Crime

“He hit my eyes with his military belt”
MR. Joseph Okechukwu Agu, a native of Ukana, Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State; aged 70 years, a father of five, is now a blind man. Blind in both eyes.  He is being led by the hand and lives on charity because he has lost his source of income and cannot fend for his himself; neither can he fend for his family too.
The hapless man was until January 15, 2009, a healthy and robust man with his two eyes adorning his visage before he met his misfortune in the hands of a fiery and bitter army officer, Sgt. Francis Ogar of the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Enugu.
On the fateful day, January 15, 2009, marking the Armed Forces Remembrance Day, at about 8 am, Mr. Agu was driving his tipper lorry along the ever busy Abakaliki Road, Enugu when at the Ogui Road Junction and then Abakpa Junctiion, he encountered Sgt Ogar who was also driving a Mitsubishi bus.

INTERPOL figures, suggesting that there is an increase in the number of car theft cases worldwide may be a true reflection of the matter in Nigeria too.
National Daily scooped that in the past one week, police records at Zone 2 Police Command in Onikan, Lagos show that about seven cars are stolen on the average every week in the two states (Ogun and Lagos) making up the zone.

IT was a bad day for the security operatives in Anambra State last week Wednesday as the state's police command and the Anambra Vigilance Service (AVS) lost six of their members to armed robbers during s a shootout and lest several others wounded.
The victims include three police men and three members of AVS and the incident took place at Amichi in Nnewi South Local Government Area of the state where they were involved in a gun battle with the armed bandits.
The incident happened barely thirty-six hours after the police high command ordered the dismantling of all the road blocks in the five South East state following complaints by motorists and human rights groups that the police was using the check points as an avenue for extorting money from the public.

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has dismissed claims in some quarters that the ongoing investigation in some states is politically motivated, describing it as 'cheap blackmail'. The Commission in a statement on Friday September 3, 2010 however vowed that no amount of propaganda will stop it from carrying out its statutory responsibilities of investigating and prosecuting economic and financial crimes in any part of the country.