60-Year-Old Man Defiles Minor In Edo

Officials of Edo State Police Command on Tuesday paraded a 60-year-old man, identified as Friday Akpan, for allegedly raping a 9-year-old daughter of his employer.

[caption id="attachment_3464" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Some of the rape suspects paraded[/caption]

The state’s Police Commissioner, Foluso Adebanjo, who made this known to TheNation, said the suspect, who was employed as a gateman at the residence of the victim, lured the minor into his room and forcefully had carnal knowledge of her.

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He said during interrogation that the suspect lamented his actions and revealed that the act would have been averted if the victim had shouted.

Similarly, the CP also paraded another rape suspect, Joseph Okoye, who was arrested at Igarra community in Akoko-Edo local government area of the state for allegedly raping a four-year-old girl. He said Okoye’s act was exposed after the victim complained of vaginal pains to her mother.

Adebanjo, while parading several other rapists, gave their names as Isreal Osarobo, Sunday Irhiakpolor, Monday Airuoje, Frank Ekhator, John Oyeke, Akhimien Ehijie, Sunday Paul, Abraham Ikhakon and Edekin Ojaogbe.

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The CP said the suspects would soon be charged to court.

Meanwhile, the police also arrested a 30-year old man, Olaniyan Oluwakayode, who reportedly raped a 20-year-old girl in his apartment at Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government Area Lagos, and uploaded pictures of her taken during the act on the Internet.

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Man Hacks Two Siblings To Death In Edo

A middle-aged man identified simply as Mike reportedly attacked four of his neighbour’s children, hacking two to death in Okha II village, off Old Sapele Road in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State.

According to PM News reports, before the incident, the man who lives in the same building with the Olivers, had a long-standing quarrel with his neighbours.

On Wednesday evening, 17 September, Mike unleashed terror on the family. He hacked two of the children, Favour Oliver, 3, and Destiny Oliver, nine months to death with a machete.

The assailant was said to have attacked two other children of the family, Gift, 7, and Goodness, 5, severing their nose and wrist, respectively before fleeing the scene of crime.

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The two children who sustained injuries were reportedly rushed to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Ugbowo, and are said to be in a critical condition.

Medical doctors at the Accident and Emergency Ward of the UBTH described their condition as “stable but critical.”

The father of the children identified as Mr. Oliver, from Enugu State, was said to be away from home when the incident occurred, while the mother had fled for her life.

Confirming the incident, the spokesperson for the Edo State Command of the Nigeria Police, DSP Noble Uwoh, told Punch correspondent on telephone that the suspect murdered the two children in his neighbour’s apartment, following a quarrel between him and the Olivers.

 

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PDP Suffers Mass Defection In Edo

No fewer than 2,000 members of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) reportedly defected to the major opposition party, All Progressives Congress (APC) in Igueben local government area of Edo State.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole who received the defectors led by Eronmosele Aisabor, used the occasion to reveal his administration’s transformation in the education sector, Leadership reports.

[caption id="attachment_2036" align="aligncenter" width="296"] Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State[/caption]

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The governor said the Colleges of Education in Ekiadolor, has been upgraded to a degree awarding institutions- University of Education in order to cede people the opportunity of taking a teaching job. He said Igueben College has also been converted to a campus of the University of Education.

Oshiomhole promised the people of Igueben that in the next two and a half years of his administration, more transformation would be recorded and the future of the state would been completely replaced with politics of educating the people and not that of “wuru wuru”.

“I have not spent eight years only six and by the time I have spent eight years I would do more. So don’t listen to them when they tell you to decamp to a torn umbrella that has failed to produce any meaningful development in years. Did the umbrella build schools, roads and water? So ask before you act,” he said.

The comrade governor, who further urged the people to help rescue the country, assured them that he would not play politics of individual but politics of development. He said he would not listen to calls of individualism, and pointed out that Nigeria is failing because most of its leaders put themselves first before their people.

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“You must understand the basis for political contestations. The times are gone when people would vote without asking questions. The times are gone when the welfare of the few is seen as the basis for the decision of the majority. This is why I ask an open question: in the ten years of PDP, what can any of you count?” the governor questioned.

It would be recalled that on September 9, 2014, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, declared that it would prevail on Governors Rotimi Amaechi and Adams Oshiomhole to support the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election bid in 2015.

Meanwhile, on Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, also made his stand known against members of the state All Progressives Congress (APC) who defected to the PDP.

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