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Police detectives in Ondo State, have spread their dragnet in search of a man, Kehinde Olanipekun, for inflicting injuries on his wife, Damilola, for accusing him of sexual advances to his 14 year old step- daughter.

Kehinde was alleged to have macheted the wife for having the effrontery to ask him about the illicit affair with his step daughter, at their ldashen residence in Owo, Ondo state.

Sources told vanguard in Akure, the state capital, that the victim is at present receiving treatment at a private hospital in Owo, following the degree of injuries inflicted on her during the vicious attack by her fleeing husband.

It was learnt that the step daughter after several advances by the suspect, reported the ugly developments to her mother who confronted the husband.

According to the source, the step daughter reportedly told her mother that the sexual harassment had been on for a long time but that she couldn’t inform her out of fear.

“But when she could no longer bear the pressure mounted on her by the step-father, she summoned courage and told her mother.”

Vanguard gathered that the husband didn’t deny the allegation, but apologized, only to viciously attacked his wife later.

Few days after the wife’s confrontation, the suspect reportedly hurriedly returned back from work, sent the two children on errand and descended on the wife with a sharp cutlass after locking the doors.

The victim was said to have been viciously attacked by the suspect and that all efforts by their neighbors to rescue her proved abortive as the doors had been locked by the suspect.

Vanguard gathered that the suspect fled the scene after the victim pretended to have died as a result of the brutal attack.

The victim, thereafter, reportedly managed to open one of the locked doors for their neighbors who rushed into the house, and took her to the hospital.

She was said to be unconscious by the time they rushed her to the hospital and was later revived by the doctors.

Contacted, the spokesperson for the state police command, Funmi Odunlami, confirmed the attack on the woman by her husband.

Odunlami said that the state police command has launched a man hunt for the fleeing husband.

The Chief Magistrate Court 1, Iwo Road Ibadan, presided over by Magistrate Taiwo Oladiran has on Friday, convicted one Adeleke Ronke Mary of the Oyo State Ministry of Lands, to a year imprisonment for official corruption.

The Oyo State Anti-Corruption Agency (OYACA) secured the conviction of Adeleke after it had investigated a case submitted against her by a victim from whom she dubiously collected the sum of Six Hundred Thousand Naira (#600,000.00).

The court also ordered that the convict to refund the said money to the victim within a month.

In a Press Statement signed by the Chairman, OYACA, Honorable Justice Eni Esan and made available to newsmen in Ibadan on Friday, Adeleke was investigated by the agency and found culpable before her case file was handed over the State’s Ministry of Justice for prosecution.

“The Chief Magistrate Court 1, Iwo Road, Ibadan, Presided over by Magistrate Taiwo Oladiran (CM1) convicted today, Adeleke Ronke Mary, a civil servant of the Ministry of Lands for official corruption under the Section 22 of the OYACA Law and the court sentenced her to a year term of imprisonment.

“Also, the court ordered the convict to refund the sum of #600,000 (Six Hundred Thousand Naira) collected from the victim within one month.

“Adeleke Ronke Mary has since been handed over to the officers of the Nigerian Correctional Services,” the statement added.

Justice Eni Esan said OYACA in its commitment towards zero tolerance for corruption within the public service in Oyo State, is ready to rid the State of all forms of corrupt practices and to ensure that justice is served in all cases of corruption within Oyo State.

Signed:

Justice Eni Esan,
Oyo State Anti-Corruption Agency,
Ibadan, Oyo State.

The EFCC invited Oyo kingmakers yesterday in response to bribery allegations, which arose from a petition by a candidate vying for the vacant Alaafin of Oyo throne.

It was gathered that the petitioner alleged that the kingmakers collected bribes running into millions of naira to favour a particular candidate, hence the decision of EFCC to summon the kingmakers for questioning.

Only Oloye Agbaakin and Oloye Samu honoured the EFCC invitation while Basorun, Lagunna and Akinniku were said to be absent.

Recall, there has been a lot of controversies and intrigues surrounding the appointment of new Alaafin of Oyo. Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde had earlier alleged the kingmakers of corruption in the selection process. He made the disclosure known publicly during the commissioning of LAUTECH Iseyin Campus that he would henceforth drag the kingmakers to EFCC if they do not desist from such act.

President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday received in audience the new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, Ola Olukoyede and the new EFCC Executive Secretary Muhammad Hammajoda at the Aso Villa, Abuja

This was after they were Olukoyede and Hammajoda confirmed by the Senate on Wednesday.

According to a statement by the EFCC, “Olukoyede identified three focal areas and raised three posers as important thrusts of plying his new job. The three focal areas are: focus on the mandate of the EFCC, pursuit of transparency and accountability and building the image of Nigeria. To achieve these, he harped on the need for collective responsibility, greater emphasis on preventive frameworks against graft and premium attention on transactional credits.”

The EFCC Chairman was quoted as saying, “We need to reset our focus. Section 6 of the EFCC Act has given us what an anti-corruption agency should be doing. Number one, I believe we should be focused on driving economic development. Number two, we must also create an atmosphere of transparency and accountability, number three, we must help as an anti-corruption agency, to build the image of Nigeria.”

Continuing, “I also came here with three posers that I like to share with us. Number one is the need for collective responsibility. We need to get to a point in Nigeria where we need to come together on the same page and believe that corruption is a cankerworm to our development. We must come together and believe that, with the way financial crimes have overwhelmed our structures and systems in Nigeria, we can’t move forward and if we move forward, it will be at a snail speed… The time has come for us to show commitment”.

Olukoyede also said that: “the time has come for us to begin to look at more of prevention than enforcement. Enforcement is a very strong tool in our hands, we are going to apply it very seriously”. He also pointed out that the anti-corruption war will bite harder with a transactional credit system, arguing that, “if we allow Nigerians to continue to buy houses and cars with cash, a thousand EFCC, added to a million ICPC will not do us any good”. The new EFCC’s boss also called for greater improvement in the criminal justice system, stressing that, “if we really want to fight corruption… we must encourage our criminal justice system to adjudicate in such a way that, maximum prosecution doesn’t take more than five years. If we make our criminal justice system work, you will see more of what the anti-corruption agencies are doing and it will be better for all of us”.

The Senate, impressed by the articulation of Olukoyede’s initiatives in driving the anti-corruption war more vibrantly, confirmed his appointment as a substantive Executive Chairman of the EFCC. It also confirmed Hammajoda as the Commission’s Secretary.

Sanni Hameedat, a 20-year-old University of Ilorin student in Nigeria, has allegedly committed suicide after lending N500,000 to a boy she met on the social media platform Snapchat.

It was learnt that Hameedat was undergoing her SIWES programme before the incident happened.

The school hostel management claimed that the pressure from the app agents, who demanded immediate repayment, combined with her brother’s inability to assist her financially, contributed to her death.

When the boy claimed that his mother was battling breast cancer and urgently needed five hundred thousand Naira, the compassionate and emotional lady decided to help him by lending him half of the N1 million she held for her mother. And the boy promised to repay the borrowed money.

Lagos state commissioner of Police, CP Idowu Owohunwa has ordered the immediate removal of DPO Meiran for leadership dereliction and supervisory ineptitude.

This is coming from after a phone dealer, Saliu, accused the DPO of extorting him of N200,000 illegally.

This was made known by police public relation officer of Lagos State, Benjamin Hundeyin

Trouble started when the policemen detained him and his brother, Olaiya Murtala, for not providing an identity card or the receipts for the iPhones found with his brother.

He said he had sent his brother to his shop with six iPhones but during a stop-and-search, the policemen intercepted and took him to the police station.

He added that when he rushed to the police station to secure his brother’s release, he was asked to provide his ID card and receipts for the phones which were not available at the time.

He explained, “I’m an engineer and I sell phones. On Saturday morning, I gave my brother five iPhones and keys to open the shop while I went to withdraw money from the bank and would join him later.

“About two hours later, he called that some policemen on patrol had collected the phones from him and taken him to the station.

Saliu added that the DPO later asked them to pay N500,000 to secure their freedom, saying that they begged him until they settled for N200,000 which the policemen insisted must be paid in cash.

According to him, one of the policemen led him to a nearby POS operator where he withdrew N182, 000 in addition to the N20,000 he had on him and handed it over to the policemen after which they were arrested.