How house-help, others rapped, killed 58-yr-old woman

 

Late Doris Andy Inyang. Photo: Lindakeji

*I was promised N500,000 to drive her car — Suspect

Some suspected killers of a 58-year-old woman, who was allegedly murdered by four suspects with the assistance of her house-help in Calabar, were yesterday paraded alongside 28 others suspected criminals by the Cross River State Police Command.

It was gathered that before the victim, Mrs Doris Andy Inyang, was killed,  she was raped by the teenage gang at her residence in State Housing Estate, Calabar.

The gang members also reportedly carted away household items and a 2016 Sentra Nissan car after the crime.

But speaking with pressmen during the parade, the suspects, 18-year-old Godwin Nyenime and 19-year-old Eteng Omini denied killing their victim, adding that they only went for her car without any knowledge of her death.

Omini said: "I was not involved in her killing. I was promised, N500,000 by her house-help, Udobong, who is my friend.

“He told me to come and drive the lady’s car that he would pay me N500,000 I was not involved in the rape and her death. If I knew someone was killed in the deal, I wouldn’t have been involved at all. I regret my involvement in the deal.

“I never knew he was an armed robber because he is someone that we used to play ball together in the street around Bogobiri and Nelson Mandela Street. I regret my action because I have a mother and a younger one.”

Briefing journalists earlier at the Police Command Headquarters, the state Commissioner of Police, Sikiru Akande, said the command has recovered the Nissan Sentra 2016 car from the suspects, adding that two other cars were recovered including one black Prado SUV, one white Mercedes Benz 350

Akande called for total commitment and partnership from all stakeholders and general public for an outright boost of the internal security architecture to curb criminality at all cost.

Again, petrol tanker explodes in Agatu, houses razed

A petrol laden tanker, yesterday, exploded some metres away from the site of Sunday’s explosion at Oshigbudu in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State that claimed 12 lives and razed about 100 houses, cars and motorcycles.

Though no casualty was lost in yesterday’s incident, several houses were reportedly destroyed in the explosion.

The Agatu Council Secretary, Sunday Oteyi and an indigene of Oshigbudu, who confirmed the accident, said a major disaster was averted when residents fled the area shortly before the explosion occurred at about 4 am some metres from where the earlier explosion took place.

The secretary added that the conductor of the tanker was arrested and handed over to the police while the driver escaped from the scene.

Confirming the development, Benue State Sector Commander of Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Mr Yakubu Mohammed, said: “Yes, a tanker lost control and crashed where it burnt buildings near Oshigbudu in the early hours of today (Tuesday).

“Our personnel have rescued the two persons involved, no life was lost and no injury recorded. The obstruction has been cleared and motorists have been moving freely now.”

Mother arrested for locking up, starving daughter for 10 years

A middle age woman, identified as Rabi Mohammed, has been arrested by operatives of the Kano State Police command for locking up and starving her daughter, Aisha Jibrin, for 10 years in Darerawa Quarters, Fagge Local Government Area of the state.

Rabi and her husband, Mohammed Jibrin, who is now at large, allegedly locked up their 15-year-old daughter inside a room (solitary confinement) within their house for about 10 years without proper feeding and health care.

Spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Abdullahi Haruna, who confirmed the development, yesterday, said efforts were in progress to also arrest the father of the victim.

Haruna said good Samaritans reported the act to the police, leading to the rescue of the victim, adding that the victim was rushed to Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital, Kano.

According to him, “On Monday, at about 1100hrs, the Kano State Police Command received an information, which revealed that one Aisha Jibrin, 15 years old of Darerawa Quarters, Fagge LGA, Kano State was solitarily confined for 10 years in a room by her biological parents, one Mohd Jibrin and Rabi Mohammed of the same address inside their house without proper feeding and health care.

“On receipt of the report, the Commissioner of Police, Kano State Command, Sama’ila Dikko, raised and instructed a medical team and a team of detectives to proceed to the scene, rescue the victim and arrest the culprits. The teams immediately swung into action. The victim was rescued and rushed to Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital, Kano and was admitted.

“One suspect named Rabi Mohammed, 35 years old, a mother to the victim, was arrested while efforts are in progress to arrest the father of the victim who is currently at large.

Undergraduate, boyfriend nabbed for selling drugged cookies to school children, others

A 300-level university student, Rhoda Agboje, has been arrested by operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, for allegedly selling cookies laced with a drug to secondary school students and unsuspecting members of the public in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.

Arrested alongside the undergraduate was her boyfriend, Ifeayin Nwankwo, while the anti-narcotic agency operatives are still on the trail of other members of the syndicate.

The syndicate, as gathered, produced the cookies with a highly psychoactive variant of cannabis known as Arizona, in addition to alcohol and Rohypnol, among other ingredients.

Their lid, according to the NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, was blown open following the arrest of Rhoda Agboje with four pieces of the drugged cookies on April 18, 2021.

He said: “She was arrested at the NNPC Cooperative Estate, opposite Gaduwa Estate in Abuja, based on a complaint that she gave an unsuspecting young girl the cookies to eat. After eating the drugged cookies, the girl lost her mind and could not sleep, making incoherent utterances due to the effects of the cookies.

“Under interrogation, the prime suspect, Rhoda, confessed she prepares the cookies with a friend and sells each pack of three pieces at N1,500. A follow-up operation in her boyfriend’s house led to the recovery of over 200 pieces of the drugged cookies.”

On his part, the Commander, FCT Command of the NDLEA, Mohammed Sokoto, said: “Her boyfriend, Ifeanyi Nwankwo, and all the equipment used for the production of the cookies were brought to the office for further investigation.

"The suspect confirmed that she sells at parties and to unsuspecting members of the public, including school children that are the most vulnerable. The suspect also supplied to some supermarkets and clubs in the FCT.”

Culled from Vanguard