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target=_blank>Nine Nigerians Killed In Air Strike On Libya Detention Centre
The Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, says nine of its citizens were among those killed in a double air strike on a detention centre outside Tripoli, the capital of Libya.
Deaths from the attack which was carried out on the hapless civilians late Tuesday, has been reviewed to 53 from 44.
More bodies are still being pulled out of the rubble, indicating that the body count has not stopped.
Worst still, the United Nations said in a new report on the war crime that guards fired on migrants trying to flee the site of the explosion.
BBC reports that the first missile landed in a garage beside the camp, while a second struck a hanger occupied by at list 120 European dream seekers.
Two of the migrants informed the British broadcaster that they were coerced to work for a local militia. At list 500 more stranded migrants are vulnerable to attacks according to the UN report.
“There are reports that following the first impact, some refugees and migrants were fired upon by guards as they tried to escape,” the UN report said.
“Humanitarian actors call for the immediate release of refugees and migrants from detention centres and for relocation to safe shelter,” the report added. Fathi Bashagha, Libya’s Minister of Interior, was quoted by the Libyan Observer, as saying that the government is considering closing all dentention centres.
While people smugglers try to get migrants who are mainly from Nigerian and other Subsaharan African countries, to Europe in crammed rubber boats, Libyan coast guards funded by the European Union, intercept these dingy inflatable contraptions and return them to detention camps. With funding from the EU bloc, Libyans found a new venture in setting up deportation camps.
Nigeria’s foreign affairs ministry which has no communications link, has failed to put out any press release or Tweet on the killings at press time— leaving the report by the BBC as its only mouthpiece.
Prime Minister Fayez Al-Sarraj’s National Accord and War Lord Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan national Army, have blamed each other for the attack.
The Washignton Post in a piece published Thursday, noted that the militia the migrants were working for, was on the side of Al-Sarraj.
The combatants used the hanger adjacent to the camp house to store ammunitions, this would most likely have made it a target for the LNA.
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C2%A0police-custody target=_blank>Elisha Abbo Undergoing Interrogation in Police Custody
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Disgraced Senator Elisha Abbo, representing Adamawa North senatorial District, has arrived at the FCT police command in Abuja, for interrogation over his assault of a nursing mother in a s** toy shop.
Following a viral video published by Premium Times on Tuesday, Mohammed Adamu, Inspector General of Police, had the following day said Abbo would be invited for questioning on Thursday.
The Senate had also opened preliminary investigations into Abbo’s conduct. Online petitions have been signed calling for him to be charged to court and arrested.
Punch reports that Abbo had met with Adamu at the force Headquarters, before going to the police command.
Bala Ciroma, the FCT Commissioner of Police, told Punch that Abbo was still with them.
The video, which was obtained from a closed-circuit camera installed in the shop, showed Abbo assaulting a lady who had tried to intervene in an argument between the senator and a sales attendant.
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E2%80%99s-brain-propagandist-interpreter-buhari%E2%80%99s-maladies target=_blank>Re: OSINBAJO: Serial Liar, Buhari’s Brain, Propagandist, Interpreter of Buhari’s Maladies By Muhammad Gulani
To think of the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo as a liar and propagandist is to do a grave injustice to the truth itself, and to vex the millions of Nigerians that have benefited through the many ways his office has helped elevate people from poverty and unemployment. Not to mention, those blessed by his mentor ship, inspiration and leadership.
This Professor and Pastor is easily Nigeria’s most active Vice President since the inception of the 4th Republic in 1999. He has chaired so well the National Economic Council: leading the team whose efforts took us out of a recession, brought upon the country from many years of mismanagement.
The Social Investment Programmes, under his watch has touched the lives of over 12 million Nigerians. No socio-economic Programme in our history has made an impact of this worth. The ordinary women, the everyday Nigerians on the street looking for the next hustle, market men and women trying to make ends meet, needing just a little boost from government and the right atmosphere have found it in this programmes.
Forgive the digression, now to the bone of the issue.
When the Vice President said that Nigeria was experiencing kidnapping, engineered in some cases by politicians, and even in other cases by people who orchestrated their own kidnap, he did not lie. A Google search would prove that. Instances abound. Only recently the story of a man who faked his kidnap in Nassarawa State was shared on Cable NG. But the Vice President did not stop there, he acknowledged that there were indeed real cases of kidnapping and went further to state that the Buhari administration was ensuring that this sad reality became history. Where did the Vice President lie?
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Osinbajo: Serial Liar, Buhari’s Brain, Propagandist, Interpreter Of Buhari’s Maladies By Bayo Oluwasanmi
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While it is true that Nigeria currently has several patches experiencing violence, most of it has been fueled by politics and tribal conflicts. It is also false to assume that the Buhari/Osibanjo administration has not concentrated efforts to address this challenges. Bayo Oluwasanmi might have a serious issue with understanding the difference between a fact and a lie.
The government has sent in troops and entire police divisions whenever a crisis has arisen. Different operations and exercises have been carried out by the Nigerian Army to flush away bandits, kidnappers, terrorists and armed criminal herders who have committed heinous crimes in the communities around them. Many of them have been arrested or even killed. A Google search would show these victories for Nigeria over evil doers who want to bring us back.
Beyond boots on the ground, the government has also launched social-economic programmes aimed at dealing with the crises, especially of the clashes between herders and farmers. Knowing well that it is primarily rooted in disagreements in resource management – land in particular.
The administration has put in place the National Livestock Transformation Plan. It is is one of the most comprehensive plans that aim at ending the several decades long conflict, while looking at the economic benefits of the livestock rearing, and ensuring that there is proper conflict management and justice. A peep at the 8 page summary of the plan shows that the administration means business in ending this crisis.
It’s is overwhelmingly absurd to think of Osibanjo – a man who has spent half of his life in the service of this country – as a liar. All references cited by the author do not hold water and are far from facts. So where is the lie?
Mr Bayo Oluwasanmi upends logic when he writes this long piece of article and at almost every sentence cries that Professor Osinbajo is a liar, but he fails to mention any instance where Osinbajo has lied. He barks like a dog without teeth. A rabid one!
At every point Osinbajo has reeled out government achievements, whether in defence of his boss or simply stating things as they are, they have been backed by facts. Not lies. Are the 500,000 N-Power beneficiaries not real people? Can Bayo beat his chest and say that these beneficiaries do not exist? Or the over 2 Million beneficiaries of the Trader Moni? Or the 2nd Niger Bridge, whose construction is evident for everyone to see despite the naysayers saying it wasn’t real?
The author’s misguided interpretations in his article only shows you that he’s either being clever by half or is a pretty seedy personality who’s been urged along by a penny or two.
– Muhammad Gulani is a Political Scientist and Researcher.
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target=_blank>BREAKING: Court Throws Out Danjuma Goje’s Corruption Case After Order From President Buhari, Attorney General
The Federal High Court sitting in Jos has decided to throw out the N5 billion fraid trial levelled against Senator Danjuma Goje on orders of the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami who is acting in the orders of President Muhammadu Buhari.
SaharaReporters had exclusively reported a deal facilitated by President Muhammadu Buhari which required Goje to give up his Senate Presidency aspirations for Buhari’s favourite Ahmed Lawan in exchange for his case with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to be quashed.
Goje is accused of stealing N5bn between September and November 2010, after forging a document titled, ‘Resolution authorizing His Excellency the Executive Governor of Gombe State to acquire a loan of with Ref. No: GM/HA/RES/VOL. 1/17.
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The Nolle Prosequi by Malami came after the trial judge was summoned to sit at 6pm on Thursday evening.
At the hastily conducted sitting in Jos, one Niyi Akintola (SAN) represented Goje while was presented by one Paul Asika from the Ministry of Justice.
The case will therefore be discontinued at the orders of the Attorney General of the Federation.
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E2%80%93-forget-metoo-we-need-youtoo-stand-women-nkiru-balonwu target=_blank>Violence Against Women – Forget #Metoo, We Need #Youtoo To Stand With Women By Nkiru Balonwu
Senator Elisha Abbo’s behaviour is deplorable. This is not debatable. The footage that’s been released of him violently beating a woman inside a shop is simultaneously shocking and familiar for many (African) women. It’s obvious that this vicious behaviour must be condemned, now.
We at Africa Women Board join the global voices demanding for Senator Abbo’s immediate removal from office. Period.
Let’s dive deeper. What we also know in our hearts as Africans and global citizens is that regrettably, bringing someone in power to justice, principally when the issue is a charge of violence against women, is the exception globally.
Ask yourself how often we have seen our nation’s brutalizers not just behind bars, but shamed rather than excused by their counterparts for harming women? We, alongside a whole force of courageous minds, will work tirelessly to ensure that Senator Abbo faces the justice he deserves for his actions.
We will call for jail time, fines, his impeachment from office; but we’re also not naïve enough to realize that he just might evade a real responsibility that our society once treasured: the respect for and protection of our women.
Where are our men?
Where are our African men? Where are our men who will stand with women? Who will protect the agency of our women and protect the space for them to be unapologetically female? Who will deflect the hands of our attackers? Where are our men who will say, no, we don’t do that here?
The Abbo footage shows that while the Senator is attacking a woman, he is flanked by multiple men who say little and do nothing.
As the Senator’s hits land on the woman’s head, these bystanders swiftly lose all innocence and become complicit as they allow the beating to happen.
Towards the close of the video, some of the men decide to put themselves between the attacker and the woman. Imagine if they had made that decision from the start. What could have been prevented?
In this movement that AWB is wielding to advance the causes of African women, our focus is not just on this specific violent incident with Senator Abbo. We are also agonizingly disheartened by the recent Busola Dakolo interview, wherein she shares in detail an account of being raped by Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo; but the issue is far greater than these moments.
Adeptly, we know that these men are just today’s face of a twisted system, a synthetic fabric laced with blind eyes in the countless cases of violence against women.
Men as allies, not accomplices
It is this system, this violent culture that we’re really gunning for. We’re after the individuals who backlashed against Dakolo’s testimony.
We’re after the individuals, male and female, who excuse the violent manifestations of the anger of men which happen daily. In this type of social environment, women are having to constantly police themselves to exist in a culture that views them as guilty and deserving of violence.
How then are they expected to achieve with countless individuals actively allowing abuse to be directed at them? Staying silent on this issue, standing on the sidelines is equivalent to choosing the side of the abuser.
Men, we need you. We women share this earth with you and cannot afford to be disunited from you.
This means we demand to be included in the heavily-male saturated halls of power and also need your presence and power behind our causes for equity and justice. We need you as our allies: our Fathers, Brothers, Husbands and Sons.
We need you on this global task force to right societal wrongs. We cannot make sustainable change without you on board, without you using your agency to protect the whole.
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The shift in western culture which has been sped up by movements like #metoo and TIMES UP, have not reached us here on the continent.
But we still need something that works. We must ask ourselves, what kind of society gives men who witness violence being done against women reason to decide it’s not their business. Why are we siding with oppressors?
There is no neutral position, when the attacker is on one side victimizing another. We are talking about the survival of our people. This is a societal, cultural and business-based issue.
If you continue to hurt half of your population, your industry, your workforce, then you bind your own hands from achieving growth.
The vision of a prosperous and outward looking Africa that was forged at the turn of the millennium and the start of the internet age is now in danger of being eroded again, by the archaic and barbaric perpetuation of unchecked male power within our society.
Instead of debating the veracity of survivors’ testimonies, as we often do with the #metoo movement, we are turning the focus on you, because #Youtoo can be an agent, an activist in this zeitgeist for equality for all.
We at AWB, beseech you to stand with African women. We are a non-profit organization run by African women for African women.
Our goal is to amplify African female voices, support African female empowerment and help to create a world in which African women and girls across all classes, including those of the diaspora, are given the tools and resources they need to fully realise their potentials.
Dr. Nkiru Balonwu is CEO RDF Strategies and Chair of African Women on Board.
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has tendered an unreserved apology to Nigerians, women and the assault victim, over Senator Elisha Abbo’s violent conduct.
Tahir Shehu, Chairman of the party in Adamawa state at a press conference in Yola on Thursday, called on the victim and indeed all Nigerians to forgive the now sober senator.
“In communal relationship, it is expected that misunderstood may arise but what is more important is the way and manner by which they are handled.
“Men of honour and particularly elected legislative officers should not either in private or public molest, assault or degrade any person, more so a woman.”
He, however, distanced the party from the senator’s action saying, “We cannot fathom any acceptable reason for the actions of Elisha Abbo, we therefore condemn and distance ourselves from this unruly behaviour of the senator.
“We wish to state that every human being has the propensity to err and only the divine can forgive, it is on this premise that we call upon the lady who was assaulted and her immediate family to forgive the excesses of senator Abbo.
“We also plead with the generality of Nigerians and particularly the female folks to find space in their hearts to forgive, more so, that he has rendered an unreserved apology to the lady in question and her family, as well as Nigerians.”
The chairman also tasked Nigerians on standing against violence saying, “We salute the courage of Nigerians for standing up to condemn this dastardly act, we are also very sure that senator Ishaku has learn his lessons the hard way.
“We call on all Nigerians to give him a second chance as we believe he will come out of this present predicament stronger, dynamic and with a resolve that the incident will not repeat itself.
“It is in public domain that the leadership of the Senate has constitute a committee to investigate the circumstances of the incident, we support in totality the actions of the senate, however, we wish to call on the senate to show magnanimity and temper justice with mercy, it should not be used as vendetta against senator Ishaku Abbo as it is being clamoured by some interest group.”
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target=_blank>Former COZA Staff Accuses Biodun Fatoyinbo Of Raping Her, Gives Details How His Wife Modele Enable It
Another woman, a former staff of Biodun Fatoyinbo, founder of the Commonwealth of Zion Church in Abuja has come out to detail how he raped her when she worked with the church as a legal guardian to Fatoyinbo’s children in a foreign country.
The woman who spoke anonymously in an exclusive interview with Chude Jideonwo, co-founder of Red Media said the pastor raped her in 2017.
The allegations came a week after Busola Dakolo, popular photographer and wife of musician Timi Dakolo alleged that he raped her when she was a choir member in the church.
The allegations led to a widespread protest at his church branches in Lagos and Abuja forcing the accused Pastor to step down from his church.
In the new testimony, Fatoyinbo’s former employee who opted for her face to be blurred said, “I was living in one of the cities where the church was located. He was my boss, I did church and personal errands for them. It wasn’t like it was the first time that I was going to be at their house or go do something for them.
“He asked me to meet him at the house. It was a Thursday morning. It was supposed to be usual instruction. At this time, he was someone who I considered not just to be a mentor but a father figure. I was comfortable because I know that house.”
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Inside Story: Former Staff At Coza Accuses COZA Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo Of Rape
In an attempt to escape the situation, she said he pinned her down promising that “everything will be OK”.
“Everything moved quickly from there and then he started trying to pull me to a hug and of course trying to kiss me which I found shocking.
“All I can remember saying is that ‘you can’t do that, you have to stop’. I had a navy blue high waist jean trouser on and he started to take that off.
“He flipped from the sweet amazing person who was my mentor to someone I could barely recognise and then switched back to someone who cared about how I was feeling.
“For the first time, I saw a completely different person from who we knew or who I thought I knew,” she added.
She described Fatoyinbo as a weak person “with an appearance of strength.”
The former employee stated further: “With him, what you see is not what you get. He tries to appear as someone who not just understands the word but does the word but the person I met that day was completely different.
“She would have someone call me to the house to maybe do something for her and then it moved from that to me helping them take care of their son, Ephraim, the last one…until she made me an offer to go to some other country where they (the kids) were going to be schooling at. They don’t give anyone access to their kids,” she said.
“I have had a lot of personal encounter with them both enough to know that, I don’t think she is unaware. I am willing to bet money on the fact that she is not unaware. I don’t think it was a coincidence that she was the one who pulled me in. She is the one who made that happen. I think that there is a pattern there.
“I became a member of the church in 2009. I was a member of the music group, Avalanche and moved out of Nigeria when the church offered her a job in another country.”
She said Fatoyinbo called her to apologise after Timi Dakolo’s first post calling out an Abuja based Pastor for sexual assault on teenagers.
“He knew something was coming and was trying to tie up loose ends,” she said.
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target=_blank>EXCLUSIVE: How Senator Gabriel Suswam Bribed Federal High Court Judge To Quash Pending EFCC Fraud Case
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Gabriel Suswam, former governor of Benue State and serving senator in the 9th assembly has bribed a judge to subvert justice in his favour when the N3.1 billion case fraud case preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) comes up on the July 9 and 10, 2019, SaharaReporters can confirm.
The trial judge Suswam bribed is Justice Ahmed R. Mohammed of the Federal High Court in Abuja.
A top source privy to the transaction told SaharaReporters Suswam gave the judge the equivalent of N500 million (in foreign currency) on the second week of June at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja.
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The EFCC dragged Suswam to court for selling shares belonging to the Benue State Investment And Property Company and diverting part proceeds of the transaction (N3,111,008,018.51) to a company, Fanfash Resources, with Zenith Bank account number 1013677218.
Investigations revealed that the account belongs to one Abubakar Umar who operates a Bureau de change in Abuja.
The sum was later withdrawn and converted into foreign currencies and handed over to former governor Suswam his house.
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In a statement to the EFCC on November 22, 2017, Umar narrated how he helped the former governor to convert the sum of N3.1 billion into dollars (which amounted to $15.8million), between August and October 2014.
Umar, who is the Principal Witness 4 in the case, said he converted the money and took same to Suswam at his house in Maitama.
He later recanted his testimony telling the court he was offered money to do so by close associates of Suswam forcing the EFCC to declare him a hostile witness.
The businessman said, “In August 2014, my boss, former Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswan, called me to his house in Abuja and introduced me to a lady whom he never told me her name and asked me to give her my account details, and I did. Mr. Suswan told me that she would transfer money to me and that when I receive alert I should give him the dollar equivalent”.
Umar according to his statement told the court that he handed over the money to Suswan at his house in Maitama, Abuja, adding that “all the times I took dollars to Suswan, I always took different taxis for my security so that nobody would know I am carrying cash or where I am going to”.
He also added that he did not know any security man attached to Suswan’s house as they were always changed. Umar said he used to call Suswan before going to the house so that he can leave his name at the gate.
Umar added that whenever he gets to the house, he does not interact with anyone but remains in the car until Suswan comes out, takes him to a private part of his house where he gives him the money in dollars. He added that Suswan does not acknowledge the receipt of all the monies in writing.
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SaharaReporters found out that in the same manner in which he bribed Justice Mohammed, Suswam has bribed the Election Petition Tribunal judges in Benue State with N187 million (advance) to dismiss the appeal filed at the tribunal by one Mrs. Mimi Adzakpe Urubibi who contested the Benue North-east senatorial seat on the platform of the All Progressive Congress (APC) challenging his election to the Senate.
The bribed tribunal judges are, Hon. Justice R. O. Odugwu (Chairman), Justice M. A. Onyetenu (Member) and Justice Esther Tata.
The transaction which took place at Benue hotel was brokered by a People’s Democratic Party governor from the South-east.
The case which made the former governor bribe Justice Mohammed is set to come up July 9 and 10 at the Federal High Court in Abuja.
Justice Mohammed is expected according to the agreement of the bribe, to rule in favour of Suswam.
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target=_blank>Unlawful Detention: Madonna ‘7’ Regains Freedom After Take It Back Movement Campaigns
The Take It Back Movement has commended Nigerians for speaking up against the injustice metted out upon seven Madonna University students illegally detained by the institution over comments posted on social media over of poor welfare of staff and students of the university.
In a statement signed by Sanyaolu Juwon, the TakeItBack Movement Campus Unit National Coordinator on Thursday in Lagos said, “The TakeitBack seizes this medium to appreciate the Nigerian people and the social media community for the passion driven revolutionary commitment, displayed towards the struggle to free the unjustly detained Madonna 7.
“This victory is yet again a confirmation of the immense power inherent in our collective resistance against all and every form of impunity and oppression, whether from the University walls or by state and its despotic machinations.
“It should be recalled that the Chijioke; the University’s best graduating student, and six others were unjustly arrested and incarcerated since February over comments bordering on poor welfare condition of Students and Staffs of the institution.
“This obviously did not go down well with a University accustomed to draconic and Jackboot administrative practices. By colluding with several and willing state apparatus, the students were arrested, tortured, detained and subsequently incarcerated for close to five months now.
“Several informal pleas were made to the University and the un-fatherly Reverend Father Edeh who leads the University as though leading a slave camp. Like the Biblical pharaoh whose highhandedness was his road into the abyss of doom, so was the character of the tyrannical catholic priest.
“It took relentless agitations, protest letters and Press Statement of the Takeitback Movement and their partners, Online and Offline agitations of the Students’ Movement and the organized social media community to humble the pride of this Nebuchadnezzar, who Lords his draconic will over innocent students and Staffs of Madonna University.
“Without getting carried away, lest our victory becomes pyrrhic, we would like to inform that it is not yet uhuru. We must proceed from here to get justice for the irreparable physical and psychological damages done to these patriotic Nigerians. We must also press ahead to seek end to the undemocratic management of the University and call for the establishment of a democratically elected Students and Staff Unions on the campus; this will no doubt help check excesses of irresponsible management.
“We also demand that government adequately funds our public institution as this would forestall the thrive of irresponsible and un-academic Private Universities who are only out to exploit the working, toiling and poor Nigerian masses.
“To achieve this next phase of justice, we call on lovers of justice to come on board, as it is, this is now a ‘Nigeria people vs Madonna University’ case. We will be sure to communicate you every step of the way.”
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BREAKING: Taraba Governor Signs Death Sentence For Kidnappers
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Darius Ishaku, governor of Taraba state has signed into law, anti kidnapping act which provides capital punishment for offenders.
The governor appended his signature on Wednesday in Jalingo after the state Assembly passed the act after its third reading.
Taraba state has experienced several high-profile kidnappings in recent times.
Hosea Ibi, a state lawmaker from Takum was kidnapped and killed by his abductors in January 2018, even after a ransom was paid.
In the past two years, no fewer than 20 persons, some of them government officials were kidnapped from their homes and on the roads while travelling. It is, therefore, hoped that the law would check the menace.
Under the new law, if convicted of kidnapping, offenders would be penalised by death.
The bill which was sponsored by the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Peter Abel Diah, was unanimously supported.
A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the governor on Media and Publicity, Bala Dan Abu, said, “The law is intended to help contain kidnapping which is today a major concern in Taraba.
“Under the new law, anybody found guilty of abduction or kidnapping in the state will pay the supreme price for it.
“The law is a product of government’s concern about insecurity in the state, particularly, kidnapping for money which is rampant in the state and other parts of the country.”
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