Sahara Reporters Latest News Today Saturday 28th August 2021

Sahara Reporters Latest News Today Saturday 28th August 2021

Sahara Reporters Latest News Today and headlines on some of the happenings and news trend in the Country, today 28/08/21

E2%80%99-leaders BREAKING: Three Injured As Inspector-General Of Police Squad Opens Fire On Ondo Students’ Leaders

Operatives of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team on Friday night opened fire on students’ leaders in Akure, Ondo state.
SaharaReporters gathered that the students were attacked by the operatives on illegal duty around Dome in Alagbaka area of the state capital.

“They came to extort some students at the Federal University of Technology yesterday and we confronted them. So this evening, while coming from a ceremony at the Dome, we saw their vehicles coming toward us, before we know what happened, they started shooting. Three of our students are currently injured,” a students’ leader told SaharaReporters.
WATCH: Operatives Of Inspector-General Of @PoliceNG Squad On Illegal Duty Open Fire On Studentsâ?? Leaders In Akure, Ondo State pic.twitter.com/RZGR2B2UcX— Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) August 27, 2021

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32 More Students Of Kaduna Baptist School Regain Freedom

Bandits, on Friday, released 32 more students of Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna.
Joseph Hayab, Chairman of the Kaduna State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), confirmed the victims’ release on Friday, Daily Trust reports.

“Thirty-two of the students have been released this evening,” he said.
Hayab, who said the students have been reunited with their parents, did not go into details.
The development comes one day after pupils of Salihu Tanko Islmammiya school in Tegina, Niger State, regained freedom after 88 days in captivity.
A total of 31 students of the Baptist school are still being held by bandits.
The students were kidnapped on Monday, July 5, 2021, around 2 am on the school premises along the Kaduna-Kachia Expressway, Damishi, Chikun Local Government Area of the state.
The bandits freed one student on the basis of ill health.
The student, it was stated, was returned by two of the abductors.
The first batch of 28 of the students to secure their freedom spent 20 days in the kidnappers’ den.
Later on, four students also escaped from their captors.
On August 3, three more kidnapped students of Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna reportedly escaped from captivity.
They were subsequently found by security operatives roaming the forest in the Chikun Local Government Area of the state.

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Nigeria Moves To Repatriate 322,000 Refugees From Cameroon, Niger, Chad

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The federal government is set to repatriate a total of 322,000 Nigerian refugees currently living in neighbouring countries such as the Niger Republic, Cameroon and Chad.
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, received a draft Tripartite Agreement for the voluntary repatriation.

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This was disclosed in a statement issued by Farouq’s special assistant on media, Nneka Anibeze.
The draft was submitted to the minister by the Technical Working Group on the repatriation of Nigerian Refugees in Cameroon, NAN reports.
The draft, after its ratification, would kick-start preparations for the repatriation of refugees from the Republic of Niger and Chad.
Farouq, after receiving the draft noted that a total of 322,000 Nigerian refugees were currently living in neighbouring countries.
“Out of the figures, the Republic of Niger currently hosts 186,957 refugees; the Republic of Cameroon has 118,409 while 16,634 refugees are in the Republic of Chad.
“With a large number of refugees in Niger, Chad and Cameroon, the federal government has officially initiated talks with the governments of Chad and Niger to sign tripartite agreements similar to the one we have with the Republic of Cameroon.
“I am happy to inform you that we already have a draft copy of the Tripartite Agreement for Voluntary Repatriation of Nigerian Refugees in Niger and Chad Republics,” she said.
The Federal Commissioner at the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, Iman Suleiman-Ibrahim, thanked the minister for the confidence reposed in her.
Suleiman-Ibrahim sought the cooperation of all partners in efforts to bring back the refugees in safety and dignity.
“Part of the governance infrastructure for carrying out this exercise includes that of the Borno Government and some selected Federal Government’s MDAs as well as the UNHCR, our invaluable Technical partners.
“It goes without saying that we need to work in synergy to ensure a successful voluntary repatriation in line with the Presidential directive,” Suleiman-Ibrahim said.

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Sowore Knocks Rogue Nigerian Police Over Illegal Detention Of Man, Okeke Who Exposed Abuse Of 21-year-old “Police Slave” Glory Okolie

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Human rights’ activist, Omoyele Sowore, has knocked the Inspector-General of Police’s Intelligence Respond Squad (IRT), Tiger Base, Owerri, Imo State, for detaining Izuchukwu Okeke, who revealed the whereabouts of Glory Okolie, a 21-year-old lady enslaved in their office for several weeks.
The police had arrested Okolie for allegedly being friends with a suspected member of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

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She was later transferred to Abuja, despite efforts by her family members to secure his release.
After 66 days in detention, the police, in a statement on Sunday, said she was arrested for alleged membership of IPOB and for working with one Benjamin Uzoma Emojiri to attack officers and stations in Imo.

E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98animal-farm%E2%80%99-and-terrorism-nigerian-defence-academy-chido-nwangwu Buhari’s ‘Animal Farm’ And Terrorism At The Nigerian Defence Academy By Chido Nwangwu

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The political fable and satire, Animal Farm, by the gifted writer George Orwell was published in 1945. It is an engaging read. I think it’s one of the most accessible works of literature, political science and philosophy.
For admirable style and context, it is based on the events of Russia’s Bolshevik revolution and the betrayal of the cause by Josef Stalin. The novel characterizes a group of barnyard animals who overthrow and chase off their exploitative human masters (zoo keepers) on order to establish an egalitarian society of their own. Over a period of time, the animals’ intelligent and power-loving leaders, the pigs, undermine and subvert the revolution. There was self-serving seventh commandment for the animals which stated: “All animals are equal”. The emergence into power by the pigs led to their formation of a dictatorship even more oppressive and heartless than that of their former human masters. The pigs amassed more power and in a self-serving twist of that commandment concluded that “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others….”
In terms of that historical long shadow of accountability, reckoning and legacy, Buhari and his insular clique have shown over and again, from their apologetically tribal, densely sectarian and heavy preference for certain geopolitical zones, that “some animals are more equal than others.”

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The latest proof can be deducted in this very important point made by Nigeria’s controversial musician, activist and artiste Eedris Abdulkareem regarding the August 24, 2021 brazen attack on the very significant and symbolic Nigeria Defence Academy (NDA) headquarters in Kaduna, the heartland of the “core northern Nigeria.” The city of the erstwhile “Kaduna mafia.” Here’s Eedris: “Let’s assume NDA is located in any of the Igbo States and such attack took place. By now the Army will be burning down Igbo villages and killing Igbos.” Some have since the past 20 years called and tagged the courageous singer all manner of names but he’s on point, here.
Even for the most passionate defenders of the President, they see Eedris’ factual context. Especially those who want to engage in honest discussions and debates.
There’s no reasonable dispute of the manner of siege set upon the southeastern Igbo States of Nigeria — especially, the uniquely eager and decisive push and giddy instinct to occupy and subjugate by the police and members of the Armed Forces. Or in Buhari-speak, to speak to them in the language they understand….
Dr. Hakeem Baba Ahmed, Director of Publicity and Advocacy for the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) took on Mallam Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant (Media and Publicity) to President Muhammadu Buhari on the escalating insecurity, violence and divisive tension all over Nigeria on Tuesday August 24, 2021 on Channels TV Lagos. This was the same day “bandits/unknown gunmen” attacked the iconic Nigeria Defence Academy. He simply told Shehu that regardless of what he says or claims that “Nigerians know better. They just have to look around the country. They know that this government is failing to secure them…. The people on the streets know the truth and so are those in towns and cities. People in the North know that what he (Shehu) is saying is not true. We still have millions of people living under the influence of Boko Haram. The numbers change, towns and cities change. Today they are in the hands of our troops, tomorrow, they are in the hands of Boko Haram…. The bottom line is that President Buhari came at a time that Boko Haram was the only security threat in the country but today, there are multiple threats. There is also a threat to national cohesion. It does not appear that the administration thinks that is a problem to fix. We are drifting apart from each other, creating enemies out of each other, we are telling Nigerians living in one part of the country to leave and it doesn’t appear that that is a concern to the administration. Three things are basically wrong with this administration.It doesn’t have a thinking capacity. It is living in denial, it doesn’t believe that the magnitude of this problem is real and so they don’t appreciate the fact that there is interconnection between their weakness and the opportunism which crime is feeding into.”
Primarily, as a governance assessment issue and matter of operational reality, one of the biggest problems Nigeria’s President, retired General Muhammadu Buhari, will face long after he leaves office Will be the issue of his nepotism and ethnocentric impositions. Essentially, his different strokes for different strokes biases. When very critical sections and productive members of the federation in any society are treated and signally and brutally “told” that they deserve only to play in the supporting, second-class category for the same country their grand-parents championed its freedom from colonial overlords, it’s a major mistake and offensive position. They don’t need IPOB or BOPI to sing redemption songs of freedom and equity.
I remember it was the late, great poet and freedom fighter Maya Angelou who wrote that“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.” I believe that ethnic prejudice and religious bigotry have combined to weaken both the present and the future of Nigeria!
Despite the doublespeak by some political contractors and messengers of lies and hangers on around this embattled but parochial presidency, I can only hope that someday soon — before it’s too late — Nigeria’s president Buhari will awaken to the path of grace and true statesmanship by simply treating All Nigerians fairly and no section and group “more equal than others.” Is that too much to ask? ———*Dr. Chido Nwangwu, the author of the forthcoming 2021 book, MLK, Mandela & Achebe: Power, Leadership and Identity, serves as Founder & Publisher of the first African-owned, U.S-based newspaper on the internet, USAfricaonline.com, and established USAfrica in 1992 in Houston. He is recipient of several public policy and journalism excellence honors, civic engagement and community empowerment awards and has appeared as an analyst on CNN and SKYnews. He served as an adviser on Africa business to Houston’s former Mayor Lee Brown. @Chido247

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E2%80%99s-children-away-her-sends-death-threats Family Of Ex-Minister, Audu Ogbeh Keeps Widow’s Children Away From Her, Sends Death Threats

Julius and Juliet Ochogwu

A woman, Mrs Juliet Ochogwu, a widow of late Mr Julius Ochogwu, has alleged that her husband’s family conspired and abducted her two children, Jason and Joanne, in their bid to seize the properties of her husband in Otukpo, Benue State.
Julius’ elder brother, Mr Paul Ochogwu, is a pastor of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Kanshio, Makurdi, the Benue State capital, and he alongside others, Joseph Ochogwu and Miss Martha Agatha, allegedly stormed The Holy Child Nursery and Primary School, Otukpo, on Monday, July 12, when they took the children away.

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She alleged that her mother-in-law, Paulina Ochogwu, the immediate elder sister of a former Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh, was also supporting the evil being meted out to her as well as the death threats sent by the family members so that she could let go of her children.
Juliet, who spoke to SaharaReporters on Friday, revealed that Paul and his siblings were in custody of her children and planned to inherit her husband’s estate.
Julius died on Thursday, April 1, 2021, after a serious battle with diabetes.
Ochogwu’s widow also disclosed that her brother-in-law, Paul, failed to remit over N1.5million condolence money raised by her husband’s friends for the upkeep of the four children, Jonathan, Jason, Joanne and Jasmine.
The woman said, “I was married to my husband for almost 13 years. So, we had a misunderstanding two years ago that led to our separation. I was pregnant with our fourth child. And he said he wasn’t ready for another child. Though we agreed on three children and when the fourth pregnancy came, even though I was on family planning, he said he wasn’t ready for another child that I should get rid of the pregnancy. But, I refused.
“When family intervened and all that, my husband got so furious and threw my things out of the house. So, from 2019 to 2021, we were separated. When he threw my things out, I went to live with my parents in Sokoto. But, my husband allowed me to always be in touch with the other three children by speaking with them on the phone. Three children with him were two boys and a girl. Their names were Jonathan, Jason and Joanne.
“So, within the process of this crisis, my husband sent me a divorce summons from High Court in Otukpo, Benue State. He didn’t take it seriously because we never had any court hearing. In January 2021, I was told that my husband was very sick. I called him that I would come and check on him and the children. The week I was supposed to travel and see him, he said he was referred to the General Hospital in Abuja. He had been seriously ill since I had left. He had diabetes which seriously affected his health. Unfortunately, the week I was supposed to visit him, he died on Thursday April 1, 2021.”
The widow noted that after her husband’s death, her father and relations attended the burial where her husband’s family asked her to take an oath to prove her innocence but her father prevented her, being a Christian family.
She continued that her husband’s family members were not on talking terms with her husband when he was alive but suddenly became so interested in his estate after his death.
She said, “They denied me access to my children only to discover that they were only after his properties and assets. They are aware that I had two male children for my husband; so whoever keeps the children automatically gets the assets. Funnily, these family members of my late husband that have been scrambling over his assets were people that were not talking with him when he was alive.
“His mother, Mrs Paulina Ochogwu, wasn’t on talking terms with my husband. His elder brother, Paul Ochogwu, was not talking to my husband for over 15 years. His younger sister, Martha Ochogwu, also was not talking to my husband even though both of them lived in the same town. For five years, she had not been talking to my husband. His elder brother also, Joseph Ochogwu also was not talking to my husband because my husband was a very blunt and truthful person. He didn’t hide anything. He told the truth openly. They were always against him because of his blunt principles. He never supported injustice.
“These people in their gang-up took my children away. My dad asked some Idoma people about these issues to see if we are doing the right thing. I’m from Edo, not Idoma so there are some things about their customs I don’t know.
Juliet revealed all the atrocities from her in-laws including death threats, adding that she was not asking for her husband’s estate but to let them have access to her children whom she did not know their whereabouts.
“They have unleashed injustice on me because I’ve not seen my children for two years. They are not taking care of the children. Rather, they squandered the condolence money raised for the upkeep of the children. They can keep my husband’s property but give me my children. The three children with them, Jonathan, a-12 year-old boy, Jason, a 10-year-old boy, and Joanne, a 5-year-old girl. They are holding them hostage and captive,” she said.

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EXCLUSIVE: Hushpuppi: Police Panel Recommends Demotion For Disgraced DCP, Abba Kyari To Prevent His Extradition To US

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The probe panel set up by the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, to investigate the erstwhile Head of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), DCP Abba Kyari, over his links with serial internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas, aka Hushpuppi, submitted a compromised report, SaharaReporters has gathered.
SaharaReporters learnt that the panel found Kyari guilty of some infractions after its investigations but recommended that Kyari should be demoted and not dismissed.

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Top sources in the Nigeria Police Force told SaharaReporters on Friday that the plot by the police authorities to hand Kyari a demotion was to frustrate his much anticipated extradition to the United States.
SaharaReporters had on Thursday reported that the probe panel set up by the IGP after three weeks of dilly-dallying turned in its report on the alleged indictment of Kyari by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Nigerian Group Backs Western Sahara, Condemns Ghanaian Scholars’ Support For Morocco’s Claim Of Territory

Nigerian Movement for the Liberation of Western Sahara has condemned a communique issued by the Imani Center for Policy and Education over the self-determination of Western Sahara.

In a statement sent to SaharaReporters, Dipo Fashina, coordinator of the NMLWS stated that the resolution of the Imani Center on the issue which justified Morocco’s claims of sovereignty over the Territory of Western Sahara was not only subjective but a historical fraud.

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Imani Center had stated after its June 27, 2021 seminar in Ghana that the “participants considered the admission into the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), then its maintenance by the AU, of a non-state entity, which has, since merely been a source of obstructions and division, as a striking example to this day. According to the participants, the AU should correct this ‘cumbersome legacy’ and ‘historical miscarriage’.

“Thus, the suspension, if not the expulsion, of the ‘SADR’ (The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, also known as Western Sahara), an armed group with no attributes of a sovereign State, must not be considered as a taboo or unattainable objective.”

Fashina noted that the Western Sahara territory had been given the right to self-determination as far back as 1963 as spelt out in the United Nations General Assembly resolution 1514.

He also stated that the International Court of Justice already issued an advisory opinion that denied Morocco’s claims of autonomy and affirmed the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination.

Fashina also condemned the stance of the Imani Center as he noted that the resolution of the conflict between the Saharawi people and the kingdom of Morocco over Western Sahara would contribute to the regional and continental economic integration of Africa.

The statement reads: ”The attention of the Nigerian Movement for the Liberation of Western Sahara has been drawn to a communique issued by Imani Center for Policy and Education, a ‘think tank’ as the outcome of a Seminar held in Accra, Ghana, titled ‘The imperative of Economic Recovery: How can the Resolution of the Sahara Issue Strengthen Africa’s Regional and Continental Integration?” Published in The Guardian online edition (Nigeria), 29 July 2021.

“Coming from Ghana, a country that played a remarkable role in the liberation struggles in Africa and gave Africa one of the best models of leadership, in the history of anti-colonial, liberation struggles in the world, the communique calls into question, the real motive of its authors.

“The seminar aims ‘aims to debate and discuss the African Union’s current challenges in an Objective, Scientific and dispassionate manner, in the context of a highly intellectual and fact-based exercise with credible experts and influential decision makers’.

“A very serious problem is that the Communique falls very much short of the criteria of objectivity, scientific merit and dispassionateness which the authors claim on their own behalf.

“The communique is intellectually unsound, politically weak, historically out of place, unjust in political morality, it demonstrates huge ignorance of the history and contemporary issues around which the issue of Western Sahara is being discussed worldwide.

“The communique smacks of treachery to the history and substance of the liberation struggles in Africa led by Kwame Nkrumah, Samira Machel, Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane, Augustinho Neto, Julius Nyerere, Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Ben Bella, Amilcar Cabral and many other great African leaders.”

It continued, “…The General Assembly had demanded that Spain should undertake immediate steps to guarantee the exercise of self-determination under UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV) adopted in 1960. The General Assembly had always maintained that the people of Western Sahara are entitled to the right of self-determination.

“As far back as 1963, the Territory if Western Sahara was listed among Non-self-governing territories as recognized in the UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 of 14 December 1960 that contained the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. It should be recalled that under Resolution 1514 (XV), the General Assembly, declared inter alia that all peoples have the right to self-determination and that by virtue of right, they should freely with determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.

“In this regard, the right of the people of Western Sahara to a referendum for self-determination has been reaffirmed by both the General Assembly and the UN Security Council as well as by the International Court of Justice.

“Morocco has never acquired the status of an administering Power of the Territory of Western Sahara in terms of Article 73 of the UN charter. The UN list of non-self-governing territories confirms that after the withdrawal and abandonment of responsibilities by Spain on 26 February 1976, Western Sahara has not had any other administering Power.

“With regards to Morocco’s claims of sovereignty over the Territory of Western Sahara. It should be recalled that on 16 October 1975, the International Court of Justice issued an Advisory Opinion that denied the claims of Morocco and Mauritania and affirming the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination under international law.

“…In view of these, the Western Sahara is a question of decolonization and therefore cannot be settled and should not be settled without the granting of the inalienable right to self-determination (decolonization) for the Saharawi people.

“From all we have seen, the so-called Moroccan plan of autonomy is neither credible nor serious…

“The position of the African Union is well spelt out as the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) became a member state of the Organization of African Unity in 1982. It should be recalled that membership to the OAU was open to any independent sovereign African State. The admission of SADD to the membership of the OAU in 1982 signified that more than half of the Member States of the OAU recognised Western Sahara as an independent sovereign African state.

“It goes without saying that the resolution of the conflict between the Saharawi people and the kingdom of Morocco over Western Sahara would contribute to the regional and continental economic integration of Africa.

“However, the just resolution of the question of Western Sahara is the implementation of the settlement plan enunciated in 1991 by the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity and agreed upon by both Morocco and the Polisaro Front in 1991.

“Any solution not based on the history of Western Sahara and political principle of the right of all nations to self-determination will not resolve the question of Western Sahara. Historical justice will be done when the Saharawi come to rule themselves in a Saharawi state. This is where we stand.

“The Nigerian Movement for the Liberation of Western Sahara (NMLWS), wishes to use this opportunity to reiterate its u alloyed support to the people and government of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic.”

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Hoodlums Demolish Two Religious Centres, Burn 14 Shops In Plateau

Hoodlums have destroyed two mosques, looted and razed down 14 shops at building materials market of Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State, Daily Nigerian reports.
The market comprises general commodity section, including vegetables.

Chairman of the Vegetables Traders Association, in the state, Dalyop Pwasa, confirmed the incident.
“Yes is true that some people have entered into our market on Wednesday, broke some shops, stole items and burned down 14 shops.
“They have also destroyed two mosques in the market,” Pwasa added.
Corroborating Pwasa, the secretary of the market association, Fodio Umar, said the two mosques were completely demolished despite the curfew.
“It is confirmed that some miscreants have demolished the two mosques in our market,” he said.
They started the demolition on Wednesday and completed Thursday and they have completely pulled down the mosques to foundation level.”
Umar said they also burgled their shops and set many of the shops on fire.
According him, reports have been made to the police area command at Sabon Barki, who requested the two Imams of the mosques to report to the station.
“The curfew situation has made us unable to go and see the extent of damages on our property. Only our chairman was there.
“Dalyop Pwasa has been doing his best. He mobilise trucks that evacuated lots of our goods out of the market.
“He was the one that called fire fighters that quenched the inferno,” he added.

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US Charges Three Businessmen Over Attempt To Smuggle Ammunition To Nigeria

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A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging three men on charges of conspiracy, violation of the Arms Export Control Act and the Export Reform Control Act, related to the export of firearms and ammunition from the United States to Nigeria.
Defendants in the case include Wilson Nuyila Tita of Owings Mills, Maryland; Eric Fru Nji of Fort Washington, Maryland; and Wilson Che Fonguh of Bowie, Maryland.

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The indictment was announced on Thursday by Acting United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Jonathan F. Lenzner; Special Agent in Charge James R. Mancuso of Homeland Security Investigations Baltimore; and Special Agent in Charge Timothy Jones of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Baltimore Field Division.
According to the four-count indictment, from November 2017 through July 19, 2019, the defendants conspired with each other and with others to export from the United States to Nigeria defence articles and items identified on the United States Munitions List and the Commerce Control List without first obtaining export licenses.
The defendants also allegedly conspired to conceal from the United States that those items were being shipped from the Port of Baltimore in Maryland to Nigeria and at least one other location in Africa.
It was stated that the defendants and their co-conspirators allegedly contributed funds for the purchase of firearms, ammunition, reloading materials and other equipment for shipping overseas.
The indictment alleges that the defendants and their co-conspirators communicated about their efforts and plans to ship weapons and ammunition using an online encrypted messaging application and code words to conceal their activities.
As detailed in the indictment, the defendants and other conspirators concealed the firearms, ammunition, rifle scopes, and other items in heavily wrapped packages and duffle bags, and inside sealed compressor units, placing those items into a shipping container destined for Nigeria without obtaining the requisite licenses from the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Finally, the indictment alleges that the defendants transported 28 firearms with obliterated serial numbers, including 18 rifles.
If convicted, the defendants each face a mandatory sentence of five years in federal prison for the conspiracy; a maximum of 20 years in federal prison each for violating the Arms Export Control Act and for violating the Export Control Reform Act; and a maximum of five years in federal prison for transportation of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.

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E2%80%99-leaders BREAKING: Three Injured As Inspector-General Of Police Squad Opens Fire On Ondo Students’ Leaders

32 More Students Of Kaduna Baptist School Regain Freedom

Nigeria Moves To Repatriate 322,000 Refugees From Cameroon, Niger, Chad

Sowore Knocks Rogue Nigerian Police Over Illegal Detention Of Man, Okeke Who Exposed Abuse Of 21-year-old “Police Slave” Glory Okolie

E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98animal-farm%E2%80%99-and-terrorism-nigerian-defence-academy-chido-nwangwu Buhari’s ‘Animal Farm’ And Terrorism At The Nigerian Defence Academy By Chido Nwangwu

E2%80%99s-children-away-her-sends-death-threats Family Of Ex-Minister, Audu Ogbeh Keeps Widow’s Children Away From Her, Sends Death Threats

EXCLUSIVE: Hushpuppi: Police Panel Recommends Demotion For Disgraced DCP, Abba Kyari To Prevent His Extradition To US

Nigerian Group Backs Western Sahara, Condemns Ghanaian Scholars’ Support For Morocco’s Claim Of Territory

Hoodlums Demolish Two Religious Centres, Burn 14 Shops In Plateau

US Charges Three Businessmen Over Attempt To Smuggle Ammunition To Nigeria