Pregnant armed robber Arrested by the Police

Police men attached to the special anti-robbery squad of the Lagos State police command have arrested a nine-month-pregnant woman for alleged armed robbery.
The woman, Asabi Ojenike, a single mother, was alleged to be a member of an armed robbery gang operating within  Ogun and Lagos states.
Asabi, who claimed that she hails from Benin Republic, was arrested recently after she was lured to SARS Ikeja on the pretext that her lover was in custody and she should come to bail him.

Asabi Ojenike is alleged to be a gang member terrorising Lagos and Ogun states.

The police said that Asabi belonged to a notorious armed robbery gang and had been on the wanted list for various deadly robberies including car theft in Ogun and Lagos States.
The police added that Asabi is a major player in the gang as she assisted them to gain entry into the victims’ homes and also acted as their arms keeper.
Asabi, who confessed to the allegation, however, stated that she has repented.
“It was Dipo, my lover’s friend, that introduced me to armed robbery. I sell herbs to women who want to get pregnant. I am nine months pregnant. I have twin sons and they are 10 years old . [I bore them] for another man,” she said.
“It was last year I met Dipo. Dayo, one Adetela and another Igbo  guy  who  belonged to the gang. On my first robbery operation, we went to Ore. My job was to pretend to be a desperate woman who wanted to buy goods or who was in need. I would knock on the door of our target victim and as soon as they opened the door to attend to me, the gang members, led by Dipo, would swoop on the occupants and rob them of their belongings.
“We operate at night from 8 o’Clock.  I only went once and we stole a car. They gave me N5000(Five Thousand Naira) as my share of the loot. I also assisted the gang move guns from Benin Republic to Nigeria. We have a gun supplier in Cotonu called Alhaji Gani, who gives me guns for the gang. I usually put the guns in my handbag and move about with it. The gang used me to move the guns because they know the police do not usually suspect women and they don’t check handbags.”
According to her, she joined the gang because one of her children was ill and she needed the money to cater for him.
“Dipo kept calling me to assist the gang with guns but I have stopped armed robbery since last year.  I now sell herbal medicine to women looking for the fruit of the womb,” the alleged robber said.
According to the police, Asabi has taken part in more than two robbery operations. They added that one Adetela, a member of the gang, was still at large and would be arrested soon.

VICTIM OF POLICE BRUTALITY REFUSES TO PRESS CHARGES

A 35-year-old woman, Tope Moore, who was brutalised by policemen attached to the Pedro Police Station in Lagos State has said she is not interested in seeking justice. The policemen had pushed Moore over a fence and beat her mercilessly until she soiled herself.

The abuse followed allegations that Moore’s younger brother, Bolaji Moore, led cultists who killed one Osondu Obunneke (19) at the Famous Hotel in Bariga area of Lagos State on June 9.

Moore was subsequently arrested by the police after Bolaji fled the area and she was detained at the Pedro Police Station with the faeces and urine on her body.

Tope Moore alleges that she was brutalised by policemen who detained her in her younger brother’s stead.

She said that the police forced her to pay N15,000 as bail. Despite paying the money, she and five other people were transferred to the Homicide Department of the State Criminal Investigation Department in Panti, Yaba on charges of conspiracy and murder.

Moore was detained for five days while police used her wanted brother as collateral for her release. She would have continued to languish in the cell but for the timely intervention of a community leader and human rights activist, Vincent Olatunde, who brought Moore’s plight to limelight.

Inquiries by the activist at the office of Umar Manko, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police Command, brought Miss Moore’s ordeal to the CP’s attention.

Furious at the behaviour of the policemen, Mr. Manko ordered their detention and directed that Miss Moore be freed.

Lagos CP, Umaru Manko ordered the detention of the policemen who brutalised Miss Moore.

However, more than two weeks after regaining her freedom, Miss Moore has turned down legal assistance from human rights lawyers, who besieged her to seek justice.

When contacted on the phone about her reasons for doing so, Miss Moore said that she was scared to be hurt again.

“I’m scared. I do not want any wahala (trouble) with the police. I have forgiven them and I do not want justice. My family members told me to leave everything to God so that’s what I have decided to do. I just want to live my life and take care of my business and children. This ugly incident has almost ruined my marriage plans as my fiance’s family is not happy. I leave everything to God to judge the policemen.

“If policemen can hold a gun to my son’s head and force him to tell them where I was, and the way they treated me, I don’t have the strength to fight them. I have treated myself and I am okay,” Moore said.

Mr. Olatunde said Miss Moore’s refusal to seek justice is an indication that Nigerians have lost faith in the police and the government.

“Obviously, this woman is scared to fight for her rights. This is what happens where impunity is the order of the day. It is bad that people can no longer fight for their rights and when they are brutalised they fear to speak up due to intimidation.”

She is even scared to speak to the Press.

Cultists kill NURTW official

Suspected cultists have shot dead an executive of the National Union of Road Transport Worker in Lagos State.
The supremacy battle and killing by suspected cultists in Shomolu, Mushin, Yaba, Surulere and Bariga areas of the State continued unabated.
The deceased, identified as 35-year-old Monsuru Taiye Seriki, popularly known as Sempe, was shot dead on his way home on Thursday night.

The late Sempe

According to an eyewitness who requested anonymity, Taiye, who was the Financial Secretary of the Unit at Mushin, left the Union Toll gate office along the railway line at about 9.30pm on a motorcycle, but was shot dead before he got home.
Narrating the incident, the source said: “Taiye got to the Junction of his house but as he alighted from the okada, about ten men who had been lurking in the neighbourhood accosted him and shot sporadically at him. They watched him die and pushed his body to ensure he was dead then they fled the scene.
“After they left, residents who had scampered for safety when the gun was being fired, came out and saw his lifeless body.”
The source added that, on Wednesday, the deceased had received a phone call from some cultists who accused him of waging war against a rival gang.
“The whole killing you see is about transport workers fighting over leadership positions. They engage in cultism to gain support and provoke fear. The free and illegal money they get is the root of the killings,” the source said.
Tension in Mushin
When contacted, the Deputy Public Relations Officer of the Lagos State Police Command, Damasus Ozoani, said the police were not aware of the killing of the NURTW executive.
“I have called the Oloasan police station at Mushin and the Area Commander but they said nothing of such was reported. The police cannot work if we are not aware of a case. If indeed such a thing happened we can only act when we are aware,” he said.
Residents in the area alleged that, in recent times, four suspected cultists have been brutally murdered by rival gangs.
According to them, three of the killings took place at Kusa, Johnson and Famous in Bariga.

Woman narrates police brutality ordeal

Tope Moore, a 35-year-old single mother of two children, who was allegedly brutalised by policemen attached to the Pedro Police station in Lagos State and later detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department at Panti Yaba, has been released following an order from the Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko.
Tope, who was detained over allegations that her younger brother, Bolaji Moore, masterminded the killing of one Osondu Obuneke, was released last Friday after Manko was informed of her ordeal.

Tope Martins alleges that she was brutalised by policemen who detained her in her younger brother’s stead.

The CP also detained the team of policemen who brutalised her and effected her unlawful arrest.
When she spoke about her detention, Tope wept as she narrated her ordeal. She said she intends to petition the Inspector General of Police over the police maltreatment.
“I am still in fear over how the policemen treated me. It was around 1a.m. that fateful day when my 12-year-old son, Toheeb, called me on phone that some policemen had held him at gunpoint telling him to take them to his mother. I did not spend the night with my children. I went to my boyfriend’s house that night,” she narrated.
“Toheeb said the policemen  threatened to shoot him if he refused to bring them to my lover’s house. I  was at the balcony of the house waiting, when I saw the policemen. They were over twenty in 5 vehicles. I greeted them, since I know almost all of them. They asked of Bolaji, my younger brother, the last child of the family, and I told them I had not seen him in over three months. One of the policemen  was infuriated  by my answer. He jumped into the compound through the fence, bundled me through the balcony and started slapping me heavily.

Lagos CP, Umaru Manko ordered the detention of the policemen who brutalised Miss Moore.

“I could not comprehend what was happening. It was while the beating became intense I heard him say my brother killed somebody. They took me through the fence. I was injured but they pushed me into one of their waiting vehicles with a corpse. The policemen also arrested more people. They took us to the Famous Hotel where they were given some packages including beer.
“By 2:30a.m. they finally took us to the station, where I  was made to write a statement. I  was taken  into the cell. By then, I  had been totally brutalised. I even passed faeces on my body.
“I was released after paying N15,000 and promising to bring Bolaji. But I told the police after I was taken to see the Area H commander in Ogudu that Bolaji does not reside with me anymore and that ever since I  made Bolaji to work at UAC food as a technician in training but he continued to cause trouble in the neighbourhood, I had told him not to come to my house again.
“I was taken to SCID Panti but was released on Friday after spending four days in detention for a crime I know nothing about. As I am talking to you, I’m still shaken and in fear over my ordeal. I am glad to be released but I will petition the IGP and the Police Service Commission over my ordeal.”

Students, police clash in College of Education

Some students of Michael Otedola College of Primary Education, on Monday, during a protest in the school, sustained various gunshot wounds from police officers in the Epe area of Lagos.
One of the residents of the area, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the entire Noforija community was thrown into disarray following the incident.
The pandemonium started when the school management restrained some students from writing their exam due to non-payment of their school fees.
The school authority had earlier issued a directive that the students should complete payment of their fees in order to be eligible to sit for the first semester examinations which started yesterday.
Some students, however, complied with the directive while others did not. The reaction the school authorities barred erring students from writing the examinations, a move which the students revolted against. The affected students protested the development, disturbing the examination and causing the eligible students to abandon their examination halls.
The school Provost ordered the eligible students back to the examination halls to finish their papers, assuring them of security. The provost then called the Police, and officers were deployed to the school and they arrested some of the protesting students.
In retaliation, the students attacked the armed Police officers, which led to further fracas between both parties.
The police officers allegedly fired some shots in the air and some of the students were hit by stray bullets.
Some of the police officers were also alleged to have sustained injuries while a student whose identity is yet to be ascertained was shot in the lower part of his abdomen by one of the police officers.
A student of Computer studies who requested anonymity said the sum of N50,000 being charged as school fees in her department could not be afforded by many.
“We have pleaded with the school authority to give room for instalmental payment, which they did not consent to. Rather than settling the issue amicably, the school authority hindered many from writing the examinations and this fuelled yesterday’s crisis,” the student said.
The number of injured students could not be ascertained and the school authority is yet to issue an official statement on the incident.

FATAI ROLLING DOLLARS IS DEAD

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Pa Olayiwola Olagunju, better known as Fatai Rolling Dollars, is dead.
The 94-year-old veteran high life musician died early on Wednesday at Ahamadiya Hospital in Agbado Ijaiye area of Lagos State.
The Yoyo Bitters Ambassador, reportedly said to have been down with an ailment for several weeks, eventually died in the hospital where he had been receiving treatment.
So critical was the illness that he couldn’t move his legs in the last few days he spent on earth.
His death is coming after he lost one his wives a few weeks ago.
Olagunju is survived by children and wives.
Details of his burial will be announced soon, a family source told The Eagle Online.

Woman incarcerated by police because of Brother

Her ordeal started on saturday 10th of June when his younger brother and last  born of the family a suspected cultist of the Eiye confratenity and some of hias member stabbed Osondu Obunneke a 19year old father at the famous hotel in bariga LCDA.
It was gathered that Osondu Obunneke had gone to the famous hotel at about 8p.m to take some bottles of beer when he met bolaji Moore ,Friday aka fryo ,Steven an okada rider in the Somolu area ,Arinze ,and Feso ,a wanted criminal who had two years ago escaped with a police handcuff at Pedro.Though Feso was later arrested when he and other cultist vandalised over 100 cars and looted goods and properties at the Popoola and Akoka area sometimes ago .He was later released by the Area H Police Command by reason s best known to them.
It was at the famous Hotel Bar that a misunderstanding ensued over a phone belonging to Bolaji that it was alleged that Osondu collectedFeso stood up and stabbed Osondu and others followed right in the presence of two Police officers ,one corporal Musa formerly of Pedro but now attached to the State anti Robbery Squad Ikeja and one corporal Owolabi attached to the Pedro Police Station an acclaimed cultist and member of the Eiye Confraternity.Present at the scene of the fight were also the Hotel manager ,Yinka a known cultist and member of the Eye group,he also has the Eye insgnia ,a bird on his armand a lady of about 14years a runaway from home who had made the famous Hotel her abode.
Immediately Feso was released he relocated to the Fadipe Area of Somolu to join gang with The Yesiru Adesanya and Okanla oluwa group of cultist terrorising the Somolu Area of Lagos State.
Tope Moore lives with her two Children Toheeb and Rokeeb Babajide. Bolaji Moore his younger sibling also stays with her.on the day of the  incident ,According to Shola Moore Bolaji left home at about 1p.m,the sister too went to her shop at Mutairu Street where She operates a beer Parlour and She is well known to all the Policemen in the Area as they patronise her.She went back after the close of the day took care of her two children and made sure they already slept and went off to her her new hearthrob to sleep at Igi Olugbin Street nearby .At about 1.20 a.m when she was deep in sleep she was woken up by Policemen attached to the Pedro police Station .The policemen had initially gone to her house at 19Mutairu Street to look for her .when they did not meet her they threatened to shoot Toheeb her 12 year old son except he takes them to where her Mother was,other tenants in the house where scared .At gun point the little boy was taking into the Police Vehicle and driven to Igi olugbin Street.The building was fenced and the Policermen Scaled the fence and forced open the door to the room where Tope Moore Slept.She was only putting on her night gown without pants or bra.they forced hetr out beat her and took her through the fence of the building ,by this time she had already urinated and passed faerces on her clothes as she could not fathom was was happening to her.She was dumped inside the police Vehicle and driven to Famous hotel with the manager of the Hotel ,four female waiters and the 14 year old minor who were all witnesses to what happened .The policemen went inside the hotel at about !.30a.m till 3.00 drinking .
She was later granted bail in the afternoon after paying a ransome of fifteen Thousand naira.But later on tuesday 11 of june ,she was later rearrested and taken to Panti.initially Panti rejected her as not been the suspect but she was later taking in.
meanwhile Bolaji moore has ran away,he made calls to some of his friends to help him monitor the way things are turning out.according to Shola Moore the Police are aware of the other cultist ,they did not arrest them nor their family members why is that of Tope Moore different.She said her sister  did not Commit any offence ,it was like Hostage taking .
Meanwhile people are accusing the police of arresting innocent members of the public on trumped up charges of being cultist and collecting money to bail them