LAGOS — The Lagos State Police Command, yesterday, disclosed that it was close to apprehending the 33-year-old man who allegedly strangled his lover, a 39-year-old mother of four in her apartment at Green Estate, Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos, two weeks ago.
This is just as it has identified the fleeing suspect as one Kelechi Williams.
All was reportedly going on well for Williams and his international business woman lover and Chief Executive Officer /Managing Director of Edmark International, identified as Njideka Lizzy Nzewe, until July 19, 2014.
According to reports, the late Njideka who was to travel to the United States of America on July 24, 2014, with her kids, had gone to the bank in the company of Williams to withdraw N4 million.
However, at about 2.30 am, Williams allegedly tied her hands, strangled her and thereafter, made away with over N8 million, her phones and her Range Rover SUV.
Police sources told Vanguard that the twine used to strangle the mother of four was found on her neck when they arrived.
Police sources further hinted that homicide detectives at Area ‘E’ Command, Festac Town, were closing in on the suspect.
“During investigation, we discovered that Williams have several other names. He fled to Ghana immediately he committed the act.
“Detectives embarked on forensic auditing investigation of his social media networks and with the assistance of INTERPOL, they have been able to locate his hideout,” Police sources said.
Marriage proposal
Preliminary investigations. as gathered, showed that Williams was one of the deceased’s staff. They were said to have been going out for some years, in the process of which he proposed marriage to Lizzy.
But she reportedly turned down the proposal on the ground of age difference.
Police sources explained: “During investigation, it was discovered that when the deceased business expanded, she employed Williams to manage the Ghana and West Coast branch of her company. Each time he comes to Nigeria, he exports goods to Ghana and circulate same to West Coast. During such visits, he stayed with Lizzy at her private apartment. That could be the reason why it was easy for him to snuff life out of her.
“On the day he killed Lizzy, he drove to the gate and told the unsuspecting guard that he was going to cash money from the ATM.”
Police sources further disclosed that during investigation, the fleeing suspect was discovered to be on the wanted list of policemen in Angola and South Africa, over undisclosed offences.
Contacted, spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, Ngozi Braide, explained that the deceased was a single mother.
She said: “He strangled the woman with a rope inside her apartment. He locked up the place, packed her money, phones, international passports and about N8 million, which she intended to leave for him to run the business while she would be away.
“Lizzy’s brother, who was supposed to meet her so that they could move her things to her new home in Satelite Town, came over. But after several calls without response, the man became worried when he noticed that everywhere was locked.
“He, therefore, alerted the police at Festac Police Station, which prompted policemen to force the door to the woman’s apartment open and met her lifeless body on the floor. Investigation is on-going . We will get him.”
OWERRI— Contrary to speculations, Imo State governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, has given approval to his deputy, Prince Eze Madumere, Chief of Staff, Sir. Jude Ejiogu, and other senior political appointees in his government willing to contest the 2015 governorship election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to declare immediately.
According to a release signed by the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, Okorocha gave the directive while addressing party leaders, officials of the party and elective office aspirants on the ticket of the party in the state.
Onwuemeodo also stated that the governor advised aspirants that his looming presence should not deter anybody from aspiring to the highest post in the state.
“Nobody should withhold his or her ambition because of me. Every member of the APC willing to contest the governorship position of the state should throw his or her hat into the ring.
“There would be a level playing ground for all aspirants in the choice or selection of candidates of the party,” Okorocha told his aides and party loyalists.
Okorocha also told the party stakeholders that the party would conduct mock primaries on September 1, 2014, which would precede the main primary.
“The mock primaries would be community-based because the candidates the party would back in the primaries proper would be the persons who got more popular support from the people in the communities that make up their respective local government areas, state or federal constituencies, or the senatorial zones,” Okorocha said.
According to him, the people at the grassroot must be fully involved and the party will press for popular candidates that will win elections for the party, no matter the zone they come from.
He charged the aspirants to go home and mobilize support, stressing that they should not hope that anybody would be given the party’s ticket through the back door.
Governor Okorocha said: “Every aspirant must face his community. All party members must be involved. It is not going to be a matter for a few delegates.
“There will be no Government House candidates or Governor Okorocha’s candidates. The Government House or the governor will not give the party any candidate. Government or Governor would go for the candidate of the people.”
ABA—The immediate family and relations of Chief Samuel Omeonu Ezengwa, a village head in Umunkita, Nenu Autonomous Community in Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State, have been thrown into shock after the head of the family and a village head in the community allegedly committed suicide by hanging four days to the daughter’s traditional wedding.
A source in the area said the body of the village head was discovered hanging on a tree at about 7am Wednesday by a member of his family who had gone out that morning.
Suicide
Though it was not known his reasons for committing suicide, Vanguard gathered that the incident has put on hold the deceased daughter’s traditional marriage billed to hold on Sunday, August 3.
A family source said the night before the unfortunate incident, he had had an intensive discussion with the deceased over his daughter’s traditional marriage coming up at the weekend, adding that the deceased never showed any sign of depression which had been attributed as a major cause of the incident.
Sources said on hearing of the incident, the Eastern Ngwa Police Division drafted their men to the area where they had a close session with the immediate family and later left the compound with the man’s body still hanging on the tree.
A villager who spoke on anonymity, said the body of the deceased could only be brought down for burial after some rituals had been performed as demanded by their custom, describing the state of the man’s death as one of the things that “is highly” prohibited by their traditional belief.
Members of the family were said to have been in deep shock over the incident and could not speak publicly on the issue.
Some reports, which were yet to be verified at press time, have it that the victim committed suicide after the community had written the family inviting them to explain what they knew about an alleged financial embezzlement on an electrification project in the community, an amount some said would be too much for them to repay.
Efforts to reach the state Police Public Relations Officer failed as he did not pick calls pull through his phone but a reliable police source confirmed the incident.
The Chairman of Ovia South West Local Government Area of Edo State, Morrison Okhuarobo, was on Wednesday walked out of the state House of Assembly by lawmakers for improper dressing.
Morrison was at the lawmakers’ sitting to present account of his stewardship since he was sworn-in as council chairman.
He wore a fez cap and a combat khaki trousers and shirt on which the words: “Proudly Oshio Picki” were inscribed.
Morrison was about to begin his presentation when Hon. Johnson Oghuma drew the lawmakers attention to the council boss dressing.
Oghuma said, “The governor is well respected across the world. He does not come here dressing in khaki. The governor respects this House and dress properly when coming here. He should go and dress properly.”
“This dressing amount to disregard and misconduct. He must tender unreserved apology.”
Other lawmakers insisted that Morrison should leave the chamber despite pleas by Speaker Uyi Igbe to allow him present the report.
Okhuarobo left and return after one hour, dressing in suit.
He apologized to the lawmakers for his dress code.
A 19 year- old boy whose names were given as Peter Momoh has been arrested by men of the Edo State Police Command for raping a nursing mother.
His victim, who gave birth through a Caesarian operation three months ago, was staying with her mother when the incident occurred.
Momoh lives in the same neighbourhood with the victim at Agenebode in Estako East local government area of the state.
He was beaten to stupor before being handed over to the police.
The Nation gathered that Momoh gained access to the victim’s room through the window and grabbed the baby whom he threatened to kill if the mother did not succumb to him.
The victim succumbed and after the rapist had ran away, she cried out.
According to the victim who pleaded anonymity, “I was sleeping when I heard a noise. The boy shone light on my face, took my baby and turned him upside down. I begged him but he insisted I should allow him and to save my baby I agreed.”
It was learnt that a cry from the victim after the act attracted neighbors who used footprint of the rapist to trace him to his apartment.
He was trying to get into his apartment when angry community members descended on him.
When interrogated, the suspect told journalists that he went to the apartment at about 4am and committed the act.
Edo police spokesman, Uwoh Noble, confirmed the report and said investigations were still going on.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun on Thursday said that all arrangements had been concluded to receive President Goodluck Jonathan in Osogbo on Saturday.
The Secretary of PDP in Osun, Mr. Bola Ajao, made this known when he addressed journalists in Osogbo.
Ajao said the President was coming to throw his weight behind Senator Iyiola Omisore’s bid to win the state governorship election.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the election holds August 9.
He said Jonathan would also use the visit to intimate the residents with his transformation agenda.
“The President’s passion for overall development is not hidden. Few days from now, residents will be at the poll to elect a governor to steer the ship of the state for another four years.
“The import of the President’s visit is not only to boost the candidature of the party’s governorship candidate but to further explain his transformation agenda to the people.
“A vote for the PDP is a vote for individual growth and collective emancipation through a one man one woman vote,’’ he said.
”We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us”- Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel, United Nations General Assembly, 1972.
Chief Fani-Kayode
As it was in 1972 so it is today. All those that love and support Hamas and that hate Israel should read the words of Golda Meir and meditate on them. All those that have condemned the actions of Israel in Gaza should read the words of Golda Meir, meditate on them and live with the fact that, according to a CNN poll, 86 per cent of the Israeli people support the activities and actions of the Israeli Defence Force in Gaza.
All those that have a soft-spot for the Arabs and the Palestinians should read the words of Golda Meir, meditate on them and appreciate the fact that the threat to Israel is existential.
All those that fail to understand what Hamas really stands for and that do not know that ever since the Gaza strip was handed back to the Palestinians by the Israeli’s in 1994 it has been used as a launching pad for rockets that kill and maim innocent Israeli civilians, women and children should read and meditate on the words of Golda Meir.
All those that believe that violence, carnage, murder and compulsion are a legitimate means of spreading their faith and imposing their will on others should read the words of Golda Meir and meditate on them.
All those that have sympathy for the Haramites in Nigeria and their secret political friends, associates and allies should read the words of Golda Meir and meditate on them.
All those that do not understand that there is a nexus between Hamas, ISIS, Al Nusra, Al Shabaab, Boko Haram, Islamic Jihad, the Taliban, Al Qaeda and all the other vicious islamist, salifist militias throughout the world should read the words of Golda Meir, meditate on them and understand that these terrorist groups ALL take pleasure in forcing others to slaughter their children by using them as human shields in order to gain sympathy and effect their purpose.
They should also understand that they ALL take delight in killing, abducting, raping, butchering and terrorising the children and wives of others in order to spread their outdated, barbaric, hateful and anachronistic political and religious philosophies.
The other day ISIS ordered that all Christians that reside in the parts of Iraq that they control must either leave the country or convert to islam or be killed. Since then thousands of Christians have been butchered and crucified in public places in that country but the world has remained silent and turned a blind eye to the whole thing.
Today ISIS has ordered that all the women that reside in the parts of Iraq that they control must be subjected to female genital circumcision. Simply put ISIS has ordered that all women that reside in the parts of Iraq that they control must have their clitoris’ cut off. This would deprive them of ANY form of sexual pleasure for the rest of their lives. What could be worse than that?
Yet this is the sort of thing that the Haramites have in mind for the whole of Nigeria and this is what all the jihadist militias that exist throughout the world wish to impose on humanity. Sadly in many parts of the world they seem to be gaining ground and making progress.
It is time to say ”no more” and to stand up to them. It is time to stand shoulder to shoulder with the sons of David and the State Israel and to say ”no” to those that wish to wipe them off the face of the earth and to drive them into the sea.
It is time to say ”no more” to the offspring of Osama Bin Ladin who take pleasure in butchering the innocent and who seek to impose their will on the people of the world. It is time to say ”no more” to the likes of Abubakar Shekau who believe that our little girls should be abducted from their schools, raped from morning till night and from night till morning, sold in the market place like cattle and turned into sex slaves for the rest of their lives.
It is time to say ”no more” to those that slit the throats and drain the blood of our young boys as if they were slitting the throats of sallah rams and christmas turkeys. It is time to say ”no more” to those that torture and maim babies and that hack off the flesh, chop off the limbs and crush the bones of old men and old women.
It is time to say ”no more” to those that show no mercy and have no compassion for the weak, the vulnerable, the young, the aged and the innocent.
It is time to stand with the rest of humanity and with the civilised people of the world against all forms of homicidal, sociopathic, oppressive and deviant behavior and the evil of religious fanaticism and islamic fundamentalism.
It is time to stand up against terror and those that believe in violent jihad and the establishment of a new worldwide islamic caliphate. It is time to stand up against the misogynists in our midst who regard women as nothing but worthless chattel and who take pleasure in sleeping with infants and young children.
It is time to stand up to those that delight in blowing up and maiming others and who honestly believe that that is the only way to heaven. It is time to stop sitting on the fence and to say that enough is enough.
Permit me to enrich this contribution with the words of the beautiful Ayelet Shaked, the Israeli Member of Parliament who is one of the rising stars in Israel’s political firmament. Two weeks ago weeks ago she wrote the following on her facebook page.
”Behind every terrorist stands dozens of men and women without whom he/she could not engage in terrorism. They are all enemy combatants and their blood shall be on all their heads. Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs who send them to hell with flowers and kisses. They should follow their sons: nothing would be more just. They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise more little snakes will be raised there”.
The harshness of Ayelet’s contribution reflects the thinking of many in the world today who feel a deep sense of outrage about the atrocities of the jihadists and who are simply fed up with the bloodletting and the carnage that hundreds of thousands of innocents are facing at the hands of the terrorists.
Let those that support Hamas, those that call them ”freedom fighters” and those that endorse their evil ways and agenda of terror take a cue from this. If Hamas wants to impress us they should stop hiding behind women and children and they should come out and fight like men.
In the same vein if the Haramites of Nigeria want to impress us they should stop abducting the wives and children of others, they should stop using their own women and children as suicide bombers and they should come out and fight like the fearsome warriors that they claim to be.
Permit me to conclude this write-up with an insightful, profound, intellectually stimulating and historically accurate contribution from Mr. Akin Ajose-Adeogun who is a lawyer and a historian of great repute. On 28th July 2014 on his facebook wall he wrote the following:
“In my opinion, the insidious role of religion in inflaming the Arab-Israeli conflict over Palestine has been underestimated. The truth is that religious bigotry blinds the Arab Muslim majority, and their coreligionists around the world, to the reality that the Middle East is a heterogeneous region of diverse peoples with different faiths, each entitled to self-determination and statehood. Almost 30,000 Jews lived in Palestine – mainly in the Jerusalem area – before the first wave of Zionist immigration in the 1880s, according to the census figures of the Ottoman-Turkish Empire, of which Palestine was then a part (See Prof. Benny Morris’ definitive work, 1948 : The First Arab-Israeli War). The creation of the State of Israel was one of the great events of the 20th century because a profound historic injustice, to a people who have greatly contributed to mankind’s progress, was, after much suffering, finally righted. That this has also, unfortunately, resulted in some injustice and suffering for the Palestinians, cannot substantially be attributed to the emergence of the Jewish State. As we can see, once again, from the events in Gaza today, the primary cause of Palestinian suffering, even during the British Mandate, 1919 – 1948, is the egregious leadership shown by Palestinian leaders. Had there been a healthy response on the part of the Palestinian and Arab leadership to the stimulus provided by the increasing presence of their Semitic cousins in the land that is their joint inheritance, their people would have been far happier and prosperous today”.
Akin has hit the nail on the head and no-one could have put it better. Let all those that are still unable to appreciate or fathom the sheer complexity and profound nature of the enormous challenges and very real dangers that the State of Israel is facing from their Arab neighbors consider the words of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, spoken at the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) on August 17th 2006.
He said ”the truth is that if Israel were to put down their arms, there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms, their would be peace”. I need say no more.
May the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Lord God of Hosts, the God of the Armies of Israel, the God of Heaven and Earth, the God of all Flesh, the Lord of the Universe, the Ancient of Days, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the Man of War, the Lily of the Valley, the Blood of the Sprinkling, the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, the I Am That I Am, the Rose of Sharon, the Great Provider, the Lamb of God, the Holy One of Israel, the Lord of Mercy and Compassion, the Nazarene, the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the El Shaddai, the Adonai, the Elohim, He that is more than able, He that cannot be resisted, He that is high and lifted up and He that is known as Jehova Jireh, Jehova Rapha, Jehova Nissi, Jehova Gibbor: the one true God and the God of the Holy Trinity strike down the Amalekites, deliver us from evil and defend His people and may His counsel alone stand in the affairs of the earth and in the nations of men.
I make these pronouncements in the name of He who died and arose triumphant on the third day, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Son of the Living God.
This is just as it has identified the fleeing suspect as one Kelechi Williams.
