Lekki Tollgate: JUNGLE POLICE 👿 show of shame ( Video )

 

JUNGLE POLICE CHASING AN UNHARMED PROTESTER IN LAGOS WHILE FULANI HERDSMEN ARE KILLING FARMERS AND INDIGENES UNABATED ACROSS SOUTH WEST

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“Modern penalty”: Mourinho lists reasons for Tottenham’s defeat

 

Tottenham suffered their fourth defeat in the last five Premier League games as Manchester City took all three points at the Etihad on Saturday.

Despite going close from a Harry Kane free-kick that hit the post when the game was goalless, City took control and led at half-time through a Rodrigo penalty before Ilkay Gundogan netted twice after the break on a difficult evening in the northwest.

It was City’s 16th successive win in all competitions and they now haven’t conceded a goal in seven straight home games.

Tottenham were unlucky not to take the lead when Kane stepped up to take a 14th-minute free-kick from 20 yards out, curling right-footed over the wall but his effort crashed against the post and City eventually cleared.

Instead, it was the hosts who broke the deadlock from the penalty spot in the 23rd minute, after Gundogan had been clipped by Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg close to the byline.

Referee Paul Tierney pointed to the spot, VAR confirmed his decision and Rodrigo took the penalty, firing to Hugo Lloris’ right and although the goalkeeper got a good hand to it, the ball crept into the bottom corner.

Although they dominated possession, that was City’s only shot on target in the first half, but they added to the scoreline five minutes into the second half when Phil Foden and Raheem Sterling combined, with the latter finding Gundogan inside the area and his left foot shot from 10 yards went past Lloris, who again got a hand to the ball but couldn’t keep it out.

It wasn’t until just before the hour mark that Tottenham had their first shot on target, Tanguy Ndombele’s deflected effort looping up into Ederson’s hands, with the goalkeeper then playing a key role in City’s third in the 66th minute.

Spotting the run from deep of Gundogan, Ederson hit a 60-yard ball through the middle into his path, the midfielder holding off the challenge of Davinson Sanchez before sliding beyond Lloris.

Substitute Gareth Bale almost netted a late goal after showing superb footwork to weave his way past Bernardo Silva, Aymeric Laporte and John Stones on the edge of the area, but Ederson made a fine save to deny the Welsh forward and that was our last chance of the contest.

However, Jose Mourinho pointed to fatigue and the concession of a “modern penalty” as contributing factors in Tottenham’s loss to Manchester City.

Speaking to Spurs TV after the game, Jose said: “Going in a football direction, I believe that in the first half, we were good, we started the game very positively, we didn’t fear them, didn’t have problems, didn’t have any defensive problems, even playing in an offensive way like we tried to do. Once more, unlucky, the Harry Kane ball, I don’t know how it’s not a goal, and unlucky with another penalty of modern days. But I liked the team in the first half, very positive.

“In the second half, when you concede a goal after five minutes, it’s very hard, because then it’s the fatigue plus the emotional side. The guys fought until the end, and I feel the result is too heavy, too heavy. It gives me another feeling… of if we get into that (Carabao Cup) final in the same physical condition as them, let’s go.”

However, Mourinho was asked for his interpretation of a “modern penalty”.

He said: “A modern penalty is one even if you touch with a nail inside the box it can be a penalty.

“For some you touch with a nail and it is a penalty and you go to the VAR and you cannot deny there was a touch.”

- PM NEWS

‘You’re unfit for public office’ — Akeredolu hits Bauchi gov over defence of armed herders

 Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of Ondo state, has criticised Bala Mohammed, his Bauchi state counterpart, for defending the use of arms by herders.

On Thursday, Mohammed said herders carry weapons because they need to protect themselves.

Describing the comments as careless and despicable, Akeredolu said his governor colleague has encouraged all other Nigerians to carry arms.

“We read with dismay, the outburst in the purported statement by the Bauchi state governor. We are persuaded to believe he didn’t make that statement,” a statement released by Donald Ojogo, the Ondo state commissioner for information and orientation, read.

“If indeed he made that statement and owns up to its contents, it then means that the Bauchi state governor has declared on behalf of the federal government, an executive order which now allows all Nigerians, herdsmen inclusive, to carry prohibited firearms like assault rifles for self-defence.

“That is exactly what the governor has done and displayed by his conduct which brazenly depicts that whether other Nigerians like it or not, herdsmen must carry AK 47 for self-defence while other non-Fulani herdsmen must remain unarmed to be perpetual victims of arms wielding bandits.

“By that statement, the governor has in one breath, agreed that indeed Fulani herdsmen carry AK 47 and at the same time encouraging all to do likewise.

“The Bauchi governor has by his conduct and attitude, ushered us into the next level on the path to anarchy. He’s not fit for public office, persons of such impecunious disposition and character is not fit for public office.

”As long as Nigeria’s consideration remains unchanged, it is still unlawful for any unauthorised persons to carry prohibited arms. The statement is most despicable, highly recommended for the dust bin of careless talks.”

In January, Akeredolu ordered herders to vacate Ondo forest reserves, saying  “bad elements” had turned the forest reserves into hideouts for keeping victims of kidnapping, negotiating for ransom and carrying out other criminal activities.

- THECABLE

Bandits kill man, son in Kaduna Community

 

Some suspected bandits have killed a man and his son in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna state.

This is coming a few days after 23 people were killed in five local government areas of the state.

The incident was contained in a short statement issued by the Kaduna State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan on Friday.

The statement said that the suspected bandits stormed Baka village in Igabi Local Government Saturday morning shooting sporadically.

The Commissioner explained that the bandits were targeting one Mr. Sanusi Musa who they wanted to kidnap.

He said upon getting to Sanusi’s residence, the bandits opened fire, which led to the death of a man and his son.

Meanwhile, Governor Nasir El-Rufai has expressed sadness over the attacks and condoled the family of the slain father and son, while offering prayers for the repose of their souls.

- DAILY POST

I cannot continue to sit at #EndSARS panel – Adegboruwa

Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN), who is a member of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing alleged killing of #EndSARS protesters by soldiers at the Lekki toll gate, said he could not continue to sit at the panel.

Adegboruwa stated this on Saturday following the arrest of #OccupyLekki protesters.

The senior advocate said he was “saddened and devastated” by the dehumanisation of the protesters by security operatives.

He stated this in a statement titled, ‘The Arrest, Detention and Dehumanization of Protesters at Lekki Toll Gate Are Unacceptable’.

He said, “I have been monitoring events at the Lekki Toll Gate since morning, and I am totally overwhelmed with the images, videos and sundry evidence of police brutality of armless civilians, who ventured to protest at the Toll Gate. In one particular video, I saw citizens of Nigeria being dehumanized, stripped half naked and cramped together in a rickety bus. This is totally unacceptable.

“While we are yet to come to terms with the events of October 20, 2020, it becomes worrisome that the security agencies have not learned any positive lesson from those occurrences. I commend the protesters for their peaceful conduct.

“I cannot in good conscience continue to sit at any Panel of Inquiry to heal wounds and end police brutality when fresh assaults are being perpetrated with impunity. Consequently, I am presently consulting with my constituency within the civil society, as to my continued participation in the EndSARS Judicial Panel.

“I hereby demand the immediate release of all those arrested in connection with the peaceful protest at the Lekki Toll Gate today. On no account should anything happen to any of them while in the custody of the police.

“I appeal for calm on all sides, in order not to escalate the worsening security situation across the land. I cannot fail to point out the fact that the present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is a product of protest and civil disobedience. Let history vindicate the just. Aluta Continua, Victoria Ascerta!”

- PM NEWS

EPL: Wenger names team that cannot win Premier League title this season

 Former Arsenal boss, Arsene Wenger, has ruled Liverpool out of the Premier League title race.

Wenger, speaking after the Reds’ 3-1 defeat at Leicester City on Saturday, branded their chances of catching Manchester City as “impossible”.

The Frenchman won three titles himself while managing the Gunners and feels Liverpool cannot make up the gap after 24 games.

When asked whether he feels Jurgen Klopp’s side are still in the hunt, Wenger told beIN SPORTS : “No, I don’t think so.

“Man City is 10 points ahead, has one game in-hand, they look to be on a run and I don’t think with 14 games to go, you can catch 13 points against a top team.

“I never seen it, 13 points. If it was eight to nine, yes, but if Man City win their game in-hand, 13 points – it’s impossible.”

- DAILY POST

Act now before residents adopt self-defence against armed herdsmen, Ogun monarch tells Buhari

 Kehinde Olugbenle, the Olu of Ilaro and ruler of Yewaland in Ogun state, says his people are ready to defend themselves against armed herders in the area.

In a statement on Saturday, the monarch accused armed herders of being responsible for killings and other criminal activities in the area.

This comes 48 hours after a group of youths in Yewa north local government area of the state gave herders a seven-day ultimatum to leave the area.

“The attention of the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR and all the security agencies is drawn to the continued siege of the entire Yewaland of Ogun state in the last few weeks by armed herdsmen and bandits callously killing, including literally slaughtering, and maiming our people,” the monarch said.

“The criminal and dangerous activities of these herdsmen have so far happened in Egua, Oja-Odan, Igan Alade, Gbokoto and Ijoun, Owode-Ketu, Ebute Igbooro, Imeko Afon, and other places with reports of plans to attack major towns in Yewa land.

“The federal government and the Ogun state government are hereby implored as a matter of extreme urgency to act fast to secure the lives and properties of our people before it spirals out of complete control.

“In this situation, it is not out of place that people may resort to self-help to defend themselves if the government fails to guarantee their safety as citizens of Nigeria in the face of renewed insurgency by these criminals terrorising our people with arms and dangerous weapons

“I am issuing this press release as the paramount ruler of the region and in close consultation with the entire Yewa traditional council, and my people in the high hope that government at both state and federal levels, together with the security agencies, would live up to the expectation of their responsibility, as enshrined in the Nigerian constitution, to ensure the security of our lives and properties in Yewaland. A stitch in time saves nine.”

Sunday Adeyemo, a youth leader better known as Sunday Igboho, recently visited Yewa to “help the communities to flush out killer herdsmen”.

- THECABLE

24 deaths in one day as NCDC confirms 1,005 new COVID cases

 

Nigeria’s single-day count of deaths recorded another increase on Friday, with 24 persons confirmed to have died of coronavirus complications across the country.

According to data published by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), this is the country’s highest daily count within the past two weeks.

The last time the single-day tally of deaths was more than 24 was on January 29, when 27 fatalities were recorded.

With the Friday figure, a total of 1,734 coronavirus-related deaths have now been confirmed across the country.

The agency also confirmed 1,005 new coronavirus infections in 18 states and the federal capital territory (FCT).

The new cases were confirmed in the agency’s update for February 12, 2021.

The Friday figure represents a slight increase over the past 24 hours — 938 samples were confirmed positive on Thursday.

Lagos, the epicentre of the pandemic, had the highest number of positive samples on Friday with 204 new infections, and the total figure of confirmed cases in the state has now surpassed 50,000.

Kwara had the second highest number of new cases on Friday with 155 positive samples, while Oyo was third on the list with 124 infections.

Other states with new cases are: Plateau (80), FCT (75), Edo (56), Osun (48), Ondo (41), Kaduna (40), Rivers (40), Taraba (35), Borno (32), Ekiti (21), Ogun (20), Kano (14), Bayelsa (8), Delta (7), Bauchi (3), and Jigawa (2).

On the daily record of recoveries, the figure stayed on the low side with 854 persons discharged — before Friday, Nigeria has recorded at least 900 daily recoveries within the past two weeks.

The total number of discharged patients now stands at 118,866.

A total of 144,521 cases have now been confirmed in 36 states and the FCT since February 27, 2020.

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- THECABLE

EPL: Chelsea told to sign Haaland ahead of Man Utd

 

Former Arsenal midfielder, Paul Merson, has told Chelsea to make a move for Borussia Dortmund striker, Erling Haaland.

Haaland had drawn the interests of Chelsea, Man United and other top European clubs in the past, but Merson believes Chelsea need the 20-year-old more.

Speaking with the Daily Star, Merson said, “Of all the teams who are in for Erling Haaland, Chelsea are the ones who need him most.

“They have always been successful with someone who has a presence up front, and Haaland has that. He’s going to score bundles wherever he goes.

“And if you buy him this summer, you still have the prospect of being able to sell him for a profit later down the line because of his age. I am not sure he’s such a good fit for Manchester City, where he probably wouldn’t play as much.

“But for whoever gets him, it will be worth it. He puts up numbers, and he keeps on doing it. Whoever signs him will have a chance of winning the league.

“Manchester United should also be in for him. Edinson Cavani has done great there, but he isn’t the future of Manchester United. If they went and got Haaland, it would take them to another level.

“But do they go for Harry Kane instead? Kane isn’t going to Chelsea. No chance. But he might go to United. And that would leave Chelsea to go for Haaland.”

- DAILY POST

Nigeria’s cow crisis: Prof. Osundare writes Buhari

 

Dear President Buhari,

This letter, my second to you in five months, will begin with a very, very absurd question: Mr. President, will Nigeria drift into another civil war under your watch simply because the ‘Giant of Africa’ does not know how to manage its cows? Yes, absurd: for, absurdity is the faithful cohort of the grotesque and irrational, the conspicuously invisible and falsely true. No war has ever taken place without a potent dose of the absurd in its mix of causes. No calamity has ever happened without a touch of the irrational. The distance between travesty and tragedy is perilously short. This is why History’s capacious house is replete with the skeletons of nations which went to war, after leaving their brains behind.

Mr. President, the country over which you preside is burning in all its flanks: kidnapping on the highways, kidnapping on village roads, kidnapping on township streets, kidnapping in the homestead, kidnapping on the farmlands. Nigeria has never had it so bad. The notorious perpetrators of these crimes are widely called ‘bandits’ and/or ‘Fulani herdsmen’, depending upon the speaker’s degree of sensitivity or political correctness. The ethnic origination and/or attribution of these crimes is my object of worry – and should be to anyone who cares for the stability of Nigeria and its survival as a corporate entity. Yes, the cow, that four-legged, two-horned, long-tailed, absolutely innocent animal, has become Nigeria’s casus belli , the moo-ing metaphor of a planless, dysfunctional country, waiting for another bout of absurdity to push her beyond the brink, and plunge us all into avoidable catastrophe. Big wars are often caused by thoughtless little issues. Mr. President, war drums are already sounding in some parts of the country, provoked by a question as dangerously absurd as this: when you and a herd of cows meet on the road, who/which should have the right of way? When you, a struggling farmer, get to your farm and find a herd of cows making a meal of the crops which are the lifeline for you and your family, should you take a bow as you shout bon appetite to the bovine bunch? When your only child is kidnapped and tortured and murdered, even after the payment of a hefty ransom, will you ask your neighbours to join you in the singing of the national anthem? Absurdity, dangerous absurdity. But Mr. President, permit me to poach this unavoidably long excerpt from an interview which was part of my contributions to the activities marking the 59th anniversary of Nigeria’s Independence:

Now, on to the Fulani Herdsmen. The frightening frequency of the repetition of that designation in the Nigerian media in recent times has left me with chilling apprehensions. As I have said on other occasions, we need all the tact, all the restraint, all the wisdom we can muster to tackle this extremely dangerous development, for Nigeria cannot afford to stampede itself into another civil war. Let no one underrate the havoc and destruction that are widely caused by these herdsmen ; the epidemic of kidnapping , ransom extortion, and murder, the looting and destruction of farmlands, especially in the southern parts of Nigeria, and the uncountable bereavements that have been the lot of many households. President Buhari and his federal government cannot pretend that they do not know what is happening – that, indeed, there is fire on the roof of the Nigeria house. How much investigation has the government done into this dangerous situation? If any, how thorough, how non-partisan? If, indeed, as we have been told, many of the so-called Fulani Herdsmen are foreigners in search of green pastures in Nigeria, how did they get into the country, and what are the border patrol officers doing about this? What do we call a country that cannot secure its own borders? With the cloud of insecurity hanging over the country, you cannot but ask “Where are Nigeria’s security authorities: the army, the police, immigration, the civil defence corps, etc? What do President Buhari and the Heads of these security units talk about at their official briefings?

To say the least the federal government’s handling of the herdsmen crisis has been amateurish, pedestrian, and dangerously incompetent. Tell me: Is someone in Aso Rock trifling away while the Nigeria house is burning? Say something, President Buhari. Do something. The Ruga proposition is a ‘solution’ that is bound to compound the problem. That is why many people in many parts of the country have seen it as a poorly thought out attempt at the colonization of their own territories. And, by the way, there is crucial, fundamental question we have not been not asking: why do so many Nigerians, in this day and age, have to roam the entire country, in search of grass for cows they rear and nurture on behalf of richer, more powerful Nigerians? Why are they not in school – like the children of their rich and powerful patrons/clients? Let no one insult our intelligence with the atavistic excuse that this wasteful mis-employment of a vital group of Nigeria’s youth is a matter of culture and tradition. Genuine culture fares better; and tradition is no disempowering imprisonment. The Americans pasture their cows, the British do; so do South Africans and Ghanaians and Australians and Argentines, Chinese and Koreans, without turning a sizeable number of their young men into cow-chasers; without plunging their countries into ‘Herdsmen’ war. Let us try the miracle of the modern ranch: green, friendly, and peaceably/equitably located. Let us stop this ethnic profiling and stereotyping, this hype and hysteria, before they plunge us into another civil war. The War of Bullets usually begins with the War of Words. Let Rwanda provide us with a tragic – but avoidable – example.

The Americans pasture their cows, the British do; so do South Africans and Ghanaians and Australians and Argentines, Chinese and Koreans, without turning a sizeable number of their young men into cow-chasers; without plunging their countries into ‘Herdsmen’ war. Let us try the miracle of the modern ranch: green, friendly, and peaceably/equitably located. Let us stop this ethnic profiling and stereotyping, this hype and hysteria, before they plunge us into another civil war. The War of Bullets usually begins with the War of Words. Let Rwanda provide us with a tragic – but avoidable – example.

Mr. President, I said the above some 17 months ago. Since then the situation has grown grimmer, the absurdity more alarming, more dangerous. The war drums are louder now and more persistent because the tension has been left to escalate. The customary silence from the seat of power has accentuated the loudness of the drum. In the opinion of many Nigerians, your apparent silence is nothing short of ethnic connivance: that the herdsmen roam and range all over the country, killing and maiming with astonishing impunity, because ‘the man at the top’ is their man. This feeling of untouchability, this sense of ethnic entitlement is evidenced by the preferential treatment reportedly enjoyed by the herdsmen, and the failure of Nigerian Law to hold them accountable for their actions. Mr. President, you owe yourself, this troubled country, and the world at large the urgent need to show in demonstrably practical terms that the entire country is, indeed, your ethnic constituency. Say more, do more about the violence that is threatening the already frail fabric of the country. Go out and see things for yourself. The monsters consuming Nigeria are not the type you can tame through chats with traditional rulers on emergency trips to Aso Rock. The story in many parts of Nigeria today are those of murderous assaults by herdsmen and gory reprisals by local victims. A trip to Nigeria’s southwest region will tell you how perilously close the country is to a civil war.

Needless to say, Mr. President, we live in strange and difficult times. As a result of climate change the desert is marching towards the coast; swarths of old pastoral land have disappeared; the beneficent streams between the mountains have all but vanished. As the search for pasture pushes cattle rearing southwards, herdsmen and local farmers have found themselves locked in bloody battle over the available green patch, with old friends and neighbours becoming mortal enemies, and frequent skirmishes flaring into ethnic conflagrations, the type that consume unwary nations. But bad as this situation is, the climate-change excuse will not suffice. Ranches, Mr. President, ranches. Computer-regulated irrigation. Pasture colonies. Created oases. Artificial lakes. Let the cows eat and drink where they are born, not forced into endless dangerous treks across the country in search of dwindling patches of greenery. Ask our River Basins how it could be done. Empower the Faculties of Agriculture in our various universities, (and our Universities of Agriculture), working in creative alliance with those of Engineering and Technology, instead of stampeding them into interminable strikes that drain the nation dry. Israel made the desert bloom by putting its citizens’ brains to work. Today, the country produces 95% of its food requirements, and some of the best citrus products in the world . Concerning the young men and boys now famously known as ‘herdsmen’, put them in school; put their feet on the road to a worthy life. Let their rich and powerful masters/patrons (all over Nigeria!) treat them the way they treat their own children. Science, not superstition, purposive reality, not bovine absurdity, that’s the magic. Time to wake up, Mr. President. Time to wake up. The thinking, working world has left us behind. The whole wide world is appalled by Nigeria’s ostensibly incurable delinquency.

And that world is watching and wondering at the tragic absurdity of a country sliding mindlessly into a civil war over where and how to graze its cows. It is waiting for us to prove that we are wiser than our bovine bunch. It is, indeed, wondering whether in ‘Africa’s most populous country’, it is the people who rear the cows, or it is the cows that rear the people. Yes, the world is really wondering who owns Nigeria: the people or the cows? Say something, Mr. President. Do something.

Let us save Nigeria from another (un)civil war.

Your Impatient Compatriot, Niyi Osundare

‘They ate my smoked fish’ — residents of Lekki tollgate slum lament demolition

 It was a sad Wednesday for residents of Foreshore community, a slum beside Lekki tollgate, when officials of the Lagos state environmental task force accompanied by police officers demolished and burnt their makeshift houses.

When TheCable visited the community on Thursday, the residents were found in a state of hopelessness.

The community is separated by an iron barricade and a fenced structure covering residents from direct view of the Lekki tollgate, one of the rallying points of the #EndSARS movement in October 2020, and a scene where soldiers shot at unarmed protesters.

Prior to the demolition exercise, over 300 people were said to have been staying in makeshift structures in the community, mostly built with wood and nylon coverings — but the demolition has led to the displacement of many of them, who are now sleeping in uncompleted buildings and on overhead bridges around the Lekki axis.

Some of the residents said they were unable to rescue their properties during the demolition, claiming that officers attached to Maroko police station set them on fire.

One of the residents, a mother of two who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told TheCable that the task force officials and policemen did not allow residents to pack their properties. She, however, admitted that the officials had earlier visited the community on Tuesday to issue a vacation order.

“They burnt some of my sister’s things, her school results from primary to university and our clothes,” she said in a dejected manner.

“I do not have where to stay now but I have relatives that I think I can stay with. They brought police and mopol with bulldozer.”

The mother of four is among residents who believe that the community was destroyed as a result of the allegation that they harboured #EndSARS protesters and also participated in the protests.

She added in Pidgin: “Even this #EndSARS protests, we in this community no dey join dem, some of us just dey look, we no know why dem destroy our house because of protest.”

Samaila, a young man from Adamawa state, is greatly troubled by the situation. He was away at work during the demolition exercise. When TheCable approached him — sitting with his sister and four children, surrendered by bags of clothes and mattresses — he appeared frustrated.

While speaking, he dipped his hand into his pocket and brought out his permanent voter card, and shouted angrily: “I voted for this government, see my PVC. I usually go to Olosan to vote, inside the sun and I do not believe that we will be treated like animals.”

Samaila said he was not aware of the 24-hour notice to vacate the community, adding that he does not know where to go after the eviction, as Lagos is not his state of origin.

“I was at work when they came. Before I came back, all my properties had been burnt. We are just managing ourselves here. The owners of the land know our situation, they know we are staying here and how we are managing here,” he said.

“It is not the owner of the land that said we should leave, it is our own government that said they did not want to see us and we are citizens and we are the ones who elected them.”

It was a different scenario for a middle-aged fish seller, who is popularly called Iya Egun in the community. She accused some of the officials of eating her smoked fish even while she pleaded profusely.

She said: “If you want to give someone notice, one week or one month is good, not one day.”

“They ate my smoked fish and still went ahead to demolish our makeshift.”

Iya Egun told TheCable that she is a widow with six children and that it was through the fish business that she was able to sponsor one of the children to the university.

“It is this fish business I’m doing to cater for my children. Since yesterday, I have been thinking of what to do after this place was demolished. I have not even eaten, because I do not know where to go,” she said.

“When the officials came I was smoking my fish here (pointing at a demolished structure), I told them to allow me pack my properties, that I will leave this place. They did not answer, they threw away some of my properties, while some of the officials were eating my fishes.”

Efforts to get the police to comment on allegations of burning belongings of residents proved futile, as Muyiwa Adejobi, spokesperson of the Lagos state police command, did not answer his calls or respond to messages put across to him.

- THECABLE

Police DPO Shoots Amotekun Operative For Arresting Fulani Herdsmen Who Destroyed Farm

T he Divisional Police Officer in charge of Ile-Igbon Division, Surulere Local Government Area of Ogbomoso in Oyo State, Adepoju Ayodeji, on Friday shot an operative of Amotekun for arresting Fulani herdsmen who allegedly destroyed a cassava farm.

The Amotekun commandant in the state, Col. Olayanju Olayinka (retd.), who confirmed this to reporters in Ibadan on Friday, said the police boss shot the victim at close range.

SaharaReporters learnt that Amotekun operatives received a distress call from farmers to come and arrest some Fulani herdsmen who had destroyed their farms.

After the Fulani herdsmen were arrested, the DPO ordered the arrest of the operatives of Amotekun who made the arrest.

Our correspondent gathered that when the leaders of the Amotekun group, led by Olatunji Mayowa and Jenyo Isiaka, got to the station to secure the release of the arrested Amotekun personnel, the DPO said they had no business in arresting anybody.

According to a source, while one of the Amotekun operatives was speaking with the police officer on duty at the station, the DPO came out of his office, shot at them, and chased them away.

The source said, "As one of the leaders of the Amotekun was discussing with the police station guard, the DPO rushed out from his office, snatched an AK 47 rifle from one of his officers, and sprayed the Amotekun operatives with bullets.

"One of the men of Amotekun, Job Adewale, was hit at close range in the right leg and the bullet also broke his right ribs. The DPO reloaded the rifle and released more gunshots at other personnel while they were trying to carry the wounded Adewale."

- SAHARA REPORTERS

Lekki tollgate: Let’s know if we are in military regime – Mr Macaroni confirms arrest

 

Popular Nigerian Comedian, Debo Adebayo, known as Mr Macaroni has been arrested at the Lekki toll gate, alongside other protesters.

Macaroni confirmed this on his Instagram live session in a black maria before the police seized their phones.

DAILY POST reported earlier that the police deployed its operatives to the toll gate on Friday

Macaroni said the decision to reopen the toll gate is the height of disrespect to those who lost their lives.

He said: “In a circular, the attorney general stated that everyone has a right to protest but observe COVID-19 protocols

“You are saying it’s our right but you’re restricting us.You’ll be arrested if you’re at the toll gate. I’m doing this live to show you that some of us have been arrested.

“The democracy our governors, president are enjoying some people fought for it. Let us know if we are in a military regime.

“As a president how on earth will you think the opening of toll gate is on of the things to do, till now what justice has come out from that panel. You are bullying youth representatives at the panel. How on earth do you think opening this toll gate is the next line of action.”

- DAILY POST

Fulani herdsmen attack Ogun villages, kill two, schools, hospitals shut

 

Over 100 suspected Fulani herdsmen reportedly attacked Owode-Ketu and Ijoun villages in Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State, killing two people in the process.

Report gathered that the victims: Isiaka Apesin and Oguntosin Adebayo were allegedly killed in an ambush by the killer-herdsmen who attacked the villages around 5am on Friday.

The assailants were said to have stormed Owode-Ketu and Ijoun communities shooting sporadically.

The incident forced early closure of schools, hospitals and other businesses as villagers scampered for safety.

The Baale of Owode-Ketu, Rev. Sanya Fabuyi who confirmed the incident to newsmen, disclosed that the herdsmen came with sophisticated weapons.

Fabuyi said the villagers were helpless as the herdsmen shot sporadically causing panic around the area.

He said, “We are being attacked, we need help, the police should please come to our rescue. The herdsmen came with sophisticated weapons and shot sporadically”.

Also the youth leader of the community, Mr Sina Olaleye confirmed that the herdsmen who were putting on bulletproof vests immediately moved into the forest after the attack.

He said, “The herdsmen were more than one hundred and some of them were putting on bulletproof vests. They (herdsmen) are still in the forest now and the police are here combing the forest.

“All schools and businesses have been shutdown and our people are indoor for fear of being attacked.”

The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi confirmed the incident, but said the police could not ascertain whether the attackers were Fulani herdsmen.

The PPRO said, two people were killed, but no arrest had been made so far.

He disclosed that a joint security team comprising the police, local hunters, youths and men of the local vigilance group were currently on the trail of the assailants.

In his words: “We are combing the push right now. All the Area Commanders of the police divisions, all the Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) in that area, the hunters and the youths of all the communities (Eggua, Igbogila, Sawonjo and others), hunters and men of the local vigilance group have joined the police to comb the forest.

“The Area Commander of Ayetoro division is leading the onslaught. We are still in the bush now combing for those people.”

Yewa in Ogun West Senatorial District has been under attacks by killer-herdsmen who have been laying siege on communities in the District.

A farmer, identified as Dele Olowoniyi was five days ago butchered to death by suspected Fulani herdsmen while asleep in his farm settlement at Oha village, Imeko, in Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of Ogun state.

- PM NEWS