16 year-old remanded for armed robbery.

    
 A 16-year-old, Senior Secondary School 1 pupil, Bolaji Bello, has been remanded by a Lagos State Magistrate court for allegedly robbing a boutique on Tijani Street, Ilemba Awori, in the Ajangbadi area of the state. Bello who was said to have gone to the shop in pretense of purchasing clothings, selected some shirts, a pair of trousers and a cap worth N10,500, and had pretended to be making payment to the shop owner, identified as Okeke Ikenna, when they reportedly brought out a gun and a cutlass, ordering him and his girlfriend who was also at the shop, to lie down.

Apart from the clothes, they dispossessed their victims of two Tecno phones valued at N30,000; an LG phone worth N29,000 and one Infinity phone valued at N15,000, as well as a cash sum of N54,000. It was after they had left the shop that some passersby were alerted and chased the teenage robbers, arresting Bello who has since been handed over to the police at the Ilemba Hausa Division from where he was transferred to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja, for investigation.

According to Punch Metro, Bello reportedly confessed to the crime, saying it was his first time and he was initiated to it by the fleeing Friday. He was subsequently arraigned before a presiding magistrate in Ikeja, Mrs. O. Olanipekun, on Thursday, on two counts of robbery.

The accused’s plea was not taken by the court after the defence counsel told the court that Bello’s age, which is 16, had been falsified on the charge sheet as 19. The observation prompted Olanipekun to go through the statement Bello made to the police after which she discovered that he was actually 16 years old.

The magistrate subsequently ordered that the suspect be remanded in the Children Corrective Home while his case file be forwarded to the Directorate of Public Prosecutions for legal advice.

The case was adjourned till February 1, 2016.

Police sergeant murders man just 3 days to his wedding

                       
A man identified as Sam Belonwu Dim, pictured above left, was killed just three days to his wedding by a drunk police sergeant on Sunday, December 27, at Uruagu Nnewi. According to Sunday Sun, the deceased attended a wedding of one of his In-laws when he encountered the drunk police officer who killed him. 

Father of the deceased, Chief Lazarus Dim, while narrating what transpired said his son had reluctantly agreed to attend the wedding of an in-law. Sam had received a call from a friend of his identified as Eloka who convinced him to attend the wedding.

Reluctantly, Sam attended the traditional wedding with one of his friend, Sunday Oguego. On arrival at the ceremony, Elo­ka received him and Oguego and as Sam was about to sit down under a canopy set up outside for guests, a mobile police sergeant just pointed his gun at Sam and shot him. The bullet went through his heart and exited from the back. At the sound of the gunshot, everybody scampered for safety, including Eloka, who invited Sam to the event.

It was Oguego who summoned the courage and began shouting for help when Sam slumped. As the bullet exited through Sam’s back, it hurt another person, who miraculously survived, and was said to have responded to treatment in a hospital. Till date, no one knows the reason why the police sergeant shot at the deceased.

Chief Dim is demanding the Nigeria police to launch a full scale investigation into the matter and fish out the sergeant that shot his son. He lamented the way police and other security agents were allowed to carry guns freely at ceremonies.

He charged the Inspector General of Police to look into this anomaly, querying: “Why should the number of police escorts at many events be more than the number of invited guests?” Since the tragic incident happened, the Sam’s would-be-bride has been inconsolable. 

Source: The News NG