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Father Seeks Life Imprisonment For Troublesome Son
A man in Adamawa State has expressed the wish for his son to be given a life sentence in prison.
The man said such a sentence by the courts of law will afford him and other members of his family respite from the son’s troublesome acts.
The troubled father, Samuel Eke, told reporters that his son was a serious threat to him, his brothers, sisters and neighbours and that his continued stay in prison will be safer for everyone.
It was learnt that the son, 40-year-old Onyekachi Samuel of Demsawo District in Jimeta, Yola North Local Government Area, was in prison for an offence when his mother, Grace Samuel and eldest brother, Sunday Samuel passed on in 2017.
He came out from prison in October 2021 after five years behind bars but barely three months after his release, Onyekachi dared his father and other family members.
Family sources said he went to his father, a security guard at a Yolal hotel last month as the father was boiling water to bath, and said he did not see why he (Onyekachi) will bath with cold water and his father will bath with hot water.
He allegedly took a pestle and pursued his father in an attempt to smash his head, and the father was said to have been lucky to escape, with Onyekachi threatening to kill him whenever possible.
To save his life and protect his family, Eke reported the matter at the Doubeli Police station in Jimeta, on January 11, 2022, following which Onyeakachi was apprehended.
The latest was the third time in Onyekachi’s rancorous life.
Onyekachi and some others had in 2008 been convicted for armed robbery and sentenced to 10 years but Onyekachi was released after eight years in 2016.
He was soon arrested again, this time for threatening to kill a man in Demsawo after the man met him and warned him to stop smoking Indian hemp at his compound.
He was arraigned before Chief Magistrate Court II sometime that year, 2016, and sentenced to three years in prison, but shortly after his conviction, the father, Samuel Eke, had allegedly pleaded with the trial judge to add two years, and the son consequently spent five years, thus his return home last year, only to end up with his third arrest and then arraignment.
The Chairman of Malumfashi Local Government Council of Katsina State, Maharazu Dayi, has been impeached.
Maharazu Dayi was impeached yesterday by 11 out of 12 councillors, barely two days before the local government elections in the State.
The councillors reportedly took action following allegations of misconduct and poor governance against the chairman after a dispute over the distribution of the council’s Paris Club funds.
The development has sent shock waves across the local government area, especially as the impeached chairman is among those who failed to secure the ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to contest in the forthcoming election.
The Rumuwoji Ultra Modern Market Traders Association, Mile 1, Port Harcourt, has urged the state government to utilise the available spaces within the area to build phase 3 of the Rumuwoji Market in order to solve the ever increasing needs of traders.
The association, which said this at a media briefing in Port Harcourt, also described as a welcomed development the decision by the state Governor to open the phase 2 of the market for business.
According to the association, “We consider it as an answer to the various cries of the people, because he is a man on a mission who is out to place the interest of Rivers people first. It is a dream come true for the first time for the market to be dully allocated and open for business”
Chairman of the association, Hon Godspower Wobo, who briefed the press shortly after a meeting of the association in Port Harcourt, also urged the public to disregard the activities of some persons whose stock in trade is to cause disaffection in the market.
He said the attention of the association was drawn to the activities of some strange fellows who went about misforming the people about situation in the market, stressing that apart from his association, no other group exists in the market except subdiary unions.
Wobo also tasked the reallocation committee to tread with caution so as to avoid being deceived by any group.
According to him, time has come for the state government to engage in robust discussion with aggrieved shop owners who went to court and those who paid monies to the state coffers and issued with allocation certificates for the overall interest of peace.
He also advised the public to deal directly with his association, stressing that the meeting was to review activities for the last year as well as unveil their new Constitution.
Also speaking, former Chairman of the association, Deacon Kenneth Eze urged the Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara to open the phase 2 of the market, as it is long overdue.
Eze who is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the association also urged the public to do business with only the Rumuwoji Ultra Modern Market Traders Association as it is the only union recognised by the traders.
The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwunmi Adesina, has debunked reports linking him with the race for Nigeria’s presidency in 2027.
Reacting to the report on his X handle yesterday, following a recent interview with Arise TV, the AfDB boss said his quotes were misrepresented and misinterpreted in several Nigerian media reports.
However, the AfDB president denied the media reports, stating that he never said that he wanted to contest for President.
“A segment of my recent interview on @Arise TV has been both misinterpreted and misrepresented in several Nigerian media outlets. What I said was, “I will be available to serve in any capacity, globally, in Africa, anywhere, including my own country.”
“A listen to the substantive and robust interview, which is available online, will show this to be the case. For clarity and for the record, I did not say that I am running for the office of President of Nigeria,” Adesina said.