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  • Senator Nkechi Nwogu faults Nigerians for blaming Insecurity on APC

     

    Chairman of the Governing Council of University of Calabar, Senator Nkechi Nwogu, has said that anybody blaming the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the insecurity in Nigeria is an enemy of the country.

    While speaking at her Umuocheala Mbutuoma, Osisioma Ngwa country home in Abia State, during the revalidation of her membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nwogu, who condemned the growing insecurity in the country, said it should not be seen as an APC affair.

    She called on all, irrespective of political leaning to support President Muhammadu Buhari in the fight against banditry across the nation, since according to her, insecurity does not know who belonged to which political party.

    “When the bandits strike, they do not do that based on the political party one belongs and that is why all should join hands in fighting it”.

    A strong believer in a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction, Nwogu said it was about time the Igbo were treated like any other part of the country in terms of having a shot at the apex governance of the country.

    She said the Igbo have since 1999 assisted the South West, North West and the South-South to produce the president of the country at one point or the other and stressed that there was no reason the other zones would have not to support the South East come 2023.

    “It is about time the Igbo are treated like any other part of the country in terms of having a shot at the apex governance of the country.

    “The Igbo have assisted the South West in 1999, North West in 2007 and the South-South in 2009 to produce the president of the country and I don’t think there is any reason the other zones would have not to support the South East come 2023 to produce the president”.

    Earlier, the chairman of Abia State APC re-registration and revalidation exercise, Ambassador Bala Mohammed Mariga and the state chairman of APC, Chief Donatus Nwamkpa had urged the people of the state to join APC en masse so as the vote out the PDP government come 2023.

     

     

     

    Source: www.sunnewsonline.com

  • Gunmen Kill 4 Policemen in Cross River

    Five suspects have been arrested in connection with the killing of four policemen in Calabar.

    The policemen said to be two inspectors and two sergeants were killed by gunmen between 12 midnight and 1am on Thursday at a makeshift checkpoint at Ayan Mbat community on Idundu Road in Calabar Municipality.

     

    Their guns were allegedly carted away by the unidentified gunmen.

     

    Confirming the incident, the state Commissioner of Police, Sikiru Akande, said, “We have gone to the scene to see what has happened. The attack was a means devised to dampen our spirit. Our spirit is not dampened.

     

    “We have arrested five suspects. More will be arrested. From intelligence gathered, a group of cultists want to get equipment for their initiation coming up soon. In the next few days, we will get all of them.

     

    “We have started recovering some of the weapons they snatched, thereby reducing the threat they would have posed. We have already started striking back.”

     

     

    When our correspondent visited the scene of the attack, bloodstains could still be seen.

     

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    Sources said the policemen may have been taken unawares during the attack.

     

    Residents said they heard prolonged gunshots in the night only to see the corpses of the slain policemen in the morning on Thursday.

     

    “We heard gunshots for several minutes in the night. When we woke up we saw the bodies of the policemen,” a resident who pleaded not to be named said.

     

    Another eyewitness who lives opposite the checkpoint said the four policemen who divided themselves into two, two at the checkpoint and two opposite the checkpoint, were apparently taken by surprise.

     

     

     

    Source: www.punchng.com

  • Ngerian military discovers Calabar hideout for criminals and arrests some

     

    The Nigerian Army’s Operation Akpakwu has uncovered a black spot for criminals in Calabar metropolis.

    The Cross River State government launched Operation Akoakwu in December 2020 to tackle security challenges in the state.

    A spokesman said: ‘Three suspects Micah Edet, Bassey Udoh and Emmanuel Bassey, were arrested by members of the NSCDC attached to OP Akpakwu on February 8, 2021, for robbing one Mr. Akan of the sum of N25,000.

    “The fourth suspect handed over to the police, Peter Obri, was arrested with a locally made pistol at a rubber plantation in Biase, while his accomplice Mr. Bassey is at large.

    “During investigation, the compound in question was confirmed to be a black spot with an abandoned structure where criminals sleep at night. In the process, Peter Obri, 25, was arrested on January 13, 2021, at Ibiae rubber plantation with a locally made pistol while attempting to steal palm fruits from the plantation.”

    According to him, the suspects have been handed over to the Cross River State Police Command for further investigation for prosecution.

    One of the suspects, Obri, said he was not aware that he was going to the plantation for a robbery and only accompanied his friend there. Obri said, while on their way, his friend handed over the locally made pistol, adding that on getting there he was apprehended by the army who ambushed them, even as his friends escaped.

     

     

     

    Source: www.sunnewsonline.com