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Joel Nwokeoma
Published 5:00 am
The other day, after what seemed like an endless filibustering and pussyfooting, the five hapless South-East state governors made a dramatic U-turn and agreed to form a regional security network, codenamed, Ebube Agu, to enhance the security of their region. The name is a derivative of the Igbo proverb, Ebube agu na-eche agu, which literally means, “a leopard is guarded by its fearsome aura.” The Igbo totem is leopard, and not lion as erroneously held in many quarters.
Instructively, for months on end, the governors and their legislative counterparts turned deaf ears to the strident clamour by Ndigbo for a regional security network patterned after Amotekun, the South-West regional outfit and enact laws banning open grazing, the greatest enabler of herdsmen killing and kidnapping across Nigeria. But rising from a hurriedly convened South-East Security Summit in Owerri, the Imo State capital, last week, the governors a
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Tunde Oyekola, Ilorin
AN Ilorin Magistrate’s Court has ordered the remand of a suspected Boko Haram member, Sidiku Gado, in the Federal Correctional Service Centre in Kwara State.
Gado, who was brought before the court on Thursday, was charged with an attempt to commit an offence, theft and terrorism contrary to section 95 of Penal code law and section 2(3) (I) of terrorism act 2011.
Gado was reportedly arrested for attempting to steal a Honda Accord car with the Registration No. LAGOS FST – 310-FY belonging to one Azeez Amidu.
He was said to have entered the complainant’s vehicle with an attempt to steal before being apprehended and brought to Yashikira Divisional Police Station.