Herdsman machetes, burns boss to take possession of his cows

THE decision of a cow rearer, Pastor Pekun Olusola, to employ a Fulani herdsman, Ahmadu Aliyu, who would help in caring for the animals almost proved fatal for him on Tuesday March 13, 2012 when the man macheted him and afterwards ignited a fire which he thought would burn his boss to death along the way to his farm in Awe town, Oyo State. Reason: He was alleged to have thought of taking over his master’s animals!

Narrating his experience to Sunday Tribune on his hospital bed at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, where he was transferred to after initial admission at State Hospital, Oyo, Pastor Olusola, who revealed that he had been in farming business for about 14 years said he employed Aliyu about four years ago to take care of his cows and sheep.

According to the 60-year-old man who is also a part-time pastor with the Living Faith Church, Awe, “initially, when Aliyu started working with me, I was paying him salary but it got to a stage that we had an arrangement that I would be giving him one cow every six months.

“I didn’t always go to the farm to check him since he is on my land but last year, I got an information that he had sold four out of my 28 cows. I didn’t want to make any fuss about so I called him to my house and spoke to him, advising him to stop it. This was someone who would come to me for money and I didn’t have, I would tell him to take one of my sheep and sell. There was even a time he told me he wanted to marry a second wife and he did not have money. I asked him to take one cow and sell.

“On Tuesday March 13, I was in the poultry when he called to inform me that one of my cows had delivered, that I should come and check her. I didn’t let him know when I would come so as to catch him unawares. I went to the farm that very day and as was my usual practice, I started counting my cows. One of his brothers staying with him brought his own cows but I asked that they be separated.

“I counted 21 instead of 28, so I realised that seven were missing. I did not say anything, I just said I was going, having the thought of inviting him to my house later. He started explaining that there was one cow which had mated and was pregnant and another one which was sick in the bush. I told him not to worry, that I wanted to go home. He persuaded me to check on the sick one and I agreed. I asked him to ride my motorcycle but he didn’t agree, so I rode the bike and he sat behind me.

“We left the bush and hit the main road. Suddenly, I felt the slash of a cutlass as Aliyu hit my head. I fell down from the bike and he used my jacket, which I usually wore to protect myself from wind, to wrap my head, just as he continued to machete me on the head. He also landed the machete on my right wrist which I was trying to use to protect my head.

The wrist was dangling and it was only held to the rest of the arm by a thin layer of flesh. He would call ‘Daddy’ and I would reply: ‘Aliyu, why are you doing this to me?’ The more I talked, the more he would inflict further machete cuts on me. When I realised his intention, I kept quiet. Before I knew what was happening, he removed the fuel hose connected to the tank of my bike and set it ablaze, and he put me beside it. I became unconscious but God brought me back to life about an hour after.

People were passing by and I was calling them but instead of coming to my rescue, they were running away. About an hour after, I saw a man with a dane gun, I asked him to help me but he said ‘but Baba, you are dead. I am seeing your brain.’ I replied that I would not die. I asked him to check my pocket for my phone. Aliyu had earlier removed one of my phones and a sum of N13,000.

“The man could not get through to the number I asked him to call but he called SARS operatives. In 30 minutes, they were there. They also never believed I could survive it but they took me to State Hospital, Oyo where I was taken to the theatre and they sutured my head and my wrist. They also took care of the burns. They later told me that the condition of the wrist would demand better healthcare facilities, that was how I was referred to UCH on Wednesday March 14.”

The farmer said he believed Aliyu’s action was premeditated one and was planned alongside his brother, his wife and two young Fulani boys who were on the farm that day. “When I was leaving that day, Aliyu’s wife looked at me strangely. It was later I linked that look with her husband’s action,” he said.

Stating that if he were to say anything on Aliu’s action, he would ask that he should be let off. “He wanted me dead, but God said I will live. However, for others to learn that crime does not pay, let justice be done according to the law”, Pastor Olusola said.

Sunday Tribune gathered that the suspect, Aliu, had been arrested by the police and was in detention at Durbar Division confirming the arrest, the Police Public Relations Officer in Oyo State, Ms Olabisi Okuwobi, said the police were on the hunt for the suspect’s brother whom he claimed connived with him to attack the pastor. Okuwobi added that the case would be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Iyaganku for further investigations.

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Man to spend three years in prison for motorcycle theft

A 28-year-old trader, Moses Goodboy, was on Friday sentenced to three years imprisonment for stealing a Bajaj motorcycle worth N100,000.

Magistrate A.O. Soladoye of the Surulere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, who gave the judgment, did not give Goodboy an option of a fine.

She said that the gravity of the offence, whereby the accused threathened the complainant with a dagger to obtain the motorcycle, warranted the sentence.

Goodboy, who was living in Ilaje area of Ebute Meta, had pleaded guilty to a count charge of theft.

The Investigation Police Officer (IPO), Sgt. Evelyn Eguebor, who held brief for the prosecutor, told the court that the accused committed the offence in January at Ilaje village in Lagos.

She said that Goodboy flagged down one Sikiru Olaiya, the owner of the Bajaj Motorcycle with Reg. No. QF164KJA and asked him to drop him at Ilaje, in Ebute Meta West.

Eguebor said Olaiya who did not agree on the price Goodboy offered, left him to Ilaje to wash his motorcycle, where the accused sighted him and started beating him.

“The accused started beating the complainant and also stabbed him with a dagger,’’ the prosecutor said.

Olaiya also gave evidence in court: “I was washing my motorcycle when Goodboy approached me and started beating me up.

“ It was when he brought out a dagger to stab me that I left the motorcycle and ran for my life,’’ Olaiya told the court.

The prosecutor said the accused took the motorcycle and disappeared from the scene.

The offence, she said, contravened Section 285(10) of the Criminal Code, Laws of Lagos State.

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85-year-old woman, man, 18, charged for stealing

An 85-year-old woman, Taiwo Ayodeji and Nosiru Isa, 18, on Thursday appeared before an Abeokuta Chief Magistrates' Court charged with stealing a Blackberry phone and other valuables.

The police prosecutor, Insp. Augustine Ozimini, told the court that the alleged offences were committed on February 23, at about 9 p.m. at Abule Oyun Street, Lafenwa in Abeokuta.

Ozimini said that the octogenarian conspired with the teenager to commit felony, stealing and breaking into the room of one Mr Raheem Olusola.

According to him, apart from the blackberry phone, the accused stole one gold necklace, one palmtop computer, six shirts, shoes, jeans, WAEC and GCE certificates.

He added that N75,000 cash was also missing in the complainant’s room, adding that that "the total value of the items stolen is N244,000.

The police prosecutor said that the alleged offences were contrary to and punishable under Sections 516, 411 and 390 (9) of the Criminal Code of Ogun, 2006.

The accused persons pleaded not guilty to the charges, and the old woman, Ayodeji said, "I was only trying to help him because there was flooding as a result of downpour.

"I don’t have the strength and that is why I called our neighbour who is also his friend (Isa) to help pack his property to the backyard.

"Nothing is missing from what we packed, how can the complainant now say that we have stolen his things is what I don’t understand."

She added that her intention was to save property of the complainant from further damage.

"I made several unsuccessful attempts to reach him (complainant) on phone to inform him of the incident,'' she claimed.

The counsel to the accused persons, Mr Michael Itiolu, also said that his clients were innocent of the charges.

He said that the complainant was a sub-tenant to Ayodeji because the apartment was transferred to him by someone who rented it from the defendant.

Itiolu, thereafter, applied for the bail of the accused persons, and gave the assurance that they would not jump bail.

In his ruling, the Chief Magistrate, Mr Akeem Adenariwo, granted the accused persons bail in the sum of N50,000 each, with one surety each in like sum.

He adjourned the case to May 28, for hearing.

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Court sentenced 1, remands 2 for stealing handset

An Abuja Senior Magistrates’ Court has sentenced a 23-year-old applicant, Henry James, to four months imprisonment without an option of fine.

Senior Magistrate Asmau Akanbi handed down the jail term after the convict pleaded guilty to stealing of a telephone handset.

Akanbi, however, ordered that his co-accused Gabriel Eleso, 20, and Uche Obinna, 20 be remanded in prison after they pleaded not guilty to the same charge.

The accused persons were charged with joint act and theft, which the police prosecutor, Cpl. Silas Nanpan, said were reported to the police on March 8, by one Solomon James of Nyanya Village, Abuja.

Nanpan said that while the complainant was taking a nap at Nyanya, the accused attacked him and stole his handset valued at N7, 500 and also stole N3,000 cash from him.

He said that when they were arrested, they confessed to the crime, adding that the offence contravened Sections 79 and 288 of the Penal Code.

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Applicant jailed for attempting to snatch handbag

An Abuja Magistrate Court last Thursday sentenced a 22-year-old applicant to three months imprisonment for attempting to snatch a lady’s handbag along Airport Road, Abuja.

John Kenneth of Lugbe, Abuja, was convicted for attempting to commit an offence, punishable under Section 95 of the Penal Code.

The police prosecutor, Paul Anigbo, informed the court that on March 1, a team of policemen led by Corporal Friday Yohanna, attached to Lugbe Division, arrested the accused person while trying to commit an offence by the fence of Voice of Nigeria Estate along Airport Road at 7:30 pm.

He said the police team sighted the accused and one of his friends trying to snatch a lady’s bag but the accused was caught in the process.

“The accused was in possession of a knife and a scissors when he was arrested and he confessed to the crime during police investigation,” the prosecutor said.

When the charge was read to the accused, he pleaded guilty and begged for leniency, while the prosecutor asked for his summary trial.

Magistrate Tony Ubani sentenced the accused to three months in prison or to pay N10,000 as fine.

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Bodyguard of ex wife of Sultan of Brunei 'stole £12million in jewels and replaced them with worthless fakes'

The former wife of the Sultan of Brunei has accused her ex-bodyguard of stealing and selling rare diamonds worth £12million, replacing them with worthless replicas.

Mariam Aziz, 55, claims her bodyguard, Fatimah Kumin Lim, 34, ‘appropriated’ a diamond bracelet worth £3.5million, and two diamond rings worth £8.7million, in 2008 and 2009, and used them to pay off her gambling debts.

Mrs Aziz’s lawyer Max Mallin, told the High Court Miss Lim had ‘confessed’ to ‘dishonestly’ taking the gems while they were being kept at her employer’s £1.7million home in Kensington, when being questioned by police in Brunei.

However, he added that Miss Lim now claims that confession was ‘forced’ out of her.

She says she was instructed by Mrs Aziz to sell the diamonds to pay off her own gambling debts which, she claims, had been built up by the former royal in her bodyguard’s name.

The court heard that Mrs Aziz’s adopted daughter, Afifa Abdullah, 26, was tricked into ‘lending’ Miss Lim two precious blue and yellow diamond rings, which were never returned.

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Man jailed two months for stealing chewing gum

An Abuja Magistrates’ Court on Thursday sentenced a man, Oriade Tosin, of Zone B, National Assembly Quarters to two months imprisonment for stealing chewing gum and cereal valued at N4,270.
The Senior Magistrate, Ann Akobi however gave the convict an option of N1,000 fine, the.

Police prosecutor David Udeh told the court that on February 19, Danaladi Ode of Amigo Supermarket, Wuse 2, Abuja, reported the accused to the police.

Mr Udeh said the complainant told the police that the accused entered the supermarket and stole two Orbit (Wrigley) chewing gum and one Sultana Bran cereal.

He said that during police investigation, the accused admitted to have stolen the items. The accused, who pleaded guilty, begged the court to have mercy on him.

In delivering her judgment, Akobi said his sentence would serve as a lesson and deterrent to others.

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26 year-old man on trial for stealing church offerings

Babatunde Ige, 26, is in police custody for allegedly stealing money from a church. The suspect was arraigned on Tuesday before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court on a one-count charge of stealing N14,610 from the offering box of Church of Assumption, Falomo, in Ikoyi.

According to the charge sheet, the suspect was alleged to have been nabbed video evidence from a CCTV camera monitored by a guard in the church.

Police statements claimed Ige confessed to stealing the money from the church’s offering box. “This is my second time of stealing money from the church’s offering box,” he allegedly wrote in the statement. “The first was last year when I stole N5,000 successfully and I steal only N1,000 denominations with a curved tiny iron and scissors.

I would remain inside the church after closing hours pretending to be praying, and after I notice that the place is empty, I would move closer to where the church offerings boxes are kept and remove the highest denominations. I started to worship in the church last year to steal and not to worship God after I realised that the high and mighty go there to worship and donate generously.”

However, in court, Ige pleaded not guilty. The presiding magistrate W. B. Balogun, admitted him to bail in the sum of N23,000 with one surety who must show evidence of tax payment to the Lagos State government.

The accused has been remanded in Ikoyi Prison when nobody came to bail him before the court closed for the day.

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Police Rent Rifles to Robbers at N.2 Million per Operation

AFTER days of denial, the Adamawa State Police Command yesterday confirmed the involvement of three officers in the sale and rentage of arms and ammunition to armed robbers.

The three officers – an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and two Inspectors – collected N200,000 per operation from men of the underworld as cost of rentage of two AK-47 rifles.

The state Police Commissioner, Mr. Adenrele Shinaba, said the officers had been arrested.

Shinaba, who spoke in Yola, the state capital yesterday, said the gun-for-hire scandal is an embarrassment to the command.

The three officers are ASP Abuna Mainasara, a native of Gombe State, Inspectors Daniel Eliphas and Abubakar Hali. They will soon be charged to court.

Shinaba said a Sergeant posted to the armoury detected the deal between the officers and the robbers.

The police boss said Mainasara was the chief supplier of arms with which armed robbers terrorise Adamawa, Taraba and Gombe states, which one Stephen Tizhe named as an accomplice in the crime.

The arms recovered from the police officers included two AK 47rifles rented out at N200,000 per operation, 1,200 rounds of life ammunition and one empty magazine..

Commenting on the text message that the Officer in Charge (O/C) of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, (SARS), ASP Mohammed Ali and 20 other policemen were arrested by a vigilante outfit leader in the state, Alhaji Ali Kwara, the commissioner stated that the rumour was an attempt to tarnish the good work of the officers in reducing criminal activities in the state.

He described Ali as a dedicated officer who had foiled several robbery operations in the state.

Shinaba later presented a certificate of commendation to Ali for his gallant contributions in crime fighting.

The police boss urged indigenes of the state not to be disturbed with the arrest of the three officers, saying that everything would be done to ensure that the state is rid of undesirable elements in the force.

He also called on the people to always give the police useful information “so as to checkmate the activities of these criminals”.

Meanwhile, there was a new twist in the spate of bank robberies in Ogun State as bandits, in the early hours of yesterday, raided a branch of Wema Bank in Ifo Local Government Area of the state without firing a single shot.

The robbery gang was said to have carted away huge sums of money at the bank located at Matthew Bus Stop, Ifo.

Reliable sources said the bandits had a smooth operation for about two hours, after successfully tying the bank’NEWSMEN learnt that the gang members scaled the bank’s fence and used saw to break the burglar proof before gaining entry into the vaults.

While the operation lasted, the robbers allegedly did not fire a single gun shot.

Sources said when the bank officials arrived in the morning, they found the night guard still tied with rope while several doors within the banking hall were left open.

The bank officials were said to have invited policemen at the Ifo Divisional Headquarters to the scene and the guard was subsequently untied and whisked away.

However, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Muyiwa Adejobi, could not be reached for comments on the incident. Meanwhile, a Divisional Police Officer (DPO) has been removed by the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Nicholas Nkemdeme, over the raiding of about 15 houses in Abeokuta, the state capital, last weekend.

The DPO (name withheld) was said to have given “wrong information” to the police commissioner over a robbery incident that occurred at Oke-Ejigbo area of Abeokuta on Friday through Saturday morning.

Two people were said to have been killed in the incident while several others were reportedly injured.

The NEWSMEN gathered that the bandits moved from one house to the other without any hindrance or resistance from security agents.

But, rather than provide accurate briefing for Nkemdeme, dependable sources said the DPO trivialised the matter and claimed that only two houses were raided.

When the police commissioner eventually learnt about the robbery in the media, he was said to have been angry with the DPO and ordered his immediate redeployment.

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N350 Yoghurt, Mobile Phone Send Man to 2 Years in Prison

You hear some judgement from Nigerian courts against ordinary Nigerians and you feel like crying for the poor of this country.

How on earth would a judge defend her decision to sentence a 25-year old man to two (2) years imprisonment because of yoghurt.

He stole some yoghurt valued at N350 only and two mobile phones valued at N8,000 only. Fatai Samotu, a petty thief, was on Wednesday sentenced to two years imprisonment on each of the three count charges he was arraigned for by an Osogbo Senior Magistrate Court.

During the hearing, he pleaded guilty and his counsel even pleaded for leniency on his behalf. But to the chagrin of many of those present at the court, the judge, Olusola Aluko, convicted and sentenced him to two years imprisonment with hard labour.

I heard some of those who attended the hearing almost started a protest in the court premises but such was averted when the judge gave him an option of N15,000 fine.

Although I don't support anyone stealing other people's stuff, but I seriously disagree with this judgement. I mean, six months should have been fair enough, given the kind of billions (Naira and Dollars) that some political office holders 'misappropriate' but only get a slap on the back through plea bargaining.

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Police arrest woman for allegedly stealing day-old-baby

The Police in Abia have arrested a middle-aged woman for allegedly stealing a day-old- baby at a hospital in Umuahia.

Mr Geoffrey Ogbonna, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), confirmed the arrest on Friday in Umuahia.

He said that the suspect was caught at Nkata Ibeku area of Umuahia where she curdled the little baby with cloth in her room.

The suspect is said to have been married for more than seven years to a man working with a construction company but they have yet to be blessed with a child.

Mr Augustine Samuel, the father of the stolen child, said that, his wife, Uchemma, was delivered of a baby boy on Nov. 10 at about 7. 30 a.m at a hospital on Enugu/Udi Street, Umuahia.

Samuel said about 7. a.m the next morning, his wife left the child on her hospital bed to have a bath, but discovered on her return that her baby had disappeared.

“When I got to the hospital a few minutes later, we searched everywhere in and around the hospital but were unable to find the baby.

“From the hospital, I moved straight to our church and cried on to the Lord in prayer and the next day, police sent information to us to come and recover our baby,’’ he said.

Ogbonna said that the stolen baby was recovered at Nkata Ibeku following information to the police by a responsible Nigeria.

The PPRO also said that the suspect had earlier claimed she adopted the child from a hospital, but later confessed she stole the baby from Anelechi Hospital due to alleged pressure from the husband.

Ogbonna, who condemned the act, commended the informer, and urged Nigerians to also partner with the police to fight crime in the country.

He said that the matter was still being handled by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Police Command.,

He said that the suspect would be charged to court when investigation was completed.

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Nursing mother jailed 7 days for stealing indomie.

An Osogbo Senior Magistrates’ Court on Thursday sentenced a 28-year-old nursing mother, Taye Joseph, to seven days of community service for stealing a carton of indomie.

The convict was to be kept in the custody of Ataoja Police Station in Osogbo from where she was expected to be coming to clean the court’s premises for seven days.

Senior Magistrate Olusola Aluko, however, gave an option of N300 fine for each of the seven-count charges brought against the convict.

Joseph had pleaded guilty to the seven-count charges of conspiracy, house-breaking as well as stealing and asked for leniency.

The police prosecutor, Solomon Oladele, told the court that the woman committed the offences, which contravened sections 516, 383, 413 and 390, of the Criminal Code, Laws of Osun, on Nov. 16, at Olugun area in Osogbo.

Oladele, while presenting the facts of the case during a summary trial, told the court that Joseph forcefully entered the shop of one Fasilat Yinusa and stole a carton of indomie valued at N1, 200.

He added that the woman stole some biscuits, Viju milk, eggs, packets of cigarettes and Bournvita among other items from the shops of Mulikat Agbeja and Folasade Suleieman.

According to Oladele, one Falola Saidi sighted the convict while trying to escape with the stolen items and raised an alarm which enabled passersby to apprehend her.

Aluko, in his jugdment, aid : “ Throughout the trial period, I watched the convict keenly as she wept which indicated that she is regretting her action and I noticed that she is very sober.

“She is to be kept in the custody of the Ataoja Police Station from where she should be coming to clean the premises of this court for seven days.

“The convict should report at 8 a.m and close at 4 p.m for the seven days and in the alternative, she should pay a fine of N300 for each of the seven count-charge brought against her.” (NAN)

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Female Bank Manager Arraigned for Stealing in Lagos

The spirit of greed is a very bad force and anyone suffering from same usually end up miserable, no matter the level he or she might have attained in the corporate world. This same spirit seem to have caught up with a manager in one of the branches of Ecobank in Lagos. Funny enough, she is not alone in 'bad business' as her husband is also also been picked up for the same offence.

Investigation findings show that the husband and wife are...
fraudulently converting customers money and paying same into 'a special account'. The story: Men of the Nigeria police force, State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Lagos, have dragged a manager of Ecobank Nigeria Plc., Tosin Lawal and her husband, Michael Lawal, to court for Conspiracy and Stealing.

In the suit filed before a Federal High Court in Lagos, the police prosecuting officer, Nosa Ununnogho, stated that Tosin and Michael, between April 22nd and September 6th, 2011, at Ecobank, Allen Avenue branch, conspire to commit felony to wit stealing and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 516 of the Criminal Code, law of the Federation 2004.

The charge read thus: You, the wife, being a customer services manager of the bank, same time and place, with the intention to defraud, knowingly made fraudulent account transactions in various customers’ accounts under your control, thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 438 of the Criminal Code laws of the Federation.

The husband and wife were also accused, in another count of the charge, of obtained Ecobank customers deposits amounting to N209,674,267, under the pretext that the amount was being posted to the lawful owners’ accounts, a representation they knew to be false, thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 419 of the Criminal Code.

The police initially arranged the couple before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court but the case was later transferred to the Federal High Court in Lagos based on superior argument. But while the wife remains with the CID, the husband has been cooling off in EFCC custody since September 30, as such both of them were not in court when the matter came up for hearing.

In his wisdom, Justice Okechukwu Okeke of the Lagos High Court adjourned the case to give the Police time to retrieve the husband and produce him and his wife in court on the next sitting... I’ll keep you guys posted when the couple return to court, probably next week.

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Police Parade Goat As Robbery Suspect In Kwara!

It was a shocking sight yesterday as men of the Kwara State Police Command paraded a goat as an armed robbery suspect.

The goat "robbery suspect"The goat "suspect" is being detained over an alleged attempt to snatch a Mazda car. The mysterious goat, according to the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Tunde Mohammed, while briefing bewildered journalists at the Force headquarters, is an armed robber who attempted to snatch the said car, Wednesday night, and later transformed into the goat in a bid to escape arrest.

He explained that men of a vigilance group in Anifowose Ipata/Oloje areas of the state capital had chased two armed robbery suspects who wanted to demobilise the Mazda car with the intention of stealing it, and

"while one of them escaped, the other was about to be apprehended by the team when he turned his back on the wall and turned to this goat. They quickly grabbed the goat and here it is.’’ Mohammed said.

The police spokesman said the goat "armed robbery suspect" will not be left off the hook until investigations into the case are concluded.

He also said that no fewer than five stolen vehicles have been recovered by the state Police Command while some suspects were also arrested. Among those arrested, he said was one Idowu Oni of Araromi area of Akure who escaped from Akure Prison.

He added that the escaped convict was arrested in Ilorin after stealing a Mazda 323 car belonging to Mrs. Henrietta Ayijesu.

He also said another armed robbery and violation suspect was in their custody, assuring that the suspects will soon appear in court.

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Man Dies While Trying To Exhume Valuable Items At Burial Grave

AN unidentified man, in his thirties, was found dead yesterday at a grave site, while apparently attempting to rob a corpse in Kazaure, Jigawa State.

The man was said to be attempting to exhume the corpse, which had been buried earlier on Sunday morning, in an effort to steal some valuables said to have been buried with it.

While making the attempt, the loose earth collapsed, trapping the man as shown in the picture. He died on the spot. He was found, hours later, dead, but onlookers said it appeared that he had struggled to free himself from the grave site, but could not. 

From the injuries sustained on his head, it was apparent that he had hit his head on an object in the grave which, perhaps, made him unable to free himself. Also, sympathisers said he might have been knocked unconscious, and so could not have been able to shout for help.

Investigations could not, however, ascertain how he was related to the corpse, or how he knew what valuables had been buried with it, as his corpse was yet to be claimed at the time of filing this report.

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