Chris Ezike, Police chief to lead raids on criminals hideout in Edo

Edo State Commissioner of Police, Chris Ezike, has said he would personally lead raids on criminal hideouts as well as embark on street patrols throughout his stint in the state.

Ezike, who last week resumed as the new police boss in Edo, charged officers and men of the state police command to sacrifice their personal comfort for the safety of the people.

He spoke on Monday while delivering his inaugural address at a meeting with senior officers, area commanders, Divisional Police Officers and heads of departments.

Ezike ordered immediate recall of policemen posted to unauthorized individuals as well as other policemen who were posted illegally.

He said office personnel in the state should be reduced by 50 percent because “adequate policing is done in the field.”

He identified armed robbery, kidnapping and cultism as major security challenges in the state and charged the officers to use scientific method in tackling crimes within their jurisdiction.

Chris Ezike, Police chief to lead raids on criminals hideout in Edo

How criminals killed Benson Ogedegbe in Delta State

By  Fejiro Oliver

As Nigerians and journalists search for the true killer of Benson Ogedegbe, the head of vigilante group in Oghara, Ethiope West LGA of Delta State, this reporter has dug out those behind the killing which is currently hanging on the head of the 19th battalion commandant, Lt. Colonel Aminu Umar.

Investigative reports revealed that contrary to what some media houses reported that Lieutenant Colonel Aminu Umar was called by the alleged Army killer of Ogedegbe, Umar was not aware of the movement of any soldier outside their base for such heinous crime against humanity.

The 19th battalion according to information obtained from highly placed sources, have been the nightmare of the criminals and oil bunkers parading the koko waterways and destroying drums of illegal gotten crude oil by setting them ablazed and expressed shock on how they will hunt a citizen, especially one who assists in securing the Oghara community.

When our team of reporters visited the Oghara police station, one of them who did not want his name in print revealed that Benson Ogedegbe may have been killed by criminals who he and his vigilant group stopped from operating in the region.

“We believe that the boys who killed Benson are criminals who wore army uniform, probably thinking that they could kidnap him if they accosted him on soldiers uniform.

“If you check where he was shot, under the abdomen; security officials rarely shoot that area. Most times, they shoot criminals directly on the head or chest and they won’t do so on broad daylight like you people are reporting”, the source confided.

Some of the villagers who spoke to us explained that it was true that Benson had issues with the army, but it may have been based on his vigilant group mode of operation, which some of them (residents m) have reported as being overboard which needed caution from the government security agencies. They told our reporters that the peace experienced in oghara and Ethiope West, is due to the army presence and not the ogedegbe led vigilante.

A palace source completely exonerated the 19th brigade commander, Umar, whom they described as being too wicked for criminals in the area. “If those

criminals get their way, no be ogedegbe dem go kill but na the soldiers oga.”

As at the time the vigilante leader was killed by the criminals, we have it on good authority that he was driving his ash coloured Mazda car, said to be bought for him by former Ethiope West LG Chairman, Jerry Wilson to go and sign register in the school as a game teacher.

How criminals killed Benson Ogedegbe in Delta State

Police parade 76 suspected criminals in Edo

The Edo State Police Command on Friday paraded 76 suspects, including a suspected fake doctor, for various heinous offences committed in different locations across the state.

The suspects were paraded by the Commissioner of Police, Foluso Adebanjo, at the state headquarters in Benin.

The fake doctor, Moses Hajire Jumbo, was arrested for alleged murder of a pregnant woman whom he illegally operated upon for child delivery on September 24.

Jumbo, was said to have admitted the late woman into one St. Moses Nursing Maternity Home, operated on her unlawfully at Uwelu Quartres in the state capital, where she gave up after delivery.

According the command, investigations showed that the suspect was never a medical doctor, a nurse or a medical staff of any hospital.

The suspect was said to have confessed to the crime and would be charged to court.

Others paraded by the command include four attempted murder suspects, 16 armed robbery suspects, five suspected kidnappers, 15 suspected cultists and illegal possessors of firearms, 10 suspected rapists and seven persons arrested for alleged defilement.

One Believe Ofuegbu, 30, was arrested for alleged sodomy, four persons were arrested for alleged violent threat to life, one was nabbed for manufacturing adulterated spirits.

The commanded also arrested an alleged fraudster and three other persons for alleged burglary.

The police commissioner, who assured the public that the agency would clamp down on criminals in the state, disclosed that the command also recovered 17 assorted guns, 30 live cartridges, two cutlasses, 21 vehicles, one motorcycle and the sum of N19,700.

Police parade 76 suspected criminals in Edo