Mechanical Engineering Poly Graduate Murdered: Family Demands Justice

The family of a 47-year-old man‎, identified as Charles Obaretin, has appealed to the Nigeria Police to unravel the circumstances surrounding his alleged murder in Ologbo community, Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State.

The late Charles was said to be an unemployed graduate of mechanical engineering from the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, who had been introduced to a job at an oil mill by one of his friends. The friend, identified as one Mr. Saturday, was said to have told him that the job, which was located at Obayantor, had a monthly salary of N120,000.

The late Charles was said to have left his home last Monday to resume work at the company but did not return until five days later when his decomposing corpse was found in a bush.‎ His remains were later said to have been deposited at the Stella Obasanjo Hospital on Sapele Road.

The sister of the deceased, Stella Inuwede, told Southern City News on Monday evening that‎ she had been informed by one Mr. I. K. that he and her late brother were allegedly kidnapped by some armed men on their way to the company.

She explained, “As my brother went to resume on Monday, I did not see him again. On Wednesday, his friend told me that he could not find him.‎ We went to the company but it did not look like a place where one could be paid N30,000 (as salary).

“I went to the house of the boy who was said to have been kidnapped with my brother since I could not reach him on the phone. But when I got there, I was surprised ‎to see him and was wondering what was happening.”

“So, I decided to go to Obayantor where the company was located. The police also invited the boy to explain what happened and where the alleged kidnap took place. But when we got there, I discovered that my brother was dead,” Stella, who was accompanied by the 83-year-old father of the deceased, Pa Felix, said.

She, therefore, called on the Nigeria Police to expose the perpetrators, adding that she did not believe the claim of the boy that his late Charles was killed by kidnappers as his (deceased) eyes and nose appeared allegedly mutilated.

She also alleged that I. K. did not disclose the death of his deceased brother until he was asked by the police.

‎”I cannot find the boy who gave my late brother the job and the one who was allegedly kidnapped with him. I want the police and the state government to help me unravel the killers,” the sister of the deceased added.

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NBA orders Dasuki and El-Zakzakky's immediate release

Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky.

Col.   Sambo Dasuki (rtd)

 The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has called on the Federal Government to release the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) without delay, and the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky.
NBA president, Mr. Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN), made this call when he addressed newsmen in Abuja on Monday, describing the continued detention of the two men by President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government as unjustifiable.
“The NBA wishes to use this opportunity to call on the Federal Government to continually demonstrate religious adherence to the tenets of constitutional democracy. In this regard the NBA is appalled at the continued detention of certain individuals in blatant disobedience to court orders.
“Amongst these individuals are Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife and also Colonel Sambo Dasuki, the former national security adviser. Whilst we recognise the serious the charges on which these individuals are held, we nevertheless view their continued detention as unjustified and contrary to the express court orders.

“We call on the government to without further delay respect these orders,” he said
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Different court rulings have ordered for the release of both men who have been in the custody of the Department of State Service (DSS) for about two years.
However, the court orders have fallen on deaf ears as Nigeria’s secret police has refused to release them.
The NBA president went further to say, “In the same vein, in the wake of the arrest and detention of certain judicial officers by the DSS, the NBA had taken the view that the judges affected should recuse themselves from judicial functions until the investigations and outcome of those investigations were determined, we note that nearly eight months after those investigations were launched, there are some of the judges, who have not been prosecuted or charged before any court of law.
“This situation is completely unsatisfactory and unacceptable. The NBA calls on the government to terminate the investigations against those judges to enable them to resume their work as judicial officials.”
On Federal Government’s corruption fight, the NBA faulted the strategy so far adopted and said there is immediate need to review the strategy with attention focused at strengthening existing investigating and prosecuting agencies.

“It is no longer news that there is endemic corruption in Nigeria. The issue is how we are fighting it. While the current efforts by anti-corruption agencies are commendable, it is important to note that the present framework, which is in place for anti-corruption crusade, is defective in structure and does not make for effectiveness of these agencies.

Mahmoud’s address came just as Acting President Osinbajo in his Democracy Day broadcast blamed the hitches in the fight against graft on weak justice system in the country.