Anambra State

Daughter arrested for beating mother in Anambra

By Ahmad Deedat Zakari

The Nigeria Police Force (NPF), has arrested an Anambra lady maltreating her aged mother in a viral video.

The lady identified as Ukamaka Udeugbo, was captured in a video thrashing her naked aged mother repeatedly and throwing buckets of water on her while she wriggled in pain on the ground.

The NPF Spokeperson in Anambra State, Ikenga Tochukwu, confirmed the arrest of the lady to newsmen on Sunday.

Tochukwu disclosed that the suspect kicked and flogged her 75-year-old mother.

He said: “The suspect who flogged the naked aged woman repeatedly and threw buckets of water on her while lying on the floor has been arrested and detained for prosecution.”

He further disclosed in the statement that the arrest of the woman was at the behest of the state Commissioner of Police, Aderemi Adeoye, who has also directed the transfer of the case to the State CID in the public interest.

Additionally, he said the Police Commissioner, has authorized that the aged woman be handed to the Commissioner for Women Affairs for adequate care by the Anambra State government.

He said the suspect would be arraigned in court at the end of the investigation.

As at the time of filling this report, the motive of the woman assaulting her aged mother is not yet known. However, a villager who spoke on ground of anonymity told the Daily Reality that the woman is accusing her aged mother of witchcraft.

Three men rape tricycle rider for a ritual in Anambra

By Uzair Adam Imam

A young tricycle rider was reportedly raped by three suspected ‘Yahoo plus’ boys in Anambra state on Monday.

Several reports have indicated that the boys forcefully raped the tricycle rider for ritual purposes.

The Anambra state police command has confirmed the incident and said the rider was lured into a room where he was forcefully raped.

The command’s spokesperson, DSP Toochukwu Ikenga, disclosed that one of the suspects had been arraigned while his allies had run away.

“The Commissioner of Police has ordered the transfer of the case to state CID for a discretion investigation. 

“Preliminary information showed that the suspect hired the victim, a tricycle rider and lured him into a room before having carnal knowledge of him.

“Meanwhile, the result from the doctor’s report showed that there was penetration into his anus, but the arrested suspect has denied it. 

“Further details will be communicated as investigations are still ongoing,” the PPRO said.

Lady beats child to death, dumps corpse in Anambra bush

By Ahmad Deedat Zakari

A yet-to-be-identified lady has beaten a child believed to be her maid’s to death in Anambra State.

In a video that went viral on social media on Thursday, the lady confessed to the murder of the deceased, whose identity has not yet been disclosed. 

Information at our disposal reveals that the deceased was brutally assaulted and died before she could get medical attention. 

 “I beat her, and she started convulsing, so I took her to Kings (hospital). Getting there, she died, so I threw her body here.” The suspect said in Igbo

After her arrest by the Anambra Command of the National Agency for Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, she led security personnel to the bush, where she dumped the body of the deceased.

The body was reported to be decomposing at the time of writing this report.

Man runs after killing parents for not giving him money

By Uzair Adam Imam

A 21-year-old man, Chukwudi, has reportedly killed his two parents for refusing to give him some money in Nnewi Local Government Area of Anambra State.

Chukwudi, who is an undergraduate student of one university in Anambra State, is the only son to his parents.

The victims were identified as Mr. and Mrs Micheal Ulor. However, there corpses had started decomposing when they were discovered on Thursday.

Chukwudi killed his parents at their residence at Mr. Moses Nnodu’s compound, Abubor Nnewichi-Nnewi, close to Orie Agbo Market.

It was gathered that Chukwudi fled to unknown destination since he killed his two parents.

The spokesperson for the State Police Command, DSP Ikenga Tochukwu, confirm the incident to journalists.

Tochukwu said all efforts to trace the suspect’s whereabouts were on top gear.

Man kills brother over 1500 naira electricity bill

By Ahmad Deedat Zakari

A man identified as Peter Orji has allegedly murdered his elder brother, Godwin Orji, over N1500 electricity bill at Nnewi in Anambra State.

The State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed the development and disclosed that Peter Orji and his wife were arrested by the Nigerian Police Force, NPF, on Tuesday.

Ikenga added that the State Police Commissioner, Echeng Echeng, has ordered for the transfer of the case to the State Criminal Investigation Department, CID, for proper investigation.

According to local sources, Peter’s refusal to pay N1500 electricity bill led to the disconnection of power supply to his flat. The action was carried out at the behest of his elder brother and ensued in an altercation between the duo. Peter then took a gun and fired at his brother which caused the later to die on the spot.

Anambra Killings: Muslim clerics demand compensation for victims’ family

By Uzair Adam Imam

The Ulama Forum in Nigeria has condemned the wild killing of Harira and her four kids, demanding the Anambra state government pay full life compensation to the relatives of the deceased.

Reacting with dismay, the forum also called on the Anambra state governor, Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, to take measures to mitigate all forms of barbaric and terrorist acts and to also apologize to the Muslim community the world over.

The clarion call was in a statement jointly signed Thursday by Aminu Inuwa Muhammad and Dr Sa’id Ahmad Dukawa, the Convener, on behalf of the secretary to the forum.

The forum also voiced objection to the release of the IPOB’s leader, Nnamdi Kanu, blaming him for being responsible for the latest crime by the group he leads in killing innocent souls.

They added that what happened just recently must be added to the list of his unrepentant crimes until the full wrath of the law is brought down on him.

The statement partly read: “While we call upon Muslims in Northern Nigeria and other places to resist the temptation of any unlawful reaction, we at the same time call on the Federal Government of Nigeria and the security agencies to demonstrate that they are capable of protecting the lives and properties of Nigerian citizens irrespective of where they decide to reside in Nigeria, just as sanctioned by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, African Charter of Human and Peoples’ Rights, Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international instruments.

“We are in such a state of grief and mental hardship inflicted upon us by IPOB that we need to say no more!!! We are watching to see whether there are responsive and responsible governments in Anambra state in particular and other states in the east where such unprovoked acts of barbarism and terrorism are being perpetrated over the years. May justice and peace prevail in Nigeria. Ameen,” the statement added.

The Daily Reality reported how the outlawed terrorist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has mercilessly murdered a heavily pregnant woman and her four innocent kids in Anambra.

The woman identified as Harira Jibril was killed alongside her four kids and six other persons of northern extraction on Sunday, May 23, 2022.

Dear NBA, President Olumide Akpata, a pregnant woman and her four innocent children have been gruesomely murdered by IPOB

By Hussaini Hussaini

There were gruesome murders of one pregnant Muslim woman, Harira and her four innocent kids, and six other innocent Northerners killed in Anambra State. There was also arson on goods and livestock worth millions of naira belonging to Northerners in the southeast. As per Daily Trust Newspaper reports of May 24, 2022, and other sources, all the crimes were carried out by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). However, there was a habitual dead silence of other media houses. One of the victims, a Northern Christian, was said to have been killed and disfigured by the terrorist for his “offence” of being a northerner and securing a job in the southeast.

We are in a country where God in His infinite Mercies sandwiched diverse tribes and religions to live with each other. This, some may call a colonial act of 1914 in which the regions of the geographical location that was to become Nigerian were amalgamated. I see it ordinarily as a divine opportunity for success.

This amalgamation would have served a positive purpose for Nigeria post-independence if the citizens had united themselves for genuine national (not regional or personal) interest, just as the Europeans united themselves in sharing Africa as a spoil of war on the table in the Berlin Conference.

Unfortunately, Nigeria has been so divided by strives with ethnic, religious, and political colouration since its independence. We witnessed the happenings that led us to January 15 and the counter-coup of the 1960s down to the civil war. Those sad events should have served as lessons for us to think about how to live with one another in peace since divisions and strives had severally proven to be futile in solving our respective problems.

However, turns of events have shown that the gap between us has kept widening. Even the people at the helm of affairs and presumed outstanding intellectuals such as the leadership of the legal profession are taking sides and showing extreme bias in addressing issues that can touch the roots of our unity as a country. A typical example is a press release of  May 17, 2022, by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) president, Mr Olumide Akpata. He took time to condemn the happenings in Sokoto over the killing of Debora Samuel. She blasphemed and uttered abusive, vulgar words against the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad (Peace be upon him).

In the same statement, Mr Akpata passively mentioned some killings of innocent Nigerians, including a military couple killed in the south by the terrorist organization, IPOB. Mr President held the brief of IPOB terrorists by referring to them as “Unknown Gun Men” as the southern media hypocritically cloned them. However, the NBA President made it clear through his press release that the statement and the cancellation of the scheduled NBA-Spidel in Sokoto were in honour of Debora, not the late military couple who was in a sane environment supposed to be national heroes.

To Muslims, who form the majority inhabitants of northern Nigeria, their lives and that of their families and everything they own should go astray if that loss will prevent any slur on the honour of Prophets Muhammad and Jesus, Mary, or any other prophet of God almighty (may peace be upon them all). In order words, Debora would not have been attacked by any mob if she’s only accused of killing a Muslim in their private affairs in Sokoto, just as some Igbo kidnappers who killed a Muslim Colonel a few years ago in Kaduna; and the Christians who killed Gen. Alkali in Du village in Jos.

Blasphemy committed by Debora is one of the highest abuses and attacks on the Muslims, which was capable of putting the entire region in flames. Still, our Bar President found it very worthy to state that his statement and postponement of NBA-Spidel was in her honour without showing any concern about the root of the evil. Idolizing Deborah without equally condemning blasphemy in all its ramifications is abuse and over trivialization of the sensibilities of the Muslim community, most significantly, the members of our noble profession.

All the Muslim leaders who spoke on the Debora issue, such as the Sultan, Sheikh Sani Yahaya Jingir, and Prof. Mansur Sokoto, have condemned mob action as they equally condemned the intolerant and provocative act of blasphemy. This would have been a fairer pattern of address to be employed by our President as a leader. Four years ago, I wrote two published articles to condemn blasphemy and mob action.

Ebikebuna Augustine Aluzu Esq responded to Mr Akpata’s statement thus: “in honour” is she an NBA Member?”. He concluded: “…People get gruesomely murdered in Nigeria daily. If NBA wants to stand against jungle justice, it should not be selective”. The NBA President would have done better if he stayed within his mandate fairly. However, since Mr President has chosen to throw his hat in the ring, what goes around comes around, they say. Hence, we will patiently await the personal reaction of the NBA President on the recent killings of northerners in the southeast.

Hussaini Hussaini wrote from Abuja via hussaini4good@gmail.com.

Umahi meets Buhari, declares intention to run for president

By Ahmad Deedat Zakari

The Governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi met President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Tuesday, where he indicates interest to contest for office of the President

Mr Umahi who defected to the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, November, 2020, from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, made this Known while briefing newsmen shortly after the closed-door meeting.

In response to a question if he is not deterred by the interests of others seeking the party’s presidential ticket, he stated, “I am not in contest with anybody; I am in contest with myself.”

Mr Umahi’s declaration is coming a day after Tinubu’s declaration of interest also at the Presidential Villa on Monday.

We’re set to conduct governorship election in Anambra—INEC

By Muhammad Sabiu

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has given the assurance that it’s ready to conduct the Anambra State governorship election slated for November 6.

Speaking to journalists in Awka, the Anambra State capital, on Tuesday, INEC Chairman Professor Mahmood Yakubu said, “When the commission released the timetable for the conduct of election, eleven months ago, the feeling was that the time will not come. The time is already here, we only have just four days left and we are going to go as a commission.”

However, the chairman stated that the challenge before the commission was to ensure that newly registered voters participate in the upcoming election.

“To ensure that the newly registered voters take part, we decided to contact them through their email and GSM numbers to inform them of the locations to get their cards,” he said.

Also, Echeng Echeng, the State Commissioner of Police, assured that security agencies were also set for the peaceful conduct of the election, adding that security would be beefed up in order to make sure that unscrupulous individuals don’t find their way into the state.