SECURITY IN ANAMBRA: POLICE AVERT PLANNED CULT CLASH, ARRESTS TWO SUSPECTS AND RECOVERS FIREARM AND AMMUNITION IN ENUGWU UKWU. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE
SECURITY IN ANAMBRA: POLICE AVERT PLANNED CULT CLASH, ARRESTS TWO SUSPECTS AND RECOVERS FIREARM AND AMMUNITION IN ENUGWU UKWU Operatives of the Anambra State Police Command attached to the Special Anti Cult Squad (SPACS) Enugwu Ukwu acting on actionable intelligence received regarding the gathering of a dangerous cult group for a planned rivalry fight in the early hours of 4th December, 2025, swiftly mobilized to the scene and arrested Oluebube Ifediorah ‘M’ aged 21 years and Offorbuike Emmanuel ‘M’ aged 25 years respectively. The suspects were arrested in Enugwu Ukwu, Njikoka Local Government Area. The team also recovered a locally-made double-barrel shotgun and two live cartridges. The recovered firearm was found in a red bag that Oluebube Ifediorah had on him, as several other members of the cult gang had managed to flee the scene into the surrounding bush. Meanwhile, efforts are in top gear to track down and apprehend the remaining members of the gang who escaped. This o...
Justice Z.B Abubakar of the Federal High Court Kano today May 10,2017 dismissedan application brought before her by Former Group Managing Director of NNPC,Engineer Andrew Yakubu seeking for an order setting aside the interim forfeiture order of the 13th February 2017 made by the same court in respect of the Sums of $9,772,000 {Nine Million,Seven Hundred and Seventy Two Thousand United States Dollars} and another sum 74,000 pounds {Seventy Four Thousand Pound Sterling} found in the house of the former NNPC boss in Kaduna.The application was brought on groundss that the court lacks jurisdiction to entertain the matter and that the Federal Government lacks the competency or locus standi to seek for the interim forfeiture order.Also,the respondent applicant,argued that the court only empowered grant such an order in offences allegedly committed under the EFCC Act.The application further stated that the Federal Government in its application for the order concealed and misrepresent the facts which led to the issuance of the order.However,the applicant respondentss led by Aisha Tahir Habib responded to the application with a 19 paragraph counter affidavit deposed to by an operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Adamu Waziri.In response to the counter affidavit,Ahmed Raji SAN for the respondent applicant filed a further and better affidavit and both applications were argued on the 4th of April,2017 after which the court reserved ruling for today.In her ruling today,Justice Zainab dismissed the application of the respondent applicant for Lack of merit.Consequently,all issues argued by the respective counsels were resolved in favour of the applicant respondent and against the respondent applicant,Andrew Yakubu.Andrew Yakubu was arraigned by the EFCC on the 16th March,2017 before the Federal High Court Abuja.His arraignment was sequel to a raid which was carried out by the operatives of the commission on his property located at Sabon Tasha area of Kaduna State and which led to the discovery of the sum of $9,772,000 {Nine Million,Seven Hundred and Seventy Two Thousand United States Dollars} and 74,000 {Seventy Four Thousand Pound Sterling} stashed in a huge fire proof safe.More photos below.
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