KIDNAPPING OCCURS DAILY IN KOGI, BANDITS TOOK 28 RESIDENTS ON MONDAY — SUNDAY KARIMI.(PHOTO).
Senator Sunday Karimi has raised concerns over the growing incidence of kidnapping and banditry in Kogi State, describing abductions as a daily occurrence in the state. Karimi made the remarks on Wednesday during plenary while contributing to a motion of urgent public importance sponsored by Senator Abdulfatai Buhari on the recent abduction of schoolchildren and teachers in Ogbomoso. The lawmaker said kidnapping and banditry have become major security challenges threatening the stability of the country, stressing that responsibility for addressing the menace should not rest solely on the Federal Government. According to him, bandits invaded Ayedun Bunu, a community in Kogi West Senatorial District, in the early hours of Monday and abducted 28 residents. He noted that such incidents have become frequent in Kogi State, adding that communities continue to face security threats from criminal elements. Karimi called on lawmakers to accelerate legislative action on proposals for the est...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission yesterday arraigned one Joshua Dan-Daura before Honourable Justice Dije Abdu Aboki of the Kano State High Court on a one count charge of Obtaining by False Pretense.The accused person,a Deputy Suprintendent in the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps allegedly obtained the sum of N450,000 {Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira Only} from the complainant under the pretext of securing a job for the complainant at the {NSCDC}.The charge read that ''you Joshua Dan-Daura sometimes in March,in Twenty thirteen at Kano within the Judicial Division of the Kano High Court with intent to defraud obtain the sum of N450.000 {Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira only} from one Yahaya Ibrahim Musa by falsely representing that you would help him secure a job with the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps,a representation you knew to be false and you thereby committed an offense contrary to section Three hundred and twenty of the same Law.The accused person pleaded not guilty to the one count charge.
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