BLAMING OPPOSITION FOR HUNGER IS ‘DELUSION’, ATIKU TELLS TINUBU. (PHOTO).
Blaming opposition for hunger is ‘delusion’, Atiku tells Tinubu Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused President Bola Tinubu of blaming the opposition for the country’s economic hardship. He said the President was trying to evade responsibility for his administration’s policies. Tinubu had earlier on Saturday blamed his political opponents for hunger and poverty in the country while speaking at the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign flag-off in Kaduna. “I hear my opponent talking about hunger, poverty. Who created it? They did! They created the hunger, they created the poverty. We are trying to eradicate it,” the President said. Atiku, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, said Nigerians were entitled to demand answers from the APC-led government over rising living costs, poverty, insecurity and questions surrounding public expenditure. In a statement issued on Saturday by the Director of Strategic Communication of the ADC Presidential Ca...
The Police men who acted on a tip-off by the LASTMA's management about the missing batteries from their premises,laid siege for the suspect,and caught him while attempting to remove another battery from an impounded bus.No fewer than Twenty {20} batteries have been removed from the impounded vehicles which were parked inside the premises within a fortnight.On his arrival at the RRS Headquarters,the suspect owned up that he operated with an accomplice he identified aas Yahoo,now at large.According to him ''Yes,I am responsible for the missing batteries.But I didn't work alone.We are a two-man syndicate who usually steal batteries...Our target vehicles was Volkswagen bus because its batteries can be removed easily without much stress.We don't usually go for trailer for its battery is protected with burglary...The suspect,who was picke-up at about 2:00 am over the weekend,by the operatives,said that he always scale through the agency's fence to access the compound and remove the batteries while his accomplice stayed outside to watch the surroundings for him.He confessed that ''We have devised our operation to the extent that no one could suspect us while committing the crime inside the premises...We know the exact time to scale through the fence because their security guards are too fond of sleeping .We capitalized on their inefficiency to strike''.The suspect,who is a a native of Ijebu-Ode,said that he sold each battery for N2,500 to one battery charger at Ogijo,suburb of Ogun state.His confessional statement led to the arrest of the receiver of the stolen items,Nofiu Oriade,46,the following day by the RRS operatives.The receiver of the stolen batteries who professed ignorant of the crime,said that he never knew those batteries were stolen items.''I was ignorant of the sources of those batteries.I thought he was a scavenger who picked up any unsused items from refuse dumb.I don't know he is a thief.I have regretted my action to have been collecting those batteries from him''.While confirming the arrest of the two suspects,the State Police Public Relations Officer,{PPRO} Superintendent of Police,Dolapo Badmus,said that the onslaught to rid-off crime activities in the state is yielding more positive results.Th suspects have been transferred to Special Anti-Robbery Squad {SARS} for further investigation.
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