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The Delta State Police Command has arrested a father identified as Wisdom for allegedly maltreating, starving and locking up his two-year-old son in a dark room.
The two-year-old son identified as Zino was said to have been maltreated by his father and stepmother at No. 113 Okumagba Avenue, Off Deco Road, Warri, Delta State.
The Director-General, Young Nigerian Rights Organization, Comrade Victor Ojei, told our correspondent on Sunday in Asaba that the under-age child was allegedly molested by the father and stepmother.
He said, “Zino is a two-year-old child whom the biological mother dropped with his biological father and stepmother at No. 113 Okumagba Avenue. Since then the father and stepmother have been giving this child all sorts of maltreatment and starvation.
Hoodlums kill four in Ibadan
Barely a week of the inauguration of Delta Hawk by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to flush out criminals in the state, the security outfit on Tuesday evening killed a woman in Asaba.
It was gathered that a stray bullet from the team hit the woman, a trader, who was identified as Amaka Ohanaja, while she was in her shop. She died on the spot.
According to sources, the Operation Delta Hawk team was chasing a boy who was escaping from them when they allegedly opened fire on him but the bullet hit the woman, whose shop is located around Government House.
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A yet-to-be identified woman has been killed by men of the newly-inaugurated Delta State security outfit, Operation Delta Hawk, in Asaba.
It was learnt that a stray bullet from the team’s gun hit the woman, who was in her shop, and she died on the spot.
PUNCH Metro gathered that members of the Operation Delta Hawk team were chasing a young boy, who was escaping from them around 9pm on Tuesday, when they allegedly opened fire on him, but the stray bullet hit the woman, whose shop is located around the Government House.