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Film-maker , Seun Egbegbe , nabbed
Afeez Hanafi
Barely two months after a popular film-maker , Seun Karim , aka Seun Egbegbe , was arrested for allegedly stealing nine iPhones valued at millions of naira , he has returned to a police station for alleged fraud .
PUNCH Metro learnt that Egbegbe was arrested around 1pm on Thursday along with one Ayo Oyekan on the Gbagada General Hospital premises after allegedly defrauding two bureau de change operators to the tune of $ 9,000 ( N4.5m ) and £ 3,000 ( about N1.8m ).
As the police at the Area H Command , Ogudu , obtained their statements , about 50
DSS beats unity school teachers in Calabar
Mudiaga Affe , Calabar
Six teachers at the Federal Government Girls College in Calabar on Thursday alleged that they were beaten in the presence of pupils by operatives of the Department of State Services , Cross River State Command .
They alleged that the armed security officials stormed the school premises at about 10am on the invitation of a female DSS official who had come to beat up a teacher for flogging her daughter .
One of the teachers , Mr . Owai Owai , said he was flogged in front of his pupils by the DSS woman and her husband .
Other teachers , who claimed to have been beaten up when the school later became flooded with DSS officials , identified themselves simply as Ndarake , Inyang , Udoh , Agba , Njor and the college ’ s Chief Security Officer , John Ikpeme .
A security official , identified as James , said the DSS officials who stormed the school in three vehicles , shot repeatedly into the air before they forcefully gained entrance .
However , the state Director of DSS , Mr . Fubara Duke , said the matter was a case of mistaken identity .
But PUNCH Metro observed that the school gate had bullet holes , while some spent shells were seen on the floor .
Owai , who teaches Civic Education in the senior class , said trouble started when he flogged some pupils for failing to sweep their classroom .
He said , “ I was about to teach when I noticed some junior pupils sweeping the classroom of the senior pupils . I learnt that the senior pupils had imposed it on them . It was a wrong precedent because all the pupils had been told to sweep their respective classes .
“ I punished the senior pupils who ordered the
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junior ones to sweep . I gave each of them two strokes of the cane on their palm and one of them challenged me for flogging her . Before I knew what was happening , she telephoned her mother , whom I later learnt was a DSS official . The mother came to the school with her husband and they started beating me .
“ They used my own cane to flog me in the presence of the pupils . My fellow teachers came in to stop them , but they were rebuffed . Later , the DSS woman called her colleagues for reinforcement and that was how the school became flooded with DSS officials . They started beating teachers who ran into them .”
Another teacher , Amos Princewill , said the DSS officials took away two mobile phones , a binocular and N80,000 belonging to his colleagues who were molested .
But DSS Director , Duke , said , “ It was not true that they used guns . What happened was that there was a mistaken identity somewhere . Our people responded to a call from them and on getting there , a group of hoodlums that had earlier gone there took to their heels .
“ Meanwhile , a parent had gone to the school to complain that her daughter was beaten up by a teacher . She ( the parent ) was mistaken to be among the hoodlums and some teachers from the school pounced on
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her . They even attacked a DSS official . I have complained to the school authorities to take administrative action against what they did to a member of my staff .”
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chicken roost built by a Lagos resident , Segun Irein , has put his family into trouble .
Segun and his wife , Sola , allegedly beat their neighbour , Idowu Solaja , to death over the roost at their house on Babs
N6.3m fraud
bureau de change operators , who claimed to have been defrauded by Egbegbe , thronged the command to lodge complaints .
It was gathered that Egbegbe had disguised as the managing director of the Gbagada General Hospital , while his accomplice acted as a patient to perpetrate the Thursday crime .
Our correspondent gathered that the suspects had gone to a bureau de change in the Ifako area in a Jeep and approached one Alhaji Isa Adamu that they wanted to buy $ 9,000 .
They were said to have taken the unsuspecting victim to the hospital gate and told him to wait while they went into the hospital under false pretences of getting him the naira equivalent .
“ When the bureau de change operator realised that he had been defrauded , he searched the hospital , but could not find them .
“ He later went to report the case at the Ifako Police
Division . This happened around 12pm ,” a source said .
PUNCH Metro learnt that after about an hour , Egbegbe
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Teenager , other to clean court premises for contempt
Femi Makinde , Osogbo
An Osun State Magistrate ’ s Court sitting in Osogbo has convicted 18-year-old Saka Quadiri and one Kazeem Raji for contempt of court .
The duo , who are standing trial for allegedly assaulting a policeman , Jacob Chukuwdi , and causing a breach of the public peace at ADS High School , Iludun , Osogbo , were earlier granted bail for the offences .
They , however , refused to appear in court during subsequent sittings .
The court had issued a warrant for their arrest , leading to their arraignment before the magistrate , Mrs . Abimbola Olowolagba , on Thursday .
The prosecutor , Mr . I . Idoko , said by refusing to appear in court , the men had committed an offence punishable under Section 133 ( 9 ) of the Criminal Code , Cap 34 , Vol II ., Law of Osun State
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of Nigeria , 2003 .
The charge read in part , “ That you , Saka Quadiri and Kazeem Raji , on February 2 , 2017 , at about 9am , at the Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Court 4 , Osogbo Magisterial District , did willfully disrespect the court when you failed to appear to answer to your charge , thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 133 ( 9 ) of the Criminal Code , Cap 34 , Vol . II , Law of Osun State of Nigeria , 2003 .” Quadiri and Raji pleaded guilty to the charge . Their counsel , Mrs . Adeyinka Dada , asked the magistrate to temper justice with mercy .
She said , “ The convicts are first time offenders ; they are young people and have admitted their faults and are remorseful .”
The magistrate , in her verdict , said the convicts should sweep and cut the grass on the court premises from February 3 till February 10 , 2017 .
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four children .
When our correspondent visited the community on Thursday , he met a crowd of residents and landlords discussing the death .
An in-law to the deceased , Jimoh Ayandokun , said Segun was first rearing pigs , adding that after a series of complaints by the victim , he stopped the business .
He said , “ Idowu had complained several times about the smell of the pigs .
“ It took nine months and the intervention of the landlord association before he stopped rearing the pigs .
“ After that matter was resolved , there was peace in the community and in December 2016 , when the suspect ’ s wife had a party , the deceased attended .”
The deceased elder sister , who did not want to be identified , said Idowu had taken one of his children to school on Monday when he saw some chickens being fed in the roost at Segun ’ s house .
She said , “ He went to the house and knocked at the door repeatedly , but nobody answered him . He banged