8-Year Old Boy Ask The Police To Burn His Father With A Hot Iron as a Revenge

An eight-year-old boy at Asafo Dadiesoaba in Kumasi, whose right foot was heinously seared by his father, Yussif Wahab, for being rowdy, wants the police to take revenge on his behalf by also roasting his father with a hot iron.The boy, who could not walk properly following the severe wounds that he suffered on his foot after being burnt with a burning iron, has passionately appealed the police to come to his aid by teaching his ‘wicked’ father a bitter lesson.

The poor boy’s right foot developed a sore, making it impossible for him to walk properly. He was spotted by two journalists of Kessben FM on Wednesday who took him to the Emergency Centre of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital where he was admitted.

Yussif said his father, sent him on an errand but he decided to visit his grandmother, against his father’s warning. According to him, his father, after searching for him, later found him at his grandmother’s at Asafo Dadiesoaba. Yussif’s father became angry and dragged the boy to his house.

Yussif said his father, upon reaching the house, subjected him to severe beatings after which he ordered him to sit on the bed where he pressed a hot iron on his foot for disobeying him.

Yussif, who is now being treated by medical personnel at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, insisted that: “I want the police to arrest my father, beat him mercilessly and also press a hot iron against his foot just as he did to me.”

Wahab Yussif, has been invited for questioning. The young boy is also being kept by the department until the matter is finally resolved.

Bomb Shell! An Akwa Ibom MAN carried out the attack on Christians at BUK

Augustine Effiong, 25, an indigene of Akwa Ibom State, who is popularly known as Abubakar Garba said on Monday that he helped carry out deadly attacks on April 29 at church services in the old campus of the Bayero University, Kano (BUK) and admitted belonging to the extremist group, Boko Haram in his confession to police.

Name: Augustine Effiong (25).
State of Origin: Akwa Ibom State (Parents are from same state.
Place of Birth: Maiduguri, Borno State.
Address: Bulunkutu Abuja Quarters in Maiduguri.
Religion: Islam. Changed parents given Name to reflect his Faith.
Spoken Language(s): Kanuri, Hausa and English.
Other City of Residence: Lived in Maiduguri all His life. Relocated to Kano in April, 2012.
Job in Kano: Part of a 20-man killer squad, charged with targeting security officers in Kano.
Case: (1): Attack on Worshippers at BUK, including Killing 2 Professors.
Case: (2): Involved in Other Terror attacked that killed Civilians and Security officers in Maiduguri and Kano.
Case: (3): Attempt Murder at Danlasan Village in Warawa LGA of Kano state.
Present Location: Custody of the State Security service (SSS), Abuja.

The State Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Idris who disclosed this in a press statement made available to reporters said that, Mr Effiong had confessed to be one of those behind the attack on Christian worshipers at BUK.

Mr Effiong, though an indigene of Akwa Ibom was born and brought up at Maiduguri before he later converted to Islam. The police said, “he has been transferred to Abuja for discreet investigations”.

The command said Mr Effiong was arrested over an attempt to murder a civilian at Danlasan Village in Warawa Local Government Area of Kano state.

During the preliminary investigation, the suspect, a resident of Bulunkutu Abuja Quarters in Maiduguri confessed to have relocated to the Kano state last April.

“He confessed to have participated in a series of attacks, killing of policemen and military personnel in the state (Kano), including the recent attack and killings in Bayero University Kano (BUK),” the police said.

Attackers with bombs and guns opened fire at church services at BUK last month and killed about 20 people including two professors as worshippers tried to flee.

“I was involved in the attack at BUK,” he told reporters in Hausa.

He further confessed to being part of a “20-man killer squad” charged with targeting the security services around Kano.

Boko Haram has repeatedly targeted the security services in Kano and has claimed attacks that have killed more than 1,000 people since mid-2009.

“I killed many people, including five soldiers at checkpoints,” in Kano, Mr Effiong said.

SEE WHAT HE DID

The question remains:

- Who are the sponsors of the deadly Boko Haram
- were the bombers payed?
- and what should be done to any arrested Bomber? Jungle Justice? Court? or which other way can you prescribe?

3 bankers, 8 others arrested after failed bank attack

LAGOS— ELEVEN suspected members of a robbery gang were arrested by the Lagos Police Command which foiled their attempt to rob a new generation bank at Gbagada area of the state.

Five of the suspects were said to be staff of the bank. They are being detained at the Special Anti-Robery Squad, Lagos.

Police sources said one of the bank staff, a senior marketing executive, alleged  to be mastermind of the foiled robbery  attempt, connived with two internal securitymen   and two other staff  of the bank to attack the bank  Monday night, after a customer had deposited N120 million.

They were said to have invited a notorious robbery suspect, one Sadiq, who had been on the command’s wanted list.

Sadiq, it was gathered, invited six other members of his gang and planned the Monday’s attack.

During the operation, they reportedly posed as customers and stormed the bank. They were arrested by plain-cloth policemen, who, acting  on tip-off, had condoned off the entire bank premises. The suspects, during interrogation, mentioned the bank staff as their accomplices.

Preliminary investigation, according to sources at SARS,  showed that the suspects bought their arms from Lagos and Benin City, Edo State and gave them to one of the bank staff, who concealed then in some Central Processing Unit, CPU, in the bank, to avoid the metal detective machine at the entrance of the bank from giving them away.

The marketing executive, according to the confessional statement of the robbers, allegedly gave them money to procure the weapons.

According to the command boss, Mr. Umar Manko, “We have arrested 11 of the suspects including five staff of the bank. We are still investigating the matter. We shall prosecute them as soon as investigation is concluded.”

Ogun traffic officers kill Okada rider for driving on uncommissioned road

Tragedy struck, yesterday, after 15  officials of Ogun state Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, TRACE,  in Abeokuta, beat a man identified as Samuel Adoke,  to death for driving on a road that is yet to be commissioned.

An eye-witness  told  Vanguard that  the incident  occurred about 9a.m. at  Oke-Sokori  when  the TRACE  officials  flagged down Adoke who was ridding  an Okada on the yet to be commissioned six-lane  road,  but he allegedly ignored them.

Vanguard  gathered  that the officials,  in annoyance,  pursued the man, who reportedly  maintained his ground  that there was no other route through which he could access his house except passing through the road which had been barricaded.

The source added that the  officials  claimed  the man  ignored  the road diversion signs placed  on the six-lane road  expected to be commissioned by Governor Ibikunle Amosun on Monday.

The TRACE officials were also said to have  immediately fled the area after the death of  Adoke,a father of two and an employee of a new generation bank in Abeokuta.

Leader of the TRACE’s team that allegedly committed the crime was  identified as Gabriel Odunlami while the squad was identified as Ranger squad.

One of the TRACE officials who allegedly killed the man was, however, apprehended by the police and was said to have been remanded at the Ibara Police Divisional headquarters in Abeokuta.

The state Police Public Relations Officer,  Muyiwa Adejobi, confirmed the incident after efforts to get the Corps Commandant of TRACE ,Ayo Sangofadeji, to comment failed.

Adejobi, however, stressed that Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Okoye Ikhemefuna had ordered full investigation into the matter.

Profile of Nigeria's Boko Haram Leader Abubakar Shekau-BBC

Abubakar Shekau is the leader of the militant Islamist group Boko Haram, which has carried out a series of deadly attacks across northern Nigeria. Abdullahi Tasiu Abubakar from the BBC Hausa service looks at Nigeria's most wanted man.

The leader of the militant Islamist group Boko Haram is said to be a fearless loner, a complex, paradoxical man - part intellectual, part gangster.

Fondly called imam or leader by his followers, Abubakar Muhammad Shekau was born in Shekau village in Nigeria's north-eastern state of Yobe.

Some say he is 34 or 35, others that he may be 43 - the uncertainty adds to the myths surrounding Nigeria's most wanted man.

Radical theology student. Mr Shekau was once thought to have been killed by security forces in 2009 - only for him to reappear in videos posted on the internet less than a year later as Boko Haram's new leader.

The group's founder, Muhammad Yusuf died in police custody, and hundreds of others were killed during that massive crackdown - which many blame for making the group even more violent.

Mr Shekau has not been seen in public since.

Instead, still images and video clips of him are released from time to time, mostly online, by the group's faceless "public enlightenment department".

Mr Shekau is said to have met his predecessor in Maiduguri, capital of Borno State and now Boko Haram's headquarters, through a mutual friend, Mamman Nur.

Nigeria's authorities say Mr Nur masterminded the August 2011 bombing of the UN office complex in Nigeria's capital, Abuja.

All three were theology students - and Mr Shekau was seen as the quietest and perhaps the most radical of them.

"He hardly talks, he is fearless," says Ahmed Salkida, a journalist with such good access to Boko Haram that, at one stage, he was suspected of being a member.

A screengrab taken from a video released on You Tube on April 12, 2012 apparently shows Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau (C) sitting flanked by militants Under Mr Shekau, Boko Haram has become more radical and carried out more killings.

He says he only escaped summary execution by Maiduguri police after an intelligence officer intervened.

"He is one of those who believes that you can sacrifice anything for your belief," Mr Salkida says.

Mr Shekau is fluent in his native Kanuri, Hausa and Arabic languages - he does not speak English.

"I used to joke with him that he should teach me Arabic and I would teach him English," Mr Salkida says.

When Yusuf was killed, Mr Shekau is said to have married one of his four wives and adopted their children - perhaps, say sources who do not want to be named, to preserve Boko Haram's cohesion or "purity".
'Chilling message'.

The group has a highly decentralised structure - the unifying force is ideology.

Mr Shekau does not communicate directly with the group's foot soldiers - he is said to wield his power through a few select cell leaders, but even then contact is minimal.

"A lot of those calling themselves leaders in the group do not even have contact with him," Mr Salkida says.

Mr. Shekau has neither the charismatic streak nor the oratorical skills of his predecessor - but he has an intense ideological commitment and ruthlessness, say people who study the group.

"He is the leader of the more militant wing of the group as testified by his aping of Osama Bin Laden in his video appearances," says Abubakar Mu'azu from the University of Maiduguri.

Mr Shekau issued a chilling message in one of those appearances - which provides an major insight into what his leadership of the group will bring.

"I enjoy killing anyone that God commands me to kill - the way I enjoy killing chickens and rams," he said in the video clip released just after Boko Haram had carried out its deadliest attack so far, killing at least 180 people in Kano, northern Nigeria's largest city.

Mr Shekau is also the group's spiritual leader - and, judging by video footage, he seems equally comfortable delivering sermons to his followers.

"He has a photographic memory and is well versed in theology," Mr Salkida said.

He is nicknamed "Darul Tawheed", which translates as a specialist in Tawheed. This is an orthodox doctrine of the uniqueness and oneness of Allah, which is the very cornerstone of Islam.

But Nigeria's mainstream Muslim clerics do not regard Mr Shekau as a scholar and question his understanding of Islam - and regularly condemn the bombings and drive-by shootings committed by his followers against anyone who disagrees with them.

AN UNCLE JAILED FOR RAPING HIV+ ORPHANED NIECE

Wilson Chingosho, 54, has been jailed for 18 years for a sickening sex attack on his orphaned 13-year-old niece.
Chingosho, of Mabvuku in Harare, will spend an effective 14 years behind bars after Harare magistrate, Sandra Mpindu, set aside part of the sentence on Monday.
Said the magistrate: “The complainant trusted you as an uncle, but you misused that trust and abused a child who is also an orphan.”

The court heard that the victim was also HIV positive after contracting the disease from her mother at birth.
Mpindu said the court needed to make a strong statement with a deterrent sentence as cases of abuse of vulnerable minors by relatives supposed to be caring for them were on the increase.
Tinashe Kanyemba, prosecuting, said the assault occurred sometime last year after Chingosho went into the spare bedroom used by the teenager and her sister.
Chingosho found the two girls sitting on the bed and got rid of the other sister by telling her to go and buy bread at the shops.

While she was gone, Chingosho returned to the room where he found the 13-year-old sleeping. He dropped his trousers to his ankles, lifted the blankets raped his niece once.
He then threatened her with physical harm if she told anyone about the abuse.

Kanyemba told the court the girl had started bleeding shortly after the attack and went outside the house where a neighbour saw her crying but was apparently too drunk to do anything about it.
The rape was only discovered on April 11 this year when the girl told staff at a Harare clinic about the abuse. Police were called.

Suspected Suicide Bomber Caught At The Radio House In Abuja

Police said they caught a suspected terrorist at the proposed venue of a ministerial conference yesterday.

The person whose identity remains unknown reportedly came to the Radio House with high grade explosives and rounds of ammunition.

The Radio House was to play host to three federal ministers who were scheduled to present their achievements in office in preparation for the annual May 29th "Democracy Day" ritual.