The Lagos state police command has refuted claims by Burna Boy’s management that he has honored the police investigation issued yesterday November 20th.
Recall that the Lagos State Police commissioner, Edgal Imohimi, at a press conference in the command headquarters yesterday, said that Burna Boy is a person of interest in the on-going investigation into Mr 2kay’s robbery attack at Eko Hotel last month.
The commissioner publicly announced that Burna Boy should immediately report to the nearest police station for questioning as he has been named by arrested suspects as the mastermind of the alleged crime.
Reacting to the news, Burna Boy’s management released a statement claiming that he has honored the police invitation. Part of the statement reads
‘The first and only invitation Burna Boy has ever received from the police was issued yesterday November 20th, 2017.
This invitation was honored yesterday November 20th, 2017 and it has been made clear that he is happy to cooperate with the police as best as he can. It is pertinent to note that he was never served an arrest warrant nor has he been declared wanted’
However, The spokesperson of the Lagos state police command, Olarinde Famous-Cole, said it was only Burna Boy’s father, Samuel Ogulu, that came to the station yesterday after the press conference with claims that he, Burna Boy, is not in the country and that as soon as he arrives Nigeria, he would come to the command’s headquarters. Olarinde, however, says that the state police command believes that Burna Boy is currently on the run and that they do not believe his father’s claim that he is out of the country.
The robbery suspects that attacked Mr 2kay in Eko hotel have confessed to the police that Burna Boy paid them N100, 000 to attack Mr. 2Kay and teach him a lesson. Watch the video of the commissioner speaking at the press briefing yesterday below.
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The operatives of the Abia State Police Command are currently investigating one Osinachi Amanze who hails from Isiala Ngwa South Local Government Area of the State for allegedly killing his parents.
Also, in the Police custody in connection with the crime is one Chinacha Peter.
The Commissioner of Police in the state Mr. Anthony Ogbizi has confirmed the arrest of the suspects in a Statement made available to The Punch in Umuahia the State capital.
He said a retired ASP Rowland Ikpeama in the company of the village head of Umuosama Umuokiri Nvosi in Isiala Ngwa South had reported at Omoba Police Station that Amanze killed his parents; Father, Jonah Amanze 92yrs and Gold Amanze 65yrs while they were asleep.
He said Amanze confessed to having killed the deceased with Peter, who hails from Umuokiri Ehinuguru in the same LGA.
He disclosed that the deceased have been deposited at the morgue, while effort has been intensified to recover the machete used in the act which suspects claimed was disposed of.
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A Nigerian lady, Nnajide Lucy Nkechinyerem took to Facebook to show off a new wrapper and N1000 note she got after voting at the just concluded election in Anambra State.
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Members of the National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party led by Senator Ahmed Makarfi had an emergency meeting in Abuja on Tuesday.
According to The Punch, The meeting was sequel to growing apprehension caused by calls on Makarfi to quit his position before the December 9 national convention of the party.
The convention is scheduled to hold in Abuja.
The request on Makarfi to resign is being seen by members of the different caucuses in the party as an indication that the national convention may further polarise the former ruling party.
Besides, it was gathered that the party’s leadership and those considered as stakeholders, believed that Makarfi and his team must act fast to forestall derailment of the programmes lined up for the convention.
Already, two of the leading national chairmanship aspirants, Chief Olabode George and Prof. Tunde Adeniran, have questioned the neutrality of Makarfi in the activities that would lead to the convention.
But members of the caretaker committee and Makarfi were said to be making moves to gain the confidence of all the aspirants, including the two out of the eight chairmanship aspirants that have expressed reservations on the neutrality or otherwise of the party’s leadership.
Our correspondent gathered that the issues raised by both George and Adeniran were discussed at the emergency National Working Committee, which ended late Tuesday evening.
A source at the meeting, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told our correspondent that the caretaker committee members were sincere in the running of the party.
He said both the petition sent to the party by Adeniran and issues raised by George in his statement on Tuesday were discussed.
READ: APC, PDP supporters clash in Bayelsa, leaves 3 injuredHe said, “We were not supposed to meet on Tuesday at all. Our meeting was scheduled for Wednesday (today), but we decided to meet in order to look at the issues being raised by some of our respected members.
“We understand their concern. I think it is still because of the love they have for the party. But I can tell you that we remain committed and neutral in the running of the party and the process that would lead to the convention.
“Because of that, the caretaker committee has mandated Makarfi to speak on the issues at a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday where he would assure members of the party about his neutrality.’’
On Tuesday, the Bode George for PDP National Chairman Campaign Organisation called on Makarfi to resign his position with immediate effect, saying the role he was playing in the process towards the party national convention “is increasingly disturbing and rather untidy.”
In a statement by the campaign organisation, and signed by its Director General, Alhaji Ibrahim Aliu, the organisation said, “Apparently spurred by personal ambition of contesting the presidential office in 2019, Makarfi is brazenly allying with a particular aspirant in the South-South to deliberately distort the process, muddle equity and invariably destroy the democratic process for transient personal gains.”
“Makarfi’s action, to put it mildly, is sickening, untoward, blatantly tendentious, totally stripped of the typical moral high ground that often defines a well-meaning, God fearing arbitrating leadership.
“Everywhere you look, Makarfi is planting the agents of his favourite South-South candidate to stage-manage warped and skewed congresses in an undisguised mockery of all the normative patterns of our founding fathers whose enduring forte about equity, justice and fairness is now being flung into the gutter.
“In a way, Makarfi is evidently resolved to repeat the farcical malady that characterised the debacle in Port Harcourt last year. We have equally resolved that we will not be led along this ruinous path again. Never!”
It said Makarfi should resign his position now “for the sake of propriety, for the sake of all that is good and meaningful, for the sake of equitable balance and moral appropriateness.”
It added, “We strongly advise Senator Makarfi to resign his position forthwith because he has been severely compromised. He can no longer play the role of a neutral arbiter who stands far above the fray. He is already tarred and soiled in the muddy waters of partisan prejudice.
“Makarfi should now do the most honourable thing by walking away and face his ambition squarely. He cannot use a privilege non-elective position to wangle undue advantages to his own side. It is patently unacceptable.
“We need to redeem our party by being faithful to the great ideals of our founding fathers. We really believe that elders of the party across the nation should summon an emergency summit to deliberate on the right way to reposition our party and rectify the wrongs on the ground.”
But Makarfi last night described George’s call as politics. “That is politics,” Makarfi stated.
He advised George to concentrate on his campaign rather than raising what he described as baseless allegations.
Makarfi also dismissed George’s allegations as “ridiculous and unfortunate,” saying that the aspirant might have sensed that he would lose.
Reacting to the allegations, Makarfi said George was basing his claim on a letter previously written by another aspirant, where he listed five people in the convention committee alleged to be supporters of a South-South aspirant.
The former Kaduna State governor said the five were insignificant in a committee of about 160 persons who he said had the right to align with any candidate of their choice.
On Monday, Adeniran had senta petition to the caretaker committee members, including Makarfi, querying the inclusion of some people in the composition of the Adhoc committee set up for the election of delegates to the convention.
He said some members of the ad hoc committee were loyal to a national chairmanship aspirant from Rivers State, Prince Uche Secondus.
Also on Tuesday, Adeniran said members of the party from the South-West must not take the Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, seriously on his call for shadow election among national chairmanship aspirants from the zone.
Spokesperson for his campaign organisation, Mr. Taiwo Akeju, told our correspondent that the call by Fayose was diversionary and that it had no basis in the party’s constitution.
Akeju said Fayose had earlier declared that he was not going to support any candidate from the zone and therefore asked the governor to first of all impress it on the party to micro zone the office of the national chairman to the South-West.
He said that Adeniran would not even take part in the shadow election, which Fayose called for when he received another aspirant to the office of the national chairman in the state, Otunba Gbenga Daniel.
Akeju said, “He (Fayose) should first of all tell us who the delegates would be (at the proposed shadow election.) Apart from that, he should also go and convince his governor-colleagues to support the emergence of a chairman from the South-West.
“But we know he’s not sincere about what he said. We will also not be part of such an exercise because it is even unconstitutional. All aspirants must be made to go to the covention ground and seek vote.”
Apart from Adeniran and George, other chairmanship aspirants from the South-West are Mr. Jimi Agbaje, Prof. Toaheed Adedoja, Senator Rashidi Ladoja and Daniel.
“Fayose’s call won’t work. It is illegal and we won’t support any illegality,” Akeju added.
Meanwhile, a former National Treasurer of the party, Alhaji Buhari Bala, has also debunked an allegation that funds in the party’s account were squandered by the last members of the NWC.
He said there was no iota of truth in the allegation that the former NWC members squandered N9bn left behind by the former National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu.
Bala, in a statement said, “Our attention has been drawn to the cheap and malicious publication to the effect that members of the former National Working Committee of our party, the PDP, squandered the party’s fund to the tune of N9b said to have been left behind by the former National Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu.
“An accounting audit firm audited the accounts of the party and expressed their opinion on the accounts.’’
He warned members of the party against engaging in what he described as malicious campaign, saying such would not be in the interest of the reconciliation and peace being engendered by the Markarfi-led caretaker committee.
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