ANAMBRA POLICE ACTION ON THE CULT CLASH THAT RESULTED IN THE FATAL INJURY OF FOUR PERSONS AT AFOR NAWFIA MARKET. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE

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 ANAMBRA POLICE ACTION ON THE CULT CLASH THAT RESULTED IN THE FATAL INJURY OF FOUR PERSONS AT AFOR NAWFIA MARKET The Anambra State Police Command wishes to provide a comprehensive update on the cult-related attack that occurred on the evening of 7th December 2025 at Afor Nawfia Market, along the Onitsha–Awka Old Road. It will be recalled that operatives of the Command attached to the Special Anti-Cult Squad, Enugwu-Ukwu, had, four days earlier, acting on credible intelligence about a planned rival cult confrontation, arrested two dangerous suspects and recovered a firearm from them. The arrested suspects have been assisting the Police with valuable information aimed at preventing further cult-related violence within Awka and its environs. Despite these proactive efforts by the Command operatives, some members of the same gang, on the evening of 7th December 2025, operating in a black Lexus Jeep with registration number yet unknown, stormed Afor Nawfia Market and opened fire indiscr...

COURTS JAIL SEVEN FRAUDSTERS IN BAUCH, GOMBE, TARABA. (PHOTOS). #PRESS RELEASE.


 Courts Jail Seven Fraudsters in Bauch,  Gombe,  Taraba

 

The Gombe Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , EFCC,  have secured the conviction and sentence  of seven fraudsters  for offences of cheating and obtaining under false pretences.


 

The convicts are: Yusuf.O. Muhammed  , Joseph Opeoluwa , Samuel Chukwudi Okonkwo. , Rotimi Tobi Samuel , Oladimeji Mubarak , Blessed Johnson and Usman Lari.


 

Samuel and Mubarak were arraigned on.May 6,2025  before Justice  Muazu Abubakar of the  Bauchi State High Court.  Muhammed , Opeoluwa and Okonkwo were arraigned on May 5, 2025 before Justice Shafa'u ladan Yusuf of Bauchi State High Court while  Lari and Johnson were arraigned before Justices Kereng  Abdulhameed and Ludukiya Bulila Ikharo of Gombe and Taraba State High Courts respectively  between April 3 and April 16, 2025.


 

The charge against Rotimi Tobi Samuel reads: That you Rotimi Tobi Samuel sometimes in March 2024 at Bauchi State within the jurisdiction of this honourable court with intent to defraud created fake social media account on telegram with the user name, paigeandpaigechannel and represented yourself as a  female bearing the name Paige residing in Alabama USA , induced jack Phillips and Martinfred ( United States of American citizens ) to deliver to you $300 through gift card and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 321 and punishable under Section 324 of the penal code law.


Upon arraignment, the defendants pleaded guilty to their respective charges prompting the prosecution counsel M.A. Aliyu and others to pray the court to convict and sentence the defendants accordingly.   However,  counsel to the defendants pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy.


Having listened to both prosecution and defence counsel, Justice Muazu Abubakar convicted and sentenced Samuel and Mubarak to seven years imprisonment or a fine of  N500,000 (Four Hundred Thousand Naira only) respectively. 


On May 5, 2025,  Justice Yusuf convicted and sentenced Muhammed to four months imprisonment with an option of  fine of N200,000 (Two Hundred Thousand Naira)


Okpelowa baged six months imprisonment or a fine of N300, 000(  Three Hundred Thousand Naira while  Okonkwo is to pay a fine  of N50,000  (Fifty Thousand Naira)  in lieu of six months imprisonment  .


On April 3,  2025, Justice Ikharo convicted and sentenced Johnson to four months  imprisonment or a fine of N50,000.


 

On April 16, 2025  Justice Abdulhameed convicted and sentenced Lari to  twelve months imprisonment with an option of fine of N50,000.


 The courts ruled that the aggregate sum of $735 ( Seven Hundred Thirty Five United States Dollars),  being proceeds of crime  recovered from the convicts during investigation  be used to restitute the victims of crime while the mobile phones of the convicts,  being instruments of crimes, be  forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.


All the convicts bagged their imprisonment when they were arrested for obtaining money under false pretences.  They were subsequently prosecuted and jailed.

More photos below. 








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