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By Johnbosco Agbakwuru – Abuja
Former Chairman of the Special Presidential Panel for the Recovery of Public Property, Okoi Obono-Obla, has said that zoning the 2023 presidential ticket to the South East will help to heal the wounds and scars left behind by the Nigeria tragic civil war.
Obono-Obla, who was also a former co-Secretary Joint Inter Party Merger Committee that negotiated the merger of opposition parties to form the APC in 2013, said the South East and the South-South regions deserve his sympathy because they feel marginalized.
The former National Deputy Secretary of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Secretary CPC merger Committee and National Legal Adviser of CPC between 2009 and 2010, said that the old eastern region which is part of South-South and southeast should be carried along so that they will feel a sense of belonging.
Benue Court sentences seven cousins to death by hanging
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By Peter Duru – Makurdi
Seven cousins, Peter, Elias, Chibueze, Emmanuel, Simon, Patrick and Godwin all of Ebere family in Enyikpo Ulayi village in Ado Local Government Area of Benue state have been sentenced to death by hanging by an Otukpo High Court.
The septet were yesterday convicted by Justice Wilfred Kpochi for criminal conspiracy and culpable homicide punishable with death.
At the hearing, the court was told how the convicts conspired and agreed among themselves to killed their brother, one Vincent Ebere with Cutlasses and sticks with which they bruised and matcheted him on the head on December 25, 2012 which led to his death.
Imo police deploy 3,500 officers to beef up security during Yuletide
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The Imo Police Command says it has deployed 3,500 police officers across the state to help maintain adequate peace and security during the Yuletide.
The Commissioner of Police, Isaac Akinmoyede, said this on Friday, while parading murder suspect.
Akinmoyede said that the suspect was arrested at Umuanunu Obinze in Owerri North Local Government Area.
He was paraded along with 13 other suspects arrested in connection with armed robbery, kidnapping and cultism.
The police boss said the suspect belonged to a robbery gang led by the notorious Donwani, who was reportedly killed in Rivers recently.