ZIMBABWEAN COUPLE DEPORTED OVER SECRET BURIAL OF CHILD IN BOTSWANA.(PHOTO)
ZIMBABWEAN COUPLE DEPORTED OVER SECRET BURIAL OF CHILD IN BOTSWANA A Zimbabwean couple has been deported from Botswana after secretly burying their child without notifying authorities. Motilinah Mpofu and Christopher Ncube were convicted on Thursday of concealing a death after they allegedly dug a grave for their child in the dead of night. The Gaborone court heard the child had died suddenly. Instead of reporting the death to police, health officials, or traditional leaders, the couple quietly buried the youngster and hoped no one would find out. But the secret did not stay buried for long. Police moved in and arrested the pair. In sentencing, the court ordered that the couple be taken to the Plumtree Border Post for deportation to Zimbabwe. Top Botswana lawyer Winnie Masitha who offered the couple free legal representation during the trial, confirmed the deportation to BTV News. Masitha believed that the matter should not be viewed only through the lens of crim...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC yesterday wednesday,November 23,2016 arraigned the quartet of Colonel Nicholas Ashinze,a former special assistant to the embattled former National Security Adviser,Col. Sambo Dasuki; an Austrian,Wolfgang Reini; Edidiong Idiong and Sagir D. Mohammed before Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court,Abuja on a 13-count charge of corruption and money laundering to the tune of N36.8billion.Ashinze and his co-accused were arraigned alongside five companies accused of allegedly diverting huge sums from the office of the former NSA.The companies are: Geonel Integrated Services Limited,Unity Continental Nigeria Limited,Helpline Organization,Vibrant Resource Limited and Sologic Integrated Services Limited.The defendants pleaded not guilty to all the charges preferred against them.In view of their plea,counsel to EFCC I.O Uket expressed readiness for trial to commence immediately saying he had the witnesses present in court.Uket arhued that the defendants had lost their administrative bail the moment their matter was charged to court and their counsels filed applications for their bail.Ruling on the applications,Justice Kolawole held that the charges are all bailable adding that, ''since each of the other,my sixth judicial sense informs me that I adopt the terms and conditions of the bail granted to the defendants by the EFCC and my learned brothers in the FCT High Courts.The judge added that the case would be granted accelerated hearing and urged the prosecution to pick five days in the new year for trial.Consequently,the case was adjourned to January 23,February 1 and 14; and March 7 and 21,2017.
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