Anyone Saying Chibok Girls Will Return Is Lying – Obasanjo

                                          
Erstwhile President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday doubted the ability of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s Federal Government to rescue the abducted Chibok girls alive.

Speaking at an event organized by the Staff Club of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State,
Obasanjo affirmed that anyone saying the girls would return was simply lying.

Obasanjo’s reaction follows several promises by the current administration that it would rescue the abducted Chobok girls alive.

Obasanjo blamed the immediate past President, Goodluck Jonathan for trivialising the distress call to rescue the girls on the day they were abducted.

He said, “The former president heard about the kidnap 8am in the morning of the abduction but failed to act
until 72 hours later and by then it was too late.”

“Anyone saying the Chibok girls will return is telling lies, maybe some of them will return to tell their story.”

He stated that the failure of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2015 presidential election is a blessing to Nigeria.

“We tried, but with Jonathan, it was best that PDP should fail to save Nigeria,” Obasanjo said.

Obasanjo observed that the Jonathan’s administration trivalised issues of importance as politics, particularly that of Boko Haram.


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Reverend impregnates seven church members, two married women

                                                           

A randy man of God identified as Dukes (surname withheld) in Umunede, Delta State who has been accused of sleeping with his church members in the past two years, has allegedly impregnated seven of his single female church members and two married women.

While trouble is currently brewing over the act, it was reliably gathered that the self-acclaimed man of God had also allegedly seduced several young girls in neighbouring communities: Ute-Ukpu, Otolokpo under the guise of providing them with suitors before he moved into Umunede after his cover was blown.

He was said to have been arrested and detained at Agbor Police Station by aggrieved parents of his victims for two days before granted bail.

A member of his church “Light Of God Ministries” Josephine Ogor said, “The self acclaimed reverend uses preaching, choirs and organised youth fellowship to get young girls.”
“That was what he did in Ute-Okpu, Otolokpo neighbouring communities before he moved into Umunede and he was driven away by the elders of the communities, he likes girls of 15, 16 and 17 years he sleeps with,” she added.

Investigation revealed that until some married women started carrying their marital problems to him, the self-acclaimed man of God allegedly known for magical powers, specialises in mind-blowing prophecies for unsuspecting members of his church including some highly placed politicians and businessmen across the state.

His victims, some who claimed they were hoodwinked into sexual intercourse with him via magical powers, Awele John, Marble Ogoan and Rosemary Iwendi said: “Please Mr. Pressman don’t use our pictures.”
“The man is fake, he uses magical powers to woo young girls he sleeps with, that was how we fell into his net, and our eyes were opened”.

Another victim, a married woman who did not want her name in the print said she had gone to the reverend’s house to seek advice on constant quarrels between her and the husband for possible solution when Dukes allegedly gave her anointed oil for her to rub and take from it but this was not to be, when she found herself in love making with the reverend during the night.
She said: “I saw myself having sexual intercourse with the Reverend in my sleep and I was shocked before I made it known to my husband”.

Further investigation revealed that his modus operandi is to give out olive oil bottles to unsuspecting female miracle seekers, young girls looking for suitors, a situation that keep them glued to him before taking them to bed.
But in swift reaction, the Reverend dispelled on telephone as untrue and attempts to blackmail him as true man of God, adding that those who claimed to have been impregnated by him designed a plot to kill him.
He said: “I am not responsible for their pregnancies, they are lairs”.

At Agbor Police Division, two investigating police officers who did not want their names in the print said: “We are currently investigating the Reverend after some parents of the girls he allegedly seduced reported the matter at the station, we have earlier arrested and released him on bail while investigation is ongoing.”

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Tricycle rider accused of defiling 15-year-old virgin

         

A tricycle rider, Mr. Lati Ajoje, is on the run after he allegedly defiled a 15-year-old virgin in Lagos.

The Punch reports that the 15-year-old secondary school student (name withheld) said Ajoje patronized her mother who runs a canteen in the Iyana Ipaja area of the state. She said the incident happened on Friday, January 15, when she was going to her mother’s shop and met the tricycle operator who volunteered to take her there.

She said: “I didn’t suspect anything. I even thanked him as I boarded his keke (tricycle). When we got to the bus stop, he turned and faced another route. I asked him if he wasn’t going to my mum’s shop again. He didn’t answer me. I told him to stop me at the bus stop but he refused.

“He then told me to be patient and said he only wanted to go and collect something at Water Estate. I insisted I wanted to drop off. He didn’t listen to me, he ignored me. He got to where he was going and he stopped at an uncompleted building and told me to get down. I asked him why, he said he wanted to tell me something. I told him I didn’t like the place he brought me and I was already feeling uncomfortable. He just carried me forcibly and entered the building. I was struggling. I even had to bite him but he didn’t bulge. He carried me into a room in the uncompleted building.

“He removed my clothes. I told him I would rather he killed me than do anything to me. But he said he wasn’t going to kill me but he would still have sex with me. That was how he forced himself on me and raped me.

“After raping me, he used one rag to clean me up. After he finished, he gave me N200. But I told him I wasn’t going to take his money. I was afraid to tell anybody because he had said he would kill me. But eventually, I had to tell my sister who told my mother. I have not seen him again since then. He no longer comes to my mother’s shop.”

Lawrence Bassey, the president of Touch a Heart Foundation that is handling the case said they felt obliged to take it up after the victim’s mother reported to them.

“The victim’s mother said her child was raped and presented a police report. We have taken her to the Mirabel Sexual Assault Referral Centre. After some tests, one of the doctors told the girl’s mother that she was actually raped and she has been given some treatment,” he said.

The case was reported to Gowon estate police division and the officer in charge claimed they are still looking for the suspect. Bassey however said the police were not doing their job well.

“The police have just refused to do their job and make the arrest. He is well known in the area.

“Few days ago, the IPO told us he can’t go around looking for a rapist. He said we should go and look for the suspect ourselves. We have started the investigation on our own since the police said we should handle it ourselves.

“The suspect has yet to be found. We met with the chairman of the Keke operators in the area where Ajoje operates and he promised to get back to us. They took us to his mother, who also said that Ajoje is on the run and nobody has seen him. We have informed the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Person, Office of the Public Defender and the Public Advice Centre about this matter,” he said.

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Boko Haram victim advises FGN against bringing back the Chibok girls; says their return would doom Nigeria

Hajiya Aishatu, one of the victims of the deadly Boko Haram sect, has issued a stern warning to the Federal government concerning the missing Chibok girls.
The woman, who is now taking refuge in Jos, Plateau state, said that bringing back Chibok girls into the country might spell doom for Nigeria’s anti-terrorism stance.

Aishatu giving the warning in an interview said: “Bringing back Chibok girls would amount to importing vampires into the country, the campaign for Chibok girls is not in the interest of this country.

“Chibok girls are not existing anywhere in the world, most of them had been used as suicide bombers by those who abducted them.”

“Young girls involved in suicide attacks in the last two years till date were the Chibok girls, it will be a waste of time for anyone to be talking of rescuing Chibok girls,” she added.

The Boko Haram survivor, who comes from Bama village, was lucky to fled to Jos during the heat of the terror war in the north-east.

Aishatu saw the killing of her husband and two children before her narrow escape urged the government to watch the activities of those engaged in the Bring Back our Girls Campaign base in Abuja because those involved are acting on absolute ignorance or they are not sincere to the nation.

“If at all Chibok girls exist anywhere, bringing them back to Nigeria will even spell doom for this country because they have been trained to see the country as the land of evil men,” she continued.

The woman appealed to National Emergency Management Agency to devise a means of identify those victims who are not staying in the camps now due to the kindness of their relations who gave them shelter by including them in the rehabilitation program of the federal government.

Boko Haram members stormed the government secondary school in the remote town of Chibok in Borno state on the evening of April 14, 2014, abducting 276 girls who were preparing for end-of-year exams.

Fifty-seven escaped but nothing has been heard of the more than 200 others since their appearance in a Boko Haram video.

One the commanders of the sect recently said that the terrorists didn’t know the location of the girls.

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I would rather be with my Boko Haram husband than my family – 16-year-old former captive

Zara John, a 16 year-old former captive of the Boko Haram insurgents, one year after her rescue by security operatives still want to return to her captor husband.

The teenager who is the only daughter of her mother, was abducted by the insurgents in February 2014 when they

attacked her village of Izge, in Borno state.

As common with such attacks, homes were razed, men slaughtered, and women and girls – including Zara – loaded into trucks.

Zara while speaking with Thomson Reuters Foundation revealed that the first two months at the Boko Haram
camp were tough until she was given out in marriage to a Boko Haram
Commander called Ali.

She said, “After I became a commander’s
wife, I had freedom. I slept anytime I wanted, I woke up anytime I wanted,”

“He bought me food and clothes and gave me everything that a woman needs from a man, he also gave me a mobile
phone with his number plugged in; and he tattooed his name on her
stomach to mark her as a Boko Haram wife.”

The former captor stated that Ali assured
her that the fight would soon be over and they would return to his
home town of Baga where she would join him in his fishing business.

She said Ali had to join the sect after his
father and elder brother, both fishermen like him were killed by the Nigerian soldiers.

The Nigerian army had in March 2015 stormed the insurgents base in Bita, Borno state, rescuing scores of women
of which Zara was among and they were taken to a refugee camp in Yola, capital of Adamawa state.

Despite been set free from the clutches of Boko Haram, Zara still stayed in touch with Ali through phone until the soldiers, who realised some of the girls in the camp were still communicating with their former abductors, seized all phones,

relocated them to another camp before reuniting them with their families.

Sequel to the reunion with her family, Zara discovered that she was pregnant for Ali following a urine and blood test carried out by a doctor in the refugee camp.

“I wanted to give birth to my child so that I can have someone to replace his father since I cannot reconnect
with him again,” said said.

Zara despite been reunited with her family said she would rather be with her Boko Haram husband.

“If I had my way, I would retrieve the
phone number he gave me,” she said, expressing regrets that she did
not commit his number to memory, she said.

After so much controversy regarding the pregnancy, Zara was finally allowed to keep it and she gave birth
to a son named Usman.

“Everybody in the family has embraced the child, my uncle just bought him tins of Cerelac and milk,” she said.

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Court remands female lawyer accused of stabbing husband to death

                  

An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan on Friday ordered that a 28-year-old female lawyer, Yewande Oyediran, accused of killing her husband should be remanded in prison.

The accused, who is a member of staff of Ministry of Justice, Oyo state, was alleged to have stabbed her husband, Oyelowo Oyediran, to death.

The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Kehinde Durosaro-Tijani, remanded Yewande at Agodi Prison, pending the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution in the state.

Police prosecutor, Insp. Adewale Amos, had told the court that the accused caused the death of Oyelowo, 38, by stabbing him on the neck with a knife.

Amos said the attack on the man resulted to his death.

He said that the offence was committed on Feb. 2, at about 6.10 a.m. at 30, Abidi Odan Street, Akobo, Ibadan, residence of the couple, who got married in February, 2013.

The prosecutor told the court that the offence contravened section 316 and punishable under section 319 of the Criminal Code, Cap 38, Vol .II, Laws of Oyo State 2000.

The court did not take the plea of the accused.

Her counsel, Mr Seun Abimbola, who led eight other lawyers to the court, applied to the court that the accused should be remanded in police custody.

But, the magistrate disallowed the application and ordered that the woman should be remanded in prison.

Durosaro-Tijani, thereafter, adjourned the case till Feb. 16. (NAN)