal Skirmishes that ensued between Abankang and Alok both in Ikom Local Government Area of Cross River State.

    The two communities are along Ikom – Ogoja high way.

    Commuters have expressed concern that the Skirmishes if not checked might put their lives at risk.

    The crisis is not unconnected with land dispute.

    As at the time of filing this report, soldiers have been deployed to the boundary to maintain peace.

  • IGP, Adamu Orders Immediate Deployment Of Recently Trained SWAT Officers Across The Country

    Culled From Vanguard

    The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the immediate deployment of recently trained officers of the special Weapon and Tactical Team, SWAT.

    Adamu ordered SWAT deployment for routine patrols across the country.

    The IGP’s directive was addressed to the 17 Assistant Inspector Generals of Police in the Force and Commissioners of Police in Nigeria.

    A statement with reference number CH:5350/IGP.SEC/ABJ/VOL.20/340 was tagged “Deployment of Newly Formed Special Weapon and Tactical Team operatives,” Vanguard reports.

    The statement read: “The Inspector General of Police directs that all recently selected and trained Special Weapon and Tactical Team (SWAT) operatives are to be deployed for routine duties across areas of responsibility immediately.”
    The IGP had inaugurated SWAT following the disbandment of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, F-SARS.

    F-SARS was disbanded due to brutality and extortion of Nigerians.

    The brutality perpetrated by the unit had led to a widespread protest tagged End SARS.

  • Cross River Police Command Nabs Robbery Suspects In Calabar

    Culled from the Nation

    The Police Command in Cross River State has arrested four suspects who were allegedly involved in a reported robbery case on Sunday in Calabar where a victim was shot and later confirmed dead in the hospital.

    The robbery incident occurred at #6 Asang Eniong Street, Calabar South LGA in the early morning hours when the robbers attacked the compound and eventually shot by the mouth, one of the victims whose name was given as Ekanem Ekanem- male, 48 years. He was later confirmed dead in the Navy Hospital Calabar.

    Commissioner of Police Abdulkadir Jimoh who paraded the suspects before newsmen disclosed that the acted upon intelligence and was directed to Goldie market close to Unical Goldie- gate where they suspects were arrested.

    He named the suspects as Theophilus Nwosu M’ aged 25years; Godwin Ekwen M’ aged 27 years; Adigor Emmanuel M’ aged 20 years and Benjare Clement Arikpo m’ aged 30 years. The items recovered from them are as follows; Two locally made Pistols; One live cartridge; One expended cartridge; Two android Techno Phones; One small Itel phone and One Fantom Phone.

    CP Jimoh noted that investigation is still on and warned hoodlums who don’t want to turn a new leaf and they off crime to be rest assured that the State Command of the Nigerian Police will fish them out to face the law.

    Recall that the Police command in the state, last week secured the reprimand of 8 suspects at the Afokang Correctional Service centre, Calabar on charges of kidnapping, terrorism and possession of illegal firearms.

    A Federal High sitting in Calabar gave the order in Charge numbers FHC / CA / 94c / 2020 and three others on a two count charge of charges number: FHC /CA/95c / 2020 for three others.

    The Presiding Judge ,Justice S.M Shaibu ordered that the 8 defendants be remanded at Calabar Correctional facility on a three count charge and two count charge respectively levelled against them by the police.

    He ordered that the 8 of them be remanded till 25 of February 2021 at the centre pending their trial at the Federal High Court 1 ,Calabar.

    Recall that the 8 of them were arrested by Operation Delta Safe,OPDS and handed over to the police before they were charged to a Federal High Court by the Federal Government ( Nigeria Police Force).

    The Nation learnt that Ita Ndiyo 28, KENNETH ATU IV’ 32 ,Idiang Idisng 33,BASSEY OKON 27 ,Ndifon Ajom ‘ 23 YEARS were arrested with 2 Pump action guns, (2) 1 Locally made pistol gun, (3) 10 Live cartridges, (4) Six 9mm live ammunitions as they dispossessed a Cameroonian and other victims of cash in the tune of 3 .8 million naira as well as CFA270,000.00 in Cameroon CFA and were arrested on the act.

    Others include Moses Edem 18 Godwin Nyong 24 and 19 years Bassey Etim who were also arrested by OPDS after they picked and held their victim, Mrs. Theresa Francis Nyong and held her hostage for some days and demanded ransom of Thirty Million NairaN30.000,000.00).

    All 8 of them pleaded not guilty to all the charges leveled against them by police as the matter was adjourned to February 25, 2021 and March 3 and 4 while other would be on March 15 to 17 respectively.