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Uganda’s Museveni Takes Massive Lead After About 50% Of Votes Counted, Bobi Wine Kicks
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has a clear lead in the presidential race following Thursday’s vote, official preliminary results show.
But his main challenger, pop star-turned-politician Bobi Wine, said the tally was the result of the worst rigging in Ugandan electoral history.
Election monitors say confidence in the count has been damaged by an internet shutdown, now in its third day, according to the BBC.
Dozens of people were killed in the run-up to the election.
President Museveni, who has been in power for 35 years, is hoping for a sixth term.
The 76-year-old says he is standing for stability, while Bobi Wine, the stage name for 38-year-old Robert Kyagulanyi, says he represents the younger generation in one of the world’s youngest countries.
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With 49.1% of ballots counted, Mr Museveni has won 62.7% of the vote compared to Bobi Wine with 29.3%, the electoral commission says.
Election commission chief, Simon Byabakama, said the vote had been peaceful, and told Bobi Wine, who said some of his polling agents were arrested on Thursday, to make public the evidence for his fraud allegations.
The opposition candidate believes the internet shutdown is being used to block communication and as a way of compromising the vote.
As well as being unable to get online, people have been having trouble sending text messages.
“Several of our phone numbers, including mine and my wife’s, have been switched off, have disconnected illegally,” the Reuters news agency quoted him as saying.
“I will be happy to share the videos of all the fraud and irregularities as soon as the internet is restored.”
The electoral commission says only two polling stations in the country reported major irregularities and voting was cancelled there.
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BBC correspondents say there is tight security in the capital, Kampala, with soldiers and police patrolling the streets.
It has been quiet in the city on Friday and some businesses remain closed, the AFP news agency reports.
Security forces cracked down on gatherings ahead of the election and dozens were killed.
The government says the ban on gatherings was to prevent the spread of coronavirus while the opposition say it was a smokescreen for repression.
Bobi Wine and other opposition candidates have been arrested on several occasions.
Eleven candidates are contesting in the election. One of them is a woman, Nancy Kalembe.
18.1m people registered to vote.
Mr Museveni, who came to power on the back of an armed uprising in 1986, is standing as leader of the National Resistance Movement (NRM).
He has long been depicted to Ugandans as a liberator and peace bringer.
But he has managed to maintain his grip on power through a mixture of encouraging a personality cult, employing patronage, compromising independent institutions and sidelining opponents, says the BBC’s Patience Atuhaire.
Bobi Wine is widely thought to be the strongest of the 10 opposition candidates in the presidential race.
The reggae star is known by his supporters as the ghetto president.
His party, the National Unity Platform (NUP), campaigns for basic needs like improving access to healthcare, education, clean water and justice.
Over the last two decades Bobi Wine’s musical output has been filled with songs about these issues and they have inspired a fervent following.
He grew up in Kampala’s Kamwokya slum where he went on to build his now world-famous recording studio.
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Former NADECO Chieftain Alleges Plots To Take Over His Ikoyi Property
Former chieftain of the defunct National Democratic Coalition, NADECO, Ralph Obioha, has alleged that there are plots by his former employee and lawyer to take over his property after the duo destroyed his documents.
Obioha said his former employee, who also doubles as the Managing Director at First African Trust Bank, Yomi Tokosi, and his former lawyer, Chima Okafor, have perfected plots to take over his property located at N24A Ikoyi Crescent, Ikoyi, Lagos State.
Obioha said he kept the original property file with Okafor when he (Obioha) went into exile during the onslaught on NADECO leaders by the Sani Abacha-led military regime over its refusal to swear in the winner of the 1993 presidential poll, Moshood Abiola.
He explained how he had in 1991, acquired the land from the late sculptor, Ben Enwonwu, whom he said gave him the power of attorney, deed of agreement, deed of sale, and deed of indemnity but that Abacha’s men invaded his country home at Arondizuogu, Imo State and destroyed some of the documents.
Obioha said he initially had a joint venture agreement with Tokosi to develop the property to an acceptable standard, “but today, he is fraudulently twisting the agreement we had”.
He said he has reported the matter to the Nigerian Police Force Investigation Department, Alagbon as well as written a petition to the Inspector General of Police in Abuja against Tokosi concerning incidences of harassment, assault, theft, trespass, and the threat to his life and lives of his family members but had yet to get justice.
Obioha said, “I am shocked at the twist of event, the deception and abuse of trust as well as the obstruction and mistreatment of justice in the matter. It is troubling how the instant case in which I am the victim is being manipulated to my detriment as there are no actions on the several complaints lodged.
“It is unbelievable that Tokosi has even made false claims that the land doesn’t belong to Prof. Enwonwu, but to the Lagos State Government. I bought the property at 24A Ikoyi Crescent in 1991, three years before a friend introduced Tokosi to me.”
Narrating his ordeal, he said, “Political unrest rocked Nigeria following the refusal of the military to swear in Chief M.K.O. Abiola as the winner of the 1993 presidential election. The truncation of Abiola’s mandate predicated massive unrest with General Sani Abacha assuming full military powers and I, being a front liner in the struggle, fled into exile in the USA for safety.
“Multi-Projects Limited continued with the construction of my property at 24a Ikoyi Crescent, reached foundation level, and had to stop as my flight to the USA which we believed would be brief, turned from months to years. I didn’t return to Nigeria until 1998.
“Later I had an agreement with Tokosi who asked me to allow him to complete the building on the basis of sharing the four units; two each to myself and himself (Tokosi). Tokosi also undertook to perfect the Certificate of Occupancy of the land and other fees.
“I had earlier handed over some documents, including the agreement I had with Tokosi, to Okafor for safekeeping.
“The agreement to allow Tokosi to complete and share the building between us is today my greatest undoing. Tokosi later rented one of the two units belonging to me (I did not sense danger then) and paid rent thrice but declined further payment while still occupying the unit.”
Obioha further explained how his erstwhile lawyer, Okafor, also betrayed him with claims that the original documents got burnt in a fire incident.
He said he got a call from Okafor while he was in exile when Okafor announced he was no longer acting as Obioha’s lawyer
“He said I should return immediately to Lagos and collect the property file with him. When I returned to Lagos after a week, I discovered that Tokosi and Okafor had concluded a plot to take over my property. Okafor refused to honour any invitation for us to meet, except once, and did not return the property file to me till date. We spoke on the phone and he said there was a fire incident in his office which consumed the property file. This is a lie.
“The missing agreement which Okafor claimed was burnt in a fire incident was contrived to destroy evidence, particularly the part that established that Tokosi was to perfect the land title, build a first-class finished building of the highest standard, ensuring all building approvals were obtained and consent obtained from me before any changes would be allowed.
“If there was a fire outbreak, why didn’t the duo obtain a police report of the incident? As a lawyer, why didn’t Okafor do an affidavit of facts over the incident and obtain CTC of the burnt documents and make them available to me? It was a planned scheme to take over my property. The two of them were of the mistaken conviction that if they succeeded in claiming that the documents were burnt by fire, then Tokosi would simply inherit the property. This is mischief.
“Tokosi and Okafor were aware that the enforcers of the Abacha junta invaded my country home, Arondizuogu, in Imo State and carted away the title documents on my property holdings in Nigeria, including the ones I received in respect of 24A Ikoyi Crescent.
“I felt secure that my lawyer, Okafor, was in the safe custody of the original documents of 24A Ikoyi. But it is regrettable that I was betrayed. Tokosi believes that the documents to the property are out of sight, this is why he is shouting that the production of the documents is all he wants.
“It is clear today following all developments that they are out to claim my property but they will fail.”
When contacted, Tokosi said he never wished to take issues with Obioha as instructed by his lawyer since the matter would be coming up in court soon.
“It will be better to settle it in court with all relevant proofs,” he said.
Meanwhile, Okafor had not answered his calls nor replied to the text message sent to his mobile line as at the time of filing this report.
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E2%80%99-resumption-reviews-curfew-time COVID-19: Obaseki Suspends Schools’ Resumption, Reviews Curfew Time
Godwin Obaseki
The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has announced the suspension of schools’ resumption in the state.
Obaseki made the announcement during a press conference in Government House, Benin City on Friday.
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The governor also reviewed the curfew earlier imposed in the state to now span from 10pm to 5am, to check the rising cases of COVID-19 in the wake of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
He said, “Comparing the first six weeks of the pandemic from March 23, 2020 with the first six weeks since December 1, 2020, Edo State has witnessed 84.5 percent rise in the number of infected persons.
“There has also been a 10.5 percent increase in the number of older persons infected with COVID-19. It is early days yet, but we have evidence suggesting that more older persons infected with COVID-19 are dying.
“Most of the cases in the early phase of the pandemic were travel-related but since December 2020, there has been a 13.9 percent increase in community transmission of the disease. This is a big concern, especially with the evidence before us that there has been a 15 percent increase in the number of persons infected with COVID-19 who show no signs or symptoms of the disease, but are transmitting it in our communities. Our children and youth are major contributors to this group.”
“Curfew is now reviewed from 10 pm to 5 am effective Saturday 16th January, 2021,” he added.
On schools’ resumption, Obaseki said schools are to remain shut till February 1, 2021, when the prevailing realities are to be reviewed to determine if it would be safe to reopen them.
He added that there must be strict compliance with ‘no facemask, no entry’ policy in hotels, lounges, bars, and restaurants, and no eat-ins in restaurants.
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E2%80%93-wike Buratai, Olonisakin, Other Service Chiefs Short Of Ideas, Should Resign – Wike
Nyesom Wike
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has called on the Security Chiefs to resign in order to allow the generation of fresh ideas and strategies in tackling the threats to internal security in the country.
Gabriel Olonisakin, Chief of Defence Staff; Tukur Buratai, Chief of Army Staff; Sadique Abubakar, Chief of Air Staff, and Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas, Chief of Naval Staff, are all overdue for retirement.
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Despite public calls for their sacking, President Muhammadu Buhari has kept them in office.
Speaking during the wreath-laying and parade ceremony to mark the 2021 Armed Forces Remembrance Day in Port Harcourt on Friday, Wike said Boko Haram terrorists, bandits, and killer herdsmen have continued to overrun communities, randomly killing and abducting helpless people
He added that the insurgents had also destroyed private and public property with relative ease, and that it was time for the Nigerian government to take decisive action and put an end to the problem.
The governor said, “A country is as strong as its Armed Forces. Her inability to defeat the Boko Haram insurgency despite years of full military engagement shows that all is not well with our approaches and commitments to the battle against internal insecurity.
“Today, therefore, also raises the need for all of us to be worried by the deteriorating security situation across the country and restate the call on the Federal Government to do everything necessary to bring the security threat by Boko Haram and armed bandits to a decisive end in the shortest time possible.
“We thank the Service Chiefs for their efforts so far in the battle against the insurgents. But we also align with the concern of citizens that having seemingly reached their wits’ end, they should now give way for fresh hands and ideas to give the fight the impetus that it so strongly needs to ensure that Boko Haram and killer bandits are comprehensively defeated and smoked out of existence.
“The time has come for the Federal Government to stop the pretence, change strategy, seek help from our friends and confront the urgency of the internal insecurity situation in Nigeria with every weaponry at its disposal to stop the killing, free all hostages and improve the physical security of our country for all Nigerians.”
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Bandits Invade Bayelsa Community, Burn Houses
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There was palpable tension in Ogila-ama community in Opuoama Kingdom in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State as some gunmen invaded the area in the early hours of Friday.
The incident, which occurred around 5am and went on till 7am, saw the yet-to-be identified gunmen setting some buildings in the community ablaze.
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A native of the Ogila-ama, Lorhi-bolouikie Ogoro, said he received a telephone call from his sister and others in the community informing him of the attack.
Mr Ogoro appealed to the state government to come to the community’s rescue and arrest the situation.
The invasion of Ogila-ama is coming after Peremabiri community was attacked twice within one week.
However, the spokesperson for the Bayelsa State Police Command, Superintendent of Police Asinim Butswat, said the Commissioner of Police, Mike Okoli, had dispatched detectives to ascertain what happened in the community.
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Nigeria Police Lose Second AIG In Three Days
Yunana Babas, Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone 8, is dead.
The Zone 8 police command comprises Kogi, Kwara and Ekiti states.
Babas passed on three days after the death of another AIG, Omololu Bishi.
Kwara State Governor, AbdulRazaq AbdulRahman, in a statement described him as a perfect gentleman and a dedicated officer.
“I received the news of the death of AIG Yunana Babas with shock and sadness. It is one tragedy too many,” the statement read.
“On behalf of the people and Government of Kwara State, I condole with the entire police family, especially the Inspector General of Police and the immediate family of the top officer, on this devastating development.
“The late officer was a fine gentleman, a patriot, and a professional cop who was very passionate about his duty to his fatherland. I recall the gallant roles the late officer played in some recent security developments in the zone.”
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58-year-old Man Defiles 7-year-old Girl In Oyo
A 58-year-old man, Francis Abayomi, has been arrested by the Oyo State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for defiling a seven-year-old girl, Akinpelu Emmanuella, in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
Abayomi was said to have defiled Emmanuella on November 25, 2020 at Kutamiti Street at Bashorun.
The suspect, who was arraigned before the Magistrate in charge of Family Court 1, Iyaganku, Ibadan, S. H. Adebisi, was ordered to be remanded in NSCDC custody at the state headquarters, Agodi, Ibadan.
A statement by the state Public Relations Officer of the NSCDC, Oluwole Olusegun, in Ibadan on Friday indicated that the judge adjourned the case till January 25, 2021 for further hearing.
The suspect allegedly committed an offence contrary to section 34(1) and punishable under section 34 (2) of the Oyo State Child Rights Law 2006.
Meanwhile, the Oyo State Command of the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of the corps attended to 343 cases in 2020.
The cases involved child trafficking, child abuse, child labour, rape, child defilement, physical assault, domestic violence, among others.
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E2%80%99s-woes-without-bloodshed-%E2%80%93-nnamdi-kanu Referendum Can End Nigeria’s Woes Without Bloodshed – Nnamdi Kanu
IPOB Leader, Nnamdi Kanu
The Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has advised the Nigerian government to embrace having a referendum as the lasting solution to end the nation’s multi-faceted woes.
Kanu said that the same government asking its people not to toe the path of a civil war, is perpetrating actions similar to what led to the war the Nigerian Civil War of 1967 – 1970.
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His message was contained in a press statement, ‘Referendum: Permanent Solution To Nigeria’s Multi-Dimensional Woes – Mazi Nnamdi Kanu,’ made available to SaharaReporters by IPOB media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful, on Friday.
Kanu faulted government officials for seeing the agitators of Biafra as their enemies, hence victimising them, instead of extending an olive branch to them and treating them as stakeholders in the same country.
“There is only one universally acknowledged solution to the problems bedevilling one Nigeria, it is called referendum,” Kanu said.
“It’s quite ironic that Nigeria is still remembering the genocidal war of 1967 – 1970 – the war which was planned to annihilate the people of the Old Eastern Region, yet perpetrating the same actions that gave rise to the avoidable confrontation.
“One of the major reasons the memories of that war cannot be easily erased from the minds of Biafrans is that today the oppressors have continued to repeat the same actions they visited on us with more impunity. Instead of treating Biafrans as equal stakeholders in the affairs of the country, they have continued to subjugate and hunt down our people with the help collaborators in government houses in the east and Igbo professional traitors based in Abuja and Lagos.
“IPOB family members and other Biafran agitators have remained daily targets of the oppressor and their security agencies who see the South as a conquered territory and its indigenous inhabitants ripe for elimination at all cost.
“The question every rational being must ask is this: why is Nigeria living in self-denial? Despite repeated warnings, sometimes from those who previously worked against Biafra, that Nigeria is fast travelling on the same highway that led to the war in 1967, those at the helm of leadership in the zoo that laughably refers to themselves as the ‘elites’ have chosen to play the ostrich.
“Instead of playing to the gallery with warm words and empty promises, the time has come for these mischievous political hoodlums masquerading as elites in Nigeria to courageously do the needful and permanently address the root cause of the ever-growing agitations across the Lugardian contraption.
“There is only one universally acknowledged solution to the problems bedevilling one Nigeria, it is called referendum. This will enable and more importantly, give the various ethnic nationalities forcibly clamped together into the undesirable British engineered colonial cage, the choice to decide whether or not they wish to continue their miserable coexistence or not.”
He also asserted that the peaceful disintegration of the diverse regions in the country is possible through a plebiscite or referendum.
“I understand the fear and apprehension of ethnic groups in Arewa core North living under Fulani hegemonic bondage. We would like to reassure them that Biafra won’t abandon them. The Biafra project is designed to set every oppressed group within Nigeria free, not just the long-suffering people of the East. A referendum or plebiscite remains the best tool to determine the fate of the masses, not the dictates of half-educated, semi-literate corrupt nonentities in Abuja.
“This is 51 years after Harold Wilson’s failed attempt to wipe out the entire Igbo Biafran race from the face of the earth. The Fulani agents of neo-colonialism he used have now perfected the same art of using compromised individuals and Efulefus in the East to frustrate our march towards freedom for all. They cannot succeed because the people they have been deceiving over the years are now smarter.
“We agree with most of the germane issues raised at the webinar conference organised yesterday by Nzuko Umunna which further exposed some of the atrocities committed against Biafrans in the genocidal war 51 years ago. This was purely to let them know that we have not forgotten what they did to our fathers and mothers between 1966 and 1970.
“From the sensible contributions of eminent Nigerians in that gathering, it’s now obvious to the Fulani ruling cabal running the country that no one is happy with what is happening. Those frank observations emanated from the few prominent and respected Nigerians, including politicians and religious leaders. This is a reminder to those thinking that they have pocketed Nigeria to stop living in self-delusion. The youths of Nigeria are rising to rescue the country from those who have taken it hostage. Biafra will soon bid farewell to the contraption and no force can stop this divine movement.
“IPOB is perfecting arrangement to ensure that Biafra is restored without another war but if our oppressors refuse to heed our calls for a referendum, then they will later realise that IPOB is determined to pay whatever sacrifice to free our people from this bondage.”
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E2%80%99re-under-military-siege-%E2%80%93-uganda-opposition-candidate-bobi-wine-cries-out We’re Under Military Siege – Uganda Opposition Candidate, Bobi Wine Cries Out
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Bobi Wine, singer-turned-politician and main challenger of Uganda President, Yoweri Museveni, has cried out that the country’s military men have taken over his house and his family is under siege.
Wine tweeted on Friday afternoon that the military “has jumped over the fence” just as the country’s election results are being counted and anxiously being awaited by the eastern African country.
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“We are under siege. The military has jumped over the fence and has now taken control of our home,” Wine said on Twitter.
We are under siege. The military has jumped over the fence and has now taken control of our home— BOBI WINE (@HEBobiwine) January 15, 2021
None of these military intruders is talking to us. We are in serious trouble. We are under seige.— BOBI WINE (@HEBobiwine) January 15, 2021
It had been reported earlier today that Museveni took an early lead in Uganda’s presidential election, according to preliminary results on Friday, though Wine said there had been widespread fraud and his supporters had the right to protest.
With 29.4% of votes from Thursday’s ballot counted, Museveni had won 1,852,263 votes, or 63.9%, while main opposition candidate Bobi Wine had 821,874 (28.4%), the electoral commission said just after 11 am.
The normally bustling capital, Kampala, was quiet on Friday, a holiday after Thursday’s poll, with most shops closed.
The election campaign was marred by deadly crackdowns by security forces on opposition candidates and their supporters.
Wine, a singer-turned-lawmaker who has galvanised young Ugandans with calls for political change, told a news conference he had video proof of voting fraud. “We are winning,” he said.
“We are putting every legal, every constitutional and every non-violent option on the table,” Wine said.
“I will be happy to share the videos of all the fraud and irregularities as soon as the internet is restored.”
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Landlord, Wife Rip Tenant’s Face Apart Over Quit Notice, Victim Seeks Justice
A Lagos landowner, Samson Ekweozor, and his wife, Anurika Ekweozor, have allegedly physically assaulted their tenant, Mary Onyian, upon her family’s refusal to prematurely quit an apartment belonging to them at Ikotun-Egbe.
Mary, who narrated her experience, said trouble started after the Ekweozors asked her family to vacate the apartment barely a month after they moved in without a plan to refund the rent paid for the apartment.
The refusal of the Onyian family to move out of the house attracted the landlord’s anger, which led to an attack on Mary leaving her face scarred for life.
According to Mary, the landlord and his wife never opened up on the reason for the notice to quit just a month after she and her family moved in.
She said: “We don’t know the reason we were asked to move out. The whole drama started during the lockdown and we had nowhere else to go. I was out of work at that time. We were battling to feed and survive during the lockdown when the landlord and his wife asked us to vacate the apartment, which we had just rented and moved in. Determined to make us leave the apartment, the landlord disconnected our power supply, plunging our apartment into permanent darkness. We resorted to using generators.
“As if disconnecting our power supply was not enough, the landlord disconnected the water supply to our apartment. It was at that point that my husband asked him to refund part of our rent if he truly wanted us to leave. In fact, the reason the landlord and his wife asked us to vacate the apartment is still not clear to us.
“One day, I went to take water from our bowl close to the window, to prepare food for our children and as I was returning to our apartment, our landlord suddenly appeared and held me from behind. His wife used a sharp object to attack me and slash at my face, neck and other parts of my body. Before I knew what was happening, I was covered in blood. It was my screams of pain that caused my husband, who was inside our apartment, to run out. He took one look at me and then took me to the police station, where we reported the case. We were later given a letter and referred to hospital for treatment.
“I spent two weeks at the hospital. In fact, that I didn’t die is nothing short of a miracle. There was so much blood everywhere.”
The victim’s husband, Racherry Onyian said he was already planning to go to the police station to report the landlord for disconnecting power and water supplies to his apartment before the attack on his wife.
He said the landlord wanted to kill his wife and should be charged for attempted murder.
He alleged that the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), who handled the matter, was biased.
“We just moved into the apartment so there was nothing like debt. I wanted to go and report the minor dispute we had when they attacked my wife.
“When I went to Ikotun Police Station the following day, I was shocked to hear the police classify it as something else. I had expected them to charge the landlord and his wife for attempted murder. What annoyed me most was that someone wanted to kill my wife and the DPO was not seeing it as a case of attempted murder. I just don’t understand it,” he said.
Racherry added that the landlord’s wife was arrested after much protest but was released following the directive given by the Inspector General of Police that people with minor offences should be allowed to leave cells.
Racherry said he expected that the landlord and his wife would be arrested again but that did not happen.
He said: “When I was not satisfied with the matter, I went to the police station to demand that the case should be reopened, but met a new DPO. They call him Adagba.”
Racherry said the new DPO handled the matter just like the old one: with levity.
He said he had to go in search of human rights activists and was directed to the co-founder of Advocates for Children and Vulnerable Persons Network (ACVPN), Ebenezer Omejalile.
Omejalile said upon receiving the complaint, the NGO made efforts to reach the former DPO and the new one on the issue but got no positive reply.
He said the human rights group has sent a new petition to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu.
“We are hoping that through the intervention of the CP, Mary will get justice, ” he said.
When SaharaReporters reached out to Mary on Friday, she said the landlord and his wife had yet to be rearrested but believed she would get justice with the help of her lawyer.
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