Killings: How to make law enforcement agents more accountable

On Thursday 28th May 2020, 16-year-old Tina was shot at Iyana Oworo Berger Bus Stop in Lagos by some trigger-happy police officers and she eventually died from wounds sustained as a result of the gunshot.

While we commend the leadership of the police force for its reaction to this killing in fishing out and arresting the killer cop as well as the assurance that he will be made to “face the full weight of the law”, we are however worried at the seeming rising wave of extrajudicial killings by law enforcement agencies in recent times |||READ MORE

Court sentences three to death by hanging for murder of ex-Niger Delta agitator, one other

PORT HARCOURT: Three persons, Dougbra Ogbe, Emmanuel Gladstone, Bere Matthew, have been sentenced to death by hanging by a Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt for the murder of ex-Niger Delta agitator, Soboma George and a groundnut seller, Joy John-Ejims.

The three suspects were convicted of the three counts bordering on conspiracy and murder of George and John-Ejims preferred against them after murder of the duo in 2010.

Justice George Omereji, in his judgement, having convicted the defendants on the three charges, condemned them to death by hanging, directing that they be tied on their neck till they are confirmed dead |||READ MORE

 

 

21st century slaves (4): ‘How we fled sex bondage’

Precious thought if she broke out of her jail cell, she would run into freedom. She thought if she fled Jane’s Ghetto (brothel), she would break into blossom, and finally set on the path to achieve her dreams.

One month after The Nation revealed her predicament as a sex slave in Bracody’s underworld in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, she has fled captivity by Lady Jane, her Nigerian madame, to whom she was sold by her boyfriend, Nonso, for a paltry N220, 000. Lady Jane, the trafficker and sex merchant, claimed that she owed her N480, 000, however.

“There was no way I could work off the debt. I am tired. My body is tired. My genitals are worn. Because I was too eager to make money and pay off my debt, I slept with an average of 17 men daily, ‘short time’ and till day break. They were violent and mean. Most of my clients were vagabonds; street urchins, park thugs and criminals, and they did lots of wicked things to me,” she said, showing the scars of multiple cigarette burns on her left breast to the reporter |||READ MORE

Osun Assembly holds public hearing on proposed death penalty for kidnappers

Osun State House of Assembly, on Tuesday, held a public hearing on the proposal of death penalty for kidnappers.

The state legislators had in their efforts to stem the spate of kidnapping, proposed death penalty for anybody found culpable of the act.

Stakeholders at the gathering commended the lawmakers for their stance on the menace which they described as a threat to socio-economic activities in the state and its environs |||READ MORE …