33 FRSC officials, one other arrested over highway extortion
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By Soni Daniel
No fewer than 33 officials of the Federal Road Safety Commission have been arrested by a combined team of Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, Department of State Services and the Federal Road Safety Commission.
The arrests, which also included a civilian, was jointed conducted under an operation codenamed “Operation Tranquility V” to rid the agency of bad eggs whose extortion of motorists on the nation’s highways has given the establishment a bad image.
The Spokesman for the ICPC, Mrs. Azuka Ogugua, said in a statement on Friday that the. raids were carried out simultaneously in five locations nationwide.
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The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has confirmed that nothing less than11 stolen vehicles were recovered from Zone 4 of the Commission.
The Zonal Commanding Officer of Zone 4, comprising Plateau, Benue and Nasarawa States, Assistant Corps Marshal Kayode Olagunjuq, stated that 11 stolen vehicles were recovered by the Zone in the last one year and handed over to the Police for further investigation and prosecution.
He said the stolen vehicles were discovered at the point of re-registration and uploading of the vehicle details to the National Database across the Zone.
“The vehicles recovered were; six Toyota Corolla, two Toyota Camry, one Toyota Tacoma, one, Pontiac Vibe and one Mazda 323.”
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The Edo State Police Command on Wednesday said it has arrested a middle-aged man for allegedly bathing his wife and four-year-old son with acid.
The command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), DSP Princewill Osaigbovo, who confirmed the arrest to NAN, however, refused to disclose his identity.
Osaigbovo said following petitions to the Edo Commissioner of Police, Mr Phillip Ogbadu, detectives swung into action and arrested the suspect.
He was arrested while hiding at Ehor in Uhumwonde Local Government Area of the State.
Osaigbovo added that the suspect would be charged to court upon conclusion of investigation.
Man sent to prison for allgedly raping 16-year-old daughter in Lagos
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NAN reports that Godswill was charged with defilement.
Chief Magistrate A.O Ajibade, who did not take the plea of Godswill for lack of jurisdiction said he remanded the defendant pending the advice from the State Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Ajibade adjourned the case until March 22.
Earlier, the prosecution counsel, ASP Kehinde Ajayi told the court that Godswill allegedly committed the offence sometime in November and December, 2019 at No.16, Julianah Lawson Street in Alagbado area of Lagos.
Ajayi said that the minor told her school teacher that her father had allegedly defiled her.