Sahara Reporters Latest News Today Tuesday 27th October 2020
Sahara Reporters Latest News Today and headlines on some of the happenings and news trend in the Country, today 27/10/20
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Men In Military Uniform Were At Scene Of Lekki Shooting, Governor Sanwo-Olu Reveals
Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos State, has said that CCTV footage from the Lekki Toll Gate area where over 10 peaceful protesters were killed by soldiers last Tuesday night showed that men in Nigerian Army uniform were at the scene of the incident.
The Nigerian Army initially denied the attacks in a post on Twitter, describing reports of the incident as “fake news” despite video evidence.
Sanwo-Olu while speaking with CNN said CCTV footage from the Lekki Toll Gate confirmed that persons, who carried out the massacre were in military gear.
He said, “From the footage that we can see because there are cameras at that facility, it seems to me that they were men in military uniform, Nigerian Army.
“Yes, they (military) were there. That’s what the footage shows.
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“Investigation is starting on Monday, it will all be available for the judicial panel to review. I will commit to a full investigation of what happened on the ground, absolutely, I do.
“We will do everything to ensure that they are held accountable.
“I am not the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, I am the governor of a state. My report will be out, we will channel the report to all relevant authorities in the state to ensure that everyone that is found culpable is accountable for the act.”
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Lekki Toll Gate Killings: How President Buhari, Nigerian Army And Lagos State Government Connived To Kill Peaceful #EndSARS Protesters In Lagos
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EXCLUSIVE: How Soldiers Led By Colonel Tanko Injured, Killed #EndSARS Protesters In Edo
An EndSARS protester, Godwin Iraoya, have been killed by operatives of the Nigerian Army in Auchi, Edo State, SaharaReporters has gathered.
SaharaReporters gathered that four other protesters were also injured when the soldiers opened fire on peaceful protesters on Monday, 12th October, 2020.
The protesters were rallying in the town to join the demand for the scrapping of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad unit of the police when the incident happened.
SaharaReporters gathered that the soldiers were led by one Colonel Abdulsamad Tanko, who ordered his men to shoot at the unarmed protesters.
“The incident happened less than two hours before the curfew that was slated for 4pm on that day. Our brother, Godwin Iraoya, is dead and his body is still lying at Santa Mariah Hospital, Jattu-Auchi. Four other protesters are currently in different hospitals receiving treatment. One of them had a leg amputated,” a source told SaharaReporters.
The source said the protesters were not armed before they were shot at by the soldiers.
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REVEALED: Nigerian Soldiers Involved In Lekki Massacre Took Eight Bodies To Bonny Camp Clinic
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Again, UK Expresses Concern Over Violence In Nigeria, Urges Security Services To Use Restraint, Investigate Lekki Killings
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The United Kingdom through the British High Commission in Nigeria has expressed concern over violence and looting in Nigeria.
Thugs, who hijacked peaceful #EndSARS protest against police brutality in the country, have operated unhindered, destroying private businesses in the country.
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The UK in a tweet on Monday night called for security operatives in Nigeria to use restraint until calm was restored to prevent an escalation of the situation while also calling for an investigation into the killing of unarmed peaceful protesters by the Nigerian Army at the Lekki Toll Gate area on October 20.
The tweet reads, “We remain concerned by acts of looting and violence in Nigeria and urge security services to use restraint as order is restored.
“Working with all stakeholders, judicial panels of inquiry must investigate all incidents, including Lekki and ensure accountability for crimes. #EndPoliceBrutality.” We remain concerned by acts of looting & violence in 🇳🇬 & urge security services use restraint as order is restored. Working with all stakeholders, judicial panels of inquiry must investigate all incidents, including #Lekki, & ensure accountability for crimes. #EndPoliceBrutality— UK in Nigeria🇬🇧 (@UKinNigeria) October 26, 2020
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BREAKING: Nigerian Soldiers Kill Two Persons In Osun
Two persons have allegedly been killed by operatives of the Nigerian Army in Ikire, the headquarters of Irewole Local Government Area of Osun State.
SaharaReporters gathered that trouble started when some youth, calling for the removal of Akire of Ikire, Oba Olatunde Falabi (Lambeloye III), stormed the palace and drove the monarch out of the place.
The protesters were relying on the Supreme Court judgment of 2014 that it was not the turn of the Falabi’s ruling house to produce the Akire and also a similar judgment by the state high court in few months ago.
Efforts by men of the Nigerian Army to disperse the irate youth and bring normalcy to the town created more tension as they started shooting sporadically.
The youth in return started hurling stones at the soldiers and ambushed them after, which they snatched their rifles.
A resident of the area told SaharaReporters that failure of the youth to return the rifles made the soldiers to call for reinforcement in the process, which at least two residents of the town were killed.
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#EndSARS: Ondo Police Arrest 10 Persons Over Damages on Public, Private Properties
The police in Ondo State have arrested a total of 10 persons in connection with various destruction of public and private properties in the state.
The criminal act followed days of protest to end police brutality in the state.
Bolaji Salami, Commissioner of Police in the state, who disclosed this to SaharaReporters on Monday, said many of the suspects were thugs arrested at the scene of the incident.
He added that those apprehended by the police were not protesters.
According to him, the police arrested the criminal elements, who had hijacked the peaceful protest and turned it into an avenue to loot and set fire to public properties.
Bolaji said, “Those arrested have confessed to what they have done and proper investigation is now being carried out on the cases.
“Although, those we arrested are not the ones who were demonstrating on the streets but criminal elements who hijacked the peaceful protest earlier started by the youth.
“So, we didn’t arrest any protester but the ones in our custody are those who use the opportunity to cause trouble and violence by turning it into arson and other criminal acts.
“By the time we conclude our investigations, they would all be charge to court and made to face the consequences of their action in due time.”
Some miscreants had hijacked the #EndSARS protest in Akure, Ondo, Okitipupa and Owo areas of the state and destroyed both public and private properties.
The properties destroyed and burnt down by the thugs in the state includes- the secretariats of APC and PDP, Nigerian Correctional Centre, magistrate court, police stations and buses.
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Nigerian Lady Arrested For Allegedly Killing Boyfriend In India
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The police in India have arrested a Nigerian woman, Oge Florence, over the death of her boyfriend and fellow Nigerian identified as Obinna.
Oge on Sunday afternoon allegedly stabbed Obinna during a quarrel inside their house.
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He died of excessive bleeding after he was rushed to a nearby hospital.
It was gathered that the pair were known to quarrel often and the deceased had in the past drank a poisonous substance because of the lady.
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Kwara Police Arrest 144 Persons Over Looting Of Malls
The Kwara State Police Command has arrested 144 persons suspected to be connected with the vandalisation and looting of malls in the state.
The thugs, who went on the rampage during the weekend, invaded stores of traders in Palms Mall on Fate Road, Ilorin, the state capital, and made-away with items like phones, chairs, generators, toiletries and food items.
The Commissioner of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, while speaking with journalists, noted that the arrest was made by a combined team of security agencies, who went after the looters.
He said some of the looted items had been recovered, noting that it would be a continuous exercise to recover more items from suspected persons.
The police urged the public to continue to avail information that will lead to the arrest of more looters.
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NLC Condemns Hoarding Of COVID-19 Palliatives, Demands Immediate Distribution To Reduce Hardship
The Nigeria Labour Congress has condemned the hoarding of COVID-19 palliatives by some state governments in the country.
This is as the NLC called for the distribution of all palliatives still stored in different warehouses across the country.
In recent days, residents of states like Lagos, Ogun, Plateau and Edo have been discovering and looting foodstuffs hoarded in COVID-19 warehouses.
Berating the action of the state government to hoard the palliatives rather than distribute it, the NLC in a statement urged the Nigerian Government to investigate the conduct of those hoarding the palliatives.
It also said that some hoarded palliatives were getting rotten while hunger and hardship was growing in the country.
The statement reads, “It is obvious that the palliative provisions that were procured by government for immediate distribution to the mass of our people at their critical time of need and to assuage the hardship occasioned by the lockdown were hoarded and held back by some government officials.
“The reasons for this have not been made known to the public. We also understand that many of the palliative provisions are already getting rotten in the warehouses where they were stored.
“While we condemn the ensuing mass looting of both the COVID-19 palliatives and non-COVID-19 palliative materials, we equally deplore the conduct of some government officials who stored away relief materials that should have been distributed to the masses of our people at their very trying times of need.
“In order to forestall riotous plundering of the remaining relief palliatives, the Nigeria Labour Congress demands that the Federal Government should order the immediate release of all the welfare provisions and materials to citizens.”
In reaction to the condemnation that had followed the sudden discovery of palliatives, the Nigeria Governors’ Forum defended itself, saying the recent cache of palliatives discovered by citizens in warehouses across the country was kept in anticipation of a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
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Killing: After Initial Denial, Nigerian Army Says Officers Were Ensuring Curfew Compliance At Lekki During Incident
After initial denial by the Nigerian Army that its officers were not at Lekki Toll Gate, Lagos, where peaceful protesters were shot and killed last Tuesday, the military has come out to say its officers were only ensuring compliance with a curfew put in place by Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, earlier that day.
Soldiers killed over 10 peaceful demonstrators and left scores more injured.
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The Nigerian Army has now said its officers were simply ensuring compliance with the curfew put in place in Lagos State.
In a statement credited to the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, the Acting Director of Army Public Relations, Sagir Musa, said some people were trying to discredit the military and Nigerian Government.
Though Musa did not make direct reference to Tuesday killings at Lekki, he said, “Detractors both local and international have mischievously and deliberately misrepresented troops’ efforts to ensure compliance with the curfew imposed by legitimate civil authorities in Lagos and other states.
“These agitators are falsely accusing the NA of being responsible for the activities of the miscreants despite glaring evidence to the contrary.”
He also decried that the detractors are threatening to report the Nigerian Army to the International Criminal Court and also impose a visa ban on them from foreign countries.
“Criminal elements are threatening us with travel ban but we are not worried because we must remain in this country to make it better.
“The first time I travelled outside this country, I was already 50 years and a general, so I don’t mind if I live the rest of my life here,” Buratai said.
SaharaReporters had revealed that the soldiers involved in the attack on peaceful protesters were deployed from 65 Battalion, Bonny Camp, Victoria Island, Lagos.
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REVEALED: Nigerian Soldiers Involved In Lekki Massacre Took Eight Bodies To Bonny Camp Clinic
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“They came in two Hilux vans with at least eight bodies. Some were still alive when they returned. They dumped them at MRS Hospital. They told us clearly that it was Governor Sanwo-Olu that sent them,” a brother to one of the victims told SaharaReporters.
Contrary to the denial by the Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-olu, that he knew nothing about the killing and maiming of peaceful #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate area of the state by personnel of the Nigerian Army, soldiers involved in the operation have since confirmed that they were actually drafted in for the mission on the request of the governor.
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Man Starves, Chains 10-year-old Son For 18 Months In Akwa Ibom
A group, Child’s Right and Rehabilitation Network, has rescued a 10-year-old boy identified as Ekemini, who was brutalised and shackled by his father and stepmother for 18 months.
It was gathered that most times, Ekemini would be forgotten and without food and water for days.
His dad and stepmother had accused him of being possessed by demons.
Head of the CRARN, Sam Ikpe Utauma, in a statement narrated how the victim was constantly tortured, starved and subjected to various inhuman treatment.
He said, “The Child’s Rights and Rehabilitation Network is working with the police in Eket to unravel the probable cause of a father frequently tying up and manhandling his ten year old son in Ikot Udota, Eket, Akwa Ibom State. “Little Ekemini has had a rough time with his father and stepmother in the family home for the past eighteen months. His situation took a turn for the worst the last eight months when his father began to tie and shackle him then drop him in the backyard sometime without food, persistent beatings and viciously manhandling him.
“His appalling condition caught the attention of a CRARN volunteer through a tip-off, and the police was alerted which led to the father’s arrest, unshackling and rescue of the young lad. “The members of the community quickly rushed and bailed out the man who didn’t deny his act of brutality on his child but merely boasted that he has the right to treat his child as his he wished. “Ekemini has complained bitterly about the unrelenting abuse and battering he endures in his family and says he fears for his life.
“While condemning this reprehensible act of brutality against this child, we will be following up with the situation to ensure that the child is safe and out of harm’s way.”
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